@srobertgroup.bsky.social
Our research is focused on understanding the single steps controlling plant plasticity.
Problem to access @science.org now...
05.12.2025 09:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OK!
05.12.2025 09:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh Wow!
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
With @umeaplantsciencecentre.se people too!
04.12.2025 10:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And another one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The first author is a STARMORPH PhD student from @nowako76.bsky.social lab.
Congratulations!!
04.12.2025 09:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.
03.12.2025 17:11 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2Great news!
04.12.2025 09:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨
🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬
We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript?
👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
New preprint!
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
🧪🌾How do plants react so quickly to cold?❄️🧬
Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation.
Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I love winter mornings up North.
25.11.2025 12:14 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
The work of Samia Belaidi, PhD student in the team, and @bwojcikowska.bsky.social on the involvement of MP isoforms for somatic embryogenesis induction in Arabidopsis is now online! Congrats to all co-authors!
Work performed @ceitec.eu with the help of @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social
Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated?
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
One of the STARMORPH group leaders on the Highly Cited Researchers 2025! Congrats @nowako76.bsky.social !
clarivate.com/highly-cited...
New OA Article: "Cambium LBDs promote radial growth by regulating PLL-mediated pectin metabolism" rdcu.be/eP4mp
LBD TFs in the cambium drive radial plant growth by regulating PECTATE LYASE-LIKE (PLL) enzymes that remodel cell wall pectin, promoting cell expansion.
How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size?
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
Excited to share our pre-print on how Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates ROP6 recruitment to nanodomains upon auxin. Great job from my PhD student Matheus Montrazi, @arthur-poitout.bsky.social, @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Oui merci!!!
07.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
@alicevayssieres.bsky.social trop bien ce spins! Il en reste ?
07.11.2025 07:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congrats to all!
05.11.2025 08:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
Congrats! Keep rolling!!
01.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
31.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 9 📌 1The first figure can not be root cells as indicated in the legend as one can clearly see chloroplasts. Please correct.
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