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OsWRI1a coordinates systemic growth responses to nitrogen availability in rice Nitrogen (N) deficiency–induced increases in the root-to-shoot biomass ratio in plants are adaptive in nature but suboptimal for agriculture. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms governing this dev...

#OsWRI1a coordinates systemic #growth responses to #nitrogen availability in #rice

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Lemongrass: climate-smart crop for marginal lands Lemongrass, a robust aromatic grass, offers a climate-smart solution for marginal lands through its stress resilience, bioeconomic value, and its ability to transform degraded soils into productive assets. In this forum, we emphasise the multifunctionality of lemongrass and propose a timely, sustainable model for utilising marginal lands while improving rural livelihoods.

Lemongrass: climate-smart crop for marginal lands #plantscience

This is figure 1, which shows a high-resolution environmental model of pesticide risk across Peru, designed to support spatial cancer epidemiology.

An analysis in Nature Health reveals spatial patterns of pesticide exposure and liver tissue-derived molecular signatures across Peru, establishing links between pesticide usage and cancer insurgence at the national scale. go.nature.com/41hOBAK 🧪

Schematic representation of NGT structure.

Nature's Shield: Exploring Nonglandular Trichomes (NGT) as Key Players in Plant Defense Mechanisms (Muhammad Ahmad, Sen Li, Yuming Dong, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

‘Super‑pangenomes’ could provide new tools for a warming climate 🌍
A new review maps how these datasets reveal hidden crop diversity, helping breeders develop more climate‑tolerant, productive varieties.
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Wheat is a major staple crop for over one-third of the world’s population, crucial for global food security, economic stability and cultural traditions. Recently, single-cell and spatial omics approaches have transformed biological discovery, primarily in medical and animal sciences, and they are now beginning to be applied in plant research. Here we summarize the technical innovations and feasibility of spatial omics applications in wheat research, particularly for understanding developmental and environmental responses, thereby potentially enhancing wheat breeding. We highlight how these tools can reveal spatial and temporal patterns in gene expression, cellular heterogeneity and tissue organization in wheat. Furthermore, we propose developing a spatially resolved single-cell atlas of wheat across its life cycle to facilitate breakthroughs in basic research and potential applications in breeding. To achieve these goals, we advocate for a Wheat Spatial Omics Consortium to foster worldwide collaboration for overcoming barriers and developing sustainable and climate-resilient wheat.

Excited to share our #perspective article "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨🌾🧬" now out in
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Congrats to all colleagues involved 🌏👏

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The potential of wheat spatial omics - Nature Genetics This study highlights the Wheat Spatial Omics Consortium, which aims to build a spatiotemporal single-cell atlas of wheat in response to different treatments, thereby contributing to the development o...

The potential of #wheat #spatial #omics

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Temperature‐smart plants: A new horizon with omics‐driven plant breeding The adverse effects of mounting environmental challenges, including extreme temperatures, threaten the global food supply due to their impact on plant growth and productivity. Temperature extremes di....

This review highlights how integrated #omics tools🧬 (#genomics, #transcriptomics, #proteomics, etc.), machine learning, and speed #breeding can help develop #climate-proof, #temperature-smart crops — helping global #food demand under #climate change🦾🌾

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Diversity-triggered 2-naphthoic acid exudation recruits keystone microbial taxa to promote soybean drought tolerance Chen et al. demonstrate that high rhizosphere microbial diversity triggers soybean roots to exude 2-naphthoic acid under drought stress, selectively recruiting the beneficial bacterium Sinorhizobium s...

#Diversity-triggered 2-naphthoic acid exudation recruits keystone #microbial taxa to promote #soybean #drought tolera

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Professor Philippa Borrill

We are devastated to announce that our colleague and friend Professor Philippa Borrill died over the Easter weekend following a rare immune system disorder (HLH). She was a fantastic scientist, collaborator and mentor, and a close friend to many: www.jic.ac.uk/news/profess...

The germplasm collection from distinct geographic backgrounds includes cultivated species, landraces, and wild relatives, which serve as a foundation for super-pangenome analysis. The genomic diversity discovered across multiple genomes (e.g., genomes 1–10 from different species within a genus) includes diverse structural variations. It is then classified into the super-pangenome concept, which comprises the core, dispersal, and private genomes. Similarly, genes within the super-pangenome are classified into super pan-genes, including genus-conserved, genus-variable, and species-specific genes. This dataset facilitates the examination of genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships at the genus level, which offers insights into crop improvement and breeding programs. Created with BioRender.com.

Overview of super-pangenome development and classification of super pan-genes

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In @natrevmicro.nature.com , we examine
1. climate extreme impacts on plant pathogens, microbiomes, host physiology & disease outcomes
2. different responses of pathosystems to extreme from climate change
3. integrated pathway to support climate-resilient ecosystems

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Novel #Strategies for Designing #Climate-Smart #Crops to Ensure Sustainable #Agriculture & Future #Food Security

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Call for papers

A quick update on our #PlantStress #Special_Issue on #Panomics🧬 and #climate-smart crops under combined #stresses🌾

🗓️New submission deadline: June 15

✅We’re now also accepting #Opinion, #Spotlight, and Short #Communication articles

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Excited to share our Review by @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social @natrevmicro.nature.com Impacts of climate extremes on plant pathogens, microbiomes and plant health. We propose an integrated pathway for harnessing microbiomes to address the critical challenges posed by climate extremes. dlvr.it/TRR2wT

A sorghum pangenome reference improves global crop trait discovery - Nature A pangenome reference for the phenotypically diverse crop sorghum aims to help accelerate future efforts to breed crops that are better adapted to changing environments.

