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Aswin N.
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Postdoc at the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) 🌳🧬❄️☀️
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philcarella.bsky.social
We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Carella Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular…
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January 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
ECR's: if you want to take part in the

3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting

remind the deadline, which is on 23rd January
www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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kenchanmane.bsky.social
I'm looking for a postdoc to work at the interface of molecular biology, comparative genomics & single-cell data science, a great opportunity to lead projects on regulatory evolution and cell-type-specific stress responses. Find me at PAG or reach out kenchanmanelab.com
#SingleCell #PostdocPosition
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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plantaeofficial.bsky.social
📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Elevate Your Career: Present at the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists!

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#PlantScience
Elevate Your Career: Present at the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists!
Tue 28 Apr - Wed 29 [CEST]: Are you getting close to the end of your PhD or have you recently completed it? Are you looking to continue in academia and want to shape your future postdoctoral project?…
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January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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danvec.bsky.social
The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae

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The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae
Abstract. The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae has an effector protein that can methylate the plant defense compound salicylic acid (SA), and the
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January 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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samwalds.bsky.social
Happy New Year!
May all your PCRs give you only specific bands of the appropriate sizes. May your gel extraction and miniprep yields be high.
May your cloning always give you at least one correct colony, and your genotyping identify the mutants you are after. ✨
A gel electrophoresis picture. It shows DNA of different sizes.
January 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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atinygreencell.bsky.social
Has anyone sequenced Agrobacterium rhizogenes K599? If no I'll send mine to @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social for sequencing as my first experiment of the New Year and share the results + genbank upload. Gonna prepare cells today either way.
a computer generated image of a dna structure
ALT: a computer generated image of a dna structure
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December 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Research Assistant: Plant reproduction - role of TGA transcription factors and their ROXY co-regulators
and part of @icips.bsky.social

Deadline: 15 January 2026
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Job Openings
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December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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pdchristine.bsky.social
We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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umeaplantsciencecentre.se
🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science?

Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!

Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs
PhD position in nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in forest trees | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌳 RESEARCH 🌳

PtoRGL2, a DELLA protein in poplar, regulates growth and stem secondary development, and promotes bud dormancy and suppresses bud break by interacting with FT1/FT2 - Cui et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 4.Overexpression of PtoRGL2, PtoRGL2ΔGRAS, and PtoRGL2ΔDELLA affects growth and stem xylem development of poplar. (A, D, G) Height and leaf size observation of 2-month-old WT, (A) PtoRGL2-OE, (D) PtoRGL2ΔGRAS-OE, and (G) PtoRGL2ΔDELLA-OE plants. Bar, 5 cm. (B, E, H) Toluidine blue staining of cross-sections of the sixth internodes from 2-month-old WT, (B) PtoRGL2-OE, (E) PtoRGL2ΔGRAS-OE, and (H) PtoRGL2ΔDELLA-OE plants. Scale bar top to bottom: 500 μm; 200 μm; and 25 μm. (C, F, I) Quantification analysis of stem diameter, xylem width, xylem area, ratio of xylem to stem area, number of xylem cell layers, and number of cambium cell layers from 2-month-old WT, (C) PtoRGL2-OE, (F) PtoRGL2ΔGRAS-OE, and (I) PtoRGL2ΔDELLA-OE plants.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

W3 Professorship: Stress Resilience of Plants @rwth.bsky.social

Start: 1 October 2026

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Job Openings
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
Seasons of change...

To understand climate impact on plant clock biology, Muranaka et al. studied diel rhythmic genes in #Arabidopsis halleri over 4 seasons, finding cooperation in the temperature-dependent regulations of circadian rhythmicity & growth

doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience
Schematic diagram with text illustrating hypothetical relations between clock amplitude and growth, from figure 6 of Muranaka et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf092
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social
#IJPB takes the floor at the 4th INUPRAG Symposium.

👩‍🔬C. Bellini 👉 CATS team bit.ly/4dy5hHO
👨‍🔬N. Arnaud 👉 FTA team bit.ly/3JfhiJ9

INUPRAG is a consortium between @inrae-france.bsky.social (BAP department) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @cragenomica.bsky.social

@ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
Warm temperature–induced autophagy mediates selective degradation of TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1 thus promoting plant thermomorphogenesis (Baolei Li, Panpan Wang, Fan Sun, Jing Qin, Xiaojing Zhao, Xinyue Yu, Zhen Su, Tonglin Mao, Xiangfeng Wang) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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pdchristine.bsky.social
We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)

How do cells communicate when it's hot?

Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out

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How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.
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October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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treesandgrowth.bsky.social
#PlantScience #Photoperiodism 🌱⏰https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-025-00054-0
Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants - npj Biological Timing and Sleep
npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
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October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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nicholaswu.bsky.social
🚨 Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of heat stress adaptation position at @ucddublin.bsky.social.
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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volkerlipka.bsky.social
We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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kierzkowskilab.bsky.social
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
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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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September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
sisiphusonbreak.bsky.social
Salicylic acid reduces ELF3 phase separation and suppresses thermomorphogenic growth in Arabidopsis - Chen - 2025 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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wdl1.bsky.social
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th

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September 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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laura-ah.bsky.social
We are hiring a PhD student (FPI) for the
🧬🌱Plant Epitranscriptomics Lab 🧬🌱
at IHSM La Mayora (UMA-CSIC) ‪@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social‬‬
to study the role of m6A in axillary bud dormancy

Candidates send CV and motivation letter to:
✉️[email protected]
📆 until Sep 30th
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
The HY5-NPR1 module governs light-dependent virulence of a plant bacterial pathogen www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
The HY5-NPR1 module governs light-dependent virulence of a plant bacterial pathogen
Although light is well known for regulating plant development, its role in host-pathogen interactions remains elusive. Liu et al. reveal that the bacterial effector AvrPtoB promotes virulence by direc...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light (Kasper van Gelderen , Kyra van der Velde , Chia-kai Kang , Jessy Hollander , Alicia Koppenol , Orfeas Petropoulos , Putri Prasetyaningrum , Tuğba Akyüz , Ronald Pierik) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
August 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM