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World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

Not only will heat harm crop plants, but farmers and livestock (animals) and fish too.
I know you know, but articles like this help raise awareness of the coming challenges and why it's imperative that we act yesterday, today, and tomorrow to prepare.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Breeding for multi‐stress resilience in crops: Myth or possibility? Climate change threatens millions of farmers worldwide by exposing crops to multiple concurrent or sequential environmental stresses such as drought, heat, waterlogging, and diseases. Although crops ...

#Breeding for #multi‐stress resilience in #crops: Myth or possibility?

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Signal boost! #ASPB2026 in Ottawa! $500 from now until 11:59pm (PT), April 10th the Early Career Plant Scientist Section is accepting #applications, to fund up to 15 #earlycareer scientists!

Met the new security at #LBNL this morning.

Plastic Responses to Single and Combined Environmental Stresses in a Highly Chemodiverse Aromatic Plant Species Plants face various environmental stresses, to which they respond in different ways. Due to climate change, it is expected that plants will encounter increased phases of drought and changes in herbiv...

#Plastic Responses to #Single and #Combined #Environmental Stresses in a Highly #Chemodiverse #Aromatic Plant #Species

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Multi-omics-based insights into tomato adaptation to multifactorial stress combination Multifactorial stress combination triggers a complexity-dependent molecular and metabolic reprogramming.

Multi- #omics-based insights into #tomato adaptation to multifactorial stress #combination

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Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant - Kamoun Lab Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab.bsky.social

Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱

Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards

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The Global Plant Council The Global Plant Council is a coalition of plant, crop and enviromental science organizations seeking to develop plant science and its community at a global scale. https://globalplantcouncil.org/

Enjoyed catching up on some great #plantscience with the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social's webinar series. Check out the "Live" section of their YouTube channel to hear more about some really fascinating research! www.youtube.com/@TheGlobalPl... #plantsci

This week I'm temporarily professional plant nerd at #Berkeley ( #LBNL).

#WomensHistoryMonth
#InternationalWomensDay

In case you didn't know
OH....BTW....
YOU came from a woman !!

"Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter... I'm one of the best painters"
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
US artist
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Happy International Women’s Day!

Today we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world.🌎

#InternationalWomensDay

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Here’s to the women who lift others up, speak truth, show kindness, and keep moving forward, even on the difficult days.

The world is better because of you

Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...

FERONIA kinase and PP2A antagonistically regulate salt tolerance in Arabidopsis Liu et al. show that FER and PP2A engage in reciprocal regulation through phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. This antagonistic interplay controls the phosphorylation of downstream substrates, such...

#FERONIA kinase and PP2A antagonistically regulate #salt tolerance in #Arabidopsis

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Fig. 1.ABI5 coordinates growth–defense trade-offs by integrating signals from the TOR Complex 1 and ABA. A ‘tug-of-war’ between growth and defense signaling pathways converge at the ABA-sensitive transcription factor ABI5. Under stress, ABA binds to its receptor PYL, which then binds to and inhibits PP2C. This inhibition allows levels of phosphorylated SnRK2 to build up and activate ABA-sensitive transcription factors such as ABI5 (Cutler et al., 2010). Under growth-promoting conditions, TOR phosphorylates PYL, preventing it from de-repressing SnRK2. Both sides of the antagonism can function simultaneously, and they continually feedback to regulate the activity of the other. The canonical TOR effector TAP46 also protects ABI5 from dephosphorylation via PP2A, thereby stabilizing the ABA response. This mutual regulation between growth and defense ensures neither process overwhelms the other.

⚖️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚖️

Busche et al. review dynamic regulation of plant growth and development in response to stress through the TOR signaling network, with a focus on maize development and growth–defense trade-offs in agriculture and beyond 🌽

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Happy international women's day!

+1 on this rec. Both the book and the adapted animation are excellent.

Boquila - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila I just learned about this #coolplant that does Batesian mimicry and apparently no one knows the mechanism behind it???

Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize - Nature The E3 ubiquitin ligase NLA postively regulates cold tolerance and negatively regulates phosphate uptake in maize, and a genetically engineered variant of this enzyme leads to improved cold ...

Rewiring an E3 #ligase enhances #cold resilience and #phosphate use in #maize

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Cassava crops under a spreading viral threat As climate change reshapes Africa’s agricultural zones, cassava brown streak disease is moving into new regions, threatening a critical buffer against hunger.

"Cassava crops under a spreading viral threat"
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As climate change reshapes Africa’s agricultural zones, cassava brown streak disease is moving into new regions, threatening a critical buffer against hunger.

"The challenge is that CBSD is caused by two viruses"

Fig. 1.The framework of traits determining water transport and fruit size of a tomato. Fruit size is determined by fruit water mass and dry matter mass, which influence total soluble solids (the most important quality traits of the tomato fruit). Water and dry matter accumulation in the fruit relies on the transport capacity of the vascular network within the fruit. We tested how fruit size was correlated with water uptake capacity, vascular bundle architecture, xylem vessel traits, and non-vascular cell traits under well-watered and water deficit conditions. Vascular bundle architecture traits included total, primary, and secondary vein length density. Xylem vessel traits included vessel number in primary and secondary vascular bundles, and vessel diameter in primary and secondary vascular bundles. Non-vascular cell traits included mean cell size and cell layer number.

🪾💧🍅 RESEARCH PAPER 🍅💧🪾

The vascular network in the fruit pericarp of 10 tomato genotypes is closely associated with fruit size and quality under well-watered and water deficit conditions – Hou et al.

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Image features photo of Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington advanced agricultural education and applied plant science at Tuskegee, building pathways for Black farmers and scientists. 🌱

#BlackHistoryMonth #PlantScience

Developmental changes in epidermal anatomy, drought tolerance and biomechanics in the leaves of a tropical fern AbstractBackground and Aims. Throughout leaf development, cell expansion is dynamic and driven by the balance between local cell wall mechanical properties

🎉🆕📰🎉: Developmental changes in epidermal anatomy, drought tolerance and biomechanics in the leaves of a tropical fern
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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Felt like I need to make a belated attempt to be fashionable, given my research. #pistachio

Fig. 1.Various types of root-to-shoot signals in salinity-stressed plants. Hydraulic and electrical signals constitute the category of Physical Signals. The illustration was created in MS PowerPoint and the plant icon was taken from Freepik (www.freepik.com).

🌊🌿 REVIEW 🌿🌊

This work provides a comprehensive summary of the current knowledge of root-borne long-distance signals that propagate through the plant and coordinate whole-plant adaptive responses to soil salinity - Gul et al.

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