Fig. 1.The role of maternal temperature effects on seed dormancy in the adaptation of Polygonum aviculare emergence timing to climate. (A) In an average environment, seed dormancy induced by the mother during seed set is slowly removed by cold stratification during autumn and winter to enable spring emergence. (B) In warmer environments, laboratory experiments and modelling predict a delay to emergence that reduces progeny fitness by shortening their lifespan. (C) When the effects of seed set temperature are taken into account, the effects of elevated temperature during seed set and elevated soil temperatures after shedding combine to cancel each other out, enabling conservation of emergence timing in a wide range of possible climates.
🌍🌡️ INSIGHT 🌡️🌍
🌱 "Adaptation of seeds to climate change is promoted by the mother plant". 🌱
Steven Penfield highlights this research recently published in JXB by Fernández Farnocchia et al.
Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
09.12.2025 19:01 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS
09.12.2025 13:24 — 👍 6 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
09.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When the editor-in-chief asks you to review your own paper. #AcademicChatter
06.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 46 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Do you have what it takes to win Science’s #DanceYourPhD competition?
We want you to top last year’s food-themed frolic from the Helsinki chemist who dressed up as a chili pepper. Or maybe you can get #AI to dance on your behalf? Learn more: https://scim.ag/3LuVObX
04.12.2025 20:52 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
Kennzeichnung für einige Gentechnik-Lebensmittel fällt weg: Gleiches wird nun endlich gleich benannt
Die EU regelt neu, wie Lebensmittel, die gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen enthalten, gekennzeichnet werden müssen. Eine überfällige und angemessene Anpassung.
Es mag auf Anhieb richtig erscheinen, dass man mit CRISPR gezüchtete Pflanzen bzw Lebensmittel kennzeichnen sollte. Warum dem nicht so ist und eine Aufhebung der Kennzeichnungspflicht für NGT1 logisch & Verbrauchenden ggü transparent ist, wird hier gut erklärt:
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/kennz...
04.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 45 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 0
Screenshot von der Webseite des Deutschlandfunks mit der Überschrift:
Grüne Gentechnik: EU will Regulierung lockern, Interview Robert Hoffie, IPK
Die Einigung im Trilog letzte Nacht hat zu vielen Fragen geführt.
Im Interview mit @forschungaktuell.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk habe ich versucht, einige davon zu beantworten:
www.deutschlandfunk.de/gruene-gente...
#Gentechnik #CRISPR #NGTs
04.12.2025 19:56 — 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 2
CC-NLRs exhibit diverse conformations in the resting state.
Figure depicts different NLR resting and activated states. While ZAR1 exists as a monomer bound to its guardees in its resting state, several forms have been observed for the NRC2 helper, including dimers, tetramers, and filaments. While filament-like structures were observed via confocal microscopy for NRC2 upon overexpression in planta, these structures were not detected for its paralog NRC4, suggesting a potentially different resting state configuration for NRC4. Our work suggests that the Pik CC-NLR pair forms a hetero-complex bound to the plasma membrane in its resting state. How effector binding to the integrated domain (ID) of the Pik-1 sensor leads to the activation of the complex remains to be determined.
Excited to share our latest work on plant immune receptor biochemistry! @kamounlab.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @mpcontreras.bsky.social Jose Salguero Linares @danielluedke.bsky.social @adnroide.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
03.12.2025 09:20 — 👍 76 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 1
Moises (Moi) Exposito-Alonso poses for a portrait on campus at Stanford University. Alison Yin/AP Images for Center for Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2023
IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) on his path from growing up in Spain and dreaming of becoming an ecologist to running a research group at Berkeley, studying plant adaptation to #ClimateChange. New from IGI's Emma MacKenzie! Read here: https://ow.ly/g4ph50XAjp4
02.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Aspiring PhD candidates: do not miss this opportunity to join a great mentor and awesome project!!! Bonus: it is in Amsterdam
02.12.2025 17:35 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
From GI Joe to GI Jane: Christine Jorgensen’s Story
WWII veteran Christine Jorgensen became the first American transgender woman to attain fame for having sex reassignment surgery. Her story has influenced many others and helped redefine gender identit...
📅Dec 1st 1952: In 1952, WWII vet Christine Jorgensen became America's first openly transgender celebrity. She courageously used her platform to lecture at universities & advocate for trans equality when it meant risking everything. What modern activists inspire you? #WomenInHistory
shorturl.at/YXAEI
01.12.2025 15:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Im Interview mit @jostmaurin.bsky.social in der @taz.de stellt die Demeter-Bäuerin und Co-Initiatorin einer Petition gegen die geplante neue Regulierung für NGTs, Pola Krenkel, eine Reihe gängiger Falschbehauptungen auf, die ich aus diesem Anlass in einem kurzen 🧵 debunke:
#GiveGenesAChance
01.12.2025 16:20 — 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 5
Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
Head of Cell Biology KWS Vegetables
We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables.
