Umeå Plant Science Centre

Umeå Plant Science Centre

@umeaplantsciencecentre.se

A centre of excellence for experimental plant research and forest biotechnology in Northern Sweden that belongs to Umea University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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🧪🌾VACANCY – Postdoctoral fellowship in tree root anatomy What can tree root cells reveal about root function?🔬 Work with the research groups of @rootsofthenorth.bsky.social & @srobertgroup.bsky.social and explore root cell anatomy using advanced microscopy techniques. 📅 Apply by 16 November!

Sandra Jämtgård@rootsofthenorth.bsky.social

We have a Postdoc fellowship available on Characterization and visualization of root cell anatomy in tree roots. The postdoc will work with me and @srobertgroup.bsky.social #SwedishUniversityofAgriculturalSciences @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Please share!

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🌾🧪 PAPER – How do trees form tension wood?🧬 Research from Ewa Mellerowicz's group reveals a distinct genetic program behind the formation of the cellulose-rich, contractile G-layer, providing new insights into wood development. Read more in Frontiers in Plant Science: doi.org/10.3389/fpls...

doi.orgFrontiers | A high spatial resolution transcriptomics of tension wood reveals the genetic program of contractile G-layer formationTension wood (TW) formation in Populus involves the differentiation of G-fibers that deposit a cellulose-rich, contractile gelatinous layer (G-layer). Despit...
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🌾🧪 How do plants delay leaf ageing under stress?🍂 Research from the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group sheds light on how a metacaspase regulates sugar metabolism to slow down leaf senescence under dark conditions.

Physiologia Plantarum@pplplantarum.bsky.social

🍂Arabidopsis thaliana METACASPASE IIf mitigates leaf senescence through targeted modulation of sugar metabolism, thereby delaying the progression of senescence under dark conditions. Read more https://bit.ly/4rVxG3A @angecarse.bsky.social @hanneletuominen.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

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🌾🧪What determines the puzzle-like shape of cells on an aspen leaf?🔬 In this short video, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social explains how researchers investigate this question and search for genes controlling cell shape. 🌿 The latest results from this research are now published in @newphyt.bsky.social 👇

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🧪🌾NEWS: Aspen leaf cells change shape during drought Cells on an aspen leaf surface look like a jigsaw puzzle under the microscope.🔬 @srobertgroup.bsky.social identified a gene controlling this shape and found that drought affects both its activity and cell shape. 🔗 www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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🧪🌾PAPER – How does nitrate influence wood formation?🧬 Choudhary et al. from @hanneletuominen.bsky.social's group show that nitrate acts as a local signal in developing wood of hybrid aspen, promoting cell expansion. Read more in @theplantcell.bsky.social👇: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

doi.orgNitrate transiently rewires transcription in developing xylem of Populus wood to promote cell expansion via CRF4Abstract. Nitrate functions both as a nutrient and a signaling molecule, but how nitrate is perceived and translated into developmental outputs within wood
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🧪🌾PAPER – Can trees grow more without losing their seasonal rhythm? By fine-tuning gibberellin production using a component of the internal clock, @treesandgrowth.bsky.social show that Populus trees can combine increased growth with seasonal adaptation.🌳⏰ Read more in @jxbotany.bsky.social👇

Maria E. Eriksson @treesandgrowth.bsky.social

Delighted to share the results of years of work on modulating GA levels in #trees, made possible with a little help from molecular clockwork⏰ #PlantSci Biotechnological adaptation of high-yielding, gibberellin-overproducing Populus trees to seasonal growth patterns academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

academic.oup.comBiotechnological adaptation of high-yielding, gibberellin-overproducing Populus trees to seasonal growth patternsAbstract. Tree growth is central to both terrestrial ecology and the forestry industry. Biotechnology for inducing the overproduction of phytohormones such
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Nice to see Elsa Gascon sharing her work at #SLS26! 🌱🔬 At UPSC, Elsa works in a collaboration between @stephanevrg.bsky.social and @icelabumu.bsky.social, combining modelling and plant biology to better understand the mechanics of plant tissues.

