Our first short talk of the day 🌱 @dvarshney.bsky.social from @rensingstefan.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is exploring the origins of land plants through gene family evolution and a reproducible Galaxy workflow. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Starting fresh into a new day! 🌱 We’re very happy to welcome @moodytomato.bsky.social from Oxford as our next guest speaker, who will be unravelling the origins of multidimensional growth in plants with us. #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

🌱🧬Cryo-EM structures reveal how SCREW2 peptide binds AtNUT to reopen stomata during infection. A distinctive cross-ribbon conformation & N449 glycan enable recognition.Disrupting this interface impairs PTI signaling

Insights into peptide–receptor specificity #plantsci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And we’ve arrived at the final talk of the day! Barış Ballık from the Herburger lab is taking us on a journey through cell wall polysaccharide footprints during desiccation in Zygnematophyceae and Marchantia, exploring what they can tell us about early land plant evolution #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re excited to welcome Takashi Murata, joining us all the way from Japan, to tell us how microtubules mediate post-cytokinetic cell wall synthesis in Closterium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, Kim-Kristine Müller from the Classen Lab in Kiel is exploring the evolution of pectins in streptophyte cell walls: highly diverse or strongly conserved polysaccharides? #MAdLand2026 #plantsci#MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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🫧Don't miss our latest #FreeAccess commentary exploring two recent studies on #biomolecular condensation that expand our understanding of #plant #water sensing through distinct condensation-driven pathways.
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@fernway.bsky.social from @duke-university.bsky.social in North Carolina is sharing his latest discoveries on how a plant-derived diterpenoid initiates symbiosis with N2-fixing cyanobacteria #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We are starting the short talks with @peterszovenyi.bsky.social from Zurich, telling us about the functional evidence suggesting that the algal and hornwort carbon-concentrating mechanisms rely on functionally homologous set of genes #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next, we’re delighted to welcome Miguel Blanquez from Valencia. He is taking us back in time with his talk Before Gibberellins: The Ancestral Environmental Regulation of DELLA Activity ⏳ #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We’re kicking off the session with our next guest speaker, Elvira Hörandl, who is sharing her insights into The Paradox of Sex in Plants 🌿 #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Now Cece is up on the origin of the streptophyte UV response toolkit #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Last talk of the session by @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social from @jandevries.bsky.social in Göttingen, sharing her latest insights into the conserved and divergent UV responses in Mesotaenium #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up is @c-apel.bsky.social from @cnaumann123.bsky.social & Abel lab at the IPB in Halle, taking us into the world of Terraphos – Exploring the Evolution of Phosphate Scouting During Plant Terrestrialization #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Daniel Heß from @cyanolab.bsky.social in Freiburg is sharing his insights on Inositol phosphates, pyrophosphates and the genes involved in their turnover in the streptophyte green alga Chara braunii #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Nice work from my colleagues! 🪵🌳#Plantsci Nitrate transiently rewires transcription in developing xylem of Populus wood to promote cell expansion via CRF4 academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Zah is up on light quality signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens and beyond #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Alisha Alisha from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is focusing on investigating the role of FHY1 in phytochrome signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

Next up, Zahin Mohd Ali from @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen is sharing his latest discoveries on phytochrome-mediated light signalling in Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

We are going into the next session with Maria Dolores Lopez Bueno from the @philipp-denninger.bsky.social lab in Munich, sharing insights into the Evolution of novel RHO OF PLANTS signaling activators during the adaptation from water to land #MAdLand2026 #plantsci