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Marseillais Brittanique and ๐ฟplant biologist interested in chloroplasts. Also @
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Fede Aballay ๐ฆ๐ท
8 days ago
Our preprint on an affordable device for plant tissue grinding is out!! โFast-lyzerโ: A low-cost 3D printable device for plant tissue disruption and homogenization
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
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โFast-lyzerโ: A low-cost 3D printable device for plant tissue disruption and homogenization
Background: Sample disruption and homogenization are critical steps in numerous biological extraction procedures (i.e., DNA, RNA, or protein isolation). These steps are often performed manually which ...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9440300/latest
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Adam Steinbrenner
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We are excited to release the BAT!๐ฆ๐จ We've used this phylogenetic analysis pipeline in our lab for years, and grad Ben Sheppard now presents a Github release and preprint. I run BAT analyses almost daily. It makes exploring gene families routine, customizable, and fun๐งต
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Guillaume Hummel ๐ฑ ๐ช๐บ ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฅจ ๐ฎ๐น
11 days ago
Why are
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genes organized the way they are in ๐ฑ plant genomes? In our new
@qbiope-bot.bsky.social
preprint ๐จ๐, we show that their position, copy number, and regulatory sequences are not random!
#PlantGenomics
#ComparativeGenomics
#Evolution
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01943
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Multilevel genomic constraints shape nuclear tRNA gene organization in plants
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential components of the translational machinery. Their abundance and diversity shape decoding capacity and protein synthesis efficiency and accuracy. Because tRNA abundan...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01943
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The BioStimulaTOR Lab
12 days ago
We are happy and proud to share our preprint describing an Arabidopsis mutant (named loki:) that develops cell clusters when TOR is inhibited. The mutated gene codes for a component of the conserved eukaryotic RAVE complex regulating V-ATPase activity.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.721045v1
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Laura Bacete
18 days ago
Next: Salek Ahmed Sajib (CNRS, Marseille ๐ซ๐ท) dives into โThe Role of Bioenergetic Organelles โ Plastids and Mitochondria โ in Arabidopsis Seedling Development in the Darkโ ๐๐ฟ Organelle talk incoming!
#UPSCSymposium
#Arabidopsis
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Laura Bacete
18 days ago
For the 4th time in a row, we organise the UPSC (
@umeaplantsciencecentre.se
) Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists! ๐ฑ We invite talented young scientists to present their research, meet our group leaders, explore collaborations, and tour our facilities. Let the day begin! ๐งต๐
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New Phytologist
about 1 month ago
Curious about PsbS and Lhcsr in zeaxanthin mediated NPQ? New insights into plant photoprotection Beraldo et al.
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Henrik Toft Simonsen
about 1 month ago
Hi - we are looking for a PhD student to finish the thapsigargin biosynthesis. If you are up for some great work, then apply.
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Hugues Renault
about 2 months ago
Ever wondered how the
#cuticle
, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation.
#plantscience
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New Phytologist
about 2 months ago
How microalgae use phytochrome to sense the oceanโs light
#TansleyInsight
by Duchรชne et al.
@afalciat.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Tamara Hernรกndez-Verdeja
about 2 months ago
๐ฑ๐๐ Sharing (again ๐) my review on regulation of chloroplast biogenesis. First work of my emerging research group at
@cbgpmadrid.bsky.social
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Nice story with a striking phenotype for gun1 mutants during seedling establishment at high temperatures.
#PlantScience
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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 ....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jipb.70127
about 2 months ago
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The Plant Cell
about 2 months ago
Domain architecture of plant eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit E governs interaction with translational cis-elements to regulatepollen tube growth (Vinod Kumar , Rรฉmy Merret , Marie C Carpentier , David Honys , Said Hafidh)
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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Domain architecture of plant eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit E governs interaction with translational cis-elements to regulatepollen tube growth
Translation initiation subunit eIF3E helps balance protein production by coordinating opposing genetic cis-elements, affecting pollen tube growth and the s
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag005
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PlantEvolution ๐ฑ๐พ
2 months ago
1/11 ๐ฅ New preprint alert ๐ฅ We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them ๐ค. Here is what we learned: โBiotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populationsโ
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Journal of Experimental Botany
2 months ago
๐๐ฑ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ๐ฑ๐ This review describes how plants safeguard plant-level homeostasis through coordinating resource uptake, developmental rate, and morphological efficiency in response to environmental and internal signal โ Earle et al. ๐
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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Ivan Radin
2 months ago
Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules.
