A few minutes just before the CoE (FCoE MBPP) meeting Plants in a Changing World, 6 –8 November 2019, Helsinki, Finland.

Alan Schulman illuminating the path to climate resistant barley. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #PICW FCoE MBPP HiLIFE_Helsinki ViPS

Phil Mullineaux from University of Essex on retrograde signalling in regulation of photosynthetic capacity under high light. #PICW FCoE MBPP Read about his work in his Nat Comms article: nature.com/articles/s4146… and his recent review here: repository.essex.ac.uk/25699/

Claudia-Nicole Meisrimler made the long trip from the University of Cantebury #NewZealand to tell us about #effectors from the #oomycete lettuce downy mildew and host NAC transcription factors. #PICW FCoE MBPP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Emmanuelle Bayer delivers the EMBO YIP sponsored lecture on membrane contact at plasmodesmata intercellular junctions. #PICW FCoE MBPP Read about it here: nature.com/articles/s4147… annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.11…

Our own Ari Pekka Mähönen 🇫🇮 🇺🇦 presents his work on stem cell regulation in the root vascular cambium. HiLIFE_Helsinki Institute of Biotechnology (BI) OEB-ResPrg University of Helsinki #PICW FCoE MBPP Read about it here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Jaakko Kangasjärvi, co-director of the FCoE MBPP tells the story of my old friend RCD1 in the coordination of chloroplast and mitochondrial ROS signalling. Read about it here: elifesciences.org/articles/43284 #PICW HiLIFE_Helsinki OEB-ResPrg University of Helsinki

#PICW evening session starts with Barry Pogson on intracellular communication of abiotic stress: from model systems to crops. Plant Energy Biology FCoE MBPP Read about it here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… pnas.org/content/116/11…

Always nice to hear Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi present: PP2A as a regulator of plant stress response. #PICW FCoE MBPP Turun yliopisto - University of Turku Read about our collaborative work here: plantphysiol.org/content/early/… and more of her work here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Michael Wrzaczek Michael Wrzaczek on how CRK2 coordinates biotic and abiotic stress responses. #PICW FCoE MBPP OEB-ResPrg University of Helsinki ViPS Read about it here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… here: nature.com/articles/s4200… and here: plantphysiol.org/content/180/4/…

The penultimate talk of #PICW today is Pawel Roszak from the Yrjö Helariutta lab: Phloem development at the single-cell resolution. FCoE MBPP Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) ViPS HiLIFE_Helsinki OEB-ResPrg University of Helsinki

Today's session gets started with Ove Nilsson's talk on FT paralogs in regulating dormancy in aspen. Umeå University #PICW FCoE MBPP Read about it here: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Pauli Kallio (Pauli Kallio) tells us about playing molecular legos for engineering metabolic pathways in cyanobacteria. #PICW FCoE MBPP Learn more here: …robialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… and here: sunriseaction.com/sunrise-initia…

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Up next is Arun Sampathkumar @arunsampth with a talk on mechanical forces in plant cell growth. #PICW FCoE MBPP mdpi.com/2223-7747/7/4/…

Nice talk by Roosa Laitinen from MPIMP Potsdam Golm 🌱🧪 sharing her insights into Arabidopsis hybrid incompatability. #PICW FCoE MBPP Read about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

As usual, a visually stunning talk from Paula Elomaa Paula Elomaa 🇫🇮🇺🇦 on developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae. #PICW FCoE MBPP ViPS University of Helsinki Read about it here: nature.com/articles/s4143…

Paula Mulo presented her work about the chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI and state transitions. #PICW FCoE MBPP Turun yliopisto - University of Turku Read about this work here: plantcell.org/content/30/8/1…

Final talk of #PICW: Ykä Helariutta Yrjö Helariutta presenting hormonal and transcriptional regulation in vascular patterning. FCoE MBPP Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) ViPS HiLIFE_Helsinki OEB-ResPrg University of Helsinki nature.com/articles/s4147… nature.com/articles/s4158… annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…