Maria E. Eriksson
@treesandgrowth.bsky.social
Scientist researching light and circadian regulation; growth of weeds and trees; http://tinyurl.com/d7vm5vq
Botanist. Florist. Nature Lover.
UPSC, IceLab, Umeå University,
Daylight Academy, My own views.
Botanist. Florist. Nature Lover.
UPSC, IceLab, Umeå University,
Daylight Academy, My own views.
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🧪🌾 Researcher portrait: Meet Yanjun Zan 🧬
Why can the same environmental change benefit one plant but stress another?
Our new group leader at UPSC & @icelabumu.bsky.social wants to understand and predict how genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment.
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Why can the same environmental change benefit one plant but stress another?
Our new group leader at UPSC & @icelabumu.bsky.social wants to understand and predict how genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment.
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
September 11, 2026 at 11:24 AM
🧪🌾 Researcher portrait: Meet Yanjun Zan 🧬
Why can the same environmental change benefit one plant but stress another?
Our new group leader at UPSC & @icelabumu.bsky.social wants to understand and predict how genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment.
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Why can the same environmental change benefit one plant but stress another?
Our new group leader at UPSC & @icelabumu.bsky.social wants to understand and predict how genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment.
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Daylight matters! Here is my popular science talk on trees earlier this year in Copenhagen #ConferenceDLA🌲🌳⏰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZefLZmbZL54
Nature‘s clock: How trees sense daylight and adapt to seasonal timing
YouTube video by Daylight Academy
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Daylight matters! Here is my popular science talk on trees earlier this year in Copenhagen #ConferenceDLA🌲🌳⏰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZefLZmbZL54
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Congratulations, Laura! 🌱🏆 Wonderful to see your work on plant cell wall integrity signalling recognised with the SPPS Early Career Award. Very well deserved! 👏
Thrilled to receive the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (@plantspps.bsky.social) Early Career Award 2026 at #SPPS2026! Deeply grateful to the Society and to everyone who has supported my research on plant cell wall integrity signalling along the way 🌱🏆
August 21, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Congratulations, Laura! 🌱🏆 Wonderful to see your work on plant cell wall integrity signalling recognised with the SPPS Early Career Award. Very well deserved! 👏
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🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨
The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment.
#Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch
The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment.
#Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch
July 1, 2026 at 11:04 AM
🚨 NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS 🚨
The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment.
#Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch
The call for IceLab Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open until Sept 17 2026! 3 postdocs will join teams working at the interface of theory, computation, & experiment.
#Postdoc #ComputationalBiology #ComplexSystems #InterdisciplinaryResearch
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It is very satisfying to see this published, after over a decade of work!
Intracellular potassium levels orchestrate circadian rhythmicity and cell division - Nature Communications
Circadian rhythms are ~24-hour biological cycles that influence processes from immunity to metabolism, and this study explores how intracellular potassium contributes to their regulation. The authors ...
www.nature.com
July 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
It is very satisfying to see this published, after over a decade of work!
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I'm excited to share our paper on natural variation in the Arabidopsis circadian clock, published in @plantphys.bsky.social with Anna Philippova, @adaevo.bsky.social and @hikemaydon.bsky.social 🌱🕐. Thread below (🧵1/6) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
A noncoding SNP in ELF3 alters ELF3β expression and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate
A naturally occurring variant in the Arabidopsis core clock gene EARLY FLOWERING 3 alters temperature responsiveness and has been selected for in regions o
academic.oup.com
July 23, 2026 at 2:45 AM
I'm excited to share our paper on natural variation in the Arabidopsis circadian clock, published in @plantphys.bsky.social with Anna Philippova, @adaevo.bsky.social and @hikemaydon.bsky.social 🌱🕐. Thread below (🧵1/6) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
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🧪 UPSC Alumni Spotlight – Following scientific challenges across disciplines
In this interview, Krisztina Ötvös shares how embracing new scientific challenges and building on transferable skills shaped her career from plant biology to translational research.
Read more:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
In this interview, Krisztina Ötvös shares how embracing new scientific challenges and building on transferable skills shaped her career from plant biology to translational research.
