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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 1d

In @natplants.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cross-kingdom mechanisms of trained immunity in plant systemic acquired resistance - Nature Plants

Plants face constant microbial threats and have evolved highly effective inducible immune systems, culminating in systemic acquired resistance. Plant systemic acquired resistance and mammalian trained immunity share striking similarities, which are explored in this Review.

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 1d

Review:
Plants + humans share surprising immune defense strategies. Uwe Conrath @rwth.bsky.social highlights parallels between plant systemic acquired resistance + mammalian trained immunity
–> connections that could inform both #agriculture + #medicine

www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/wir...

Plants and Humans Share Surprising Immune Defense Strategies | RWTH Aachen University | EN

www.rwth-aachen.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 2d

W3-Professur: Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

Start: 1 Oktober 2026
Deadline: 24 Oktober 2025

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

W3-Professur für „Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen“

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 2d

📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪

➡️ buff.ly/ZDIRnFW

@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security

Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.

buff.ly

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Tony Heitkam🌱🔍💚 @toheitka.bsky.social · 6d

This work was led by @jiangzhaoqian.bsky.social, who is dedicated to make your life in genomics and #TransposableElement curation a lot easier. We are very happy to have him now in our group and that we could help with his vision.

Try TEtrimmer: github.com/qjiangzhao/T...

GitHub - qjiangzhao/TEtrimmer: TEtrimmer: a novel tool to automate manual curation of transposable elements

TEtrimmer: a novel tool to automate manual curation of transposable elements - GitHub - qjiangzhao/TEtrimmer: TEtrimmer: a novel tool to automate manual curation of transposable elements

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 6d

New Software Simplifies Analysis of “Jumping Genes”

Ralph Panstruga, @toheitka.bsky.social, and Lisa Fürtauer from @rwth.bsky.social
in @natcomms.nature.com (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63889-y)
www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/wir...

New Software Simplifies Analysis of “Jumping Genes” | RWTH Aachen University | EN

www.rwth-aachen.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 6d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Research Scientist / PostDoc: Genomics and Bioinformatics

@uni-goettingen.de

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Job Openings

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 7d

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 8d

Chamber of Secrets?

Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers

Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantPhysiology
#PlantScience

Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 7d

Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 7d

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen

Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto

academic.oup.com

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 7d

Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science".
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”

Seeing Red: A UC San Diego Invention is Transforming the Way Scientists Track Genes

UC San Diego biologists have created a transformative new way to monitor genes. The game-changing tool known as RUBY is an inexpensive, easy-to-use technology that allows researchers to visualize gene...

today.ucsd.edu

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 7d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals

@UniWuerzburg

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 7d

Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?

Validate User

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 8d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

PhD position: Plant transcriptome analyses @fz-juelich.de
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 8d

Watching plants breathe.

Scientists @unimarburg.bsky.social are using terahertz spectroscopy to visualize the water balance of leaves. In ScientificReports
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20219-y
www.uni-marburg.de/en/prfolder-...

Watching plants breathe

Physicists in Marburg use terahertz spectroscopy to visualize the water balance of leaves

www.uni-marburg.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 8d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Group Leader Position

Molecular Plant Sciences: Cell biology and biochemistry to unravel fundamental processes in plant development and biology

School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

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Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 8d

Kicking off our first talk with our invited speaker Annette Becker @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social from Giessen on how land plant sexual reproduction became independent from water #MAdLand2025

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 8d

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to @icips.bsky.social around
@plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social at @jlugiessen.bsky.social
and at 5 other German universities, who will be funded for another 4 years by @dfg.de to further analyse the evolution of reproductive mechanisms in plants + how new organs / communication evolved

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) @jlugiessen.bsky.social · 12d

Fortpflanzungsmechanismen bei #Pflanzen – Wie kam das Neue in die Welt? @dfg.de -Forschungsgruppe „Innovation und Koevolution der sexuellen #Fortpflanzung in Pflanzen“ wird auch in den nächsten vier Jahren gefördert. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Rückschlüsse auf die Evolution vor vielen Millionen Jahren: Sporenbildung im Moos Physcomiterium patens.

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics

@uni-kiel.de

Deadline: 19 October 2025
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12d

Wie ein Signal aus der Wurzel die Pflanzenblüte steuert, schildern Forschende der FU Berlin in 2 Publikationen über die Wirkung des Pflanzenhormons Cytokinin www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/news/_2025/2...

Neue Studien in Nature Communications und Plant Physiology: Ein Signal aus der Wurzel steuert die Pflanzenblüte

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 13d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

PhD position
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology: Polarity regulation by protein kinases
School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

Stellenangebote

Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik

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Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · 16d

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com

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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 15d

An int. research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has discovered a gene mutation that causes barley to flower later in regions with long spring days. The results have been published in the journal “Theoretical and Applied Genetics”.

➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/4djamade
➡️PR: tinyurl.com/mph8rz6x

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 14d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Group Leader Position

Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches

@ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

Stellenangebote

Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de

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