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Artificial Soil (ArtSoil): recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681539v1

Wow, Congratulations!! 🎉🎉 おめでとうございます！！

Meet the 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐓𝐏𝐉-𝐏𝐒𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 🏆
This award recognizes outstanding postdocs and research scientists, with preference for early-career researchers ready to launch independent labs:
💠Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social
💠 Boaz Negin
CONGRATULATIONS!

@psna-official.bsky.social
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Now the typesetting of our methodology letter is completed!
I am not a big fan of team Slytherin though 😂

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

Evidence for rapid hydrolysis of shoot-derived sucrose using an ultrasensitive ratiometric Matryoshka-type MGlucoMeter sensor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678933v1

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

Scientific mobility in microbiology – 9 Eliza Loo

I was recently interviewed by @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social for their Scientific Mobility series. I hope my 2 cents helped with your mobility ;) www.cell.com/trends/micro...

🌱 Stiill time to join us for the 3rd Workshop on Carbon Allocation in Plants — it’s going to be unforgettable!

⏳ Register before Sept 12 👉 bit.ly/4kYzzrT

Special thanks to the travel funding from JSPP MIRAI2030 programme. @jspp-news.bsky.social

It's already a week ago but I joined the International workshop of Plant Membrane Biology in Helsingør 🇩🇰. Fantastic talks about plant membrane biology and beautiful conference venues! Such a successful meeting, all thanks to the organisers 🙌

Wow, super cool! Congratulations 🎉

New OA Article: "Apoplastic metabolomics reveals sugars as mesophyll messengers regulating guard cell ion transport under red light" rdcu.be/eCiMg

Sugars as messengers from the leaf interior enhance stomatal opening via regulation of the guard cell H+-ATPase & anion channels.

Structural basis for the dynamic regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids - Nature Using cryo-electron microscopy, the interactions of Sestrin2 and CASTOR1 with GATOR2 were resolved, revealing how mTORC1 activation is regulated and how nutrient availability triggers signalling for cellular growth.

Nature research paper: Structural basis for the dynamic regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids

go.nature.com/3V8r3Lw

TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase The ability to sense and respond to nutrients determines adaptation and survival in all organisms. In plants, sucrose stimulates growth and developmental progression via the signalling sugar trehalose...

TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !

Professorship (W2-level) in “Molecular Crop Improvement”

Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭

Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social

Please PM if you got questions.

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells Many commonly used fluorescent proteins form dimers producing artifacts in a variety of experimental settings. Learn how to avoid these artifacts.

💡 Always a good time to be reminded: "if you fuse your protein of interest to GFP or EGFP to study the protein's behavior ... you are using a tag with a serious drawback."
Same goes for anything that doesn't have 'm' in its name (looking at you, dTomato and StayGold)

🆕A robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut #Arabidopsis leaves in a whole plant chamber

🆓Read it here first: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience

This work has never been possible without the support from @ifink-lab.bsky.social, Uni Münster fellowship, and JSPS fellowship. Of course, the feedback from the editor and reviewers @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social helped a lot!

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.🌱
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Huge congratulations 🎉!!

Cool video!

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

A guide to understanding and measuring photosynthetic induction: considerations and recommendations Photosynthetic induction is the leaf-level process by which a plant assimilates CO2 from the atmosphere once exposed to a change in light intensity after a period of darkness or shade. In the field, ...

A guide to understanding and measuring photosynthetic induction: considerations and recommendations nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social

Active transport enables protein condensation in cells The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.

Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature.
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow this is such a great breakthrough! I am very much looking forward to testing it with my proteins in the future!

Catch & Release - a molecular toolbox for rapid cost-effective protein purification from plants 🌱 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654187v1

Preprint from @dfg.de #GoPMF. All 🌱 scientists love to get their hands on pure protein, quickly produced in 🪴. However, purification can take too long, involve many steps or requires pricey reagents. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , we established Catch & Release. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

Special Interview_Pure intellectual curiosity and matching advanced abilities—the strengths underlying a researcher who continues to lead his field - Nagoya University Institute for Advanced Research (IAR) Nagoya University’s Institute for Advanced Research was established in 2002 in accordance with the University’s Academic Charter to generate internationally recognized academic research of the…

Professor Hitoshi Sakakibara from Nagoya University has been at the forefront of research on plant hormones such as cytokinin. His flexible research approach combines genetics with chemical analysis, leading to significant breakthroughs. bit.ly/4lOJqBp