N End Rules

Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...

So happy to see this work finally online!

In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠

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UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers

UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

What a terrible terrible idea

Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...

Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social

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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’ve made some new tools to manipulate N-recognins. Check them out in our preprint.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just registered for FEBS advanced workshop Protein termini 2026 in Palermo #proteintermini2026 (?) Looking forward to a great meeting. @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social
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FEBS Workshop ‘Protein termini 2026: From mechanisms to biological Impact’ (2026) Wed 3 Jun - Sat 6 [EDT]: The FEBS Workshop 'Protein termini 2026: From mechanisms to biological impact' is the 5th biennial conference of the International Society for Protein Termini (ISPT)…

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: FEBS Workshop ‘Protein termini 2026: From mechanisms to biological Impact’

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#PlantScience

A new plant oxygen sensing mechanism, based on methylation of histone H3

What a fantastically interesting story this is, congratulations to the authors!

Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation!
We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now.
Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱
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🏔️🌧️ 🧬 We wrote this Expert View on oxygen sensing, you can read it here! 👇🏼

Recent advances in the mechanism, transduction and function of oxygen sensing in plants Abstract. Response to reduced ambient oxygen is a key component of plant adaptation in natural and farmed environments and is regulated by oxygen dependent

Recent advances in the mechanism, transduction and function of oxygen sensing in plants
#nendrule #hypoxia #plantscience
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There once was a man who said "scone"
So that it rhymed with "gone",
But his wife said "scone"
To rhyme with "tone";
That marriage is over, it's done.

Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
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Sign the Petition Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via
@UKChange

The baldcypress genome provides insights into the adaptive evolution of flooding stress tolerance The evolutionary history of gymnosperms suggests that most species struggle in wet environments. However, baldcypress (Taxodium distichum var. distichum) thrives in wetlands, making it a prime candi...

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#ISPLORE2025JP

ISPLORE 2025, Nagoya, JAPAN ISPLORE 2025 International Society for Plant Low O2 Research Conference What is ISPLORE?

Our #ISPLORE2025JP #plantscience conference starts in two weeks! Are you excited? 🌱🌊

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DEGRONOPEDIA - a web server for identifying and predicting protein degradation signals across eukaryotic proteomes. Detailed guide by Natalia Szulc @lumirare.com and Wojciech Pokrzywa @wpokrzywa.bsky.social in Methods in Enzymology. @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia Short summary:This study investigates the evolution of the low-oxygen response in land plants mediated by group VII Ethylene Response Factors (ERFVIIs). We identified conserved transcriptional signatu...

How did oxygen-sensing evolve in plants?
In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk
“ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia”
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Great to see this work published

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...

Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24

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AGEISM

Hypoxia-activated fluorescent probes as markers of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.20.639250v1

Frontiers | A review of soil waterlogging impacts, mechanisms, and adaptive strategies

"A review of soil waterlogging impacts, mechanisms, and adaptive strategies"
Its almost as if a mechanism for plant oxygen sensing had not been discovered
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What's people's go to method for identifying tDNA insertion sites in #Arabidopsis? #plantscience

Nitric oxide inhibits ten-eleven translocation DNA demethylases to regulate 5mC and 5hmC across the genome Nature Communications - Here, the authors suggest that nitric oxide (NO) is an endogenous epigenetic regulator of gene expression by inhibiting DNA demethylation enzymes (TET and ALKBH2) and...

A new paradigm shift in NO signaling. Our latest research is now published in @NatureComms! Discover how NO epigenetically controls DNA methylation to regulate gene expression and cellular function. nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
#NitricOxide, #Epigenetics, #DNAMethylation

I'm excited to share my first book! #ClimateResilientGarden Plant physiology for gardeners really! Thanks to lots of people! Especially Ana Mogus for the illustrations @quercusbooks.bsky.social

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, Geneva, Switzerland - Applications are invited for a postdoc position to study UV-B perception and signalling in plants. Please apply, forward to suitable candidates, and/or repost; many thanks!
Deadline February 24, 2025.
See www.ulm-lab.ch for more information.