🔔 Update: A new #PhDPosition at the University of Groningen (@rug.nl)! If you:
🧪 have a Master's in #Biology
🌱 are interested in #PlantBiology, #Physiology, and/or #MolecularBiology
Then this is a perfect opportunity! We at #GELIFES are looking forward to working with you 😉
#PhD #PhDLife
🧪 have a Master's in #Biology
🌱 are interested in #PlantBiology, #Physiology, and/or #MolecularBiology
Then this is a perfect opportunity! We at #GELIFES are looking forward to working with you 😉
#PhD #PhDLife
Are you, or do you know someone that is excited to do a PhD in plant biology. We are happy to offer a position to explore physiology, gene regulatory networks and wild species. Come join our team in a stimulating scientific environment at the University of Groningen!
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PhD position Growth-resilience trade-offs in plants - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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January 21, 2026 at 1:35 PM
🔔 Update: A new #PhDPosition at the University of Groningen (@rug.nl)! If you:
🧪 have a Master's in #Biology
🌱 are interested in #PlantBiology, #Physiology, and/or #MolecularBiology
Then this is a perfect opportunity! We at #GELIFES are looking forward to working with you 😉
#PhD #PhDLife
🧪 have a Master's in #Biology
🌱 are interested in #PlantBiology, #Physiology, and/or #MolecularBiology
Then this is a perfect opportunity! We at #GELIFES are looking forward to working with you 😉
#PhD #PhDLife
Meet Yasin Kaya of Max Planck, one of the volunteer researchers behind #TAIR12
We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to this new annotation, soon to be published on the ENA! 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis @ysnky.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
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We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to this new annotation, soon to be published on the ENA! 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis @ysnky.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
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Meet the volunteer researchers behind TAIR12: Yasin Kaya, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research - Phoenix Bioinformatics
Over the past two years TAIR has led a community effort to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Scientists like Yasin Kaya, a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Resear...
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January 20, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Meet Yasin Kaya of Max Planck, one of the volunteer researchers behind #TAIR12
We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to this new annotation, soon to be published on the ENA! 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis @ysnky.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
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We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to this new annotation, soon to be published on the ENA! 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis @ysnky.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
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🌱🧬The #SeminarSeriesCBGP continues!
📅 Friday, January 23th – 12:30 PM
📺 Zoom: shorturl.at/BB2CU (🗝️627464)
🗣️Bernd Bukau (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social)
“Mechanisms of co-translational folding and assembly of proteins”
#PlantBiology #Research #PlantScience
📅 Friday, January 23th – 12:30 PM
📺 Zoom: shorturl.at/BB2CU (🗝️627464)
🗣️Bernd Bukau (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social)
“Mechanisms of co-translational folding and assembly of proteins”
#PlantBiology #Research #PlantScience
January 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM
🌱🧬The #SeminarSeriesCBGP continues!
📅 Friday, January 23th – 12:30 PM
📺 Zoom: shorturl.at/BB2CU (🗝️627464)
🗣️Bernd Bukau (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social)
“Mechanisms of co-translational folding and assembly of proteins”
#PlantBiology #Research #PlantScience
📅 Friday, January 23th – 12:30 PM
📺 Zoom: shorturl.at/BB2CU (🗝️627464)
🗣️Bernd Bukau (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social)
“Mechanisms of co-translational folding and assembly of proteins”
#PlantBiology #Research #PlantScience
Got questions about TAIR? Book a one-on-one meeting with curators during our open office hours this Tues. Jan 20! 🧪
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantscience
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantscience
January 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Got questions about TAIR? Book a one-on-one meeting with curators during our open office hours this Tues. Jan 20! 🧪
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantscience
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantscience
Our next talk comes from Dr George Littlejohn, Associate Professor of Plant and Fungal Biology, presenting Having a Blast: plant pathology research at University of Plymouth. A fascinating insight into plant–pathogen research. 🌱🔬
#PlantBiology #PlantPathology #ResearchTalks #SoBMs #AgriTech
#PlantBiology #PlantPathology #ResearchTalks #SoBMs #AgriTech
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Our next talk comes from Dr George Littlejohn, Associate Professor of Plant and Fungal Biology, presenting Having a Blast: plant pathology research at University of Plymouth. A fascinating insight into plant–pathogen research. 🌱🔬
#PlantBiology #PlantPathology #ResearchTalks #SoBMs #AgriTech
#PlantBiology #PlantPathology #ResearchTalks #SoBMs #AgriTech
Book a 30-minute appointment with a #TAIR team member! Whether you are new to TAIR and want to learn about our features and functionality, or an experienced user with specific questions or feedback, we're here to help! 🧪
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantsci
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantsci
TAIR invites you to open office hours in January, February, and March - Phoenix Bioinformatics
We’re excited to host a series of free open office hours for TAIR users on the third Tuesday of each month
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January 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Book a 30-minute appointment with a #TAIR team member! Whether you are new to TAIR and want to learn about our features and functionality, or an experienced user with specific questions or feedback, we're here to help! 🧪
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantsci
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#plantbiology #plantscience #Arabidopsis #scisky #plantsci
If you're into genomes and crop physiology, we've a new paper out! High-throughput screen of photoprotective kinetics in sorghum, and candidate genes underlying NPQ traits: doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70114
Big thanks to a great group of coauthors who helped make it possible.
