Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS)

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🌾Today at the SPPS symposium Crop Improvement in the Gene-Editing Era, University of Copenhagen. ~50 plant scientists, one room, and a programme running from evolution to editing to regulation. 🧵1/9

Thomas Jacobs (Ghent University) closed on large-scale plant genome editing. Editing one plant is a paper; editing thousands is a breeding programme. #NGT #FoodSecurity #SPPS 🧵8/9

🌾Today at the SPPS symposium Crop Improvement in the Gene-Editing Era, University of Copenhagen. ~50 plant scientists, one room, and a programme running from evolution to editing to regulation. 🧵1/9

A poster session that stayed busy right through the coffee break. Same energy all day: at 50 people every session ran up against its time limit because the questions kept coming ... and they were good ones! 🧵6/9

🌾Today at the SPPS symposium Crop Improvement in the Gene-Editing Era, University of Copenhagen. ~50 plant scientists, one room, and a programme running from evolution to editing to regulation. 🧵1/9

Sanu Arora (John Innes Centre) on the genetic dissection of host–microbe interactions in pea. A useful reminder that the trait you want is often a relationship, not a gene. 🧵4/9

🌾Today at the SPPS symposium Crop Improvement in the Gene-Editing Era, University of Copenhagen. ~50 plant scientists, one room, and a programme running from evolution to editing to regulation. 🧵1/9

Markus Stetter (University of Cologne) opened on the evolution of betalain pigments and their regulatory network. 🧵2/9

🌱 That's a wrap. #SPPS2026 has closed after three days of plant science in Helsinki. The whole crowd, one last time. 👇 📷 Ari Pekka Mähönen 🧵 1/9

Early Career Award winner Laura Bacete Cano closes the scientific program with her research on the mechanisms regulating plant cell wall homeostasis. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 8/9

🌱 That's a wrap. #SPPS2026 has closed after three days of plant science in Helsinki. The whole crowd, one last time. 👇 📷 Ari Pekka Mähönen 🧵 1/9

🏆 And then the prizes. SPPS Prize: Prof. Emeritus Ian Max Møller (Aarhus University) Physiologia Plantarum Award: Prof. Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne (University of Turku) Congratulations! #SPPS2026 🧵 6/9

🌱 That's a wrap. #SPPS2026 has closed after three days of plant science in Helsinki. The whole crowd, one last time. 👇 📷 Ari Pekka Mähönen 🧵 1/9

SPPS president Kirsten Krause opens the general assembly, and Rosa López-Marqués presents the society's new website. And the news: the next SPPS conference will be in Stockholm, August 2028 🇸🇪 #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann & Margrethe Dam Falkenberg 🧵 4/9

🌱 That's a wrap. #SPPS2026 has closed after three days of plant science in Helsinki. The whole crowd, one last time. 👇 📷 Ari Pekka Mähönen 🧵 1/9

The final morning, chaired by Teng Zhang, opened with invited speaker Jenny Russinova (VIB, Ghent) on the regulation of brassinosteroid homeostasis in the Arabidopsis root meristem. #SPPS2026 📷 Lizzie Neilson 🧵 2/9

Day 2 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki! Invited speaker Rüdiger Simon (Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf) opens the morning with spatial cell ecotypes in barley development👇 📷 Kirsten Krause 🧵 1/6

Franziska Brunozzi (SLU Umeå) tracking leaf carbon fluxes in aspen with ¹³CO₂ labelling. Also on the afternoon program: Xuelei Lai, Laura Wey, and invited speaker Nicola Patron closing on engineering gene regulatory networks. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 5/6

Day 2 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki! Invited speaker Rüdiger Simon (Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf) opens the morning with spatial cell ecotypes in barley development👇 📷 Kirsten Krause 🧵 1/6

Invited speaker Tatsuya Nobori (@thesainsburylab.bsky.social, Norwich)) investigating pathogen infection using single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomics. Plant–microbe interactions, one cell at a time. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 3/6

Day 2 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki! Invited speaker Rüdiger Simon (Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf) opens the morning with spatial cell ecotypes in barley development👇 📷 Kirsten Krause 🧵 1/6

🌱 Day 1 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki. Our society is meeting at the University of Helsinki this week, and the first day set a high bar. Ari Pekka Mähönen opened the meeting and chaired the first session, impressively relaxed one minute in 😌👇 📷 Mats Hansson 🧵 1/7

The day ended in the best possible way: an evening reception at Helsinki City Hall 🥂 The conversations that started at the meeting venue carried on over food and drinks. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann & Kirsten Krause 🧵 6/7

🌱 Day 1 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki. Our society is meeting at the University of Helsinki this week, and the first day set a high bar. Ari Pekka Mähönen opened the meeting and chaired the first session, impressively relaxed one minute in 😌👇 📷 Mats Hansson 🧵 1/7

Sara Mashhadi Meyghani (Univ. of Eastern Finland): drought constrains HIPV-mediated defence responses and alters herbivore feeding in Scots pine seedlings. Also an SPPS travel grant recipient for this conference 👏 #SPPS2026 📷 Margrethe Dam Falkenberg & Kirsten Krause 🧵 4/7

🌱 Day 1 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki. Our society is meeting at the University of Helsinki this week, and the first day set a high bar. Ari Pekka Mähönen opened the meeting and chaired the first session, impressively relaxed one minute in 😌👇 📷 Mats Hansson 🧵 1/7

The scientific program started with invited speaker Jiri Friml: auxin biology, and the role of cyclic nucleotides as second messengers in auxin signalling. #SPPS2026 #PlantScience 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 2/7