🌱🧠Generative AI is reshaping plant science, democratizing data analysis & lowering entry barriers. But training must evolve Six strategic shifts needed: AI literacy, critical thinking, bias awareness, & equitable access #plantscience @bar-plantbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🌿🧬Laboratory evolution in E. coli identified Rubisco mutations that enhance plant growth. M116L increased catalytic rate by 25 to 40 percent. A242V improved solubility and biogenesis Hybrid Arabidopsis Rubisco with M116L boosted growth by 75 percent #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An integrated innovative toolbox for #engineering climate-smart crops under multifactorial #stress combinations. Translating the combination-specific regulatory #modules model into #crop improvement requires a multi-layered strategy 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @abioticstress.bsky.social

Happy to share our🆕 #OpenAccess Opinion "Distinct regulatory networks🧬⚙️mediate plant adaptation to multifactorial #abiotic stress combinations❄️💧🧂💡🌡️🪨: rethinking of plant stress #genetics🧬🌾🪴" is out in 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨🎉🎊 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scinews.bsky.social #plantsciene #drought

Spotlighting #plantscience that pushes the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links. Inbox us a paper link or tag us to be featured. #plantsci

Systemic Acquired Resistance signaling molecule N-hydroxypipecolic acid is involved in Age-Related Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#Melatonin seed #priming: A #climate-smart, green strategy to enhance #abiotic stress tolerance in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jipb.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @botanychris.bsky.social @sebot.bsky.social @botany.one @bsbibotany.bsky.social

🌾🧬 An atlas of cloned wheat genes is now available for CRISPR based improvement. This resource accelerates trait discovery and breeding for stress tolerance and quality. A roadmap for genome engineering in wheat #plantscience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It also provides a wonderful example of the capability of spatial omics to enhance our understanding of wheat biology, emphasising the potential of these technologies to advance wheat improvement, as discussed in our Perspective article - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We briefly concluded that #Melatonin functions as a “stress- #buffering modulator” and especially stabilizes #redox homeostasis but provides partial protection to #photosynthesis under #combined stress conditions 🖇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #algae #antioxidant @abioticstress.bsky.social

#Melatonin seed #priming: A climate-smart, green strategy to enhance #abiotic stress tolerance in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantSci @jipb.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @plantmetabolism.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantbiology.bsky.social

🌾🧬Plants face multifactorial stress, not single stressors. Combination specific regulatory modules coordinate protective pathways like ROS buffering. Integrative tools offers a path to climate smart crops #plantscience @abioticstress.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adaptability of #plants to #phosphorus deficiency shapes bacterial community and spatial patterns of enzyme activities in rhizosphere 🎓led by Prof. Junhui Chen & Yakov Kuzyakov @ykuzyakov.bsky.social 🌱https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.08.017 #agroecology #soil #maize @agroecologymap.bsky.social

🌿🧬Subtilase enzymes EPPs process EPF1/2 precursors into active peptides for stomatal patterning. Loss of EPPs causes excessive stomatal clustering. Exogenous mature peptide rescues the defect A missing link in stomatal development #plantscience @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Autophagy in plant male reproduction: conserved machinery, divergent functions A #ResearchReview by Yan, Li, Zheng & Wang. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Researchers led by Prof. Dahu Ni at Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences developed a novel labor-saving strategy for hybrid #rice #seed production See more 🌾https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2026.03.019 #PlantScience #HybridRice #MolecularBiology

✅📄Now Free Access: One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🍓🧬 Strawberry axillary buds can become stolons (asexual) or branch crowns (sexual). FveBRC1 is necessary for stolon formation. brc1 mutants produce branch crowns instead Gibberellin could not restore stolon formation #plantscience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When solids become fluid to sustain life 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Rolletschek & Borisjuk on this article by Haddad et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

🦗🌾 RESEARCH 🌾🦗 Development of rice stripe mosaic virus infectious clone enabled a versatile vector system for regulatable foreign gene expression and RNA silencing in both rice and insect hosts - Wu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱🧬 Strigolactones regulate architecture and stress via D14 MAX2 D53 signaling. Future focus on dynamic stress responses, diversification, parasitic weed control, and precision modulation for for optimized crop design #plantscience @jipb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type specific regulatory programs Robertson et al. @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @c-spirit.org @bar-plantbio.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Summer Spectacular!🌸 View our latest issue: academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/67/6 Stunning cover photo of a dahlia 'Yuino' flower containing bicolor petals caused by naturally occurring RNAi Photo credit: Dr. Toshiyuki Fukuhara, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan #PlantScience

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 A TAF10-ERF109 Transcriptional Module Directs Flavonoid-Based Stress Resilience and Yield Enhancement in Foxtail Millet and Wheat - Zhang, Wang, Fan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... #plantscience 🧪