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
Big thanks to a great group of coauthors who helped make it possible.
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
doi.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
If you're into genomes and crop physiology, we've a new paper out! High-throughput screen of photoprotective kinetics in sorghum, and candidate genes underlying NPQ traits: doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70114
Big thanks to a great group of coauthors who helped make it possible.
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
Big thanks to a great group of coauthors who helped make it possible.
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
January 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
🌱 From Earth System Science Data: A new global database links leaf spectroscopy with photosynthetic traits across hundreds of species, enabling better models for plant function and climate research. (Troy Magney)
▶️ essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
▶️ essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative: A database of paired leaf spectroscopy and functional traits associated with leaf photosynthetic capacity
Abstract. Accurate assessment of leaf functional traits is crucial for a diverse range of applications from crop phenotyping to parameterizing global climate models. Leaf reflectance spectroscopy offe...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
🌱 From Earth System Science Data: A new global database links leaf spectroscopy with photosynthetic traits across hundreds of species, enabling better models for plant function and climate research. (Troy Magney)
▶️ essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
▶️ essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
#OPR
PoVQ31, a VQ protein in Paeonia ostii 'Fengdan', is crucial for drought tolerance, activating ROS scavenging to protect plants.
Details: https://maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/opr-0024-0015
#PlantBiology #DroughtStress
PoVQ31, a VQ protein in Paeonia ostii 'Fengdan', is crucial for drought tolerance, activating ROS scavenging to protect plants.
Details: https://maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/opr-0024-0015
#PlantBiology #DroughtStress
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 AM
#OPR
PoVQ31, a VQ protein in Paeonia ostii 'Fengdan', is crucial for drought tolerance, activating ROS scavenging to protect plants.
Details: https://maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/opr-0024-0015
#PlantBiology #DroughtStress
PoVQ31, a VQ protein in Paeonia ostii 'Fengdan', is crucial for drought tolerance, activating ROS scavenging to protect plants.
Details: https://maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/opr-0024-0015
#PlantBiology #DroughtStress
#PlantSci Review:
Harnessing benzamides as plant stress inhibitors, growth promoters and in management of crop resilience.
read #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Harnessing benzamides as plant stress inhibitors, growth promoters and in management of crop resilience.
read #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Harnessing benzamides as plant stress inhibitors, growth promoters and in management of crop resilience—A review
Benzamides boost crop resilience by inhibiting poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) to enhance stress tolerance and, through their antimicrobial, herbicidal, and insecticidal derivatives, they offer br...
doi.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
#PlantSci Review:
Harnessing benzamides as plant stress inhibitors, growth promoters and in management of crop resilience.
read #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Harnessing benzamides as plant stress inhibitors, growth promoters and in management of crop resilience.
read #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Causes of geographic variation:
Black pine cone crop size, cone structure and pollination failure affect the amount of seed predation by crossbills in the Iberian Peninsula.
E. T. Mezquida and C. W. Benkman report in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Black pine cone crop size, cone structure and pollination failure affect the amount of seed predation by crossbills in the Iberian Peninsula.
E. T. Mezquida and C. W. Benkman report in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Black pine cone crop size, cone structure and pollination failure affect the amount of seed predation by crossbills in the Iberian Peninsula
Measures of black pine seed predation by common crossbills can reveal both the form of phenotypic selection and its variation among locations; however, environmental variation among sites impedes inf...
doi.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Causes of geographic variation:
Black pine cone crop size, cone structure and pollination failure affect the amount of seed predation by crossbills in the Iberian Peninsula.
E. T. Mezquida and C. W. Benkman report in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Black pine cone crop size, cone structure and pollination failure affect the amount of seed predation by crossbills in the Iberian Peninsula.
E. T. Mezquida and C. W. Benkman report in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
#plantscience question. Anyone know why the Tet-On (tetracycline/dox) inducible expression system never took off in plants?
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Interested in non-model plant/tree pan-genomics with functional insights. check out "Complex Genomic Structural Variation Underlies Climate Adaptation among Eucalyptus species" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Complex Genomic Structural Variation Underlies Climate Adaptation among Eucalyptus species
Climate change threatens forest ecosystems globally, yet our understanding of adaptive genomic variation in wild forest trees remains limited. Here, we present the first comprehensive pangenome analys...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Exploring the genetic diversity of the IPK Medicago germplasm collection using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS).
Team around M. Kavka from @leibnizipk.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Team around M. Kavka from @leibnizipk.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Exploring the genetic diversity of the IPK Medicago germplasm collection using GBS
Genotyping-by-sequencing of 1234 accessions from the Medicago collection of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) revealed broad genetic diversity across 40 species, p...
doi.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Exploring the genetic diversity of the IPK Medicago germplasm collection using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS).
Team around M. Kavka from @leibnizipk.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Team around M. Kavka from @leibnizipk.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology #PlantSci
doi.org/10.1111/plb....
