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Noel Blanco-Touriñán
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Ramón y Cajal Tenure-Track Fellow @ibmcp.bsky.social‬ | Plant developmental dynamics 🌱 Vascular dev 🪵 Evo-devo 🌿
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apmahonen.bsky.social Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · Jan 9
We’re hiring! 🌱
Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
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February 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d
CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions

#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience
CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION in biotic plant interactions.
February 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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apmahonen.bsky.social
We’re hiring! 🌱
Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
jobs.helsinki.fi
January 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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peteretchells.bsky.social
Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Senior Research Technician in Plant Tissue Culture and Genetics
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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structplantbio.bsky.social
Our latest collaboration with Fiedler lab @fmp-berlin.de and Panse labs UZH out on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. Using bead-adsorbed, non-hydrolyzable inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) analogs, we isolated many putative PP-InsP-binding proteins from Arabidopsis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
An inositol pyrophosphate interaction screen provides insight into the regulation of plant casein kinase II
Inositol pyrophosphates (PP-InsPs) are key nutrient messengers in plants, but their protein receptors remain poorly defined. Using a systems-level affinity screen with biotinylated InsP₆, InsP₇, and I...
www.biorxiv.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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jalonsos.bsky.social
Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience

@newphyt.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On growth and flow: hydraulic aspects of aboveground meristems
Water is essential for plant growth under both normal and stress conditions. Aboveground, two key meristems control plant development: the shoot apical meristem and the vascular cambium. Here, stem c...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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theplantjournal.bsky.social
𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 📚

🌱 Specificity of brassinosteroid perception and its integration at signaling crossroads in vascular development

✍️ @noelponte.bsky.social and @christianhardtke.bsky.social

Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
noelponte.bsky.social
Our new review is out @theplantjournal.bsky.social! Christian (@unil.bsky.social) and I dive into brassinosteroid perception specificity and the importance of BRs in shaping vascular development. @ibmcp.bsky.social @upv.es @csic.es onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
noelponte.bsky.social
Our latest review, co-authored with @agustilab.bsky.social (@ibmcp.bsky.social), “Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks,” is now published in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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djgibbs.bsky.social
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...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham
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October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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hueihsuantsai.bsky.social
Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Oct 2
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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#PaperCBGP 🆕📜‼️

🌱CBGP researcher Daniel Conde joined an international study published in Genome Biology revealing new regulators of xylem development and a novel mechanism shaping vessel formation and stress adaptation

📎Full article here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
Deep tissue profiling of Populus stem at single nucleus level reveals uncharacterized cell types and cell-specific gene regulatory networks - Genome Biology
Background Single-cell genomics is revolutionizing plant developmental biology, enabling the transcriptome profiling of individual cells and their lineage relationships. However, plant cell walls poly...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post!
Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Page 11 of the Sunday Post. With story 'Fossil find is modern-day Jurassic spark'. The title image is of dinosaurs and below is an image of fossil wood, and a photograph of Anajú Sagasti and Sandy Hetherington
September 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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nikogeldner.bsky.social
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
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September 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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structplantbio.bsky.social
Congratulations Laura, well deserved!
lorenzoorts.bsky.social Laura Lorenzo Orts @lorenzoorts.bsky.social · Sep 15
I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Laura Lorenzo Orts
IMB Mainz
www.imb.de
September 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity (Nature Comms.) @dalabadi.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social @noelponte.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/261Dl25

#PlantaePSRW
More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity | Plantae
When plants face tough times, like an invading pathogen or a sudden drought, they often make a difficult choice: pause growth to focus on survival. This phenomenon, called the growth–defense…
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September 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱

🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes

Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
@lauraragni.bsky.social

Closing 30th Sept '25

Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...)

#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Molecular Coding of Specificity in plant Processes". The issue will be edited by Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter and Laura Ragni. The image depicts the logo of CRC 1101 “Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes“ - carried by groups of 3 German Universities and funded by the DFG, deals with the challenge of understanding specificity in plant processes by application of methods reaching from structure determination, high-end spectromicroscopy and biochemistry over forward and reverse genetics to big data science and computational modelling. This special issue will summarize some recent advances made by CRC 1101 members but also welcomes contributions from colleagues working in this research area.
September 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🌱 What happens when lateral root primordia (LRPs) fail to emerge?
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hormonal regulation of cell fate plasticity of xylem-pole-pericycle lineage in Arabidopsis roots
In Arabidopsis roots, xylem-pole-pericycle (XPP) cells exhibit dual cell fates by contributing to both lateral root (LR) and cambium formation. Despit…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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cristicris.bsky.social
It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest
González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways to promote meristem arrest. B...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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maitesaura.bsky.social
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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vinayshukla.bsky.social
Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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mdelucas.bsky.social
So happy to share the outcome of an incredible team effort! In this paper we present an Atlas describing how SUMO-PTM components coordinate stress responses in Arabidopsis root cells. Huge congratulations to everyone involved! Amazing work all around! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Elucidating tissue and subcellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote
A spatial map of an entire protein modification system reveals tissue and subcellular diversification of SUMO components.
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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peteretchells.bsky.social
Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning
Non-cell autonomous signalling is a mechanism by which stem cells are maintained across the tree of life. In plants, many stem cell populations are regulated by peptide ligands related to CLAVATA3, w...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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sandyheth.bsky.social
A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM