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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2h

🐸 Frogs and false signals

A new study finds that grey treefrogs use daylight length to trigger 'antifreeze' buildup for winter. But as climate change warms winters, this cue may mislead them into preparing too early or too late.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Freeze‐tolerant frogs accumulate cryoprotectants using photoperiod: A potential ecological trap

Climate change is disrupting the reliability of photoperiod as a cue signalling seasonal changes in temperature. We show that gray treefrogs under a late-season photoperiod accumulated large reserves...

doi.org

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 5d

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

www.nature.com

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · 16d

👇Is our recent effort 2 make #PMI research more reproducible. Check out this 📜 done on 3 continents🌎, by👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 in5 diff. labs, using the🌾 #brachypodium and 2 #SynComs
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteractions #EcoFAB #PlantSci @fz-juelich.de @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @unimelb.bsky.social

Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research

Reproducing microbiome experiments across laboratories is a major challenge in soil and plant health research. In a collaborative effort involving five laboratories, this study achieved consistent, in...

journals.plos.org

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 26

For Science 🧪enthusiasts in #NRW & beyond: our #Research Center @fz-juelich.de is opening it's doors
on 07.09.2025.
Talk to 👩‍🔬 about the🔬questions addressed here. Try #HandsOn #experiments.

More on www.tagderneugier.de/en
#TagDerNeugier #TdN25 #STEM #SciComm #ScentificCommunication #PlantScience

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 31

The compulsory #Photography samples that accompany each of my scientific meetings. #CityPhotography #Oxford #Naturephotography.

But seriously check out the news from the
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC

Sunshine and shadow on the River Cherwell.

The bridge across the Shire Lake Ditch close to Christ Church meadow in the sunshine. The water reflects the greenery around.

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 31

I 🗣️ abt. "Physiol. changes behind 🦠-enhanced 🌾 growth under #nitrogen stress" & linked results from Kuang et al 2022 JXB, apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... & unpubl.
#protein #Lipid data during #PMI
#PlantScience
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 #BNF #16ENFC

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 31

S. Schnell #UniGiesen, 🇩🇪 showed how #Seed inoculation w. H. diazotrophicus improved #protein content of #wheat in field. Suazrez et al 2014 Int J Syst Evol microbiol & www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PMI #BNF 🧪 #PlantScience #18Symposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation w. #non-legumes

Seed inoculation of Hartmannibacter diazotrophicus does not alter the rhizosphere bacterial microbiome of wheat and barley in a three-year field trial

The effects of plant growth promoting bacteria used for inoculation on native microorganisms remain unexplored under field conditions and, to a lesser…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 31

Vicente Mariscal Romero, #IBVF 🇪🇸 🗣️ "Symbiotic competence and signaling mechanisms in #Nostoc- #Rice associations
See:
Alvarez et al 2020 MPMI
Nice #proteomics using
#SwathMS on both species.
#PMI #PlantScience
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 31

Abiel Kidane (#MPI-Bremen) Germany talked about the dependency of #NitrogenFixation in the #ocean w. #Iron availability.
High N2 fixation is associated with high #Fe in the medium (Fu and Bell 2003; Wen et al 2022).
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 30

The level of talks on the 18th Symposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with non-legumes is amazing. Plant-Bacteria interactions are complex and we need more of this, to figure out how to bring science to application. #BNF #ENFC16 #PMI 🧪 #PlantScience

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Aug 26

For Science 🧪enthusiasts in #NRW & beyond: our #Research Center @fz-juelich.de is opening it's doors
on 07.09.2025.
Talk to 👩‍🔬 about the🔬questions addressed here. Try #HandsOn #experiments.

More on www.tagderneugier.de/en
#TagDerNeugier #TdN25 #STEM #SciComm #ScentificCommunication #PlantScience

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 26

It was a very nice talk.

Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ah, now I found him. Thanks.

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 11

😂

Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 11

#readinglist

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jul 11

Acinetobacter phages use distinct strategies to breach the capsule barrier https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664161v1

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Jul 10

What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is becoming a tradition after a conference😉👇
#Photography
#NaturePhotography #IsoleDiBrissago
#Switzerland
#Ascona
#VillaEmden
#LaggoMaggiore

Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 10

I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 10

I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 8

Very nice talk by Dorota Kawa (Utrecht University, Netherlands) “Patterns of Stress Resilience: Beneficial Microbes Tailoring #Root Cells”
Check out the paper below for more info.
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 #Sorghum #Microbiome #PlantScience 🧪

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

www.cell.com

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 8

Jill Preston (University of Vermont, United States) “Testing the growth-stress tolerance #tradeoff in the model temperate #grass #Brachypodium distachyon”
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 🧪 #PlantScience

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 7

#ReadingList

Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jul 7

📜 Establishment and functions of the Casparian strip

🧑‍🔬 @swatimahiwal.bsky.social, @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, Defeng Shen

📔 @mplantpcom.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #CasparianStrip #PlantCellWalls #Nodules #RootBiology

Establishment and functions of the Casparian strip

www.cell.com

Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 7

Michelle Facette (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States) “The cell biology of grass stomatal development and function”
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 #PlantScience 🧪

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 7

Kevin Bellande (University of Neuchâtel, 🇨🇭) “Cell wall remodelling dynamics impact LR emergence patterns in B. distachyon accessions” just told us about the atlas of #Brachypodium #LateralRoot development.
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 #CellWall 🧪 #PlantScience

journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

An atlas of Brachypodium distachyon lateral root development

Summary: This study provides an atlas of lateral root development of the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon.

journals.biologists.com

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 7

Karina Van der Linde (Universität Regensburg, Germany) “Small secreted protein signaling in development”

#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 🧪 #PlantScience #maize

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · Jul 7

Clémentine Vitte (Université Paris-Saclay, France) “Identifying the contribution of transposable elements to cis-regulatory elements in #plants” TEs are drivers of phenotypic variation through their regulatory impact . #IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 🧪 #PlantScience

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