Juan Alonso-Serra

Check out our new preprint by @octaviarmn.bsky.social and @liobarueger.bsky.social in collaboration with @meikeburow.bsky.social - we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... lots of cool stuff!

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Latest preprint from our group together with @stephanevrg.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

Our work supports the view that morphogenesis is not driven by growth alone, but by the integration of physical and biological regulation.

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Close-up of a closed aspen bud in front of a black background. Photo: Aswin Nair

Three men are standing in a greenhouse with young aspen trees in the back. Only the upper body is visible. All are looking into the camera. Photo: Abhideep Pal

Close-up of an open aspen bud in front of a black background

🧪🌾News - How do trees know when winter has really begun?

New research from the Bhalerao group in @natcomms.nature.com shows that trees don’t just count cold hours - they also use brief warm spells early in winter.

📸 From left: @shkpandey.bsky.social, Bibek Aryal & @sisiphusonbreak.bsky.social

Fig. 6 Hypothesized trade-offs across vascular species illustrating a water use economics framework.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species
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@labcosta.bsky.social Out now in ScienceAdvances
our new work with @AndreaBassi78

MAcro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Variable temperature processing by plasmodesmata regulates robust bud dormancy release - Nature Communications Tree buds integrate cold and warm cues to control dormancy release. Extended warm periods block plasmodesmata opening by repressing Flowering Locus T and GA pathways in buds. This mechanism ensures ro...

🧪🌾 PAPER – How do trees know when winter is really over?

Trees don’t just track long-term cold exposure. The Bhalerao group and collaborators show they also count short warm spells when assessing winter progression.

Read more in @natcomms.nature.com:👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Mariana! 🎉

Representative osmoresponsive condensates and their functions in animal and plant cells. Created in BioRender. Wang, Z. (2026) https://BioRender.com/v7blud4.

#TansleyInsight Condense to sense: a new path for plant osmosensing

Zhenyu Wang (王振宇), Hongwei Guo (郭红卫)

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#plantscience

Thank you Mateusz!

Poster inviting participants for Gordon Research Seminar on Salt and Water Stress in Plants happening on 23-24th May 2026 at Switzerland.

🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝!

💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field.

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...

Please repost!
#plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

Great project and super nice working environment 👇

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs

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Likewise, looking forward to being part of the UPSC community 🌳❄️

Thank you for your and your lab’s big support AP. Mikko might have influenced the logo too 😅

Thank you Marie! either will do 🤘

Muchas Gracias Sebastián! Sería un lujo realmente

Looking forward to exciting science and collaborations bridging plant development & hydraulics.🌱🌊

This wouldn’t have been possible without the strong dual support from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Research Council of Finland. Very thankful for this fantastic opportunity, and for the unlimited support from my former supervisors, colleagues, friends and family.

I’m very happy to share that next year I’m launching the Meristem Hydraulics Group. We will be at the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se (Sweden) & the University of Helsinki (Finland) @helsinki.fi

Here is a brief description of our research interests:
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#PlantSciences

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics

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“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
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An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...

It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.

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#PlantSciences

On growth and flow: hydraulic aspects of aboveground meristems Water is essential for plant growth under both normal and stress conditions. Aboveground, two key meristems control plant development: the shoot apical meristem and the vascular cambium. Here, stem c...

Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience

@newphyt.bsky.social

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Auxin transport positions stem cells in the vascular cambium during normal development and regeneration | PNAS The vascular cambium contains bifacial stem cells producing secondary phloem in one and secondary xylem to the opposite direction. In Arabidopsis r...

By combining molecular genetics with cell-ablation experiments, we found that vascular cambium stem cells and xylem-identity cells form an interchangeable unit, a stem cell niche. Meticulous work by @xixizhang9001.bsky.social, Ondrej Smetana, Jing Zhang & Xiaoyu Wang 1/x www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our latest review, co-authored with @agustilab.bsky.social (@ibmcp.bsky.social), “Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks,” is now published in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to both! Added to my reading list 🌱

We previously proposed that MS ion channels in pollen grains serve as a “osmotic safety valves”, releasing ions to reduce turgor--but it looks like anion efflux through MSL8 regulates cell wall composition and growth dynamics! #PlantScience 🧪
Kudos to Josh Coomey for wrapping this up on his own!