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Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, the Zoom Link, and the Organizers: Ivan Radin, Kirk Czymmek, and Daniel Kierzkowski.

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, and the abstract for the event.

Join us for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images!

This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.

Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

Our historesin blocks are ready, and we're sectioning shoot apices with tiny leaf primordia in both longitudinal and transversal planes! How adorable are those baby leaf tendrils with their tiny coiled tips?! 🥹made by @GiacomazziBruna #ClimbingPlants #PlantAnatomy #Microscopy

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...

our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in
@naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tree that kills its 'enemies' with lightning discovered Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors.

"Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning"
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Nature’s viny vampire: Discovering what drives parasitic Cuscuta campestris Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives the parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris to insert organs into plants after making contact with the hosts.

Nature’s viny vampire..🧛

Discover what drives #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris to insert its organs into host plants:

Read EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Read the original article here:
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience

In Other Journals Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature

Nice to see our work by @metalichen.bsky.social highlighted
in this week's Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

Close-up photo of the nodes of a leafy shoot. The leaves are alternate and bipinnately compound. The stipules are pinnatifid. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

More? You want more stipules? I got you covered, starting with the superb stipules of Delonix regia (#Fabaceae). The leaves are bipinnately compound, and the tiny stipules are also pinnately divided. That’s not too surprising: stipules are a part of the leaf. #stipule #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber | PNAS Rapid movement is rare in the plant kingdom, but a prerequisite for ballistic seed dispersal. A particularly dramatic example of rapid motion in pl...

Hot off the press

A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵

For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !

Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...

New Article: "Developmental innovation of inferior ovaries and flower sex orchestrated by KNOX1 in cucurbits" rdcu.be/ef78H

Role of a KNOX1 TF in stalling receptacle growth in cucumber, leading to bisexual flowers with superior ovaries like those in tomatoes.

University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation “deeply concerning.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a graduate student attending the University of Minnesota earlier this week, the school said Friday in a statement that called the situation “deeply concerning.” #highered #USA #academia #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Lichen on a Twig... On my walk today, I picked up some twigs blown on the ground by the wind and found them covered by Star Rosette Lichen (Physcia stellaris) with abundant apothecia and picnidia! What a beautiful thing on the ground! #Lichen #beauty #NaturePhotography

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

More than 1,600 readers answered the poll.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Confusion and worry as DOGE cuts hit NASA Terminated grants include efforts to get students and underrepresented groups involved in science

“It’s work that’s not going to get done, it’s bills that aren’t going to get paid, it’s students that aren’t going to get trained.” scim.ag/4256P8v

Growth in internal tissues sculpts plant organs in 3D Nature Plants - Growth-derived mechanical conflicts between tissues are crucial during plant organogenesis. In-depth 3D growth analysis combined with genetics and mechanical modelling reveal that...

A summary of our latest paper, by @sysilveira.bsky.social and I
rdcu.be/efwvE

Petal of a flower? A leaf?
No... the vascular network of the retina! A roadmap of super-highways and local roads to bring your vision vital resources. Data: Fei Shang SchallekLab
@urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

If you are a paleobotanist or botanist interested in doing a postdoc on fossil plants with me in Montpellier, I'm happy to help prepare a proposal for this year's #MSCA Postdoc Fellowship call (deadline Sept. 10).
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
1/3 #paleobotany #botany

Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester

Job alert ‼️
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Science Under Threat in the US The new administration in the US is conducting an assault on science and scientists – how should the scientific community respond?

Science Under Threat in the United States
A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social
Five articles published so far
elifesciences.org/collections/...
More articles coming tomorrow
#standupforscience

You're watching the "chaotic dance" of cellulose fibers as these plant cells build their cell walls. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Polypropylene. Autoclavable. Reusable. Fairly clear. One more polystyrene lab consumable eliminated? Let's find out!

a.co/d/667XVjL

proud to present our collaborative work, brilliantly led by Sylvia Silveira @sysilveira.bsky.social and Loann Collet.

Plant anatomy for the 21st century - I love it! Congratulations to all involved!

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fresh out of the oven: We confirmed that after vine stems fully twine, gelatinous fibers develop asymmetrically, supporting their role in mechanical stability. 🌿✨ #Botany #PlantScience