#microscopymonday
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#plantcells
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#plantmicroscopy
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#moss
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
2 months ago
Chloroplast ABC peptide transporters TAP1, NAP8, and ATH12 are essential for heat-induced peptide export and play a key role in thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709749v1
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Journal of Experimental Botany
2 months ago
๐ฃ Check out JXB's newest Special Issue ๐ฃ ๐ Issue 5 of 2026 ๐ โก๐ฟ Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling ๐ฟโก ๐ Guest edited by Benoรฎt Menand, Johannes Hanson & Vanessa Wahl ๐
academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience ๐งช
SEBiology
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Max Fels
3 months ago
The giant viruses surprised us at almost every turn of this project, but ultimately led us down a very rewarding path. Happy to share this work is now available online ๐งช
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Nature Communications
3 months ago
Plastids, photosynthetic organelles in plants and algae, originated from cyanobacterial endosymbiosis. Here, Shrestha et al. use metagenomics to expand plastid diversity and provide evidence for two independent origins of secondary red-algal plastids.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global metagenomics reveals plastid diversity and unexplored algal lineages - Nature Communications
Plastids, photosynthetic organelles in plants and algae, originated from cyanobacterial endosymbiosis. Here, Shrestha et al. use metagenomics to expand plastid diversity and provide evidence for two i...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68871-w
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Andreas P.M. Weber ๐พ๐ฑ๐งฌ
3 months ago
๐งฌโก Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 โก๐งฌ Together with Vamsi Mootha, Iโm chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). Weโd love to see your application. Thread ๐งต๐
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Nice paper on photoendosymbiosis from my colleagues! Quevarac et al 2026 "Oxygen as a primary selective pressure for photosymbiosis evolution" Photosynthetic prey allow survival of Tetrahymena in anoxia while providing little or no carbon benefit
#PlantScience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
3 months ago
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Benoit Lacombe
4 months ago
Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier
pem26.cnrs.fr
@frannybarbs.bsky.social
@lacombeb.bsky.social
@franzificht.bsky.social
@ccf-claire.bsky.social
@msubrandizzilab.bsky.social
@hatem-rouached.bsky.social
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Rebecca Mosher
4 months ago
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction.
shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
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Association of Applied Biologists
4 months ago
๐๐ค๐ Speaker announcement ๐๐ค๐ Join our incredible line-up of Keynotes & Plenary Speakers at Photosynthesis 2026 in Liverpool this July! โ๏ธ Register & submit an abstract now ๐
photosynthesis2026.com
#plantscience
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#ICPR26
#photosynthesis
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Cool! ๐คฉA new biosynthetic gene cluster in Arabidopsis! ๐ฟ
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
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A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants
Peng et al. identify a class of non-aromatic, chorismate-derived compounds, abundant in the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. These compounds are made by a biosynthetic gene cluster comprising five adjac...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
4 months ago
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Ryo Yokoyama
4 months ago
A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natplants.nature.com
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A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants
Peng et al. identify a class of non-aromatic, chorismate-derived compounds, abundant in the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. These compounds are made by a biosynthetic gene cluster comprising five adjac...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
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Mariana Schuster
5 months ago
Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
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CNRS
5 months ago
La mรฉdaille de lโinnovation 2025 du CNRS est dรฉcernรฉe ร Alda Mari, Aziz Moqrich, Pascale Senellart et Alain Wagner. Ils illustrent la variรฉtรฉ des recherches du CNRS et le rรดle primordial que joue la recherche fondamentale dans le dรฉveloppement de technologies de rupture. ๐
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Yamuna Krishnan
5 months ago
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because โprotons diffuse fast,โ this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. ๐งต 1/n
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New Phytologist
5 months ago
Engineering plant stress responses to combat climate change
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary
by Jones highlighting the recent work by Bowerman et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A synthetic molecule can trigger chloroplast de-differentiation via SAL1 inhibition and accumulation of PAP. Nice story!