Read more:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
July 9, 2026 at 10:42 AM
🧪 UPSC Alumni Spotlight – Following scientific challenges across disciplines
In this interview, Krisztina Ötvös shares how embracing new scientific challenges and building on transferable skills shaped her career from plant biology to translational research.
Read more:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
In this interview, Krisztina Ötvös shares how embracing new scientific challenges and building on transferable skills shaped her career from plant biology to translational research.
Read more:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
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Researchers identified a gene associated with the daily alternation between female and male flowering in avocados, helping explain a reproductive strategy that has persisted for millions of years.
In Scientific American: https://ow.ly/qC6R50ZxWlJ
In PNAS: https://ow.ly/aoMM50ZxWlg
In Scientific American: https://ow.ly/qC6R50ZxWlJ
In PNAS: https://ow.ly/aoMM50ZxWlg
August 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Researchers identified a gene associated with the daily alternation between female and male flowering in avocados, helping explain a reproductive strategy that has persisted for millions of years.
In Scientific American: https://ow.ly/qC6R50ZxWlJ
In PNAS: https://ow.ly/aoMM50ZxWlg
In Scientific American: https://ow.ly/qC6R50ZxWlJ
In PNAS: https://ow.ly/aoMM50ZxWlg
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117071682517089695
Looking forward to this 👀 👇! #scicomm
And for @bioclocksuk and the #circadian crowd, Artificial Light at Night might also surface in the conversation? 🫣
The connection is the reflections from too many satellites🛰️, even those that […]
Looking forward to this 👀 👇! #scicomm
And for @bioclocksuk and the #circadian crowd, Artificial Light at Night might also surface in the conversation? 🫣
The connection is the reflections from too many satellites🛰️, even those that […]
August 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117071682517089695
Looking forward to this 👀 👇! #scicomm
And for @bioclocksuk and the #circadian crowd, Artificial Light at Night might also surface in the conversation? 🫣
The connection is the reflections from too many satellites🛰️, even those that […]
Looking forward to this 👀 👇! #scicomm
And for @bioclocksuk and the #circadian crowd, Artificial Light at Night might also surface in the conversation? 🫣
The connection is the reflections from too many satellites🛰️, even those that […]
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VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development.
https://okt.to/Yx9K5e
Deadline - 18 August 2026
Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time
https://okt.to/Yx9K5e
Deadline - 18 August 2026
Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time
Research Assistant (Penfield Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.
okt.to
August 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development.
https://okt.to/Yx9K5e
Deadline - 18 August 2026
Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time
https://okt.to/Yx9K5e
Deadline - 18 August 2026
Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time
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If we didn't have clocks or watches or phones, how else could we tell the time?
Could we judge the hours via blooms and plants?
Watch this illustrated talk by Cathy Haynes and Sylvain Aubry to find out about 'clock flowers' and the famous Linnean Floral Clock!
youtu.be/bLz8QRi52GU
Could we judge the hours via blooms and plants?
Watch this illustrated talk by Cathy Haynes and Sylvain Aubry to find out about 'clock flowers' and the famous Linnean Floral Clock!
youtu.be/bLz8QRi52GU
Linnaeus’ ‘Floral Clock’ | Telling Time by Living Blooms
YouTube video by Linnean Society
youtu.be
August 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
If we didn't have clocks or watches or phones, how else could we tell the time?
Could we judge the hours via blooms and plants?
Watch this illustrated talk by Cathy Haynes and Sylvain Aubry to find out about 'clock flowers' and the famous Linnean Floral Clock!
youtu.be/bLz8QRi52GU
Could we judge the hours via blooms and plants?
Watch this illustrated talk by Cathy Haynes and Sylvain Aubry to find out about 'clock flowers' and the famous Linnean Floral Clock!
youtu.be/bLz8QRi52GU
I'm grateful and thrilled to join my colleagues at @slcuplants.bsky.social and the Locke Group⏰🌱!
A huge thank you to @slcuplants.bsky.social, @strategiska.bsky.social, and @umeaplantsciencecentre.se for their generous support in making this upcoming visit possible. #PlantBiology #SSF_Sabbatical✨
A huge thank you to @slcuplants.bsky.social, @strategiska.bsky.social, and @umeaplantsciencecentre.se for their generous support in making this upcoming visit possible. #PlantBiology #SSF_Sabbatical✨
🧪🌾 FIVE QUESTIONS: Maria Eriksson on her sabbatical
@treesandgrowth.bsky.social has been awarded an SSF Sabbatical grant from @strategiska.bsky.social and will soon head to @slcuplants.bsky.social in Cambridge.
