Experimental overview and design.
Heat-evolved coral photosymbionts exhibit dampened stress responses across distinct physiological contexts
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@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
(🧵 6/6) This Tansley review synthesizes recent advances in fog and dew research, emphasizing measurement approaches and the quantitative impacts of fog and dew on plant–soil functions, particularly at large spatial scales.
(🧵 5/6) Dr. Li specializes in isotope applications. Ms. Sun specializes in flux measurements. Ms. Qiao specializes in remote sensing applications.
(🧵 4/6) ...investigate plant-water interactions from the individual-plant scale to the global scale. This Tansley review is led by Lixin Wang, along with three group members: Yue Li, a post-doctoral researcher, Mengyun Sun and Na Qiao, PhD students.
🌱 The authors behind the paper 🌱
(🧵 3/6) The Ecohydrology research group, led by Lixin Wang, is based at Indiana University (USA). Their research utilizes field observations, meta-analysis, remote sensing, and modeling to...
(🧵 2/6) In this Tansley review, Wang et al. provide a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of fog and dew on multiple plant functional types, ranging from plants to biocrusts and comprehensively synthesize measurements across multiple spatiotemporal scales.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) The underappreciated roles of fog and dew on vegetation and biocrusts
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Fog and dew can play an essential role in ecosystem dynamics and are particularly important for water-stressed systems (e.g. drought conditions).
Thrilled to present our latest Root2Res research on a novel methodology for simultaneous sampling of rhizosphere microbiota and root exudates from soil-grown plants @rootscientists.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social
Evaluation of combined root exudate & rhizosphere microbiota sampling approaches to elucidate plant–soil–microbe interactions
Escudero-Martinez et al. @carmen-escudero.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social
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Depletion of Orf2971, which compromises chloroplast protein import, triggers a dynamic reprogramming of lipid metabolism. This is characterized by a biphasic response of triacylglycerols (TAGs): initial accumulation in lipid droplets (LDs) via de novo synthesis, followed by their lipophagy. LDs, acting as safeguards, rapidly turnover to respond to cellular needs. Concurrently, elevated cardiolipin remodels mitochondria and likely acts as an “eat-me” signal, culminating in mitophagy. This enhancement of mitochondrial function appears to compensate for the downregulated chloroplast activity, illustrating a coordinated inter-organellar adaptation to chloroplast stress.
Lipid metabolism and autophagy cope with chloroplast dysfunction
Yang et al.
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Hypothetical model for Ta_sRNA1-mediated regulation of PRIM2 and systemic immunity in Arabidopsis during interaction with Trichoderma atroviride.
Cross‐kingdom sRNA Ta_sRNA1 silences PRIM2 to fine‐tune Arabidopsis immunity during symbiosis with Trichoderma atroviride
Hernández-Hernández et al.
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Epigenetic Set-Point: A biophysical integrator of plant developmental transitions. (1) Analog Inputs: Environmental cues, metabolic status, and redox signals (ROS/NO) converge to modulate the chromatin landscape. (2) Threshold Modulation: These signals regulate the kinetic barrier (ΔG‡) by governing writers (PRC2), erasers (JMJ), and readers (LHP1). Redox-mediated ‘eraser jamming’ and metabolic licensing lower this barrier. (3) Digital Outcomes: Crossing the threshold triggers a stable, bistable ‘Digital Lock,’ enabling predictive phenology and epibreeding targets. TOR, Target of Rapamycin; ROS, reactive oxygen species; NO, nitric oxide; PRC2, Polycomb Repressive Complex 2; JMJ, Jumonji demethylase; LHP1, LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; ΔG‡, effective kinetic barrier.
Epigenetic set-point: how plants filter noise vs signals to decide when to flower and adapt
Latif Ahmad Peer
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Minimum conductance to water vapor after stomatal closure across vascular plant species.
Not all leaves hold water equally: new insights on drought survival
Trueba et al. @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @sdelzon.bsky.social @regisburlett.bsky.social
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Location of the sampling sites and details of the sites near Gaillac city (France).
Endophytic and ectomycorrhizal, an overlooked dual ecological niche? Insights from natural environments and Russula species
Laurent-Webb et al. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
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Conceptual framework illustrating the interactions among fog and dew inputs, microclimatic conditions, and biological soil crusts (biocrusts).
The underappreciated roles of fog and dew on vegetation and biocrusts
#TansleyReview by Wang et al.
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Freshly published paper led by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social on leaf water losses across vascular plants 🌳🔬🧪
The 50-fold variation in gmin across ecological groups was weakly related to phylogeny with evidence for convergent evolution in response to climate 🌡️💦
@newphyt.bsky.social
📄 A new paper by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social and co-authors in @newphyt.bsky.social on leaf minimum conductance in 101 vascular plant species, including ferns, gymnosperms & flowering plants 🌿🌲🌸💧 #botany #plantScience
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Methodologies and conceptual workflow.
Constitutive and inducible oleoresin defenses share genetic architectures and mechanisms in Pinus taeda
Morgan et al.
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Differences in pollen coat size between selfer and outcrosser pollen in three species comparisons: Arabidopsis arenosa vs Arabidopsis thaliana, Capsella grandiflora vs Capsella rubella.
The abundance of pollen coat small signaling proteins shows limited convergence between independent selfing transitions in Arabidopsis and Capsella
İltaş et al. @plantreproevo.bsky.social
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Join our exciting line-up of speakers – submit your abstract for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions!
Deadline: 20 May
📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps
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Warm congratulations to our Editor @diorkelley.bsky.social, who has been recognised with the ASPB's Excellence in Education Award!
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The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to sponsor the 5th Argentine Conference on Ethnobiology and Society (JAES 2026)!
always a pleasure to work with @robinburns.bsky.social and @pnovik.bsky.social, and this is no exception
Very excited for my first PhD paper to be published today. We demonstrate how belowground biogeochemistry plays a vital role in explaining differences in tree emitted methane between várzea and igapó floodplains of the Amazon 🇧🇷 Huge thanks to everyone involved ✨
Spermidine inhibits ethylene synthesis and prevents citrus fruit abscission.
CsERF113 and CsERF7 antagonistically regulate fruit abscission by regulating spermidine biosynthesis
Chu et al.
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Locations of the two field study plots in the Brazilian Amazon.
Stem CH4 emissions are driven more by belowground biogeochemistry than species ID in Amazon floodplains
Blincow et al. @hollyblincow.bsky.social
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Model of resistance transition in Brassicaceae.
The non-NLR gene JAX1 drives potexvirus nonhost resistance across the Brassicaceae
Suzuki et al.
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Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infection establishes cellular hypoxia in Brassica napus.
Generation of Brassica napus with enhanced Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resistance through CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated inhibition of the PROTEOLYSIS6 N‐degron pathway
Lin et al.
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(🧵 6/6) Their work seeks to elucidate evolutionary patterns common to polyploid genomes across the tree of life and to understand the importance of polyploidy in shaping biodiversity.
(🧵 5/6) The authors are based at universities and research institutes in the UK, Germany and Belgium. The idea for this paper came from late evening discussions at a conference in France.