Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paging senior graduate students! Apply to present your research during the Salk Discover symposium and network with potential collaborators or faculty advisors. Application deadline extended to March 16.
More info: www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
Thank you @sonaliroy.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk in the Department of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering at Tennessee State University
Even though it was 9pm for me, I enjoyed my time, the interesting questions and the fact that I was up on so many screens at once 😊🌾
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Impact of Medicago truncatula GOLVEN10 peptide on root tortuosity and angular parameters relative to the primary root and gravity vector. (A) Change in root waving or tortuosity in Jemalong A17 plants upon GOLVEN10 application compared with untreated plants 10 d post-transfer to plates. (B) Change in lateral root angle of emergence relative to the primary root upon GLV10 peptide application in untreated M. truncatula R108 plants 10 d post-transfer to plates. (C) Change in lateral root angle of emergence relative to the gravity vector upon GLV10 peptide application in untreated M. truncatula Jemalong A17 plants 10 d post-transfer to plates. Scale bar=1 cm.
🌱📊 RESEARCH 📊🌱
GOLVEN10 increases Medicago lateral root branch angle and reduces the gravity setpoint angle. A GWAS identified causal SNPs and that GOLVEN10 signaling interacts with ethylene to control root waving – Parmar et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Peptide-based biostimulants in sustainable agriculture: opportunities and innovations (Journal of Integrative Plant Biology) (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab.bsky.social) buff.ly/qyOLKYm
#PlantaePSRW
Graphic recording of the workshop session. Key words, messages and topics covered are grouped by speaker(s). This visual summary is intended to capture the essence of the session, it obviously cannot resolve or explore in detail all the complex issues listed. The illustration was commissioned to the illustrator Zsofi Lang. "Building a diverse and inclusive community through effective teaching and mentoring"
Super excited to have this online at @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
"Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community," a call-to-action. Thanks to @apaterlini.bsky.social
@mehta-lab.com @yoselin.bsky.social
@goormachtig.bsky.social & Agnes Uhereczky + funders!💚
And publish in society owned journals like @theplantcell.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social Plant Biotechnology Journal, @jxbotany.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social and many others!
Marchantia polymorpha lines displaying various level of resistance after inoculation with Colletotrichum nymphaeae
What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!)
Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV
Registration open for 87th Annual Southern ASPB conference March 13-15th in Lafayette LA.
Travel awards available. @aspbofficial.bsky.social @aspb-pui.bsky.social @ecps.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social
southern.aspb.org/2026-annual-...
Image Text: Plant BLOOME 2025 ASPB's Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education Grant. Grant Submission deadline: April 24, 2026. Apply Now! Featuring ASPB and BLOOME logo.
🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱
👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27!
#PlantScience
An AI-driven pipeline for the discovery of hidden peptides in plant proteomes: the CLE family as a case study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703007v1
BSPP MSc/MRes Bursary, up to £4,000 to support postgraduate study in plant pathology.
www.bspp.org.uk/funds/mscmres/
#PlantPathology #PostgradFunding #BSPP
Join us in Toulouse !!
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New episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast of this year!
I had a wonderful discussion with Heather about her Cell Reports paper.
Podcast: tinyurl.com/a9vcteru
Article: tinyurl.com/4dhxuye2
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
Cool SEO trick! Although it looks like Google scholar ranks articles based on citations not views alone. That exercise may work for URLs to lab websites though.
Unequal web presence?
Exactly what these legumes (and students) need! 👏🏽👏🏽
🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
A slide from the Teaching Tool. What are botanical collections? Types of collections. Herbaria, Living Collections, Seed, pollen, and spore banks; DNA and tissue banks; Palnological collections, Digital Collections, Ethnobotanical collections.
New Teaching Tool!
blog.aspb.org/new-teaching...
Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
2 postdoc openings in my lab:
anelab.wisc.edu/join-us.html
One for a maize geneticist and one for a bacterial geneticist
Picture featuring @manishbiotechie.bsky.social, @balptekin.bsky.social and @sairamnagalla.bsky.social. The first two left my lab over the last few months to start their own labs!
NAASC has funds to support 4 travel awards for U.S. students & postdocs that work on Arabidopsis and want to attend ICAR 2026-Singapore!
👍 The deadline to apply is February 10
👍 please read eligibility criteria before applying
Application information here:
www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar-funding
Now accepting proposals for field trips that take plant health science beyond the meeting room and into working systems, active research sites, and real-world challenges.
Submit by February 20: https://bit.ly/3LJFYe3
#planthealth2026 #plantpathology
How does a single plant cell tell symbiont from pathogen?
We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling.
I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to see our work published in the @jxbotany.bsky.social today! Feedback welcome. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
😂 Hilarious! But to me the woman with the dark brown hair and the woman with the fringe look Asian! I feel seen!
This paper and resources on teaching CRISPR in plant biology are available for anyone who needs them! So glad to have completed this manuscript with 16 (!) graduate and undergraduate students in my class.
"Developing a. CRISPR-based gene editing course in Plant Biology" says the screen. Sonali stands in front of the screen
Adapting the course for advanced agriculture/ biology majors
Mary talking about science communication.
A group of 18 happy biologists.
I had a wonderful time participating in the teach-the-teachers CRISPR course co-organized by Sonali Roy, held at the beautiful MIT campus. The participants were HBCU faculty & local high school biol teachers. Lectures in the morning and labs in the afternoon, thanks to Maxine & Masami. 👍👍🧬 #PlantSci
