Celebrating 30 Years of the Don McNair Herbarium www.newcastle.edu.au/news/2025/11...

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🫘🦠 RESEARCH 🦠🫘 Non-nitrogen-fixing bacteria and specific compounds enhance the abundance of Xanthobacteraceae within root nodules under cadmium stress and Xanthobacteraceae support the nitrogen-fixing activity of Bradyrhizobium bacteria - Wang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🦠 RESEARCH 🦠 The growth and morphogenesis of the giant coenocytic green alga Bryopsis can be promoted by bacteria of the genus Ruegeria 🦠 ✍️ Ochiai & Goshima 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Congratulations Dr. Liu Yin!

📢 New publication 'Cryptic signals: substomatal architecture influences stomatal responses to red #light and #CO2' by Muhammad Haroon, Caroline Ivsic, Frances Sussmilch, Anju Manandhar and Scott McAdam in @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱🧪 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #mesophyll

One university boosted gender diversity in advanced maths by over 30% in 5 years – here’s how share.google/cTRgAHPHJiPn...

🌡️🌾 EDITOR'S CHOICE 🌾🌡️ In the C4 grass Setaria viridis, the β form of Rubisco activase is essential for growth at 25°C, while the α form supports photosynthesis under heat stress - Hotto et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

A must read .... Feeding from the sun 🌞—Successes and prospects in bioengineering #CO2 fixation and #photosynthesis for food security #RubisCO www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A cowpea study (genetic mapping of photosynthetic responses associated with cold stress) I was involved with a while ago. Good to see it in print!

Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

⏰ Starting very soon at #ASPS2025! 🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk 📅 Tuesday 11:00am | Chair: Brent Kaiser (UoS) 🎤 Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University, Netherlands) One of our most prestigious awards - don't miss it! #AusPlantSci #PlantScience #PeterGoldacreAward

Day 1 wrapped! So many amazing sessions, but the real highlight was the student-led discussions, such sharp ideas and energy! Capped off the evening with a great welcome mixer. Excited for the rest of the conference! 🧬 #ConferenceLife #ASPS2025

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 🌍 JXB Issue 20 of 2025 is out now 🌍 🍇🔥 On the cover: Wildfire smoke lingers in a vineyard in Davis, California in August 2020 - see Paineau et al. in this issue 🔥🍇 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov). In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

Session 2 - Plant Organelle & Energy Biology Invited: Maria Ermakova (Monash)

The Trump administration has said that the U.S. passports of transgender people must now reflect the sex on their original birth certificate, reversing a decades-old policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Recent advances in the mechanism, transduction and function of oxygen sensing in plants #nendrule #hypoxia #plantscience academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

🧪 EXPERT VIEW 🧪 🚜 One of the main challenges facing agriculture is the control of plant development without using chemical compounds harmful to the environment. 💡 Here, Thuleau et. al. present regulatory peptides as interesting potential alternatives. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience

A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇

LCI9 is required for normal pyrenoid starch sheath formation and efficiency of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"if you don't have to work at getting the knowledge, it won't stick" This is the single most important, yet most frequently ignored, fact about teaching and learning.

Are there any women who haven’t experienced such things - I had my thigh grabbed as recently as last year - and I’m old! I was chasing funds and said nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...

We are seeking additional judges to judge the great posters created by our students at our annual conference, which will be held next week in Adelaide. If you are attending this event and are interested, please contact us. Dr. Ghazanfar Khan at [email protected].

“The Fall of Icarus” www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...

Rubisco is slow across the tree of life @omc111.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A VO2max of 96 mL/kg/min!! 🤯 velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra...

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

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Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops

CAM photosynthesis discovered in carnivorous plants phys.org/news/2025-11...

This is a remarkable dataset and worth thinking about.

Enhanced reconstruction of Holocene bryophytes from sedimentary ancient DNA using bryophyte-specific primers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.15.688602v1

A catastrophic marine mortality event caused by a complex algal bloom including the novel brevetoxin producer, Karenia cristata (Dinophyceae) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Related. Unrelated. Buy a bin chicken cap and donate to Sydney Sock Project. sydneysockproject.com/products/bin...

Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops #TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.

This will be a very useful and highly cited paper - well done all 🙌🌱🪴🌾

#straya Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿🐝🍂 Team from University of Sheffield in Botanical University Challenge first time 2025. Read 'The Sheffield Sporangia' experience in the competition's newsletter, The Thymes. Read more at the QR code or: botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/ More new teams #BUC2026?

🔴 🌿 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌿 🔴 The protein kinase SnRK1 acts on PRODUCTION OF ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT1 to regulate anthocyanin accumulation - Dieckmann et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @andreasrichter.bsky.social

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Induction of Synthetic Apomixis in Two Sorghum Hybrids Enables Seed Yield and Genotype Preservation Over Multiple Generations doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line | Nature Communications share.google/Ygkz9JGBF06d...

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For some sense of scale, if dollars were seconds, $1tn would equate to 31, 709 years, whereas the average Joe would spend their yearly income within a day.

Amino acid transporters mediate autonomous delivery of nanoparticle vehicles into living plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional characterisation of bicarbonate transporters from the cyanobacterial SbtA2 family and subsequent expression in tobacco https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686429v1