Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social
Editorial Advisor at Plants, People, Planet 🌿🫂🌍. Senior Research Associate at The University of Sheffield in the Croft Lab 🍃💧📸🛰☀️🌾
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Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social
· Jan 23
1/4 Delighted to share our latest preprint "Future heatwave conditions inhibit CO2-induced stomatal closure in wheat". We found that high CO2, high VPD heatwave treatment prevents stomatal responses to light, super-elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertiliser application. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
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Are you interested in pursuing groundbreaking research and gaining world-class training in plant biology in a supportive community amidst the beauty of Happy Valley? Consider applying to the the Plant Biology PhD Program! Applications due December 1: www.huck.psu.edu/graduate-pro...
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Are you interested in pursuing groundbreaking research and gaining world-class training in plant biology in a supportive community amidst the beauty of Happy Valley? Consider applying to the the Plant Biology PhD Program! Applications due December 1: www.huck.psu.edu/graduate-pro...
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1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for the Safe Cassava Symposium- virtual, free, 27-28th October 2025 - 2x 1.5 h sessions/day
Thanks to Global Plant Council for hosting. #cyanide #cassava #konzo #neurology #publichealth #plantsciencs #foodsecurity
⚕️☘️🌿🍃🌱🌾🪴
biology.anu.edu.au/research/div...
Thanks to Global Plant Council for hosting. #cyanide #cassava #konzo #neurology #publichealth #plantsciencs #foodsecurity
⚕️☘️🌿🍃🌱🌾🪴
biology.anu.edu.au/research/div...
International Safe Cassava Network (ISCN)
Aims to foster collaboration between those working on cassava and konzo.
biology.anu.edu.au
September 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for the Safe Cassava Symposium- virtual, free, 27-28th October 2025 - 2x 1.5 h sessions/day
Thanks to Global Plant Council for hosting. #cyanide #cassava #konzo #neurology #publichealth #plantsciencs #foodsecurity
⚕️☘️🌿🍃🌱🌾🪴
biology.anu.edu.au/research/div...
Thanks to Global Plant Council for hosting. #cyanide #cassava #konzo #neurology #publichealth #plantsciencs #foodsecurity
⚕️☘️🌿🍃🌱🌾🪴
biology.anu.edu.au/research/div...
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We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
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Our latest! K63-polyUb of the ERECTA receptor kinase by PUB30/31 is required for the ligand induced receptor endocytosis for stomatal patterning. Our results show that ERECTA signals at the PM. Congrats, Liangliang, Minh & the team🌱!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our latest! K63-polyUb of the ERECTA receptor kinase by PUB30/31 is required for the ligand induced receptor endocytosis for stomatal patterning. Our results show that ERECTA signals at the PM. Congrats, Liangliang, Minh & the team🌱!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Today at SEB 2025, we have an exciting #LICOR workshop looking at plant gas exchange across scales🌿🌾💦🌏. Environmental scientist Ian Smillie will introduce cutting-edge technologies that enable leaf to ecosystem level measuring of plant performance. #photosynthesis #stomata @sebiology.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today at SEB 2025, we have an exciting #LICOR workshop looking at plant gas exchange across scales🌿🌾💦🌏. Environmental scientist Ian Smillie will introduce cutting-edge technologies that enable leaf to ecosystem level measuring of plant performance. #photosynthesis #stomata @sebiology.bsky.social
Day 1 of SEB 2025 in Antwerp. What a great venue 🏛🦁! It was real pleasure to be part of the P3 PEPG session looking at plant #photosynthesis this morning alongside speakers including @oulaghannoum.bsky.social. From now, time to enjoy the afternoon talks. @sebiology.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Day 1 of SEB 2025 in Antwerp. What a great venue 🏛🦁! It was real pleasure to be part of the P3 PEPG session looking at plant #photosynthesis this morning alongside speakers including @oulaghannoum.bsky.social. From now, time to enjoy the afternoon talks. @sebiology.bsky.social
Really looking forward to SEB 2025 in Antwerp this week. A really interesting #photosynthesis session tomorrow, followed by a #stomata session on Wednesday (I'll be co-chairing with @casparchater.bsky.social). Then on Thursday, #LICOR have a gas exchange workshop. @sebiology.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Really looking forward to SEB 2025 in Antwerp this week. A really interesting #photosynthesis session tomorrow, followed by a #stomata session on Wednesday (I'll be co-chairing with @casparchater.bsky.social). Then on Thursday, #LICOR have a gas exchange workshop. @sebiology.bsky.social
Happy to share details of an online seminar I'll be taking part in tomorrow where I'll discuss #stomata. This will include evolution, biotechnology and "sensing" of stomata (including drone data capture). It's an early start, from 7.30am UK time - so don't forget to grab coffee ☕️. Login details 👇
April 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy to share details of an online seminar I'll be taking part in tomorrow where I'll discuss #stomata. This will include evolution, biotechnology and "sensing" of stomata (including drone data capture). It's an early start, from 7.30am UK time - so don't forget to grab coffee ☕️. Login details 👇
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RIPE Researchers, in work done for the CABBI Project, demonstrated that increasing the Rubisco enzyme in C4 crops like sorghum and sugar cane increases photosynthesis and yield as well!
Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.
Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.
