Delighted to work with the @Hua qin team and found that ethylene (EIL1) regulates crown root development in compaction.Nottingham Research @PlantSciNottm

IN BRIEF: A compact topic: How ethylene controls crown root development in compacted soil (Gwendolyn K Kirschner) buff.ly/43zdfwY Bipin Pandey Gwendolyn Kirschner ASPB #PlantSci

Root hairs facilitate rice root penetration into compacted layers: Current Biology Nottingham Research @PlantSciNottm cell.com/current-biolog… This is work with wonderful collaboration with Guoqiang's team Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Finally online! First paper from lab! I’m so happy this work found a great home The EMBO Journal read all about how a root barrier does more than just selection! It also signals to the shoot! - a feature thats hidden until you put it plants on a “real” soil doi.org/10.1038/s44318…

There is still time to submit abstracts and get early-bird registration for the International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences (Sept, Halle). botanik-tagung.de Conference of the German Society f. Plant Sciences See you there?

Ok, this is a big one! Proud to present our latest story on hydropatterning-a process that allows plants to sense moisture gradients in soil and activate branching. Johannes Scharwies defines the genetic basis for this response in maize and Arabidopsis! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Public outreach at @SBFair showing the importance of rooting in soil @ColombiTino Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN UoNBiosciences Hounsfield Facility

Congratulations poonam for receiving European Research Council (ERC) #ERCStG Nottingham Research UoNBiosciences @PlantSciNottm Hounsfield Facility nottingham.ac.uk/news/plant-sci…

We are offering a fully funded PhD Studentship: Revealing how plant roots adapt to compacted soil environments jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/SCI291

Soil compaction sensing mechanisms and root responses dlvr.it/TGGQ0f

Delighted to write together the Darwin Review "Root Radar" with PlantEcoHutton Tom Bennett Hounsfield Facility Hannah Cooper Nottingham Research UoNBiosciences How rhizocrine signals regulate root responses in soils.

Preprint alert, please share!! With our new study, we engineered a hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:

Our paper in Nature Plants is finally online. nature.com/articles/s4147… We have highlighted that modern crop breeding and seed certification agencies ignore the known spatial heterogeneity of soils and develop cultivars to thrive in a ‘one-size-fits-all’ soil environment.

Plants exhibit remarkable intelligence in sensing and responding to microscale soil complexity UK Research and Innovation European Research Council (ERC) nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’m excited to share our latest article in Nature Plants, where we delve into the groundbreaking study by Mingyuan, Bipin Pandey et al. We discussed how plants adapt to dynamic soil conditions by forming specialized root barriers via cell wall remodeling nature.com/articles/s4147…

New OA Article: "Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress" rdcu.be/esLU8 With News & Views: "Environmental cues shape root barriers" rdcu.be/esSRh

Delighted to receive the @sebiology.bsky.social president Medal 2025 in Plant Section. Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN UoNBiosciences nottingham.ac.uk/news/plant-sci…