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Activities - GreenTE Activities Webinars ”MechanoBioTalks – Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter” is a webinar series supported by the GreenTE consortium and organized […]

We are happy to announce the start of the MechanoBioTalks – Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter an initiative organized by GreenTE young researchers. The aim of the webinars is to bring together researchers interested in biomechanics, biophysics and biology.
Register here: green-te.nl/activities/

Postdoc Position in Biology of Mechanically-Triggered Plant Immunity How do plants sense the mechanical pressure of invading pathogens to trigger immunity? Join us and discover how plants respond to mechanical force.

Postdoc Position at the GreenTE consortium: Biology of Mechanically-Triggered Plant Immunity! Join this interdisciplinary program on mechanosensing in plants 🌱🌱. Apply here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

[...]I also think it is inspiring and humbling to study organisms that I and other humans are utterly dependent on, but that do not need us at all.[...]

You can find out more information in the GreenTE website: green-te.nl/activities/

The first GreenTE workshop took place in Wageningen on October 14th-17th, 2025. The workshop was attended by 28 young researchers and lots of new collaborations started to develop. Exciting times and great science coming up!

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

Great postdoc opportunity in Ceratopteris research!!

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱

The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

PhD position open 👇🌱💻! Deadline for the application July 1st.

Group Leader, Institute of Biotechnology Group Leader, Institute of Biotechnology

Group leader position at the University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology. Plant biologists eligible as well. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

PhD position open! - GreenTE Modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration If you have a Master’s degree in applied mathematics, computational/theoretical physics, […]

PhD position open within the GreenTE consortium, under the supervision of @roelandmerks.bsky.social
If you are interested in mathematical or theoretical biology, computational physics or computational science this position is for you! Find more information here: green-te.nl/1724-2/

🌱🌱Letter from the new Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell, Pablo Manavella.🌱🌱
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

ChronoRoot 2.0: An Open AI-Powered Platform for 2D Temporal Plant Phenotyping The analysis of plant developmental plasticity, including root system architecture, is fundamental to understanding plant adaptability and development, particularly in the context of climate change an...

ChronoRoot 2.0 platform for 2D temporal plant phenotyping 🌱🌱
arxiv.org/abs/2504.14736

Abstract submission is closing tomorrow. Hurry up to register and submit an abstract. We are almost fully booked…

GreenTE Annual Meeting - GreenTE The first GreenTE Annual Meeting took place on April 16th in Egmond aan Zee. The meeting was attended by 20 […]

We hosted the first GreenTE Annual Meeting last Wednesday. Great science is being done by our young researchers!
green-te.nl/greente-annu...

Screenshot of the editorial PDF.

New Editorial: "Alternate routes to gene functions" rdcu.be/d0IB9

The functions of many genes in model plants are unknown. Traditional methods to infer function are showing their limitations, but other approaches are emerging. #PlantScience

Plasma membrane and cytoplasmic compartmentalization: A dynamic structural framework required for pollen tube tip growth Quantitative mapping of plasma membrane and cytoplasmic domains at the tip of elongating tobacco pollen provides important insights into regulatory and cel

Plasma membrane and cytoplasmic compartmentalization: A dynamic structural framework required for pollen tube tip growth
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Positions available at SNP2Prot - Plant Proteoform Diversity SNP2Prot is currently recruiting postdoctoral and doctoral researchers for the first 45-months funding period starting in October 2024. We offer an excellent scientific environment for interested scie...

📣 Job Opportunities(!): Postdoc & PhD student positions announced in recently funded CRC 1664-Plant Proteoform Diversity, Speaker is MAdLand PI
Marcel Quint from Halle University,also involved: IPB Halle, @leibnizipk.bsky.social,University Leipzig
More: snp2prot.uni-halle.de/positions #plantsci

Front cover of a postcard to advertise a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Plant Hormones". Image courtesy of Janlo Robil. The image depicts a sand timer surrounded by the various plant hormones. Stress response is at the top, and development at the bottom. Papers in this issue will aim to review/explore how hormones integrate information from plant stress to affect development.

***𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒***

This special issue on PLANT HORMONES will close for submissions at the 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲.

The issue is being guest edited by Paula McSteen & Norman Best.

Thanks to Janlo Robil for the image! #PlantScience 🧪

New preprint from our lab. Xin Wang developed a handy genetic tool called #RootTracker to follow fate of lateral root primordia (LRP). He showed that arrested LRPs gradually obtain cambium identity and contribute to the secondary growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Best #plantscience job ever—My colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne are seeking a new Director! Max Planck is particularly keen to recruit colleagues at the early Associate Professor level!
#plantscijobs
www.mpipz.mpg.de/director