Adapting C4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane | PNAS
Meta-analyses and theory show that with rising atmospheric [CO2], Rubisco has become
the greatest limitation to light-saturated leaf CO2 assimilati...
doi.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
RIPE Researchers, in work done for the CABBI Project, demonstrated that increasing the Rubisco enzyme in C4 crops like sorghum and sugar cane increases photosynthesis and yield as well!
Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.
Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.
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It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology
Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana
How plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...
www.biorxiv.org
March 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology
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I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat.
I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity.
#plantscience
Postdoc applications close on 2 April.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity.
#plantscience
Postdoc applications close on 2 April.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
Details : Research Fellow in Plant Biochemistry : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat.
I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity.
#plantscience
Postdoc applications close on 2 April.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity.
#plantscience
Postdoc applications close on 2 April.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
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Recently, two papers showed the potential of population genetics in Marchantia from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and Dolan's lab. Here is my dispatch for Current Biology talking about them.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Population genomics: A new chapter for Marchantia biology
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has become a powerful model organism for plant
biology. Researchers are now exploring its potential as a model system for population
genomics to understand natural ...
www.cell.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Recently, two papers showed the potential of population genetics in Marchantia from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and Dolan's lab. Here is my dispatch for Current Biology talking about them.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Still time to apply for this! Deadline the 17th of March.
I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...
Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...
Summer Studentships
www.rms.org.uk
March 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Still time to apply for this! Deadline the 17th of March.
An interesting new story about MYB59 contribution to WUE at high temperature in #Arabidopsis by John Ferguson, Oliver Brendel and @ubechtold.bsky.social. #stomata #roots
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1
MYB59 is linked to natural variation of water use associated with warmer temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana
Water-use contributes significantly to plant growth and productivity, yet the extent to which variation in water-use is a function of adaptive differentiation is unknown. Here, we studied natural vari...
www.biorxiv.org
March 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
An interesting new story about MYB59 contribution to WUE at high temperature in #Arabidopsis by John Ferguson, Oliver Brendel and @ubechtold.bsky.social. #stomata #roots
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1
TODAY is DEADLINE DAY for abstract submissions for talks and posters at SEB 2025! @casparchater.bsky.social and I have a great lineup of Keynote speakers in our #stomata session including SEB president @proftlawson.bsky.social. Please spread the word!
March 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
TODAY is DEADLINE DAY for abstract submissions for talks and posters at SEB 2025! @casparchater.bsky.social and I have a great lineup of Keynote speakers in our #stomata session including SEB president @proftlawson.bsky.social. Please spread the word!
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Registration is now open for the Society of Experimental Biology annual meeting in July 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium, where my friends @suruchiroy.bsky.social & Marta are hosting the 'Gravitropism and Plant Architecture' session. Please share and register here:
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
March 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Registration is now open for the Society of Experimental Biology annual meeting in July 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium, where my friends @suruchiroy.bsky.social & Marta are hosting the 'Gravitropism and Plant Architecture' session. Please share and register here:
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
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Abstracts open for the JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium @jxbotany.bsky.social #PlantSci 🧪🌾🪴 www.sebiology.org/events/journ...
Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) 75th Anniversary Symposium
www.sebiology.org
March 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Abstracts open for the JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium @jxbotany.bsky.social #PlantSci 🧪🌾🪴 www.sebiology.org/events/journ...
If you want to present your latest #stomata research at SEB 2025, there are only 4 days until the submission deadline(7th of March)!! Excitingly, @casparchater.bsky.social and I can now also announce a brand new Workshop focused on measuring gas exchange across scales with @li-corenv.bsky.social👇👇
March 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you want to present your latest #stomata research at SEB 2025, there are only 4 days until the submission deadline(7th of March)!! Excitingly, @casparchater.bsky.social and I can now also announce a brand new Workshop focused on measuring gas exchange across scales with @li-corenv.bsky.social👇👇
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Looking for a PhD?
Come work with us on Horizontal Gene Transfer in crops!
Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come work with us on Horizontal Gene Transfer in crops!
Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Horizontal gene transfer and its role in crop adaptation and evolution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Horizontal gene transfer and its role in crop adaptation and evolution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking for a PhD?
Come work with us on Horizontal Gene Transfer in crops!
Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come work with us on Horizontal Gene Transfer in crops!
Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Please repost: BBSRC funded PhD opportunity. Please get in touch for further project info. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Please repost: BBSRC funded PhD opportunity. Please get in touch for further project info. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Really glad to finally share this work. The first research conducted with @drhollycroft.bsky.social, in collaboration with ADAS UK. We used #optical and #thermal data from #drones together with ground measurements to map #wheat🌾 traits and fluxes. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
February 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Really glad to finally share this work. The first research conducted with @drhollycroft.bsky.social, in collaboration with ADAS UK. We used #optical and #thermal data from #drones together with ground measurements to map #wheat🌾 traits and fluxes. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Here at @rothamsted.bsky.social we are fortunate to have a very large area of GM glasshouse. Here we are growing up enough plants to transform 18 different constructs, optimising the accumulation of EPA&DHA omega-3 fish oils. Camelina is the ideal crop for such an iterative approach.
February 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Here at @rothamsted.bsky.social we are fortunate to have a very large area of GM glasshouse. Here we are growing up enough plants to transform 18 different constructs, optimising the accumulation of EPA&DHA omega-3 fish oils. Camelina is the ideal crop for such an iterative approach.