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For women: 31% decrease in publication rate after having a child. ➡️ When motherhood highly affects academic research career prospects and why this should really count while applying for founding and grants. Original article ⤵️ share.google/EFeaNjdncnje...

📣 VACANCY: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher - Tatsuya Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions 🔬🌱 📍Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply online by 14 Sept 2026 Apply here: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

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✅Crucial #crop #plant ✅Valuable model organism. 🌽This near-complete reference #genome of an important transformable #maize germplasm provides a valuable resource for functional genomics & genome editing. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience #agriculture

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share! Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deadline 15th February. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #plantscijobs #plantscience

It was a joy to contribute to this paper led by @sandyheth.bsky.social, Corentin Loron and Laura Cooper. We show the Devonian fossil, Prototaxites, is not a fungus but is in fact an organism from an as yet unknown extinct eukaryotic lineage. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dcu-lsi.bsky.social

📢 The first newsletter of 2026 is out! Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside. How to read it? Click here ⤵️ france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/j...

"revision requests can expand beyond what is feasible...we've been told reviews are unnecessarily harsh... reviews can seem formidable but usually represent constructive critiques" Interesting reflections and introspection from editors of Development 1/n journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Like Martin said, you go on until you feel stupid. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

📢 The September newsletter is out! Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside. How to read it? Click here ⤵️ france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/s...

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: 11th International Symposium on Root Development🌱 👉 buff.ly/Y29T13z #PlantScience

🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬 ⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social

A cytokinin response maximum induces and activates bifacial stem cells for radial growth www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

(1/5) – I am very excited to share our publication in QPB with @aribidopsis.bsky.social ! Before working with Arif, I thought I knew at least the basics about the plant cell cycle, but shortly I realized that I knew almost nothing. If this sounds relatable at all, then this review is for you!

Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.

📝 Botanists Trip Over The Light Fantastic When They Try To Understand Flower Colour 🧵 https://doi.org/n45f What humans see in a flower is nothing like the multi-stage sensory journey that guides insects to blooms. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 2025 Conference are now OPEN. www.ipgsa2025.org Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience

Please spread the word, PhD position in our group! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

This is a great resource by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social We normally prepare different ones and then choose those that are color blind friendly. Sometimes is hard to choose 👇🏽 What's your favourite ? @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social #SciArt

More details on our recent pre-print: Alignments of stomata have been described in many species, here are 2 examples: Thym from my kitchen, and Leucadendron from a 1935 paper (Smith 1935 on the orientation of stomata) What is directing these alignments is unknown 1/12 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Stomata form alignments in many species, we do not know how. So, we forced a lot of cells to differentiate into stomata, and we watched them dividing, with modelling, and mechanical perturbations, we conclude that they were aligned by mechanical stress derived from differential growth

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

In our Tansley review, we attempted to establish the stem cell concept in vascular cambium the way we see it. I hope that this is useful also for the other cambium enthusiasts. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please RT: We are looking for a new group member to study cell fate determination in Arabidopsis @UmeaPlantSci @_SLU ! Dead line August 10th 2024! I will be @ipmb2024 in Cairns in a few days and @PADiBa2024 if you would like to meet! Check our group: srobertgroup.com

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At first there were NOGs, then along came the SNOGs… 🌱 🧬 A prion-like protein regulates the 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional growth transition in Physcomitrium patens - read our preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Plants communicate with volatile compounds. But how they are perceiving those is difficult to discover. Now the group of Natalia Dudareva discovered one of the receivers. Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2024/03/26/r... #PlantScience

We set out to consolidate what we know about plasmodesmata but maybe we better consolidated the questions to which we still need answers. What molecules move through plasmodesmata? And how? How far do they go? And what information/resource do they carry? Have a read to see what we think. ⬇️

The WIP6 transcription factor TOO MANY LATERALS specifies vein type in C4 and C3 grass leaves Great work!

An ultra-potent ethylene inhibitor - www.cell.com/plant-commun... from the family! A new group of compounds controlling plant growth and germination, with huge potential in agriculture. Lovely study covers Dictyostelium, Arabidopsis, molecular modelling. #plants #plantscience #agriculture

Open postdoc with Jill Harrison at Bristol Uni to study the evolution of apical growth Deadline 15th March Come join our HFSP funded team to investigate apical growth! thenode.biologists.com/jobs/would-y...

3-year post-doc on control of cell division orientation in brown algae, in Charrier's group @ IGFL, ENS Lyon, France (bsky.app/profile/igfl...) Job description : ->https://rb.gy/dt0aq9

We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology! Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students. Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO #plantsci

[Please repost] Save the date! We are organising the international symposium "Perspectives on Protein Networks in Plants" in Strasbourg, 19-20 September 2024. Anticipate outstanding speakers and a great location! More details here 👇

There is still some time left to register if you want to follow the Cell Biology of Plants and Beyond symposium online. It's on Friday and the program is 🔥. Don't miss it! You just have to register here before Jan 23: sbcf.fr/en/event/the...

[Please RT] Interested in embarking on a #PhD journey in #evolution of #plant #metabolism and eager to work on cool models? We can support your application for a PhD scholarship from the University of Strasbourg's doctoral school! Feel free to get in touch before mid-February.

✨Ever wondered how C4 plants 🌱 manage to shuttle metabolites back and forth between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells so efficiently? ✨ They have increased cell-to-cell connectivity between these cells through A LOT of plasmodesmata. @plantsci

Out Now: JXB Volume 74, Issue 21 🌿 academic.oup.com/jxb/issue #PlantScience #Phytohormones #Botany #Evosky

🥳 Happy to share the publication of the last part of Thomas Roule's Ph.D. at IPS2 on the role of ARES lncRNA 🧬 in the modulation of Arabidopsis 🌱 root architecture. doi.org/10.1002/iub.... A great collaboration with the group of Federico Ariel 🧪

Just a reminder we are looking to recruit an Associate Professor here at Oxford Biochemistry. Application deadline soon! Please repost

Freelance science writer opportunity for the SEB www.sebiology.org/resource/fre... The SEB is looking for new science writers to commission articles for the website and magazine. #ScienceWriter #FreelanceWriters #SEBiology #ScientificPublishing #SciJobs

A massive genomic variation dataset provides a powerful new tool for exploiting rare rice variants. #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Node-BSDB virtual art exhibition is open until the end of Nov! Have a stroll around the different rooms, including #DevBio 🔬 images, #SciArt and a Historical embryo zoo 🐥🦞🐧🐢 Check out the artwork chosen by the Node community and a panel of judges: thenode.biologists.com/peoples-choi...