#PlantSci
Plant accession + insect infestation, rather than silicon supplementation, shape defence strategies of Arabidopsis halleri towards a leaf beetle.
Team around @chemecolcm.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Plant accession + insect infestation, rather than silicon supplementation, shape defence strategies of Arabidopsis halleri towards a leaf beetle.
Team around @chemecolcm.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology doi.org/10.1111/plb....
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:10 AM
#PlantSci
Plant accession + insect infestation, rather than silicon supplementation, shape defence strategies of Arabidopsis halleri towards a leaf beetle.
Team around @chemecolcm.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Plant accession + insect infestation, rather than silicon supplementation, shape defence strategies of Arabidopsis halleri towards a leaf beetle.
Team around @chemecolcm.bsky.social @chemodiversity.bsky.social reports #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology doi.org/10.1111/plb....
#TAIR is a key reference tool #plantscience. That's why nearly 100 volunteers chose to contribute to the soon-to-be-released reannotation of the #Arabidopsis genome. 🧪
Meet one of those volunteers: Emmanuel Boutet: bit.ly/4p6FagQ
#plantbiology #genomics #TAIR12 #plantbiology #scisky
Meet one of those volunteers: Emmanuel Boutet: bit.ly/4p6FagQ
#plantbiology #genomics #TAIR12 #plantbiology #scisky
December 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#TAIR is a key reference tool #plantscience. That's why nearly 100 volunteers chose to contribute to the soon-to-be-released reannotation of the #Arabidopsis genome. 🧪
Meet one of those volunteers: Emmanuel Boutet: bit.ly/4p6FagQ
#plantbiology #genomics #TAIR12 #plantbiology #scisky
Meet one of those volunteers: Emmanuel Boutet: bit.ly/4p6FagQ
#plantbiology #genomics #TAIR12 #plantbiology #scisky
🌱 From The Plant Journal: Comparative gene network analysis reveals conserved and species-specific regulators of nitrogen uptake in maize and sorghum, guiding efforts to improve nutrient efficiency. (Anne-Maarit Bågman, Siobhan M. Brady)
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#PlantBiology
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#PlantBiology
Decoding nitrogen uptake efficiency in maize and sorghum: insights from comparative gene regulatory networks
To decipher the regulatory basis of nitrogen, use efficiency (NUE), we built maize- and sorghum-specific gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Cross-species analyses revealed conserved and species-specifi...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🌱 From The Plant Journal: Comparative gene network analysis reveals conserved and species-specific regulators of nitrogen uptake in maize and sorghum, guiding efforts to improve nutrient efficiency. (Anne-Maarit Bågman, Siobhan M. Brady)
▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantBiology
▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantBiology
Genome Journal invites research submissions for their Early Leads collection, featuring exploratory experiments, unexpected results, or compact datasets in plant biology that may shape new research directions.
More info ▶️https://ow.ly/fxXy50XBEQY
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
More info ▶️https://ow.ly/fxXy50XBEQY
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Genome Journal invites research submissions for their Early Leads collection, featuring exploratory experiments, unexpected results, or compact datasets in plant biology that may shape new research directions.
More info ▶️https://ow.ly/fxXy50XBEQY
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
More info ▶️https://ow.ly/fxXy50XBEQY
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
Genome invites research submissions for our Early Leads collection, featuring exploratory experiments, unexpected results, or compact datasets in plant biology that may shape new research directions.
More info ▶️ https://ow.ly/OW9950XBEQc
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
More info ▶️ https://ow.ly/OW9950XBEQc
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Genome invites research submissions for our Early Leads collection, featuring exploratory experiments, unexpected results, or compact datasets in plant biology that may shape new research directions.
More info ▶️ https://ow.ly/OW9950XBEQc
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
More info ▶️ https://ow.ly/OW9950XBEQc
#PlantBiology #CallForPapers
A crucial step towards understanding tip growth in plants. Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social (University of Minnesota) highlights work from Ryken et al. of the Bezanilla lab (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) in Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#CellSignaling #PlantBiology #PlantCellBiology
#CellSignaling #PlantBiology #PlantCellBiology
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A crucial step towards understanding tip growth in plants. Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social (University of Minnesota) highlights work from Ryken et al. of the Bezanilla lab (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) in Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#CellSignaling #PlantBiology #PlantCellBiology
#CellSignaling #PlantBiology #PlantCellBiology
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Meet the volunteer researchers behind #TAIR12... beginning with Emmanuel Boutet of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Please join us in expressing gratitude to everyone who contributed to this new annotation.
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis
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#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis
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Meet the volunteer researchers behind TAIR12: Emmanuel Boutet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics - Phoenix Bioinformatics
Over the past two years TAIR has led a community effort to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome with support from scientists like Emmanuel Boutet, a plant biocurator for the Swiss Institute of B...
phoenixbioinfo.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Meet the volunteer researchers behind #TAIR12... beginning with Emmanuel Boutet of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Please join us in expressing gratitude to everyone who contributed to this new annotation.
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis
bit.ly/4p6FagQ
#plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis
bit.ly/4p6FagQ