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schnittger-lab.bsky.social
First up: understanding how plants defend themselves against heat stress. Our recent Science Advances paper shows that the meiotic cyclin TAM localizes to stress granules—special biomolecular condensates—during meiosis.
The recruitment of the A-type cyclin TAM to stress granules is crucial for meiotic fidelity under heat
The concentration of a meiotic regulator into membrane-less compartments assures genomic stability during reproduction.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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structplantbio.bsky.social
Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.
August 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.
A chart showing bigass roots on a whole bunch of plants.
July 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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adrianwoolfson.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Design of intrinsically disordered region binding proteins
Intrinsically disordered proteins and peptides play key roles in biology, but a lack of defined structures and high variability in sequence and conformational preferences have made targeting such syst...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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nature.com
Nature research paper: Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

https://go.nature.com/4kgOmwL
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
📣 The Plant Cell is proud to announce the appointment of Hervé Vaucheret!🌱 academic.oup.com/plcell/

#plantscience #WeAreASPB
Image text: Welcome to the Editorial Board. Hervé Vaucheret. Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences. Expertise: Epigenetics, gene silencing, siRNA, miRNA, RNA biology, genetics. Featuring Hervé Vaucheret's photo and ASPB and The Plant Cell logos
June 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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ekaiserli.bsky.social
Interested in Photoreceptors, Photobiological Responses and Optogenetic Applications across species? Join us at the GRS & GRC 2026 in California on Feb 7. grc.org/photosensory...
Share your work with the photobiology community! Abstracts will be selected for oral presentations.
2026 Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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slcuplants.bsky.social
🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.
June 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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plantevolution.bsky.social
Temperature is so important for plants that they have come up with many independent temperature sensors.

Curious? Read more in this review by former WeigelWorld members Sridevi Sureshkumar & Suresh Balasubramanian.
#plantscience
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June 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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neil-gow.bsky.social
Check this latest analysis showing how Beta-glucan shaving of the wall can disguise Candida from immune detection. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423864122).
June 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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jeanmichelane.bsky.social
The latest publication from our lab!

The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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nikogeldner.bsky.social
Check out our latest work, featuring beautiful, first-of-their-kind cryo-tomograms of crucial plant cell wall modifications, Casparian strips, suberin lamellae, lignified xylem walls and more! From our Electron Microscopy Facility led by @chgenoud.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Imaging of specialized plant cell walls by improved cryo-CLEM and cryo-electron tomography
Cryo-focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (cryo-FIBSEM) has become essential for preparing electron-transparent lamellae from cryo-plunged and high-pressure frozen specimens. However, targeti...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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spsplantsciences.bsky.social
Videos of the "PLANT" workshop ("Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene") are now available online !

www.youtube.com/channel/UCrO...

eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/events/works...
May 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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natplants.nature.com
New Article: "Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations" rdcu.be/eoSkA

Marine Charophyceae fossils from the Upper Ordovician confirm that morphological innovations key to the evolution of terrestrial flora predate emergence of land plants.
May 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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cnrs.fr
INÉDIT 🎬 Les fleurs dominent le monde végétal, mais leur origine reste floue. Des chercheurs du CNRS remontent à l’ancêtre commun des plantes à fleurs, levant le voile sur l’une des plus grandes questions de l’histoire de l’évolution 🌸

Le reportage complet 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/dou-v...
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
My pick for In Other Journals this week:
Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paper here:
rdcu.be/enUzK

#PlantScience
In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
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May 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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aspbofficial.bsky.social
#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI
theplantcell.bsky.social The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · May 16
Storming the barricades of rhamnogalacturonan-II synthesis and function (Quentin Hays , Patrice Lerouge , Marc Ropitaux , Charles T Anderson , Arnaud Lehner) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
May 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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marischuster.bsky.social
I am happy to share our viewpoint on immune protease engineering!

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Hacking the immune system: plant immune protease engineering for crop protection
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering to boost disease resistance in plants.
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May 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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natplants.nature.com
New Editorial: "Rethinking field trials" rdcu.be/enhFe
May 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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natplants.nature.com
The May 2025 issue is now fully online, with a cover highlighting the cell wall of ferns, from:

"Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/enhGp
May 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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elisafadda.bsky.social
Yeyyyy!! The preprint for Glycam-Web is out! ⬇️ Super congrats @olivercgrant.bsky.social and all! Glycam-Web is a 🔝 complex carbohydrate builder, very accurate and intuitive while fast. We use it *ALL the time*, so I am delighted that now I can cite it properly 👍🤩 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Generating 3D Models of Carbohydrates with GLYCAM-Web
The carbohydrate 3D structure-prediction tools (builders) at GLYCAM-Web ([glycam.org][1]) are widely used for generating experimentally-consistent 3D structures of oligosaccharides suitable for data i...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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luciastrader.bsky.social
Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature.
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Active transport enables protein condensation in cells
The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.
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May 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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florilege-rare.bsky.social
[Daily Watch] Rice plants inherit cold tolerance through epigenetic changes. Landmark study challenges traditional evolution views. #Evolution #Epigenetics #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Landmark’ evolution study shows how rice inherits tolerance to cold without DNA changes
The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.
www.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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roederlab.bsky.social
Not everything translates from Arabidopsis to crop plants. A group of us had fun considering aspects that have been Lost in Translation. An emerging theme was that still many insights can be gained through comparison with Arabidopsis. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Lost in translation: What we have learned from attributes that do not translate from Arabidopsis to other plants
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May 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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spsplantsciences.bsky.social
Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop, Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, and Impact,
@GlobalPlantGPC and @SPS_Plant_Sci,
https://saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/evenements/workshop-institut-pascal
Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop – Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, and Impact
From the very first presentation to the final wrap-up, the workshop was a deep dive into the challenges—and opportunities—plant science faces in the changing world of today… and probably the one of tomorrow.
globalplantcouncil.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM