Aswin N.
@sisiphusonbreak.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) 🌳🧬❄️☀️
Reposted by Aswin N.
🌳 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 🧪
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 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🌳 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 🧪
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 🧪
Reposted by Aswin N.
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W3 Professorship: Stress Resilience of Plants @rwth.bsky.social
Start: 1 October 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W3 Professorship: Stress Resilience of Plants @rwth.bsky.social
Start: 1 October 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W3 Professorship: Stress Resilience of Plants @rwth.bsky.social
Start: 1 October 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W3 Professorship: Stress Resilience of Plants @rwth.bsky.social
Start: 1 October 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Reposted by Aswin N.
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
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
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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
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
Reposted by Aswin N.
#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
👩🔬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
#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
👩🔬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
Reposted by Aswin N.
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
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
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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
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
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.
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
Reposted by Aswin N.
#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
www.nature.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#PlantScience #Photoperiodism 🌱⏰https://www.nature.com/articles/s44323-025-00054-0
Reposted by Aswin N.
🚨 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...
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
🚨 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...
📍 Dublin, Ireland
Closes: 15th Oct 2025
🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...
Reposted by Aswin N.
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
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...
Reposted by Aswin N.
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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
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/...
Reposted by Aswin N.
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
September 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa...
#plantscience
Reposted by Aswin N.
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:
✉️laura.arribas@csic.es
📆 until Sep 30th
🧬🌱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:
✉️laura.arribas@csic.es
📆 until Sep 30th
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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:
✉️laura.arribas@csic.es
📆 until Sep 30th
🧬🌱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:
✉️laura.arribas@csic.es
📆 until Sep 30th
Reposted by Aswin N.
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...
www.cell.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The HY5-NPR1 module governs light-dependent virulence of a plant bacterial pathogen www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Reposted by Aswin N.
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
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
Reposted by Aswin N.
The blue light receptor ZmFKF1a recruits ZmGI1 to the nucleus to accelerate shoot apex development and flowering in maize (Fengkai Wu , Yan Kang , Ling Liu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
August 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The blue light receptor ZmFKF1a recruits ZmGI1 to the nucleus to accelerate shoot apex development and flowering in maize (Fengkai Wu , Yan Kang , Ling Liu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Reposted by Aswin N.
There's an open position as Plant Genome Editing Scientist @kwsgroup.bsky.social.
👉 jobs.kws.com/job/St_-Loui...
The Position will be at the KWS Gateway Research Center in St. Louis, USA: www.kws.com/us/en/about-...
#PlantScience #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
👉 jobs.kws.com/job/St_-Loui...
The Position will be at the KWS Gateway Research Center in St. Louis, USA: www.kws.com/us/en/about-...
#PlantScience #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Advanced Scientist for Trait Variation
Advanced Scientist for Trait Variation
jobs.kws.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
There's an open position as Plant Genome Editing Scientist @kwsgroup.bsky.social.
👉 jobs.kws.com/job/St_-Loui...
The Position will be at the KWS Gateway Research Center in St. Louis, USA: www.kws.com/us/en/about-...
#PlantScience #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
👉 jobs.kws.com/job/St_-Loui...
The Position will be at the KWS Gateway Research Center in St. Louis, USA: www.kws.com/us/en/about-...
#PlantScience #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Reposted by Aswin N.
Photoexcited CRY1 physically interacts with ATG8 to regulate selective autophagy of HY5 and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis (Lu Jiang , Shilong Zhang , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
August 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Photoexcited CRY1 physically interacts with ATG8 to regulate selective autophagy of HY5 and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis (Lu Jiang , Shilong Zhang , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
August 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
Reposted by Aswin N.
Evening complex proteins antagonize ABI3 and ABI5 to temporally regulate abscisic acid signaling and seed germination (Ruyu Tang , Jiajia Yang , Xiao Han , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Evening complex proteins antagonize ABI3 and ABI5 to temporally regulate abscisic acid signaling and seed germination
Evening complex proteins bind to and suppress the transcription factors ABI3 and ABI5 to integrate the circadian clock and abscisic acid signaling pathways
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Evening complex proteins antagonize ABI3 and ABI5 to temporally regulate abscisic acid signaling and seed germination (Ruyu Tang , Jiajia Yang , Xiao Han , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Reposted by Aswin N.
Happy+proud to see my review published together with @mehta-lab.com! SO much great work studying crop adaptations to new latitudes. Again realizing we need an even stronger clasp of hands across upstream and downstream (research) pathways so that the plants we love+eat can tackle climate change.
Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Happy+proud to see my review published together with @mehta-lab.com! SO much great work studying crop adaptations to new latitudes. Again realizing we need an even stronger clasp of hands across upstream and downstream (research) pathways so that the plants we love+eat can tackle climate change.
Reposted by Aswin N.
**GROUP LEADER VACANCY**
Discovery Plant Sciences
Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us!
#johninnescentre
#plantscijobs
Discovery Plant Sciences
Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us!
#johninnescentre
#plantscijobs
GROUP LEADER VACANCY
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.
If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.
www.jic.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
**GROUP LEADER VACANCY**
Discovery Plant Sciences
Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us!
#johninnescentre
#plantscijobs
Discovery Plant Sciences
Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us!
#johninnescentre
#plantscijobs
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Plant Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Review starts: Sept. 1, 2025
Read more here: www.arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/vi...
#PlantSciJobs
Review starts: Sept. 1, 2025
Read more here: www.arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/vi...
#PlantSciJobs
TAIR - Arabidopsis
www.arabidopsis.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Plant Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Review starts: Sept. 1, 2025
Read more here: www.arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/vi...
#PlantSciJobs
Review starts: Sept. 1, 2025
Read more here: www.arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/vi...
#PlantSciJobs
Reposted by Aswin N.
Cell-to-cell translocation of florigen is inhibited by low ambient temperature through abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
July 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Cell-to-cell translocation of florigen is inhibited by low ambient temperature through abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#plantscience
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🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!