Finkemeier Lab

Impressions from the German Plant Mito Meeting 2025 in Rothenberge. Thanks everybody for the great talks, discussions and a lot of fun! #mitochondria 🌱🍁

Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested

Chamber of Secrets?

Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers

Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantPhysiology
#PlantScience

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Dr Jie Shen! Thank you 🙏 to the second and third examiners @schwarzland_lab and @shuqing_xu and many congratulations, Jie !! 👏🍾 very much looking forward to seeing your amazing work published. Stay tuned! @IFink_lab @uni_muenster

We are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.

Letter to the editor: a robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in a whole plant chamber Satoru Naganawa Kinoshita, Iris Finkemeier; Letter to the editor: a robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in

Thrilled to share our latest short technical paper in PCP!
We propose an alternative leaf-level gas exchange measurement method with petiole-cut leaves and whole plant chamber, enabling the measurements even with the small Arabidopsis plants.🌱
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other community members e.g., studying proteostasis, protein quality mechanism, and retrograde signaling. We hope you enjoy reading our preprint. Thank you.

we find evidence that mistranslation in wild-type plants varies under stress conditions. This suggests that optimization of protein synthesis may improve plant stress tolerance. Moreover, the initial discovery of a hypermistranslating Arabidopsis mutant will benefit

mistranslation was unknown. We isolated a Q➡️E hypermistranslating Arabidopsis mutant and show that plant cells are highly tolerant towards Q➡️E mistranslation in mitochondrial- and plastid-expressed proteins and even incorporate Q➡️E altered peptides into the photosynthetic machinery. Interestingly,

that gene expression works close to perfection, especially protein synthesis is a messy business. Bacteria use protein mistranslation since increased proteome plasticity can aid survival under stress conditions. The relationship of plant cells and their bacterial-type organelles towards protein

Lost in translation? Chloroplasts can handle slang!
New study from our group at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social with great collabs @plantproteomics-ms.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social bsky.social‬ @hhu.de @wsupullman.bsky.social https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642005v1 🧵Often assumed

Please read here the summary of our news on DOG1 and its signaling pathway via AHG1 and AFPs in Arabidopsis 🌱seeds. www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph... @uni-muenster.de #seeds #plants @seedbarrett.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social

DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1 DOG1’s autonomous signaling pathway allows seeds to regulate dormancy and stress traits independently.

DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience #phospho #proteomics

Our labrodog also highly recommends reading about DOG1 because it’s important for seed storage, agriculture and our food! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience #seeds

And most important: independent of ABA-dependent SnRK2 activity!

DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1 DOG1’s autonomous signaling pathway allows seeds to regulate dormancy and stress traits independently.

Our manuscript on the DOG1 dormancy pathway is out! 🥳 It started with a phosphoproteome when working @mpipz.bsky.social and 10 years of hard work @uni-muenster.de from Guillaume Nee with Thorben Krüger and more to prove that AFPs are target! #proteomics #seed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We propose that the molecular separation of the DOG1-PP2C module from the regulation of SnRK2 activity keeps seed ABA signaling primed independently of the dormancy level. This allows non-dormant seeds to quickly reinduce ABA responses and arrest germination upon sensing stress.

DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1 DOG1’s autonomous signaling pathway allows seeds to regulate dormancy and stress traits independently.

Very happy that our story on dormancy control by DOG1-PP2C is now published in Science Advances. We found that DOG1 prevents the activation of AFPs by AHG1. This is the result of a great team effort led by Guillaume Née. Summary of key findings below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Thank you so much for this great symposium! Very much enjoyed listening to all the fantastic talks, meetings and for the conference dinner with extra Cologne experience 😃

Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience

INPPO 2025 would like welcome aboard Sponsors @preomics (Preomics) and @cytiva.bsky.social (Cytiva)

!! Deadline for early registration ends Feb 15th 2025 !!

See you in Banff!

A bi-kinase module sensitizes and potentiates plant immune signaling Mutual activation of a Ca2+ sensing bi-kinase module potentiates NADPH oxidase activation to facilitate systemic immunity.

Please read here about our collaborative work with Ag Kudla @uni-muenster.de on the phosphocode of these two Calcium-dependent kinases. With the power of MS-based functional #proteomics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NEWSMUSTER A team headed by biologist Prof Jörg Kudla has identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism...

A team headed by biologist Prof Jörg Kudla has identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism. A calcium-activated “bi-kinase module” serves as a central molecular switch. #Biology

Plasma membrane H+‐ATPase activation increases global transcript levels and promotes the shoot growth of light‐grown Arabidopsis seedlings Plasma membrane (PM) H+-ATPase activation promotes the expression of cell wall-related genes and the growth in light-grown Arabidopsis seedlings. This finding may provide the novel physiological role...

Finally out!
Delighted to share our latest paper investigating the PM H+-ATPase activation-driven transcriptome changes in green seedlings, which comes from third chapter of my PhD thesis. Hope you also will find something interesting 😄
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The logo of the Conference Molecular Biology of Plants displays a sketch of the DNA rope ladder interwinded with leaves.

Today, the program of the famous conference

▶️Molecular Biology of Plants #MBP2025

is online. It will take place
📍 in Hennef, Germany
📅 10-13 February 2025

Including information on talks, posters, sporting resources, and venue
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

Please take a look and circulate this PhD training opportunity with Rainer Waadt @unimuenster.bsky.social

A big thank you to @ifink-lab.bsky.social for the excellent organization of the 'Co- and Post-Translational Control in Chloroplasts' symposium in Münster. Looking forward to the second edition!

Thank you to all speakers, presenters and the lively discussion at our Strasburger workshop ‚Co- and posttranslational control in chloroplasts‘ @uni-muenster #PTMs #chlorocontrol