The grain amaranth pangenome reveals domestication-associated changes in diversity and function of structural variation doi.org/10.64898/202... Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet doi.org/10.1101/2023...

'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt

"Everything changes, nothing is lost", stone mandala by land artist Katie Griesar #WomensArt #NewYear2026

Record heat continues in Central Africa with 40C in Cameroon,Chad and Nigeria particularly crazy the heat in CAMEROON Today 36.1C in the port of Douala broke its December record Cameroon this months has broken record all month in all regions: North,Plateau,Coast,South.

DECEMBER SUMMER IN MEXICO This is also the first time 40C is recorded in December outside the tropics in Northern Hemisphere Summer will continue in January with up to 39C in NW Mexico AND tropical nights in the desert (never happened in January): Records will fall allover from tomorrow

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

You've seen Elf on a Shelf, now try…

Rune Hansen et al. reported that the substomatal cavity is a crucial check point where the devastating Septoria blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) infection is stopped. Understanding this mechanism is key to future wheat immunity. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-11-24-0147-R

We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Old military air samples revealed DNA, enabling scientists to track moss spores over 35 years. Mosses now release spores up to a month earlier than in the 1990s, and the timing depends more on last year's climate than current spring conditions. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Upstairs, downstairs: conserved and divergent CLAVATA signalling in shoot meristem development and root symbioses by Tiana Scott and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qj6b #RootBiology #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

The brain drain is here. The European Research Council has seen a jump number of American applicants for early-career grants. Top researchers have received feelers from universities in Australia, EU & Asia, with China emerging as the U.S.’s rival for scientific dominance. 🧪 archive.today/Jm9JF

🌺If you're free on 15th January and would like to find out more about our Persian collections, why not sign up for one of our art workshops? More info in the booking links below 👇#KewLA Morning slot: https://ow.ly/x0cl50XMcGy Afternoon slot: https://ow.ly/IvwE50XMcGz

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

A beautiful example of how conserved pathways can diversify! Well done @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @philcarella.bsky.social et al. !!

🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science? Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees! Read more and apply here👇: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 #PlantSciJobs

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

"cis-regulatory evolution involves turnover of thousands of individual binding site instances while largely preserving transcription factors’ binding preferences." From: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

I had a great time writing this dispatch @currentbiology.bsky.social about Jacob Suissa's recent paper on the link between fern phyllotaxis and vascular architecture. "Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH793QW8S...

🫘Phaseolus beans are the world’s top legume for human consumption and widely grown in Europe, yet demand is increasingly met by imports. #LegumeGeneration is boosting bean breeding with better genetic resources, innovative tools and disease resistance. #phaseolus #foodsecurity

#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...

Happy to share our latest paper: The symbiosome space needs to be continuously cleared from demethylated pectins to keep rhizobia happy. Former PostDoc Chao Su took this story with him when moving back to China and finished it off. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience; @uni-freiburg.de

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES). Vancouver, Canada. #plantscijobs #plantscijob botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate Tropical forests are entering “no-analogue” climates... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

Look, a lil place where you can always get an emdash!

The @ucs.org Union of Concerned Scientists is hiring a science policy director. For the right person, this is a dream job. apply.workable.com/union-of-con...

☀️🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🍅☀️ Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I'm lichen it ... I'm lichen it a lot! These petroglyphs from Shining Cliff Woods are rather beautiful but sadly we don't think they're archaeology 'Concentric boulder lichen' (porpidia/actomelia) might be the answer, but none of the online pix are this spectacular - any lichenologists out there?

The extracellular Loop2 domain of the rhizobia outer membrane protein MhOpa22 mediates symbiotic nodulation and nitrogen fixation (Dongzhi Li, Jing Wu, Xiaobo Zeng, Fuli Xie, Hui Lin, Dasong Chen, Lili Wang, Youguo Li) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

In Europe, a division is emerging: the south and south east grow drier, including parts of the UK. Meanwhile, the North and North East, including parts of the UK, are growing wetter: 2/6

BSBI @bsbibotany.bsky.social announces winning photographs markavery.info/2025/11/27/w... Third category: sharing plants with others Great Reedmace (Typha latifolia), Cambridgeshire by Edward Burden

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

We are delighted to announce Thomas Reviews, a new format for impact at the intersection of plants, people and the planet. The three inaugural Reviews have been published in Plants, People, Planet today! Read the Editorial 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience #ThomasReview

Until we recognise that resilience requires inefficiency – that robust systems must have slack – we’re just optimising our way towards collapse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The reason AI is being pushed everywhere is because its merchants realise they are all in a bubble and the only way they can survive is if they get "too big to fail" and get a taxpayer bailout.

By combining molecular genetics with cell-ablation experiments, we found that vascular cambium stem cells and xylem-identity cells form an interchangeable unit, a stem cell niche. Meticulous work by @xixizhang9001.bsky.social, Ondrej Smetana, Jing Zhang & Xiaoyu Wang 1/x www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy www.science.org/content/arti...

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

There's still just about time to apply for this postdoc position - a super cool project and I can highly recommend working with Caspar! Deadline 02/11/25

Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

"The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout." @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres | #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

"The findings show that the rapid adoption of renewable energy worldwide is not matched by changes in higher education, since universities continue to prioritise coal and petroleum studies" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

☀️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱☀️ Maize leaf tips exhibit the lowest photosynthetic recovery post-drought, due to water storage deficits and hydraulic failure, reducing whole-leaf water use efficiency - Liu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