Read about her research and what she hopes to learn:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
@treesandgrowth.bsky.social has been awarded an SSF Sabbatical grant from @strategiska.bsky.social and will soon head to @slcuplants.bsky.social in Cambridge.
Read about her research and what she hopes to learn:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
August 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
I'm grateful and thrilled to join my colleagues at @slcuplants.bsky.social and the Locke Group⏰🌱!
A huge thank you to @slcuplants.bsky.social, @strategiska.bsky.social, and @umeaplantsciencecentre.se for their generous support in making this upcoming visit possible. #PlantBiology #SSF_Sabbatical✨
A huge thank you to @slcuplants.bsky.social, @strategiska.bsky.social, and @umeaplantsciencecentre.se for their generous support in making this upcoming visit possible. #PlantBiology #SSF_Sabbatical✨
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📢 Save the date!
49th New Phytologist Symposium: Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
📅 24–27 May 2027
📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social, Norwich, UK
www.newphytologist.org/events/49-nps
#PlantScience #photoperiodism #chronobiology
49th New Phytologist Symposium: Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
📅 24–27 May 2027
📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social, Norwich, UK
www.newphytologist.org/events/49-nps
#PlantScience #photoperiodism #chronobiology
Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
The meeting will focus on fundamental advances in photoperiodism, phenology and chronobiology of photosynthetic organisms.
www.newphytologist.org
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
📢 Save the date!
49th New Phytologist Symposium: Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
📅 24–27 May 2027
📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social, Norwich, UK
www.newphytologist.org/events/49-nps
#PlantScience #photoperiodism #chronobiology
49th New Phytologist Symposium: Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
📅 24–27 May 2027
📍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social, Norwich, UK
www.newphytologist.org/events/49-nps
#PlantScience #photoperiodism #chronobiology
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Join us!! Ask experts on how to promote health and get better sleep by strengthening your circadian rhythms. We are celebrating the inaugural World Circadian Day on June 24 by holding an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit 🌍 🌎 🌏 👏 #SRBR #CSC #ACS #InSC #EBRS #CSBR #JSC #CCBM #biologicalrhythms #sleep
June 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Join us! Ask Me Anything as part of the #SRBR World Circadian Day. Organized with expert researchers and physicians studying #biologicalrhythms and #sleep. Real-time responses starting in just 5 circadian cycles from now.
June 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Join us! Ask Me Anything as part of the #SRBR World Circadian Day. Organized with expert researchers and physicians studying #biologicalrhythms and #sleep. Real-time responses starting in just 5 circadian cycles from now.
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience
W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology
📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social
Start: 1 April 2027
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology
📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social
Start: 1 April 2027
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
June 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience
W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology
📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social
Start: 1 April 2027
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology
📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social
Start: 1 April 2027
Application deadline: 10 July 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
This spring was unusually warm—near 59° N in Sweden (around Stockholm latitude) it felt like we skipped straight to summer. Ash trees were late as usual, but even aspens (!!) lagged (late May photo). A glimpse of “#spring_forward” in a warming climate 🌳🌡️
June 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This spring was unusually warm—near 59° N in Sweden (around Stockholm latitude) it felt like we skipped straight to summer. Ash trees were late as usual, but even aspens (!!) lagged (late May photo). A glimpse of “#spring_forward” in a warming climate 🌳🌡️
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📢 We're hiring!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (Machine Learning) at IceLab, Umeå University.
Interdisciplinary science, collaborative culture, mentorship, scientific freedom, and life in northern Sweden.
🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
#AcademicSky #MachineLearning #AcademicJobs
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (Machine Learning) at IceLab, Umeå University.
Interdisciplinary science, collaborative culture, mentorship, scientific freedom, and life in northern Sweden.
🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
#AcademicSky #MachineLearning #AcademicJobs
June 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
📢 We're hiring!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (Machine Learning) at IceLab, Umeå University.
Interdisciplinary science, collaborative culture, mentorship, scientific freedom, and life in northern Sweden.
🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
#AcademicSky #MachineLearning #AcademicJobs
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science (Machine Learning) at IceLab, Umeå University.
