Bobby Caine

Bobby Caine

@bc247.bsky.social

Editorial Advisor at Plants, People, Planet 🌿🫂🌍. Senior Research Associate at The University of Sheffield in the Croft Lab 🍃💧📸🛰☀️🌾

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Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social

Interested in how #wheat 🌾 might perform during future climare extremes? The @sheffielduni.bsky.social press team have covered our latest research from the @drhollycroft.bsky.social lab 👇

The University of Sheffield@sheffielduni.bsky.social

🌾 Wheat provides around 20 per cent of daily calories worldwide. But a new study led by @drhollycroft.bsky.social and @bc247.bsky.social has discovered wheat crops could use considerably more water than expected during extreme future heatwaves... #cop30 Read more 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/news/wheat-c...

sheffield.ac.ukWheat could use far more water than expected during future heatwavesWheat crops prioritise water loss during extreme future climate conditions, according to new research from the University of Sheffield

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Andy Plackett
@seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂 #Plantscience #Plantscijobs

jobs.ac.ukResearch Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of BirminghamAn opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Franciska de Vries 🟥
@frantecol.bsky.social

"Long-term research carries an intrinsic paradox: its true value emerges only after decades, whereas political agendas often demand short-term results. This mismatch makes sustained monitoring one of the easiest targets when public budgets come under pressure." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comSafeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & EvolutionLong-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...

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The Pallavi Singh Lab
@thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social

Come join our group for an exciting PhD program!

Pallavi Singh@thepallavisingh.bsky.social

A fully funded, fun PhD to enhance urban tree canopies with mistletoe to increase air quality, biodiversity, and well-being - all within a creative, collaborative molecular physiology and synthetic biology research environment. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

findaphd.comAugmenting Urban Tree Canopies with Mistletoe: Enhancing Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate at University of Essex on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Augmenting Urban Tree Canopies with Mistletoe: Enhancing Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate at University of Essex, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Lisa Smith
@plantylisasmith.bsky.social

Interested in plant development and/or cell walls? We (Sam Amsbury, Andrew Fleming and I) have three PhD positions at the University of Sheffield open for applications until 7th January. We offer a friendly, jointly-run lab, great facilities, an affordable city and proximity to the Peak District!

Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social

Today at SEB 2025, we have an exciting #LICOR workshop looking at plant gas exchange across scales🌿🌾💦🌏. Environmental scientist Ian Smillie will introduce cutting-edge technologies that enable leaf to ecosystem level measuring of plant performance. #photosynthesis #stomata @sebiology.bsky.social

Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social

Happy to share details of an online seminar I'll be taking part in tomorrow where I'll discuss #stomata. This will include evolution, biotechnology and "sensing" of stomata (including drone data capture). It's an early start, from 7.30am UK time - so don't forget to grab coffee ☕️. Login details 👇

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Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project
@ripeproject.bsky.social

RIPE Researchers, in work done for the CABBI Project, demonstrated that increasing the Rubisco enzyme in C4 crops like sorghum and sugar cane increases photosynthesis and yield as well! Their work was published in the National Academy of Sciences proceedings.

doi.orgAdapting C4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane | PNASMeta-analyses and theory show that with rising atmospheric [CO2], Rubisco has become the greatest limitation to light-saturated leaf CO2 assimilati...

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Andy Plackett
@seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social

It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Plantscience #Plantevolution #Fernbiology

biorxiv.orgGene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thalianaHow plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...

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Facundo Romani
@fromani.bsky.social

Recently, two papers showed the potential of population genetics in Marchantia from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and Dolan's lab. Here is my dispatch for Current Biology talking about them. www.cell.com/current-biol...

cell.comPopulation genomics: A new chapter for Marchantia biologyThe liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has become a powerful model organism for plant biology. Researchers are now exploring its potential as a model system for population genomics to understand natural ...

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Jim Rowe
@botanicaljim.bsky.social

Still time to apply for this! Deadline the 17th of March.

Jim Rowe@botanicaljim.bsky.social

I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

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Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social

An interesting new story about MYB59 contribution to WUE at high temperature in #Arabidopsis by John Ferguson, Oliver Brendel and @ubechtold.bsky.social. #stomata #roots www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.27.640580v1

biorxiv.orgMYB59 is linked to natural variation of water use associated with warmer temperatures in Arabidopsis thalianaWater-use contributes significantly to plant growth and productivity, yet the extent to which variation in water-use is a function of adaptive differentiation is unknown. Here, we studied natural vari...
Bobby Caine
@bc247.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this meeting at SEB 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium. Along with @casparchater.bsky.social, we have a session planned on #stomata and #crops🌾 across scales🔬➡️🌎. Abstract deadline is the 7th of March. See link for session details. Please RT/repost 🙏

SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social

Join Robert at the #SEBconference in Antwerp. Book your place now ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Submit your abstract now ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a... More information about the event ⬇️ sebiology.org/events/seb-a...