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🌾 A functional-structural plant #model for climbing bean: simulating light capture in #maize/bean polycultures
by Rik J. L. Rutjens, Jochem B. Evers, Leah R. Band, Matthew D. Jones, Markus R. Owen
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New paper from the Zipfel lab.

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Discriminating eclipse cues from weather Having given up autonomy, reason has become an instrument.—Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (1947)

Discriminating eclipse cues from weather #plantscience

Marchantia gemmaling grown under UV-B

Our work on UV-B perception and signaling in #Marchantia is now out in @plantphys.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/plph... Thanks to all authors @yuankeliang.bsky.social @romanulm.bsky.social @grandpahiro.bsky.social #PlantScience

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This site offers engaging updates for plant scientists and enthusiasts, featuring captivating and current plant-related news from diverse sources.
Discover more at botany.one. #Botany #PlantScience

Listen to the latest episode of the ASHS Plants, People, Science podcast!
Participatory Plant Breeding For Better Tasting Organic Tomatoes - An Interview with Dr. Ambar Carvallo Lopez https://ashs.org/page/plantspeoplesciencepodcast
#OrganicFarming #EarthDay2026 #PlantScience

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From innovation to integration: Plant and soil sciences for people and planet

An introduction to a Special Issue by @katiefield4.bsky.social, Yolima Carrillo, Stuart A. Campbell, @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @frewecologist.bsky.social

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Happy Earth Day! 🌱🌍

A more sustainable future starts with resilient plants—that’s why C-SPIRIT connects global teams to drive plant innovation and resilience.

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🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Tamara Susanto on successfully defending her PhD in the Charles Underwood Group at @mpipz.bsky.social! Wishing her all the best ahead.

#phdone #plantscience #academiccareers

The post shows a picture of Kang after successfully passing his viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.

Congratulations to Dr. Kang Wang on the successful PhD defense in the lab of George Coupland at @mpipz.bsky.social. Wishing all the best for the next steps ahead! #phdone #plantscience

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🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Niklas Kiel on defending his PhD in the Ruben Garrido-Oter Group at the @mpipz.bsky.social! All the best for what comes next.
#Phdone #plantscience #academiccareers

Figure 5 from the paper.

They found that plant traits varied depending on location and taxa, and that reducing irrigation volume did not significantly impact plant performance, suggesting a potential to reduce urban water use for landscape plants across a climatic gradient.

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Cover image of Plants, People, Planet volume 8, issue 3. Researcher Amelia Keyser-Gibson collects leaf samples in the Oregon State University Climate Ready Landscape Plants test irrigation plot at the North Willamette Research and Extension centre in Aurora, OR, USA.

🆕 Our latest #SpecialIssue has just been published!

From #innovation to integration: Plant and soil sciences for people and planet

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Population genetic diversity and structure, demographic history, and deleterious mutations analyzed by whole genome resequencing in Salvia daiguii: a plant species with extremely small populations from China AbstractBackground and Aims. Sage is globally recognized for its significant ornamental and medicinal values. Salvia daiguii, a perennial herb native to Zh

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Population genetic diversity and structure, demographic history, and deleterious mutations analyzed by whole genome resequencing in Salvia daiguii: a plant species with extremely small populations from China
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Functional insights into dispensable genes using genome-wide loss-of-function burden tests in Arabidopsis Genome-wide loss-of-function burden tests in Arabidopsis reveal functional insights into dispensable genes and demonstrate how collapsing variants by funct

Functional insights into dispensable genes using genome-wide loss-of-function burden tests in Arabidopsis

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Jeanmaire Molina: "Biodiversity Matters" Botany One interviews Dr Jeanmaire Molina, a plant biologist fascinated with "plants that challenge the definition of plant life", specially the record-breaking Rafflesia.

