This is brilliant! ☀️

An infographic titled "Magnolia molecules: perfume and medicines" details the plant's chemistry. Pink petals contain cyanidin and peonidin pigments. Aroma molecules include aldehydes like 2-nonenal and heptanal, and terpenes like alpha-pinene and linalool. Medicinal bark compounds include magnolol and honokiol, which have antioxidant properties. It also highlights yulanosides, unique phenylethanoid glycosides. Chemical structures for these compounds surround a central magnolia branch photo.

Did you know magnolia petals are edible?

I didn't until this year, and discovering that they are led me to this exploration of magnolia chemistry (and experiments in making magnolia gin).

Learn more in the graphic here: www.compoundchem.com/2026/04/20/m...

#ChemSky 🧪

Spatial distribution of isoprenoid enzymes and MpABCG1 transporter influences sesquiterpene accumulation in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies - Communications Biology A study maps terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies and identifies the ABC transporter MpABCG1 as a key factor for endogenous sesquiterpene accumulation in oil bodies, informing future metabolic engineering strategies.

The research, led by Dr Edith Forrestier whilst at the @jimhaseloff.bsky.social lab @camplantsci.bsky.social is published in ‘Communications Biology’: tinyurl.com/ypfd54xr

@fromani.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk #PlantsAtCambridge

Sphaerocarpos cf europaeus, a strange looking liverwort growing on bare disturbed soil in extensively managed arable fields, endangered across Europe 🌿

Kafu Banta, Miyagi island
#Okinawa

Vestigial Plastids in Parasitic Plants: Evolutionary Remnants or Adaptive Innovations? Recent progress in our understanding of the biology of vestigial plastids is reviewed, exploring their unique evolution, morphology and functions.

Vestigial Plastids in Parasitic Plants: Evolutionary Remnants or Adaptive Innovations? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A desiccated and salt-coated collection of moss and winter-fried grasses, with the exception of a bright red moss just thriving, juicy and vibrant. It is tucked close to the ground with tiny scaly rosettes of leaves.

I love this super red moss, I’ve seen it at Cattle Point in soil-meagre crevices in the high tide splash zone, and on compacted soil by the rowing club on Elk Lake, where all the coots hang out (the birds not the people). It might be Imbribryum miniatum?
#bryophytes #moss #SalishSea

The first "Made in Okinawa".

Some thoughts on how bryophytes can "enhance" plant synthetic biology.

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

#marchantia #physco #hornworts #synbio

Volume 67 Issue 3 | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. Publishes original articles reporting significant findings in broad aspects of plant biology.

📢Check out our latest issue here🗞️

🔗 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/67/3

Thanks to @jimhaseloff.bsky.social for the beautiful #Marchantia cover image; find out more by reading the linked Commentary article here:
🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

@oupacademic.bsky.social
@jspp-news.bsky.social

#PlantScience

https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.03.692059

Plz check out our preprint in which we investigate the role of KEA1 in #chlamy, a monoplastid algae. KO mutant vs WT comparison across the green linage reveals conserved but also novel insights in part linked to the mono plastid bottleneck. Thx to many terrific collabs 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our editors write:

- Plant organelles: Friendly to translation rdcu.be/fdgRd

The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

@jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social

The one with the longest sporophytes (longest at least in the photo) has also a thallus with toe-like protrusions

Can someone please help with the identification of these two #hornwort species found by @noodlyscientist.bsky.social outside OIST/Okinawa/Onna-son/Japan

😢

Plant Hunt 🇬🇷 A trip through some of the flora of Crete

Plant Hunt
www.botany.one/plant-hunt-6/

🇬🇷 A trip through some of the flora of Crete
#Botany #PlantScience

This is an early and strong contender for my favourite paper of the year, just after a quick glance. Direct conversion of Arabidopsis tissue to regeneration without callus and normal CIM due to loss of DNA demethylation 🤯

Of course moss does that by default 😉

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how it feels to work on a grant proposal rn

FtsZ3 governs chloroplast division by regulating assembly and constriction of the chloroplast division machinery The moss Physcomitrium patens employs a FtsZ3-dependent mechanism for regulating chloroplast division, highlighting the functional plasticity and diversifi

FtsZ3 governs chloroplast division by regulating assembly and constriction of the chloroplast division machinery (Jintao Lang , Jiongnan Guo , Xinyuan Gu , Ying Chang , Yuhong Sun , Jie Yin , Wen Shu , Ning Tang , Min Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Moss Produces Human Collagen for Skincare | The Scientist Unlike bacteria or yeast, moss can produce large polypeptides of human collagen along with the post-translational modifications that make it stable and bioactive.

About our coop with Mibelle on #vegan #collagen:
Moss Produces Human Collagen for Skincare
Unlike bacteria or yeast, #moss can produce large polypeptides of human collagen along with the post-translational modifications that make it stable and bioactive.
www.the-scientist.com/moss-produce...

Transient molecular chimerism for exploiting xenogeneic organelles - Nature Communications Kleptoplasty, the transient integration of foreign organelles, could illuminate organellogenesis. Here, using the flagellate, Rapaza viridis, the authors show that host nuclear proteins are imported i...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #protistsonsky

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established?

In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience

▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ecological lifestyle shapes nonphotochemical quenching architecture across the green lineage.

How ecological lifestyle rewires the architecture of photoprotection across the green lineage
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary by EonSeon Jin ☝
highlighting the recent work by Blifernez-Klassen et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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CONSTANS-LIKE 5 facilitates flower opening and scent biosynthesis in Solanaceae Flowers use an internal clock to open and release scent at specific times of the day, and a shared regulator coordinates these behaviors in tobacco and pet

CONSTANS-LIKE 5 facilitates flower opening and scent biosynthesis in Solanaceae (Yuri Choi , Moonyoung Kang , Hyeonjin Kim , Taein Kim , Eunae Park , Jumi Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Hyejung Yun , Hangah Lim , Youngbin Oh , Giltsu Choi , Sang-Gyu Kim) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

A new chapter for open science 🧬
Plasmidsaurus is excited to announce a four-year strategic partnership with @addgene.bsky.social
Open science runs on verified materials.
Learn more: plasmidsaurus.com/news/a-new-c...

Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Nuclear transcriptional regulation of chloroplast biogenesis. Chloroplast development in cotyledons of land plants during the transition from seedlings germinating in the dark (etiolated) to green seedlings in the light. Plastids are inherited as proplastids in seeds. In etiolated cotyledons, proplastids differentiate into etioplasts, characterized by the prolamellar body (PLB). Perception of light initiates the light developmental programme and chloroplast development. The PLB starts to disaggregate, thylakoid membranes (tm) start to form, and chlorophyll accumulates. Transcription of nuclear genes involved in chloroplast development is actively inhibited in the dark by PIFs and their interaction with other proteins, such as EIN3 and BZR1. Light signalling pathways target PIFs and EIN3 for degradation, lifting the repression, and allow transcription and activity of several TFs, leading to massive transcriptional changes.

🌿🟢 REVIEW 🟢🌿

This review focuses on recent advances in chloroplast biogenesis and chromoplast differentiation, with emphasis on transcriptional regulation, and identifies areas where further progress is needed – Hernández-Verdeja

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪

Previously on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social now in final published version: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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İyi Bayramlar! | Eid Mubarak!

Scientists are professional content creators...
#MBP2026