Field trials are a new and exciting development in #plantscience research. A lot of recent high profile papers have presented significant yield increases, especially for rice. If all of these are true, we should be able to easily double rice yields in a few years! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NAASC is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2026 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awards! Read more about them: Mary Lou Guerinot, USA Julian Schroeder, USA Caroline Dean, UK Nominate by 31 Oct 2026 for the 2027 cycle! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

🌿🧬Taxol pathway mapped with new method mpXsn. Seventeen genes known, eight newly discovered. Baccatin III produced in tobacco at natural levels. Breakthrough for anti-cancer drug production #plantsci @cmcclune.bsky.social @sattelylab.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌾🧬Plants face stress combinations, not single stresses. Traditional single stress paradigms fall short. Combination specific modules coordinate protective pathways like ROS buffering Leveraging these modules offers a path to climate smart crops #plantscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧬⚙️ REVIEW ⚙️🧬 This review systematically concludes the occurrence modes and mechanisms of alternative splicing in regulating plants growth, development, leaf senescence, fruit ripening, photomorphogenesis and abiotic stress responses - Zhu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬🦠 New research reveals how aging reshapes the #GutMicrobiome, offering fresh insights into the links between #intestinal #microbes, healthy #aging, and #disease. #GutMicrobiome #Bacteria #Microsky via @nature.com

Our paper is out !!! NADPH oxidases and aquaporins within membrane nanodomains form a functional unit for ROS signaling. Great work by arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing collaborator jbfiche.bsky.social, Jose Ugalde, A Meyer yvonjaillais.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529740123

1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

🌸 How do orchids growing high in trees know where to send their roots to find water? Water as a compass: hydrostimulation-triggered aerial root growth in Phalaenopsis aphrodite. https://bit.ly/4tST8W4

🧪VACANCY: Computational biologist, modeller or biophysicist? Join Laura Bacete @cellwalldynamics.com and Christiane Funk in an interdisciplinary @icelabumu.bsky.social postdoctoral project exploring cell wall sensing in the microalga Chlorella vulgaris. Apply by 17 Sept👇 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Happy that an improved version of our preprint Linking biosurface reactivity and photosynthesis to investigate Sphagnum mosses as peatland engineers has been accepted for publication. Stay tuned. #sphagnum #moss #peatlands #climatechange #photosynthesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀

Barley produces high amounts of phenylalanine- and tryptophan-derived secondary metabolites, including hydorxycinnamic acid amides as well as related hordatines in response to Fusarium Head Blight. Multiomics finds this as the most consistent response over four diverse genotypes. rdcu.be/fl4uO

We’re excited to share out wheat spatial transcriptomics paper, published today in Science Advances - url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/zvF1C0YKzm...

Happy to share our 🆕 #OpenAccess article " #Melatonin buffers #antioxidant defense but only partially sustains #photosynthesis under combined #abiotic stresses🧂💡🌡️🪨 in #Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" is out in PPB @elsevierconnect.bsky.social 🎉🎊🥳 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #algae #plantsci

Spotlighting #plantscience that pushes the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links. Inbox us a paper link or tag us to be featured. #plantsci

Microbial resource-use strategies mediate soil carbon turnover across forest succession | Journal of Forestry Research | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1... @forestryjfr.bsky.social #Carbon #MicrobialCommunity #Fungi #Soil #Forest #Ecology

Radial growth dominates climatic sensitivity in Quercus mongolica from the eastern Qinling Mountains, China | Journal of Forestry Research | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I gave a workshop on AlphaFold & related programs @ the University of Utah. Part 1 covers protein structure prediction before/after AlphaFold & deep learning neural networks. Part 2 covers the math behind the scores. Part 3 covers PyMOL & the webservers. youtube.com/@rolanddunbr...

🌿🧬Melatonin boosts antioxidants but offers limited photosynthesis protection under combined stresses in Chlamydomonas. Catalase & peroxidase increased, chlorophyll declined. MLT acts independently of endogenous pathway A stress buffering modulator #plantscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌸🧬 VIEWPOINT 🧬🌸 Khan et al. explore how newly evolved de novo genes shape both floral scent and plant defence, revealing their role in the evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Although AI has many, many problems, there are some uses for it that can enhance plant science education

The European Parliament has adopted new rules for New Genomic Techniques (NGT) www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

PAPER from @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#JustIn on Plantae: Reimagining Undergraduate Teaching and Research. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Shakunthala Natarajan, Alessandra Lombardi, and Rini Rahiman discuss teaching and conducting research at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). buff.ly/TU52ls1 #PlantScience #PlantSci