#PlantScience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
5 months ago
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Saloni
5 months ago
Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
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Etienne Bucher ๐พ๐งฌ๐ช๐บ
5 months ago
Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! ๐ฑ๐พ๐ซ๐ช๐บ๐งฌ
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
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EU einigt sich auf Lockerungen fรผr gentechnisch verรคnderte Lebensmittel
Fรผr viele gentechnisch verรคnderte Lebensmittel soll es kรผnftig keine Hinweispflicht mehr in Supermรคrkten geben. Darauf einigten sich Vertreter aus dem Europaparlament und dem Rat der EU-Lรคnder.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/gentechnik-eu-einigung-lockerung-100.html
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Katherine Denby ๐ฑ๐ฅฌ
6 months ago
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects
@biologyatyork.bsky.social
@camplantsci.bsky.social
@slcuplants.bsky.social
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
& University of Bristol. ๐ชด ๐ฅฌ ๐ง ๐งฌ Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
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Ryo Yokoyama
6 months ago
A non-canonical MPK3-ACTPK1-RbcS signalling module fine-tunes photosynthesis in rice
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A non-canonical MPK3-ACTPK1-RbcS signalling module fine-tunes photosynthesis in rice
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades orchestrate diverse physiological processes, yet their role in photosynthetic regulation has remained largely unexplored. Here, we uncovers a non-canon...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.22.689956v1
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Interesting things are happening in the dark! Salicylic acid and ROS signaling modulate hypocotyl elongation in darkness via NPR1 and EX1"
www-science-org.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/doi/full/10....
6 months ago
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bioRxivpreprint
6 months ago
Disequilibrium between chloroplast proton motive force and ATP levels in Arabidopsis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687978v1
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KunzLab@LMU
6 months ago
Hi EU ๐ฑ scientists, if you want to get Catch&Release ๐ฃvectors
doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
hassle-free & pay only a small handling fee, please visits the so far little known great community resource to order DNA plasmids
www.plasmids.eu
kindly hosted by
@dkfz.bsky.social
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@telemanlab.bsky.social
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The Plant Cell
6 months ago
A triose phosphate/phosphate translocator triggers antimicrobial immunity by exporting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from chloroplasts (Deng-Pan Zuo, Bin Wang, Yu-Zi Liu, Zheng-Song Chen, et al)
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
#PlantScience
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A triose phosphate/phosphate translocator triggers antimicrobial immunity by exporting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from chloroplasts
The chloroplast transporter AtTPT exports glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to activate plant immune responses and confer resistance against diverse pathogens, re
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf245
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him)
6 months ago
Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Our preprint is finally out ๐ฟ โ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โ Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators.
#PlantScience
tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25
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Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) signalling promotes high-light tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a hyperphosphorylated nucleotide originally discovered in prokaryotes and found in the chloroplasts of plants and algae. In plants, ppGpp signalling plays a role as...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686924v1
6 months ago
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7 months ago
The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation
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The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation
Zygnematophytes came as unexpected closest algal relatives to land plants because of their simple body plans, raising questions about the morphogenetic toolkit that was present in the last common ance...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.09.681428
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
6 months ago
Chloroplast- and Mitochondrion-Specific Random C-to-T Mutagenesis for Forward Genetics of Organelle Genomes
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.685978v1
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A nice study showing the role of the chloroplast cysteine-synthase-complex as a hub that promotes ABA-induced stomatal closure and drought resistance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The plastid cysteine synthase complex regulates ABA biosynthesis and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Cysteine supply is crucial for ABA biosynthesis in plants. Here, the authors report that chloroplast cysteine synthase complex regulates stomatal closure by integrating different stress signals via dy...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64705-3
7 months ago
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Dan Gibbs ๐ฑ๐งฌ
7 months ago
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website:
sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham
https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab/
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
7 months ago
The first photosynthetic mutant in diatoms targets the subunit ฮณ of plastidial ATP synthase and reveals a key role of thylakoid electrochemical proton gradient in photosynthesis regulation and heterotrophic metabolism.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681070v1
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Journal of Experimental Botany
7 months ago
๐ฑ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ๐ฑ Jeran et al discuss the trafficking of plastid-targeted proteins, focusing on regulatory bottlenecks and mislocalization. PSBO, a PSII subunit, may link proplastid-to-chloroplast differentiation with plastid quality control ๐ฌ ๐
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Ryo Yokoyama
8 months ago
Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management
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Light-mediated balances and trade-offs in plant energy and resource management
Abstract. Light is a central environmental signal that coordinates plant development, metabolism, and stress responses. By integrating external cues with i
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