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Non-Visual Light Perception: Ancient photoreceptor shapes behavioural responses Experiments on Drosophila show that an evolutionarily conserved photoreceptor that senses light outside of the retina can regulate responses to direct visual cues.

Ancient photoreceptor shapes behavioural responses

Promoter sequences are so hard to amplify from plants. Even from Arabidopsis. You think taking 2-kb upstream from a couple genes would be trivial. 😅

Postdoc of Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis or Transport | Fernando Geu-Flores 🌿 Postdoc position in Plant Natural Products 🌿 📍 Geu-Flores lab at the University of Copenhagen (DK) 🥼 Are you passionate about uncovering how plants make and transport complex bioactive alkaloids? ...

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Come work with us in beautiful Copenhagen!

This is the erfect position for you, if you like:
- natural products
- working with plants
- solving complex metabolism puzzles
- having an applied impact

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Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts.
Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗
CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... We are recruiting a PDRA to study root–soil interactions at molecular scale.
The project combines plant signalling, soil physics, and spatial omics to understand how roots sense soil hardness. #UKRI #PDRA #PostdocJobs #PlantScience #Rootsoil #SingleCell

Exciting postdoc position @KCGEB1 on an ambitious project on red palm weevil - Wolbachia research.

Consider applying: Insect / beetle reserach is the next frontier! 🌴🪲🦠🧫 jobs.uaeu.ac.ae/Postings/Pos...

We’re hiring!

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab

“Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Cross section of hypocotyl of 8-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana. The ovac mutant displays enhanced secondary vessel differentiation (red) at the expense of parchenchyma cells. Images A2 and B2 show the vessel cells only. SR2200 and Fuchsin staining. Imaged by Donghwi Ko.

How plants control fleshy & woody tissue growth🥕🪵
Ykä Helariutta’s labs at @slcuplants.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi reveal how plants fine-tune xylem development to balance growth — with big implications for crops and forestry

📜@science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Trees do not just count cold – they use warm spells to track winter’s progress | slu.se To survive winter, trees must time spring growth with great precision. New research from Umeå Plant Science Centre shows that trees also use warm interruptions in early winter as signals, helping buds...

To survive winter trees must time spring growth with great precision. Research from @umeaplantsciencecentre.se shows that trees also use warm interruptions in early winter as signals helping buds avoid opening too early #research supported by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
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⏰Final call – 6 days left!🧪🌾

We’re recruiting 3 PhD students at UPSC & SLU in the frame of the #WIFORCE programme:

🧬 RNA biology of trees
💻 Climate adaptation & modelling
🌿 Nitrogen use efficiency & wood formation

🗓 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs

Research Associate (m/f/x) in Tree Physiology - Dresden job with Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) | 12851362 TUD Dresden University of Technology, as a University of Excellence, is one of the leading and most dynamic research institutions in the country. Foun

Job opening: Research Associate in Tree Physiology at Dresden University of Technology
Deadline: February 16, 2026
Learn more: www.nature.com/naturecareer... #PlantSciJobs

Close-up of a closed aspen bud in front of a black background. Photo: Aswin Nair

Three men are standing in a greenhouse with young aspen trees in the back. Only the upper body is visible. All are looking into the camera. Photo: Abhideep Pal

Close-up of an open aspen bud in front of a black background

🧪🌾News - How do trees know when winter has really begun?

New research from the Bhalerao group in @natcomms.nature.com shows that trees don’t just count cold hours - they also use brief warm spells early in winter.

📸 From left: @shkpandey.bsky.social, Bibek Aryal & @sisiphusonbreak.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher in wood formation | slu.se SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

🧪🌾VACANCY - Postdoc in wood formation🔬

Join the newly established Wood Cell Wall Architecture group, led by Leonard Blaschek, and study novel cellular components controlling secondary cell wall development in trees.

👉 Read more & apply by 27 Feb 2026:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

#PlantSciJobs

Obituary for Indian Plant Scientist Ebrahimali Abubacker Siddiq.

EA Siddiq contributed to the development of dwarfed Basmati Rice, among many other contributions.

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#PlantScience #Obituary #PlantBreeding #Rice

Detecting fluctuating shade
For plants adapting to light conditions is crucial. Canopy shade brings with it its own challenges, it is not just less light, but with some of the useful red light filtered out by the leaves above the ratio of red vs far red-light changes as well. 🧵1/4

#PlantScience

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs

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

image of a maize inflorescence meristem that is labeled by the plasma membrane marker PIP2-CFP and BAM1D-YFP.

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Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

We’re always recruiting creative bioengineers like Nick who want to build this stuff for real. Just saying. 🧬 😎 🌱 🦠

Someone got Cas9-Turbo to work. It's like basically Y1H but with proteomics. It however requires transgenic plant expressing Cas9-Turbo and gRNAs, which is still cumbersome for many plants that are not Arabidopsis. #PlantSciences

Variable temperature processing by plasmodesmata regulates robust bud dormancy release - Nature Communications Tree buds integrate cold and warm cues to control dormancy release. Extended warm periods block plasmodesmata opening by repressing Flowering Locus T and GA pathways in buds. This mechanism ensures ro...

🧪🌾 PAPER – How do trees know when winter is really over?

Trees don’t just track long-term cold exposure. The Bhalerao group and collaborators show they also count short warm spells when assessing winter progression.

Read more in @natcomms.nature.com:👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Carella Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular…

We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

ECR's: if you want to take part in the

3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting

remind the deadline, which is on 23rd January
www.plant-ecr-networking.eu

I'm looking for a postdoc to work at the interface of molecular biology, comparative genomics & single-cell data science, a great opportunity to lead projects on regulatory evolution and cell-type-specific stress responses. Find me at PAG or reach out kenchanmanelab.com
#SingleCell #PostdocPosition

Elevate Your Career: Present at the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists! Tue 28 Apr - Wed 29 [CEST]: Are you getting close to the end of your PhD or have you recently completed it? Are you looking to continue in academia and want to shape your future postdoctoral project?…

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Elevate Your Career: Present at the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists!

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The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae Abstract. The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae has an effector protein that can methylate the plant defense compound salicylic acid (SA), and the

The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae

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A gel electrophoresis picture. It shows DNA of different sizes.

Happy New Year!
May all your PCRs give you only specific bands of the appropriate sizes. May your gel extraction and miniprep yields be high.
May your cloning always give you at least one correct colony, and your genotyping identify the mutants you are after. ✨

a computer generated image of a dna structure ALT: a computer generated image of a dna structure

Has anyone sequenced Agrobacterium rhizogenes K599? If no I'll send mine to @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social for sequencing as my first experiment of the New Year and share the results + genbank upload. Gonna prepare cells today either way.

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Research Assistant: Plant reproduction - role of TGA transcription factors and their ROXY co-regulators
and part of @icips.bsky.social

Deadline: 15 January 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...