Interdisciplinary science, collaborative culture, mentorship, scientific freedom, and life in northern Sweden.
🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
#AcademicSky #MachineLearning #AcademicJobs
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🎉 Hello World 🌎🌍🌏
Today marks the 9th edition of the
#UNESCO #lightday2026 celebrating the role of light for a sustainable future. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2026✨
www.lightday.org
Today marks the 9th edition of the
#UNESCO #lightday2026 celebrating the role of light for a sustainable future. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2026✨
www.lightday.org
May 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🎉 Hello World 🌎🌍🌏
Today marks the 9th edition of the
#UNESCO #lightday2026 celebrating the role of light for a sustainable future. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2026✨
www.lightday.org
Today marks the 9th edition of the
#UNESCO #lightday2026 celebrating the role of light for a sustainable future. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2026✨
www.lightday.org
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This is the best. Early career researchers, sign up for this course! You will not regret it.
Join IceLab Camp! An international 2 ECTS course for early career researchers wanting to explore interdisciplinary science. The course is free & brings you to the forests of northern Sweden for creative thinking, teamwork and proposal writing.
#PhDLife
#PostdocLife
#ECRchat
#ComplexityScience
#PhDLife
#PostdocLife
#ECRchat
#ComplexityScience
May 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM
This is the best. Early career researchers, sign up for this course! You will not regret it.
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How does wheat tell time?🌾🕰️
New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
@royalsociety.org
New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
@royalsociety.org
March 24, 2026 at 2:28 PM
How does wheat tell time?🌾🕰️
New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
@royalsociety.org
New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
@royalsociety.org
A splendid and beautifully illustrated review of plant circadian biology ⏰🌱 by Stacey L. Harmer ⭐
So many fascinating players!
EARLY BIRD (EBI) 🐤 is one of them — and one we’re keen to learn more about. rdcu.be/fgB5T
So many fascinating players!
EARLY BIRD (EBI) 🐤 is one of them — and one we’re keen to learn more about. rdcu.be/fgB5T
Time after time: a quarter century of progress in plant circadian biology
npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Time after time: a quarter century of progress in plant circadian biology
rdcu.be
May 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
A splendid and beautifully illustrated review of plant circadian biology ⏰🌱 by Stacey L. Harmer ⭐
So many fascinating players!
EARLY BIRD (EBI) 🐤 is one of them — and one we’re keen to learn more about. rdcu.be/fgB5T
So many fascinating players!
EARLY BIRD (EBI) 🐤 is one of them — and one we’re keen to learn more about. rdcu.be/fgB5T
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New review from P Genschik’s team in
@jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins.
👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology.
▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext
@jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins.
👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology.
▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
New review from P Genschik’s team in
@jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins.
👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology.
▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext
@jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins.
👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology.
▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Many thanks to our hosts, and all colleagues at the amazing ACCESS Forum 2026, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile!🌞
⭐The next ACCESS Forum is held on 14-18 June, 2027, hosted by University of Gothenburg, Sweden⭐ accesschilesweden.org
⭐The next ACCESS Forum is held on 14-18 June, 2027, hosted by University of Gothenburg, Sweden⭐ accesschilesweden.org
ACCESS
accesschilesweden.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Many thanks to our hosts, and all colleagues at the amazing ACCESS Forum 2026, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile!🌞
⭐The next ACCESS Forum is held on 14-18 June, 2027, hosted by University of Gothenburg, Sweden⭐ accesschilesweden.org
⭐The next ACCESS Forum is held on 14-18 June, 2027, hosted by University of Gothenburg, Sweden⭐ accesschilesweden.org
Nice work from Bhalerao group @umeaplantsciencecentre.se showing how FT1 and GAs via GA20ox1 form a temperature‑processing system—responsive to both cold and warm spells—that controls plasmodesmata opening and the timing of bud dormancy release.https://rdcu.be/e2mgs
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...
rdcu.be
February 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Nice work from Bhalerao group @umeaplantsciencecentre.se showing how FT1 and GAs via GA20ox1 form a temperature‑processing system—responsive to both cold and warm spells—that controls plasmodesmata opening and the timing of bud dormancy release.https://rdcu.be/e2mgs