Martin Balcerowicz

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light Gibberellin translocation from shoot to root conveys a plant-plant competition signal that leads to a reduction in lateral root growth.

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

Congrats, Kasper! Can't believe that work hadn't found a home until now. Good to see it in its final form.

You're very welcome. It was a nice story to tell, and I enjoyed learning more about the project's background and the people involved.

Congrats, Tonni! You did an amazing job over the last six years. All the best for the move!

The making of a leaf tip: how cell division angles define shape Click on the article title to read more.

New 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 by @transcription.bsky.social
🍃The making of a leaf tip: how cell division angles define shape
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70453

Mathematical modelling + developmental biology to investigate leaf shape formation
Zang et al: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.....

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN NORTHERN SPAIN

ASTURIAS
42.9 Mieres
41.2 Oviedo
CANTABRIA
43.3 Cilorigo de Liebana
42.4 San Felices de Buelna
42.2 Ramales de la Victoria

HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY FOR ASTURIAS AND CANTABRIA (by much !):Records pulverized

43.4 also in Bilbao (Basque)

Screenshots by AEMET

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🌾 Great news — Gwen Kirschner has taken a permanent position in the @PlantEcoHutton Team as Principal Investigator in Plant-Soil Interactions! It's great to know you're going to be around for longer, Gwen.
@hutton.ac.uk
@intbarleyhub.bsky.social
@gwenkirschner.bsky.social

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New preprint out!
We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth.
This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

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SUF4 (SUPPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA 4) forms temperature-dependent condensates in plant cell nuclei!

Manipulating condensation of thermo-sensitive SUF4 protein tunes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana; from David Ehrhardt's lab @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

YouTube video by SWR Wissen Greenpeace warnt vor grüner Gentechnik – zu Recht? | SWR Wissen

This is a fantastic documentary on #PlantBiotechnology, genetically engineered #PlantGMOs, & the anti-scientific disinformation campaigns that #Greenpeace has been running against them.
In German, but there are English subtitles.

SWR is German public broadcaster, & I don't see a COI.

#PlantScience

A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants Obtaining foreign DNA-free crops after genome editing is essential for agricultural applications, because of the current regulatory policies on gene-edited plants in various countries. However, it is ...

A method to obtain transgene-free genome-edited plants by killing transgenic gametes using gamete-expressed Barnase.

From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#PlantScience

🎉We're pleased to announce that our very own Jade Bleau has been awarded the NAASC Earlier Career Community Impact Award.

We would also like to extend our congratulations to the other winners:

💐Joanna Friesner, Jose Dinneny, Dawn Nagel, Natanella Elouz-Elias, Nick Provart and Anna Stepanova.

U.S. And Europe Face 40% Drop In Food Production, Scientists Warn Major study finds world's most productive farming regions are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, and face steep declines in agricultural output this century.

🚨NEW from me: the U.S. and Europe could experience a 40% drop in food production this century as temperatures rise, a major new study has found. "It's almost like in this context, those with the most to lose, lose the most," said Prof Andrew Hultgren, a lead author of the study.

Temperature is so important for plants that they have come up with many independent temperature sensors.

Curious? Read more in this review by former WeigelWorld members Sridevi Sureshkumar & Suresh Balasubramanian.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD students during a thesis crunch often think they 'don't have time' for exercise or hobbies that keep them sane.

They do. Spending 2 hours a week exercising etc will not meaningfully cut into your writing time, but it will make you sleep better, feel happier, more efficient and more productive.

Two 5’ splice site classes are a fundamental but overlooked feature of eukaryote genome organisation. Watch the seminar to hear #OpenBiology author Gordon Simpson talk about his review article: cassyni.com/events/7GPzZ... @ggsimpsonrna.bsky.social‬ #genomics

Nice one! Congrats, everyone.

Plastids in a Pinch: Coordinating Stress and Developmental Responses Through Retrograde Signalling Plastids can sense environmental stress and improve whole plant adaptation through retrograde communication to the nucleus. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of integrated canonical and ...

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

Inclusive pride flag, showing the rainbow flag with the trans flag and brown and black stripes to represent racial diversity.

I’m sharing my very personal story to encourage everyone to participate in and celebrate Pride month. All our voices are needed to protect diversity and support the queer community. #PRIDEmonth 🌈.
rootandshoot.org/forever-prid...

m6A RNA methylation attenuates thermotolerance in Arabidopsis Heat stress severely affects plant growth, causing significant crop yield losses. To counteract this, plants employ adaptive strategies, including chromatin and transcriptional regulation of heat stre...

m6A RNA modification destabilizes mRNAs needed for thermotolerance

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional divergence of plant SCAR/WAVE proteins is determined by intrinsically disordered regions Intrinsically disordered regions in SCAR/WAVE proteins drive diverse functions in root hair and leaf trichome development.

Excited to share that our preprint has found a home in Science Advances. We show that intrinsically disordered regions determine the functional diversification of actin-regulatory SCAR proteins in Medicago. 🧵 1/3
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#ScienceAdvances #PlantScience #IDRs

Mechanisms of auxin action in plant growth and development - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology The phytohormone auxin coordinates plant growth by forming local maxima and gradients through cell-to-cell transport and metabolic control. Recent research has identified novel signalling mechanisms i...

Interesting read:
Mechanisms of auxin action in plant growth and development
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cheers folks! @transcription.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @kmerchante.bsky.social

Climate crisis threatens the banana, the world’s most popular fruit, research shows The fourth most important food crop is in peril as the Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from climate disaster

Climate crisis threatens the banana, the world’s most popular fruit, research shows #PlantSci
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Skilled visa rules, deportations and higher fees: what’s in the immigration white paper Policies include tightening up qualification and language requirements and longer waits for settlement

Well, that's gonna be GREAT for the UK's higher education sector...

Image with seedlings, YRSPP logo and text: "Visit our new website: yrspp.github.io"

We're online! Check out our new website at yrspp.github.io (or search 'YRSPP 2026') to learn about the symposium, venue, sponsors, schedule and more 🌿

We'll be adding updates over the coming months as we confirm speakers and more, so stay tuned!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026