Also check out Nora’s recent review in Curr Opinion in Plant Biology (OA) on the intriguing overlap of pathogen-and salt-induced responses. Spoiler: cell walls involved as well Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Arabidopsis root responses to salinity depend on pectin modification and cell wall sensing An Open Access Research Article from Nora Gigli-Bisceglia, Christa Testerink and colleagues journals.biologists.com/dev/article/14…

Zou et al with Magdalena Julkowska Bent Petersen, our colleagues WUR Plant Yanxia Zhang @PPH_WUR PDB-WUR: an unexpected turn in the role of cell walls in response to salt: Cell wall extensin arabinosylation is required for root directional response to salinity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Increasing the resilience of plant immunity to a warming climate | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

The next decade of CRISPR belongs to the plant engineers 🌱 news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/28/in-…

Great news! Congrats to all of you!

15 important unknowns The Plant Cell ! Story compiled and led by Paul Verslues with contributions by many of us interested in understanding plant responses to abiotic stress. @JoseDinneny julia serres Phil @wigge.bsky.social Lucio Conti Hilde Nelissen Scott Hayes and many more

Check out our last preprint and find more about the AP interactions in Arabidopsis. With 蕭蔚 (Wei Siao) @DanielVanDamme1, Geert De Jaeger's lab @dejaegerlab.bsky.social, Kris Gevaert and Christa Testerink VIB @PSB_VIB 🌱🌱🌱🌱

Learning from S. parvula how to deal with stress: do perceive the salt but don’t run away, don’t forget your roots and do keep growing. Collaborative effort led by Yanxia Zhang and Hongfei Li @PPH_WUR with Diana Santelia Kilian Duijts @Crl_Psn Sam Zeeman biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The cell biology of primary cell walls during salt stress. Congrats COLIN Leia et al.,! The Plant Cell academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

Our pre-print is now published online at New Phytologist; Effective root responses to salinity stress include maintained cell expansion and carbon allocation nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Wonderful collaboration @PPH_WUR WUR Plant Diana Santelia Kilian Duijts @jasper_lamers Yanxia Zhang

And our other pre-print published in the same week Plant Cell & Environment ! Natural variation in salt‐induced root growth phases and their contribution to root architecture plasticity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc… Led by @lot_gommers WUR Plant @PPH_WUR

very happy about this fruitful collaboration about roots of halophytes!!

💪congrats Rashmi, great news 🌱🎉

Recent #PlantScience accepted in New Phyt 🌱Borisjuk et al. Seeing plants as never before ow.ly/Lihg50NmXHn 🌱Sun et al. Apocarotenoids in defense & lignin formation ow.ly/eVyQ50NmXHm 🌱Li et al. Root salinity stress responses @PPH_WUR ow.ly/HFtt50NmXHl

Effective root responses to salinity stress include maintained cell expansion and carbon allocation Li et al. @PPH_WUR 📖ow.ly/UvIu50NJrhK

Root branching in salt requires auxin-independent modulation of LBD16 function biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

We show that salt activates LBD16 independent of auxin-ARF7/19: a ZAT6-dependent pathway enables root branching while the canonical pathway is inhibited by salt! Yanxia Zhang Kilian Duijts Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen U&R Dorota Kawa Aalt-Jan van Dijk WUR Plant & many others biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Still time to apply for this exciting new project within the CropXR program! WUR Plant @PPH_WUR Post-doc Molecular stress physiology wur.nl/en/vacancy/pos… via Wageningen U&R

Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-specific responses of plant roots biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @PPH_WUR @jasper_lamers