Jeanmaire Molina: "Biodiversity Matters"
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Botany One interviews Dr Jeanmaire Molina, a plant biologist fascinated with "plants that challenge the definition of plant life", specially the record-breaking Rafflesia.
#Botany #PlantScience

We are very happy to share our new paper about PWO proteins evolution 🤗🌱 This has been a joint effort between our lab and Iva Mozogová's lab led by Ahamed Khan #PlantScience #TansleyReview

Designed diversity: from marker-assisted backcrossing to computationally optimised polygenic introgression Crop breeding strategies for trait introgression are shifting from empirical backcrossing, focused on a small number of target loci, to a predictive, large-scale, design-driven approach. This approach frames the introgression of desirable trait loci as a constrained multi-objective optimisation problem, balancing success probability, elite genome recovery, time, and resource use. Computational tools such as predicted and expected cross value, and look-ahead selection, prioritise crosses and support multi-generation planning. Advances in genomic resources and breeding accelerators, including pan-genomes, introgressiomics, speed breeding, and gene editing, expand the design space for precise allele stacking. By embedding these technological innovations within predictive breeding frameworks, breeders can translate genomic insights into practical strategies to refine introgression pipelines, transforming trial-and-error programmes into ‘designed diversity’ pipelines for resilient, high-yielding crops.

Designed diversity: from marker-assisted backcrossing to computationally optimised polygenic introgression #plantscience

Overview of datasets analyzed with SPLASH in this paper. (A) A single-cell study of maize pollen precursors. (B) A bulk RNA-seq study of sorghum under different drought conditions. (C) A bulk RNA-seq study of Arabidopsis seed germination, with wild-type and mutant strains in the FLOE1 gene, in conditions of no water, plain water imbibition, or salt water imbibition. (D) A bulk RNA-seq study of Arabidopsis seedlings under phosphorus (P), iron (Fe), or iron/phosphorus (Fe/P) deficiency. floe1-1 = knock-out mutation of FLOE1; FLOE1ΔDS = aspartic acid-serine-rich disordered domain deletion mutation of FLOE1; WT = wild type FLOE1.

A Reference-Free Algorithm Discovers Regulation in the Plant Transcriptome (Elisabeth Meyer, Evan V. Saldivar, Marek Kokot, Bo Xue, Sebastian Deorowicz, Seung Y. Rhee, Julia Salzman) #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Fig. 3.Proposed model for the roles of the equilibrium between phytocystatins and their target cysteine proteases. The double-headed arrow indicates that the relationship between phytocystatins and their target cysteine proteases is a dynamic equilibrium process. The light green box represents the roles of the equilibrium between phytocystatins and their cysteine proteases, which have been reported in previous studies, and the dark green ellipse represents the roles revealed in the present study.

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The soybean nodule-specific cystatin gene GmCYS18 promotes nodulation and nodule development, while the cysteine proteases reversibly inhibited by GmCYS18 inhibit nodulation and nodule development in soybean - Yuan et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Oxidative post‐translational modifications of plant antioxidant systems under environmental stress Plants are often subject to environmental challenges posed by abiotic and biotic stresses, which are increasing under the current climate change conditions, provoking a loss in crop yield worldwide. ...

#Oxidative #post-translational modifications of plant #antioxidant systems under #environmental stress

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Happy Earth Day! Thank you horticulturists and plant scientists for the amazing work you are doing!
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🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

🦠🌱 New study looks at the combined effects of biochar and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on soil chemical properties, enzymatic activity, microbial communities and wheat yield in semi-arid agricultural soils

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🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃

We're happy to announce that Dario Leister @lmu.de will be delivering a Plenary Talk at Photosynthesis 2026 🌿

🌱 Join us in Liverpool, July 26- 30th 🌱
📅 Abstract submission for posters closes 15th May!

Register & find out more 👉️ photosynthesis2026.com

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Why Needle Length Matters Shorter pine needles help conifers move water when water is scarce

Why Needle Length Matters
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Shorter pine needles help conifers move water when water is scarce
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#REVIEW Advances in #rice synthetic #biology: Toward a better staple #crop and beyond

🌾🧬https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.12.036
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Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components AbstractBackground and Aims. Fire is a key ecological driver shaping reproductive strategies in fire-prone ecosystems. One distinctive strategy is fire-sti

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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Everything everywhere all at once? Disentangling the long-lasting riddle of phylogenetic relationships and cryptic hybridization in the amphitropical genus Larrea Abstract. The genus Larrea has an amphitropical distribution in North and South American deserts, and its phylogeny remains unresolved. This genus is consp

♻️ 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.

Full #openaccess
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