This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands.
jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening...
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob
01.12.2025 13:36 — 👍 35 🔁 52 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract
For the past two years, I have been contemplating how best to write this review that not only reflects on a few significant and nostalgic moments in my more than three decades of professional career in the molecular plant-microbe interaction (MPMI) field, but also offers my personal outlook on the future aimed at inspiring young scientists to join this exciting discipline. Rather than a comprehensive overview, I would like to place greater emphasis on the “whys” and the “hows” than the “whats”. I finally decided to use technological advancements critical for the development of our field as a thread to connect the past with the future.
Founder's Review
"Leaf It to Science: Uncovering Plant Immune Systems Through Technological Advances Open Access"
Reflections on Career, #PlantScience and #PlantImmunity by Xinnian Dong
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
29.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
This year, we celebrate Margaret Dayhoff’s 100th birthday. She built the first protein database when computers filled entire rooms, introduced the amino acid code, and worked on substitution matrices we still rely on today.
#Bioinformatics #WomenInSTEM #HistoryOfScience #SciencePioneer
30.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Adventcalender bags on a table
How do you know if your lab has enough persons? Easy: if you need all 24 bags of an advent calender to include them all it is time to stop hiring new people! 🎄🤶🤪
28.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
27.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 36 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 1
It was a pleasure to have you in our IRTG Scientific Training Lecture Series! It was a treat and really entertaining.
26.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce that Zachary (Zack) Nimchuk will present his paper on the regulation of flower production across different temperatures in our next JC!
Don't miss it!
26.11.2025 08:40 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Es stehen erscheinende Tage für eine moderne, wissenschaftsbasierte Regulierung von Neuen Genomischen Techniken wie #CRISPR & Co. in der EU an.
Worum es geht und was damit zu erreichen ist, haben wir 👇 nochmal zusammengefasst.
#GiveGenesAChance
26.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US!
One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab!
📌 Details below
🔁 Please repost to spread the word!
23.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 8 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
I highly recommend the #MBP2026 #PlantScience Meeting in Hennef, especially if you're an ECR or #NewPI trying to connect to the German Plant Science Community.
It's interactive, fun and relaxed.
Unfortunately, I won't be there this year, but I'll be back in 2027 👍
20.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply!
Please share!
19.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 11 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
Postdoc in the @geminiteamlab.bsky.social ZMBP, Uni Tübingen
Plant - Microbe Interactions 🌱🦠🍄
She/her
Evolutionary genomics enthusiast, plant genomics researcher, #NextflowAmbassador, my views; Works on: 🧬 Genome Science and Algorithms | 💻 Software Development | 👽 AI dev
Plant Cell Biologist, Group leader at Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
www.photobodies.com
Plant molecular biologist at the University of Würzburg
Plant Biology Phd student at UC Davis studying the A.thaliana circadian clock
Dr Alexander J. Hetherington | Plant evolutionary biologist, University of Edinburgh UK | UKRI Future Leader Fellow |
Lab website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/hetherington
ex-academic, co-founder RLadiesSydney, developer #RYouWithMe, sharer of #rstats learning https://jenrichmond.github.io/
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Receptor Biochemistry🧫🧑🔬
PhD Candidate
Leibniz Institute of Plant 🪴Biochemistry,Halle(Saale),Germany🇩🇪
PostDoc | Plant biologist connecting molecular biology to ecology and evolution @ University of Potsdam - CRC1644 "Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants"
Fascinated by the interaction between plants and their environment 🌱 🇳🇱 🏳️🌈
Plant Scientist @ipbhalle.bsky.social. Currently doing a PhD with @marischuster.bsky.social
Professor, TALENted & CRISPRing Genome Editor, maker of low-allergenic, low-toxic, pathogen-free food crops, cat-lover
Researching from mutations to climate change • Scientist and Asst. Professor at University of California Berkeley and Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute • In 💚 with California flora
Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Rotating Curator for the @rladies.org community💜
🔗 https://guide.rladies.org/rocur/
This week's curator: @ellakaye.co.uk
Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Research interests: Plant immunity | Hormone signaling | Plant stress resilience
Funded by NSERC, CFI, ORF and NFRF
Plant biologist. (She/her). Reproduction vs stress. Biodiversity genomics. Andrés Laguna researcher at IRNASA-CSIC (Salamanca)
Scientific journal publishing research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/home
Part of CellPress @cellpress.bsky.social
Excellent science for tomorrow's plants.
Imprint: https://www.ceplas.eu/en/contact/imprint
