♻️ Everything everywhere all at once? Disentangling the long-lasting riddle of phylogenetic relationships and cryptic hybridization in the amphitropical genus Larrea by María Paula Quiroga and co-authors.
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Wofflia globosa in a single well of the 24-well plate used during experiments. Green fronds are live and white or faded fronds are dead. Each well could accommodate about 190 plants. Note that the density of fronds pictured here is much larger than that observed during experimental treatments.
🌱🌡️ New article in @aobp.bsky.social shows how temperature fluctuations, not just rising averages, can reduce growth in Wolffia globosa, highlighting both vulnerabilities and its potential as a resilient future food source under climate change.
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♻️ An ecological, phenotypic, and genomic survey of duckweeds with their associated aquatic environments in the United Kingdom by Kellie Smith and co-authors.
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Graphic introducing AoB PLANTS Associate Editor Pedro Joaquim Bergamo from São Paulo State University (Unesp), Brazil. The design has a dark green background with the AoB PLANTS logo and the title “Meet the editor.” Text highlights his research focus on pollination ecology and plant reproductive biology, his interest in staying close to new discoveries and supporting manuscripts, his advice for early-career researchers to submit engaging work that addresses knowledge gaps, his favourite plants (bromeliads visited by hummingbirds), and his hobbies outside science (spending time with family and friends, attending plays and concerts, and playing racket sports). A portrait of Pedro appears on the right.
🌱Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors.
🌼 With a focus on pollination ecology & plant reproductive biology, Pedro Bergamo brings a passion for plant–animal interactions and a sharp eye for meaningful research questions to AoB PLANTS.
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♻️ LIFE 4 Pollinators’ platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators by Fortunato Fulvio Bitonto and co-authors.
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Sugar maples (Acer saccharum)
🌱🐌 New article in @aobp.bsky.social tests whether herbivore cues trigger early defences in trees, finding that Acer saccharum shows no response to mucus from the invasive slug Arion subfuscus, highlighting limits to plant defence priming in woody species.
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♻️ Bumblebee visitation and pollen dynamics in Palicourea coriacea (Rubiaceae): does coflowering with congeneric species matter? by Rocío Pérez-Barrales and co-authors.
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Wiregrass (Aristida beyrichiana)
🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reveals hidden reproductive constraints in Aristida beyrichiana, showing that despite high seed production, only outcrossed seeds are viable due to strong inbreeding depression, with important implications for restoration.
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♻️ Pollination effectiveness affects the level of generalisation of a plant species with phenotypically plastic flowers by José Gómez and co-authors.
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Graphic promoting a “Meet the Editor” feature from AoB PLANTS, highlighting Gabriela Auge (INTA-CONICET, Argentina). The design includes sections on her research focus (plant–environment interactions across scales), what excites her about being an editor (reviewing new research and supporting authors), advice for publishing (reach out to editors), favourite plant (lapacho rosado), and hobbies (cooking and baking). A portrait of Gabriela appears on the right against a green background.
🌱 Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors.
🌾 Exploring plant–environment interactions across ecological to molecular scales, @gabyplantbio.bsky.social brings curiosity, editorial insight, and a passion for scholarly publishing to AoB PLANTS.
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♻️ The impact of shade on whole-plant carbon allocation in a dominant East African tree sapling by Gabriella Mizell and co-authors.
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(a) Scheme of experimental crosses: Two weed populations (BAL and PIE) and the CROP were used to obtain seven biotypes (BAL, BAL × CROP, CROP × BAL, CROP, CROP × PIE, PIE × CROP, and PIE), which were grouped into four cross types: Weed (BAL and PIE), Weed × Crop (BAL × CROP and PIE × CROP), Crop × Weed (CROP × BAL and CROP × PIE), and Crop (CROP) each year. Crosses were evaluated in field experiments.
🌱 New article in @aobp.bsky.social explores how hybridization between crops and weeds can boost “weediness” in Raphanus sativus, showing that hybrids can grow larger and potentially outcompete both crops and wild relatives.
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♻️ Comparative plastomes of five Psittacanthus species: genome organization, structural features, and patterns of pseudogenization and gene loss by Saddan Morales-Saldaña and co-authors.
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Anemones with insect visiting.
🌸🐝 New article in @aobp.bsky.social explores how shifts in pollinators across space and time help maintain flower colour diversity in Anemone coronaria, linking insect preferences to when and where different colours bloom.
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♻️ Structure and ultrastructure of nuptial and extranuptial nectaries explain secretion changes throughout flower lifetime and allow for multiple ecological interactions by Hannelise Balduino and co-authors.
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♻️ Drought tolerance of cowpea is associated with rapid abscisic acid biosynthesis via VuWRKY57 in root by Misaki Tochihara-Tanaka and co-authors.
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♻️ Nutritional and physiological limitations shape the radiation-use efficiency response to legume proportion in C4 grass–legume mixtures by Nicolas Caram and co-authors.
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Rhododendron minus
🍃 New article in @aobp.bsky.social finds that pigments and plant architecture allow Rhododendron minus seedlings to cope with contrasting light conditions.
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♻️ Young apple tree development under agroforestry radiative conditions: a multi-scale morphological and architectural dataset by Francesco Reyes and co-authors.
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Ciénaga Las Cucharillas Natural Reserve
🍃 New article in @aobp.bsky.social showing that dominant species in a tropical urban wetland display distinct leaf traits and physiological strategies shaped by seasonality and soil conditions.
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♻️ Differentiation in water adaptation strategy between epiphytic and terrestrial species of Cymbidium, Orchidaceae by Tian-Yang Gao and co-authors.
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♻️ Seeing right through it: X-ray analyses of Uniola paniculata L. spikelets reveal seed production patterns across a wide spatial distribution by Héctor Pérez and co-authors.
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♻️ Fine-scale genetic differentiation in the bee-specialized Antirrhinum charidemi covaries more strongly with spatial isolation than with corolla colour by Myriam Heuertz and co-authors.
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Oncosiphon pilulifer
🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring plant–soil feedbacks during biological invasions. A greenhouse experiment shows how soil conditioning by the invader Oncosiphon pilulifer affects native plant growth and mycorrhizal colonization.
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Graphic from AoB PLANTS introducing Associate Editor Silvia Matesanz García (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain). The design features a green background with text highlighting her research focus on plant evolutionary ecology, her interest in phenotypic variation and climate stress, her motivation for being an editor, advice for early-career researchers, her favorite plant (Helianthemum squamatum), and her interests outside science. A circular photo shows her smiling outdoors in a sunny field of yellow flowers.
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🌱 With a focus on evolutionary ecology, phenotypic variation, and climate stress, @smatesanz.bsky.social brings a passion for big questions, innovative thinking, and rigorous science to AoB PLANTS
Get to know her in our latest #MeetTheEditor feature
Tomato plant.
🍅 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how temperature affects tomato yield. Researchers developed a model linking temperature stress to pollen quality, seed set, and fruit mass to better predict crop performance.
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♻️ The water-related traits of flowers are more conservative than those of leaves for epiphytic and terrestrial species in Cymbidium, Orchidaceae by Feng-Ping Zhang and co-authors.
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♻️ The impact of drought stress under different soil matrices on physiological characteristics of soybean seedlings by Wei Zhao and co-authors.
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♻️ Marker-trait association analysis for root and shoot traits at the seedling stage of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) under water stress and normal conditions by Hooman Shirvani and co-authors.
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