A #sorghum #pangenome reference improves global #crop trait discovery

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From the genome to super-pangenome: a new paradigm for accelerated crop improvement - npj Science of Plants npj Science of Plants - From the genome to super-pangenome: a new paradigm for accelerated crop improvement

From the #genome to #super-pangenome: a new paradigm for accelerated #crop improvement

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Plant hormone and peptide signaling converge in the genetic network regulating cambium activation in Arabidopsis roots An intertwined network of cytokinin, auxin and peptide hormone signaling activates secondary growth in the Arabidopsis roots.

After a long journey, our new paper is out! 🌱
In this study, Tiina and colleagues show that cambium activation in the Arabidopsis root is triggered by the induction of auxin, cytokinin, and TDIF peptide signalling. 🧵1/x doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Harnessing metabolomics for enhanced crop drought tolerance Global crop productivity faces a significant threat from climate change-induced drought stress (DS), which is vital for sustainable agriculture and gl…

Harnessing #metabolomics for enhanced crop #drought tolerance

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The protein phosphatase OsPP1a dephosphorylates and stabilizes CatC to scavenge excess H2O2 and enhance salt tolerance in rice One-sentence summary: OsPP1a dephosphorylates CatC to promote its stability and activity by inhibiting its ubiquitination and degradation, thereby scavenging excess H2O2 and enhance salt tolerance sal...

The protein #phosphatase OsPP1a dephosphorylates & stabilizes CatC to #scavenge excess #H2O2 and enhance #salt tolerance in #rice

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Insights into glandular trichome biology from analysis of organ‐specific gene expression programmes in cannabis, hop and tomato This study of three glandular trichome-producing species (cannabis, hop and tomato) defines tissue-specific transcriptomic atlases for five organs (trichome, flower, leaf, stem and root), providing c...

Interested in plant trichomes ?
Check out our new paper from the @lewseylab.bsky.social.
Nice work Mulu, Bhavna and rest of team !
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Heatwaves. Droughts. Floods. As climate extremes become more frequent, they may be silently increasing the risk of plant disease outbreaks by reshaping plant pathogens, beneficial microbiomes and host immunity. Check out our latest Review in dlvr.it/TRR2wT

Metabolic adaptations of Qingke: A review of stress resilience and nutritional functions Qingke, a staple crop grown on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, has evolved a metabolomic profile providing both environmental stress resilience and…

#Metabolic adaptations of #Qingke: A review of #stress resilience and #nutritional functions

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Wheat breeding during and after the “green revolution” contributed to the reduced use of elite nitrogen metabolism alleles linked to nitrogen use efficiency NMGs play a central role in regulating wheat NUE, and their selection can largely impact the NUE of cultivars during breeding. In this work, the NMGs selected during the GR and subsequent breeding ef...

#Wheat #breeding during & after the “green #revolution” contributed to the reduced use of elite nitrogen #metabolism alleles linked to #nitrogen use efficiency

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Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield Abstract. Improving photosynthesis, the fundamental process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy, is a key area of research with great

Perspectives on improving #photosynthesis to increase #crop #yield

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Biogenic retrograde signaling via GUN1 ensures thermotolerant chloroplast biogenesis during seedling establishment in Arabidopsis thaliana Under heat stress, GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 (GUN1) is crucial for the formation of functional chloroplasts in seedlings under heat stress. Without GUN1, chloroplast development fails and seedlings fail to ...

#Biogenic retrograde #signaling via GUN1 ensures #thermotolerant #chloroplast biogenesis during #seedling establishment in #Arabidopsis thaliana

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Transcriptome‐wide association study identifies the ZmbZIP89–ZmSAUR21 module as a key regulator of root growth and drought tolerance in maize The maize Small Auxin-Up RNA gene ZmSAUR21 is activated by the transcription factor ZmbZIP89 and regulates root development, providing a direct target for breeding maize with stronger, deeper root sy...

#Transcriptome-wide association study identifies the #ZmbZIP89–ZmSAUR21 module as a key regulator of #root growth and #drought tolerance in #maize

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TaHST2 silencing shapes basal heat tolerance in allohexaploid wheat - Nature Plants TaHST2 negatively regulates thermotolerance in wheat as it encodes a ubiquitin hydrolase that represses heat tolerance by stabilizing TaHSC701/702. During domestication, TaHST2 was progressively suppr...

#TaHST2 #silencing shapes basal #heat tolerance in #allohexaploid #wheat

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Light and Alternating Temperatures Release Seed Dormancy in the Invasive Dipsacus fullonum L. Through ROS Homeostasis and ABA Regulation Seeds have developed mechanisms to perceive environmental signals, such as light and temperature, which govern germination and enhance the chance of seedling establishment. This study examined the fo...

#Light and Alternating #Temperatures Release #Seed Dormancy in the Invasive #Dipsacus fullonum L. Through #ROS Homeostasis and #ABA Regulation

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