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What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia

Marsh Clubmoss rediscovered in Dunbartonshire by @bsbiscotland.bsky.social of @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Asgard #archaea: have we found our microbial ancestors?
New review (also for newcomers to the field!) by Christa Schleper and Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors All organisms fuel and build themselves through their energy metabolism. While classic biochemistry conceptualizes the fluxes of energy and matter, our understanding of how energy metabolism works in ...

Freshly online 🗞️
In Vivo Monitoring of Energy Metabolism with Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors 🌱🔋🌈🔬

@jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social
@morganlab-saarland.bsky.social
@uni-muenster.de
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Crossing Arabidopsis thaliana plants

Back to crossing, this time with the horrible mutant nia1 nia2 #arabidopsis #genetics #plantscience

I'd like to remind everyone that CAM has evolved as many if not more times than C4. There are entire biomes where CAM is dominant. If you like tequila, or pineapple, or your pretty orchid you got at the grocery store, you can thank CAM.

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. Or CAMtalk as it were.

Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize - Nature The E3 ubiquitin ligase NLA postively regulates cold tolerance and negatively regulates phosphate uptake in maize, and a genetically engineered variant of this enzyme leads to improved cold ...

Rewiring an E3 #ligase enhances #cold resilience and #phosphate use in #maize

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

#PlantScience #SciComm @nature.com @natcellbio.nature.com @maizesausage.bsky.social @plantnerd.bsky.social @jchrispires.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social @nmouquet.bsky.social

Switching on and off the hypoxic response in plants Abstract. Hypoxia significantly impacts plant metabolism and growth by disrupting mitochondrial respiration, and oxygen sensing plays a vital role in regul

Switching on and off the #hypoxic response in #plants

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#PlantScience #SciComm @jxbotany.bsky.social @olmiemma.bsky.social @theplantlab.bsky.social @isplore.bsky.social @n-end-rules.bsky.social @hartman-plantlab.com @plantstress.bsky.social @plantredox.bsky.social

Switching on and off the hypoxic response in plants Abstract. Hypoxia significantly impacts plant metabolism and growth by disrupting mitochondrial respiration, and oxygen sensing plays a vital role in regul

Switching on and off the hypoxic response in plants url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Reversible phosphorylation of NPH3/RPT2-like proteins regulates phototropin receptor signaling Phototropin receptor signaling requires PP2C19 and PP2C35 to dephosphorylate NPH3 and related substrates, ensuring efficient phototropism and chloroplast m

Feeling blue? Find out more about the dark side of phototropin signalling 😀 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪

One as Head of Plant Science at Leeds
The new Plant Sciences page is now live and linked to from the FBS Research and Innovation homepage - interested in joining or collaborating? Learn about the research and opportunities by visiting this website! biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/plant-sciences

Switching on and off the hypoxic response in plants Abstract. Hypoxia significantly impacts plant metabolism and growth by disrupting mitochondrial respiration, and oxygen sensing plays a vital role in regul

Happy to see our review online in @jxbotany.bsky.social 🌱

In this work, we provide an overview of the molecular mechanisms plants use to survive under low oxygen stress and during recovery after reoxygenation 🌊

doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants Abstract. Proteostasis relies on the coordinated control of protein synthesis, folding, modification and degradation, and an increasingly clear picture is

My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6

I completely agree. However, I’ve found that several Chinese researchers publishing impactful work recently haven't responded to my invitations. If you have other recommendations—perhaps colleagues who are particularly active—please let me know!

Protein event of the year - sign up today! See you at beautiful Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo for the FEBS 2026 Protein Termini Workshop.
#ProteinTermini #Proteostasis #ProteinModifications #StructuralBiology #PalazzoDeiNormanni #Palermo2026
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8 days left to register | 28 invited speakers | Keynotes from F. Ulrich Hartl, Roland Beckmann and Michael Rapé | #chaperones #degradation #ubiquitin #cryoEM #acetylation #lipidation #ribosomes #proteins
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Join us in Palermo!
FEBS Workshop Protein Termini 2026: the power of protein termini across bacteria, plants, and animals—from ribosome biology to proteostasis and applications. Deadline: 3 March 2026
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#ProteinTermini #Proteostasis #FEBS #EMBO @iubmb.bsky.social

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?

Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Sad to say that after 14 years of service the vseed server vseed.nottingham.ac.uk will soon be retired. Do not despair our community resource for seed germination network analysis is still available at netvis.ico2s.org/dev/seednet/#/ thanks to Professor Natalio Krasnogor at Newcastle University

Surprisingly: "Conditional stability of HY5 through the ATE N-degron pathway regulates environmental responses in Arabidopsis thaliana".
The shining bounds of N-degron pathway influence expands! @charlene-kunaka.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conditional stability of HY5 through the ATE N-degron pathway regulates environmental responses in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.705009v1

Are you, or do you know someone that is excited to do a PhD in plant biology. We are happy to offer a position to explore physiology, gene regulatory networks and wild species. Come join our team in a stimulating scientific environment at the University of Groningen!
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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Hormone biosynthesis and signaling is altered by hypoxia in Arabidopsis thaliana roots.

Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics

Hill et al.

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Mechanism of cotranslational modification of histones H2A and H4 by MetAP1 and NatD NAC enables cotranslational N-terminal processing of histones H2A and H4 by recruiting MetAP1 and NatD at the ribosomal tunnel.

Last X-Mas, the ribosome gave you methionine,
but the very next day, MetAP took it away.
This year, to save histones from tears,
NatD gives you an acetyl group. ⭐️

Explore our latest paper with the Deuerling lab @uni-konstanz.de and Shu-ou Chan lab @caltech.edu!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...

So happy to see this work finally online!

In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers

UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

What a terrible terrible idea