Plant Energy Biology Lab

Nothing to see here 🤷‍♂️
Replace 30 by 3000 - then we are talking plant embryos in seeds

Very happy to get started at Halle: such a warm welcome! So grateful to Dr Jakub Rzemieniewski for great work getting the project up and flying. Massive thanks also to Vanessa Günther for all matters plant! Great to meet Vincent Preuß hoping your master’s with us is a big success.

(ID‐ICPMB05) Running on Empty: Mitochondria Without DNA Exhibit Differential Motility and Connectivity Plant mitochondria are in continuous motion. While providing ATP to other cellular processes, they also constantly consume ATP to move rapidly within the cell. This movement is in part related to tak....

An exciting day! Our latest work is now out; we ask the question, are there any differences between plant mitochondria with and without mtDNA? 🌱

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/9)

Sloan Lab Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

sites.google.com/site/danielb...

Finally, the team is built, the lab is setup and plants are growing @uni-muenster.de :)🌱🍅

Clearly an excellent talk by @suaybuestuen.bsky.social
The mitochondrion on the slide is proof

Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience

Research Highlights:
Zooming in on light stress
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@maddyseale.bsky.social ‬
@simonstael.bsky.social

Congratulations Dr Ke Zheng 🥂

Advanced illumination-imaging reveals photosynthesis-triggered pH, ATP and NAD redox signatures across plant cell compartments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.16.659786v1

Preprint out by @dfg.de funded RU #GoPMF. Check out extensive application of genetically-encoded sensors to resolve light-induced pH, ATP, and NAD/H changes across 🍃 cell organelles. Congrats to @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social from @uni-muenster.de who lead the project: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in plant Ca2+ imaging? If you have (or are about to earn) a PhD, consider joining our team at La Statale (UNIMI) as a Postdoc. A great opportunity to grow your expertise in a vibrant research environment!
Feel free to contact me to discuss applications to the MSCA

The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma Plants rely on water and light for photosynthesis, but water droplets on leaves can focus light into high-intensity spots, risking photodamage. Excess…

What started as a 'funky' observation back in 2017 while visiting the lab of @labcosta.bsky.social, and after skilfull execution of Dominic Kuang, Shanna Romand, and many more, now found a home in Current Biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cytoplasmic Inheritance: The Transmission of Plastid and Mitochondrial Genomes Across Cells and Generations Abstract. In photosynthetic organisms, genetic material is stored in the nucleus and the two cytoplasmic organelles: plastids and mitochondria. While both

Glad to share this review, which takes a narrative approach to explore mechanisms governing cytoplasmic inheritance. It highlights exciting advances in the field, while also pointing to the many open questions that remain. Have a read here: doi.org/10.1093/plph...

How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants Plant metabolism is remarkably flexible. Rapid changes in the rate and mode of primary metabolism are essential to meet the demands of plants under ch…

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How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants

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Rotten tricks: How hot and stinky plants woo pollinators To attract insects, thermogenic plants turn up the heat, emit strong odors and even disguise themselves as corpses

To attract insects, thermogenic plants turn up the heat, emit strong odors and even disguise themselves as corpses.

✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg

Scheme how genetically encoded biosensors can shine light on plant metabolism. Intrinsic sensors bind their analyte directly, extrensic sensors require a sensing domain fused to one, or more, fluorescent proteins. In paraplexing experiments, multiple sensors are individually expressed in plants and their responses are recorded in parallel. In multiplexing experiments, two or more sensors with non-overlapping excitation and emission spectra are expressed in the same plant. Sensor responses, either recorded in paraplexing or multiplexing experiments over time and through appropriate instruments, such as fluorescence microscopes or plate readers, can be used to create increasingly complex metabolic networks.

A growing list of genetically encoded biosensors helps to shine light on plant metabolism. We reviewed - also for the non-expert - available probes and recent advances in the field:

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The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking To safeguard threatened plants, science must unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken

A beautiful & thrilling journalistic piece on the magic of SEEDS 🪄🌱
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Featuring consultancy on dormancy and metabolic kick-start by our seed expert Dennis Brandt 🎓

Monitoring subcellular NADP redox state with NAPstar biosensors

Monitoring subcellular NADP redox state with NAPstar biosensors @riemerlab.bsky.social @morganlab-saarland.bsky.social
@jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social

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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/...

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

Hydrogen Sulfide 🌋👃
modulates Flagellin-Induced Stomatal Immunity 🍃🦠

New preprint led by Denise Scuffi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@labcosta.bsky.social @jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social

EIT Expands Team of Field-leading Experts Spanning AI, Economics, Life Sciences, Generative Biology and Medicine | Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford Founding team who will lead the Institute’s ambitious science programs and platforms are announced.

Congratulations to @stevenkelly.bsky.social on joining EIT Oxford as Chief Scientific Officer - Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🎉

Steve will continue his impactful work at Oxford biology
while driving innovation in sustainable agriculture at EIT.

Read more: www.eit.org/news/eit-exp...

A curious, modest man with an encyclopaedic knowledge. No ego but a quiet self-confidence that inspired many. No doubt many publications in the coming years will report innovative ideas that he thought of decades ago….

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

Join our GBM Redox Meeting 2025 in Saarbrücken! We put together an exciting program covering diverse aspects of Redox Regulation in Life.
Check out the Programm and register until Feb 28!
redox-gbm-meeting-2025.uni-koeln.de
#redox #redoxbiology #gbm
@gbmev.bsky.social

Check out this meeting of the GBM study group on redox biology!

Tonni Grube Andersen on stage at MBP2025, receiving the Plant Journal Best talk award from EiC Katherine Denby.

The TGA Group is doing pretty well award-wise here at ##MBP2025. 🙂👍
@theplantjournal.bsky.social best Talk Award goes to @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social.
Look forward to a #PlantScience Review from the Group in the Journal.

Congratulations to @somssich.bsky.social for receiving the @molplantsci.bsky.social #PlantScience #SciComm award at #MBP2025. Marc is a pioneer of #PlantScience #SciComm on social media and he championed the #SciExit #eXit #SciXit movement Well deserved Marc!