Plant Energy Biology Lab

On Decoding and Deciphering: A warm welcome to the IPB, Marc Knight @marcknightcalcium.bsky.social. We look forward to your ideas and new research approaches. www.ipb-halle.de/en/article/w...

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #AuthorProfile #ICYMI

Professorship Experimental Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

Happy to share that our manuscript on virus-induced genome editing in a #ParasiticPlant has been published in Plant, Cell & Environment: doi.org/10.1111/pce.... The method also works well beyond the genes edited in the paper—so, more to come! The plasmids will soon be available from Addgene.

Professorship (W2) of Computational Plant Systematics (6 years/tenure track). New job offer in our biology department @lmu.de 👇. Please apply and help to spread the word. www.nature.com/naturecareer... #PlantSciJob #PlantScience

TerC likely transports Mn²⁺ & Ca²⁺ across the thylakoid membrane, supporting PSII's oxygen-evolving complex and PSI assembly 🌱 rb.gy/skzcev Chloroplast metals measured via TXRF ionomics: doi.org/10.1093/plce... Great collab @lmu.de funded by @dfg.de #plantscience

Anyone brave enough for an adventure in the uncharted waters of plant immunity and cell biology? We have a PhD studentship available as part of the NRP DTP - join us! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Benthi is speedier than Physco: A neat new assay to test the sequence specificity of RNA editing factors - and FAST ⏩ 🌱 Headed by the amazing @dfg.de Walter-Benjamin Fellow Elena Lesch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿🔬 REVIEW 🔬🌿 The physiological roles of cysteine-dependent processes and enzymes in photosynthetic organisms are reviewed, with emphasis on cysteine desulfhydrases - Moseler et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Thesis defended with confidence, vision and true scholarship🎓 Huge congratulations Dr Lichtenauer 🍾 @isplore.bsky.social

What a scoop by @ipbhalle.bsky.social to lure over one of the finest UK plant scientists! A massive win for Halle and German plant science in more general. Congratulations to both the Romeis Department and @marcknightcalcium.bsky.social

We had a genuinely exciting talk by Dr. Anuphon Laohavisit (Anu-san) today, from Nagoya University. Fantastic, new perspective in copper-dependent regulation of CARD1! 🤩

NRW-Wissenschaftsministerin Ina Brandes hat Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel-Riedl die Ernennungsurkunde überreicht. 🎓 Am 1. Oktober startet die bisherige Präsidentin der Uni Osnabrück in ihre 6-jährige Amtszeit als neue Rektorin der Uni Münster. Glückwunsch! 🎉

Profile of Alex Costa nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis

How PEC ion channels transform the experience of an initial stress signal to prepare for further attacks and strengthen the plant's long-term defenses was revealed by a team from @kunzlab.bsky.social @lmu.de et al. in @pnas.org (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). #PlantSci www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Congratulations! Dr Jaccoline Zegers from @uni-goettingen.de will receive this year’s Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize of DBG’s own Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation for her excellent #PlantSci PhD thesis, in which she reconstructs what plants were already capable of before they conquered land Mio. of years ago.

Our work, Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis, is now out in Science Advances! We found that developing leaves oxygenate from tip to base, strikingly mirroring their developmental axis, and this drives leaf dev. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef2430 #plantscience

Our new paper adding to the mystery of PEPC phosphorylation in C4 plants

🧬 New preprint from our lab! After years of work, we're excited to share our story: the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) — best known for feeding the TCA cycle — has a second, non-catalytic role supporting mitochondrial DNA gene expression in yeast.

Excited to finally see this wonderful story on how Ca2+ enters the plastid stroma out. Congratulations 👏👏👏

Congratulations to Susanne, Henning @kunzlab.bsky.social and the team on this exciting new publication in @pnas.org 🎉🌱 Insightful work connecting plastid ion channels, Ca+ signalling, hormone biology, and plant immunity! 👏 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

“Wheat is getting pounded” You know it’s serious when the NYT devotes half its front page to food and agriculture #Wheat #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #PlantSci

For 20 yrs textbook view: linear electron flow can't make enough ATP for CO₂ fixation, so plants use cyclic electron transfer (CET) to top it up. Today in @natplants.nature.com we measured ATP directly inside living chloroplasts — and that story doesn't hold. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

50% PMF🪫keeps ATP at 100%🔋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natplants.nature.com CET provides ∆pH for photoprotection, while the redox balance is most likely handled by the malate valve 🍃☀️ Based on elegant in vivo ATP biosensing by @gustaf23.bsky.social & @profmattjohnson.bsky.social

A research team led by the universities of Münster, @unihannover.bsky.social & @unihalle.bsky.social (funded by @dfg.de) has shown that the mitochondria, the “powerhouses” of cells, are already ready for action in dry plant seeds. Their structure is fully developed and their “machinery” is complete.

Dry seeds are not waiting to build mitochondria—they come pre-packaged with cristae and full respiratory complexes. ⚡️🌱🌱🌱 Check out the updated growth-and-division model in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Flux analysis - Alpine version 🏔️🏔️

🚨 There is only 1 week left 🚨, if you want to submit your #plantsci poster abstract for #BT2026, the International #plantsci Conference of our @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social (DBG) 🗓️ 6 -10 Sept 2026 📍in Bochum, Germany ⏰Deadline is 3rd August 2026 botanik-tagung.de/abstract-sub...

A #MustRead by @thevirusmc.bsky.social on #autophagy & #viruses Going viral – Plant selective autophagy swiping left and right on viral infections www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Summer lab trip into the Westphalian wilderness - with bikes and boats 🌞

@plantphys.bsky.social is 100 years old! We are celebrating this accomplishment with a symposium at #PlantBio2026 We start with a look back at the first and current issue.

A research team led by Prof. @gatsogia.bsky.social has gained new insights into the workings of a cellular transporter — a protein essential for pathogenic fungi to absorb vital nutrients. These findings could contribute to the development of new therapeutic strategies against fungal infections.

Researchers led by Professor Iris Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social from the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology discovered a specific chemical mark in the ‘histone code’ of thale cress that is responsible for adaptation to salt stress. #Biology

Luciferase 💡 One of those epic tools in molecular genetics labs, yet best enjoyed in a warm summer night - non-recombinant and in vivo.

Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Bielefeld, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...

The algal pyrenoid turbocharges global CO2 fixation. Central to its function are specialized membranes that deliver CO2. We discovered that the protein RBMP2 makes these membranes—and found that the mysterious minitubules appear to enhance CO₂ delivery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Metabolic design considerations for recycling of respiratory CO2 in leaves　onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @theplantjournal.bsky.social

Biologist Angelica Coculla is researching the internal circadian clock of fruit flies. A recent paper published in the journal Science shows that the insects can reset their internal clock through their behaviour. With the molecular rhythm, the sleep-wake cycle returned. #Biology

A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

🔎𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 🌱 Plant metabolism depends not only on what organelles do, but also on where they are Find it here👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70987 ✍️ AR Fernie, G Decros, J Multhoff, J Sippel, JO Niemeier, P Barreto, A Sampathkumar, U Sonnewald, and M Schwarzländer

How plants form their stomata – and are thereby able to save water, was described in May by a team of plant scientists around Christopher Grefen and Khushbu Kumari , from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koag150 news.rub.de/english/pres...

Organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance 🌿🔋🍃 Looking ahead in this joint perspective 🔮 with the Fernie and Sonnewald labs @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper is out !!! NADPH oxidases and aquaporins within membrane nanodomains form a functional unit for ROS signaling. Great work by arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing collaborator jbfiche.bsky.social, Jose Ugalde, A Meyer yvonjaillais.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529740123