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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 1h

NEWS & VIEWS: Barley roots require HvGLU3 for cellulose biosynthesis (Blanca Jazmin Reyes-Hernández) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Barley roots require HvGLU3 for cellulose biosynthesis

Plant cells are enclosed by the cell wall, a complex polysaccharide structure that strengthens the plant body and supports plant development, cell communic

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 5h

Site-specific and efficient RNA editing is achieved with a CasRx editor go.nature.com/4dFun7P
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A circularly permuted CasRx platform for efficient, site-specific RNA editing - Nature Biotechnology

Site-specific and efficient RNA editing is achieved with a CasRx editor.

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 7h

Functional conservation and divergence of the WOX gene family in regulating meristem activity: From Arabidopsis to crops (Fei Du, Zihan Chang, Xiuying Kong, Lanqin Xia, Wenbin Zhou, Thomas Laux, Lichao Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Functional conservation and divergence of the WOX gene family in regulating meristem activity: From Arabidopsis to crops

WOX genes play both conserved and diversified roles in regulating meristem activity across diverse plant species, which offers potential for agricultural c

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 1d

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O

Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 2d

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social!

Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work!

EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄 @melaniekrich.bsky.social · 2d

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · 2d

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Jeremy G Bird @drjeremygbird.bsky.social · 2d

My department (Biological Sciences) at the University of Delaware is looking for a new tenure track assistant professor with a research focus on biomolecular sensing broadly. 🧪#molbiol #microsky
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

University of Delaware - Details - Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Biological Sciences

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 1d

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology.We seek candidates wh...

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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 7d

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · Jul 21

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Early Land Plant Evolution – Phylogenetics, Paleobotany, and Evo-devo Physiology. Submission Deadline: 03/2026. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...

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Agristok @agristok.bsky.social · 10d

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

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Freddy Boutrot @freddyboutrot.bsky.social · 15d

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis

Author summary To protect themselves against pathogens, plants have evolved a sophisticated and intricate immune system that allows pathogen detection and the activation of appropriate defense respons...

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Kierzkowski Lab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 22d

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852

A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 16d

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

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A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

Developmental gene function is conserved over deep time, but cis-regulatory sequence conservation is rarely found. Rapid sequence turnover, paleopolyploidy, structural variation, and limited phylogeno...

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Ora Hazak @hazaklab.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to Charlotte and to you👏🏼

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 20d

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 23d

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 23d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Ora Hazak @hazaklab.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations👏!

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Finkemeier Lab @ifink-lab.bsky.social · 27d

Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Dr Jie Shen! Thank you 🙏 to the second and third examiners @schwarzland_lab and @shuqing_xu and many congratulations, Jie !! 👏🍾 very much looking forward to seeing your amazing work published. Stay tuned! @IFink_lab @uni_muenster

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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 26d

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Computational image analyst (m/f/d)

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

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Benoît Zuber @benoitzuber.bsky.social · 27d

Paper alert🚨
Label your protein of interest and localize it in cryoET 👁️❄️

Genetically encoded FerriTag as a specific label for cryo-electron tomography: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...

Genetically encoded FerriTag as a specific label for cryo-electron tomography

Wang et al. present an optimized labeling strategy for cryo-electron tomography based on genetically encoded FerriTag. This system uses rapamycin to recruit iron-loaded ferritin to target proteins, en...

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Ora Hazak @hazaklab.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks for organizing such a great meeting 👏🏼(Including traditional Scottish dancing after the dinner 😄💃 )

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Frank Menke @frankmenke.bsky.social · 28d

That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

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