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)@slcuplants.bsky.social

Elsa Gascon from @umeaplantsciencecentre.se introduced at #SLS26 a novel representation of multilayered tissues based on simplicial complexes, which captures cell layers while remaining fully compatible with biomechanical modelling. Find out about Elsa's research: www.umu.se/en/staff/els...

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🇨🇳🌱 Welcoming colleagues from Beijing to UPSC!🌾🧪 Over the past two days, we welcomed a delegation from the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, led by Prof. Jianhua Wei. We shared research, exchanged ideas and discussed possibilities for future collaboration.

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🌾🧪 Our guests also got a closer look at some of the research environments and technologies at UPSC – from plant phenotyping and microscopy to greenhouses and plant transformation. Thanks to everyone who contributed to two days of scientific exchange!

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🧪🌾PAPER – Is the machinery supporting RNA splicing the same in plants and animals?🧬 Daniela Goretti et al. show that factors crucial in animals are less essential in plants, revealing plant-specific features of this conserved process. Read more in @plantphys.bsky.social👇: doi.org/10.1093/plph...

doi.orgMethylosome and SMN complexes are dispensable for plant viability in Arabidopsis thalianaAbstract. The role of RNA splicing as a modulator of the molecular responses to stress is well described. In contrast, its importance in the acclimation of
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🧪🌾 Staying connected over summer at UPSC! Summers can be quiet at UPSC, with many colleagues away on holiday. That’s why Wednesday mornings meant fika!🍪 Students & newcomers could met over coffee, caught up and connected with colleagues throughout the summer. 📸 A glimpse from our last summer fika

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🧪🌾PAPER – How is water split during photosynthesis? An international collaboration involving Johannes Messinger's group confirms an additional oxygen in a key intermediate state of Photosystem II. Read more in @natcomms.nature.com👇: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

doi.orgAn additional water is introduced into the manganese cluster during the formation of the S3 state of photosystem II - Nature CommunicationsHere, the authors report the S3 state structure of Photosystem II solved with X-ray crystallography at two different energies using an XFEL. The results provide evidence for an oxygen ligand, OX (or O...

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IceLab
@icelabumu.bsky.social

Just ten days left to apply to join our Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows! #phdsky #complexity #complexsystems #postdocjob

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social

🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨 The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment. #Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch

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🧪🌾PAPER – How does photosynthetic regulation change as leaves develop? Chen Hu et al. from the Jansson group show that young leaves have more regulatory flexibility than mature leaves, linking photosynthetic regulation to leaf development. Read more in @natcomms.nature.com👇 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

doi.orgLeaf development regulates state transition capacity in trees - Nature CommunicationsThis study shows that young tree leaves are better able than older leaves to adjust to changing light conditions. By combining greenhouse, outdoor, and genetic studies, it reveals a developmental cont...
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🧪🌾 UPSC DAY 2026 – Sharing science & fostering collaboration 🤝 “Talk to someone you don’t usually talk to!” – one of our goals as we came together yesterday for science, conversations & time to mingle. From research talks to discussions on how we work together – plenty to continue talking about!

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Congratulations, Laura! 🌱🏆 Wonderful to see your work on plant cell wall integrity signalling recognised with the SPPS Early Career Award. Very well deserved! 👏

Laura Bacete@laurabacete.eurosky.social

Thrilled to receive the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (@plantspps.bsky.social) Early Career Award 2026 at #SPPS2026! Deeply grateful to the Society and to everyone who has supported my research on plant cell wall integrity signalling along the way 🌱🏆

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🏆🌿 Fantastic to see two UPSC researchers among this year’s awardees! Huge congratulations to Laura Bacete Cano and Anna Renström – and to all the SPPS award recipients! 👏

Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS)@plantspps.bsky.social

🏆 SPPS Early Career Award: Laura Bacete Cano (UPSC) Popularization Prize: Emma Aller & Niels Christian Sanden (Univ. of Copenhagen) PhD Thesis Prizes: Nanna Weise Havshøi (Copenhagen) & Anna Renstrøm (UPSC) Congratulations to all! 👏 #SPPS2026 🧵 7/9

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🧪🌾Looking for a postdoc? The @icelabumu.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows call includes a project with UPSC researchers @laurabacete.bsky.social and Yanjun Zan, together with Christiane Funk, exploring cell wall integrity sensing in Chlorella vulgaris.🦠 Interested? Find out more below👇

IceLab@icelabumu.bsky.social

🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨 The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment. #Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch

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🧪🌾Tree breeding in practice at Skogforsk! Yesterday, UPSC PhD students visited Skogforsk in Sävar and learned more about seed orchards, greenhouse trials, birch crossing and genetic resources. Thanks to the Skogforsk team for the warm welcome and to Laura García Romañach for organising the visit!🌲

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🧪🌾PAPER – How can we better capture the genetic diversity of maize?🧬 Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada and @kellyswarts.bsky.social developed a new approach for detecting genetic variation, improving maize diversity studies 🌽. Read more in @molecology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/1755...

doi.orgUnified Multi‐Caller Ensemble (<fc>UME</fc>) Generates an Unbiased Maize Haplotype Map for Variable Coverage Whole Genome DataWe present a novel diversity-focused haplotype map (HapMap) that characterizes over 64.5 million maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped across 818 individuals fro...
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📢 One week left to apply! 🧪🌾 There is still time to apply for the Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) position in Plant Physiology at UPSC & SLU. 🌲🧬 📅 Interested? Apply by 19 August!

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🧪🌾VACANCY - Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Plant Physiology🧬 Are you ready to take your RNA biology research to the next level, with a focus on trees?🌲 Join us at UPSC & SLU and contribute to research, teaching and our academic environment. Apply by Aug 19👇: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

slu.seSenior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Plant Physiology | slu.seSLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
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🧪🌾PAPER - How much biodiversity are we missing before sequencing even begins? 🌍 This study from @frewecologist.bsky.social & colleagues highlights how small sampling decisions can shape the biodiversity we detect - and the ecological conclusions we draw. Read more in Soil Biology and Biochemistry👇

Adam Frew@frewecologist.bsky.social

We composited soil cores and lost 49 AM fungal taxa doing it. Sequencing individual subsamples found them. The ones that vanish are rare, patchy, and phylogenetically clustered. Also drying vs freezing made no difference really. Sample at the scale your question lives at. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

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🧪🌾 PAPER - Can drought reshape plant cells?🔬 Research from the @srobertgroup.bsky.social shows that a drought-responsive transcription factor helps shape the puzzle-like cells of aspen leaves, providing new insights into how plants adapt to changing environments. Read more in @newphyt.bsky.social👇

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social

A #drought-induced MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in aspen leaves Sijia Liu (刘斯佳), et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @srobertgroup.bsky.social #PlantScience

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Stéphanie Robert
@srobertgroup.bsky.social

Latest publication form the group and first paper on poplar! GWAS and discovery of a MYB TF involved in cell shape acquisition nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Thanks to @erc.europa.eu @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Kempe fondation

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.comA drought stress‐induced MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in leaves of European aspen (Populus tremula)MYB305a promoter expression increases in pavement cells as they grow and acquire their complex shape.

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Sandeep Yadav
@sandeep18887.bsky.social

Excited to share that my postdoctoral work on pavement cell shape acquisition has been accepted in JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social. Forever grateful to Stéphanie @srobertgroup.bsky.social for making me a part of the incredible research team at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

doi.orgThe primary beta-galactosidase BGAL10 modulates pavement cell shape acquisition in ArabidopsisAbstract. Cell shape acquisition is a fundamental biological process that allows cells to establish and maintain morphologies adapted to their specialised