Bill Statler4d ago
Rice seeds can hear when it's raining.

 Scientific Frontline wrote the following post Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:00:13 -0700 Plant seeds and seedlings possess the biological ability to detect and respond to natural sound vibrations in their environment, utilizing these acoustic cues to break dormancy and accelerate growth.
#Botany #Bioacoustics #PlantPhysiology #MechanicalEngineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/bot04222601.html
Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

Experiments by MIT engineers show rice seeds sprout faster to the sound of rain.

Scientific Frontline4d ago
Plant seeds and seedlings possess the biological ability to detect and respond to natural sound vibrations in their environment, utilizing these acoustic cues to break dormancy and accelerate growth.
#Botany #Bioacoustics #PlantPhysiology #MechanicalEngineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/bot04222601.html
Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

Experiments by MIT engineers show rice seeds sprout faster to the sound of rain.

Scientific FrontlineApr 18
Researchers have mapped the precise structural pathways of Photosystem II in plants, revealing exactly how water molecules navigate to the active site for the critical water-splitting reaction that initiates #photosynthesis
#StructuralBiology #PlantPhysiology #Biochemistry #Botany #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/phgy04182601.html
Scientists reveal water pathways in photosynthesis

Researchers have revealed a detailed structure of this system in plants, uncovering what they describe as a “water valve”

Scientific FrontlineApr 13
Exposure to light directly enhances the structural adhesion between the outermost epidermal layer and the inner tissues of plant stems. This physiological response acts as a mechanical regulatory system that limits internal tissue expansion and governs overall plant growth.
#Botany #PlantPhysiology #CellBiology #AgriculturalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/bot04132601.html
A new mechanism for light-controlled plant growth

Compared with plants grown in the dark, the epidermal and inner tissues of plants grown in the light are more tightly bound together

Oliver BrendelApr 7

The latest research results on stomatal dynamics from our PhD candidate (and quite proud of it :-) : the shade tolerant Fagus sylvatica , the common beech, shows more reactive stomatal responses on shade leaves than on sun leaves, suggesting an optimisation to increase CO2 uptake. The differences in stomatal dynamics were not related, as usually assumed, to differences in stomatal morphology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppl.70856

#AcademicChatter #PlantPhysiology #BioDiversity #Stomata #StomatalAnatomy #PlantScience #ForestEcology

michaelMar 6

5-Mar-2026
This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields

this is about engineering #Rubisco being more efficient in #hornworts

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1118588

#science #plants #plantphysiology #crops

This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields

An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable molecular trick used by a unique group of land plants, one that could eventually be engineered into crops like wheat and rice to dramatically boost how efficiently they convert sunlight into food.

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Show threadOliver BrendelFeb 17
@MiguelGuerreiro hello, biologists and ecologists is a very wide field. I'm rather on the plant side of things, more specifically in #ForestEcology looking at tree #PlantPhysiology and #EcoPhysiology
Stockton Sustainability FarmFeb 11
Our Bok choy has been protected by snow from below freezing temperatures and is starting to return as the snow melts #plantphysiology #latentheat
Oliver BrendelJan 28

Are smaller stomata faster in reacting to environmental changes such as light, CO2, atmospheric humidity, temperature ? I have participated with our data in a group publication where we take a closer look at the "Speedy small stomata" paradigm.
Using data from over 80 plant species, we found only weak correlations between stomatal size and maximum stomatal closing or opening speeds as well as response times.
Instead, stomatal speed appears to be context-dependent, shaped by species-specific traits, stomatal type and broader anatomical and physiological features.
These findings support a trait-based approach to assessing stomatal kinetics, which has implications for understanding #EcosystemFunctioning under #ClimateChange and #CropBreeding for higher #WaterUseEfficiency and #photosynthesis.

Woning et al. Revisiting the relationship between stomatal size and speed across species – a meta-analysis

https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fnph.70842

#AcademicChatter #BioDiversity #ClimateChange #PlantPhysiology
#Stomata

Oliver BrendelJan 19

please #Share / Boost widely in your #AcademicNetworks : A #SeniorLecturerPosition in botany and mycology with a research activity in #PlantPhysiology will be open for competition in spring 2026 at the Silva joint research unit / Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.

https://silva.nancy.hub.inrae.fr/actualites/postes-de-mc-a-l-universite-de-lorraine

The lecturer will be involved in teaching (lectures, tutorials and practical work) as part of the pharmaceutical studies programme, focusing mainly on botany, mycology and plant biology. Teaching has to be done in French.
Whereas the research will focus on the acclimation of trees by molecular mechanisms to the increasingly severe environmental constraints (ozone, drought, heat waves). The research will be done int he PHARE team
https://silva.nancy.hub.inrae.fr/equipes-de-recherche/phare

Application dates for positions on the Odyssée platform: 3 March (10 a.m.) to 3 April (4 p.m.) 2026
https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/

#science #career #sciencejobs
#Forests #PlantScience #Botany #Mycology #SciJobs #Vacancy #JobVacancy #JobOpening #JobOpportunity #ResearchJobs #LecturerOpening
#Academia #Biodiversity #ClimateChange @[email protected]
#universitedelorraine

Postes de MC à l'Université de Lorraine - UMR Silva

Deux postes de maître.sse de conférences vont être ouverts au concours au printemps 2026 dans l'UMR Silva