Parasitic plants, though often overlooked, are of exceptional importance and play a major functional role in the world's ecosystems.

Explore our Special Issue 👇
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/25722611...

#PlantScience

Five years of work with countless repeats of 'Please, would you mind repeating the experiment one more time' is finally published 😅 Proudly presenting:

Seed metabolites headstart haustoriogenesis and potentiate aggressiveness of parasitic weeds | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A team led by Prof Susann Wicke from the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity has shown that certain parasitic plants activate their haustoria independently of the host plant. This strategy increases their ability to successfully infest the host. @univie.ac.at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Job Alert! The Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the Faculty of Biology @uni-muenster.de invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in “Systems Neuroscience” - Highly attractive research environment at the Multiscale Imaging Center. Apply by January 5th. See shorturl.at/VczFp

What do you get when you combine #biomechanics, #mistletoe, and plant #development? An amazing collaboration with @plantbiomax.bsky.social and an exciting paper on @jxbotany.bsky.social!
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Here is brand-new data about the role of pyrenoids, CCM, and lipid droplets in hornworts: Our results show that underwater conditions trigger notable functional (protein-level) reconfigurations with significant inner-plastidial rearrangements

Feedback welcome!