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

🧬⚙️ 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 🧪

🌱🧬 Descriptions of Plant Viruses 🧬🌱 Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus: A persistent seed-borne threat to cucurbits 🥒🍈 Gea-Caballero & Aranda provide an updated overview of CGMMV in the Annals #DPV series #plantscience #virology #planthealth @mregule.bsky.social

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SNP2Prot researchers are also contributing thought-provoking talks on: 🌱 New genomic technologies in agriculture 🔍 Why science is never absolutely certain—and why we should still trust it @saschalaubinger.bsky.social 🧠 DNA sequence analysis and biological discovery lndwhalle.de/programm/1110

🥬🧬 RESEARCH 🧬🥬 A k-mer-based analysis uncovered male-specific regions and candidate sex-determining genes in Spinacia turkestanica, advancing understanding of sex regulation and spinach breeding - Shoaib et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Can plants remember a stressful past? www.botany.one/can-plants-r... Scientists find that rice can tell stories of a hard winter to future generations and prepare them for survival #Botany #PlantScience

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Research / PostDoc position (m/f/d) Natural products involved in the communication between individuals of the same or different species @Uni Bielefeld in @chemecolcm.bsky.social 's lab. #PlantSci www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

#Sugarcane #Breeding Array 1.0 is a robust, cost-effective high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism array for population structure analysis, #genome-wide association studies, and #molecular breeding applications. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #OpenAccess #PlantSci

scPlantAnnotate: an accurate and robust transformer-based model for plant cell type annotation by Chunyang Lu, Manish Sridhar Immadi, Yen On Chan, Sameep Dhakal, Dong Xu, Marc Libault, Trupti Joshi buff.ly/7PBsNH1 via Journal of Advanced Research #PlantScience

Did you know? Many of our papers are #OpenAccess... ...Like this one!🔓 doi.org/10.1111/jse.... Moroti et al. report that historical shifts, geographic biases, and biological constraints shape #mammal species discovery. Read for 🆓 @wileyecology.bsky.social #systematics #biodiversity

Decoding #stress resilience in #soybean: Regulatory #networks and precision #breeding under #climate change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ‪ #PlantScience @jipb.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @soybase-database.bsky.social

#Vitamin B6 is vital for #plant stress responses, but understanding of its #genetic control is limited. Here, Wang et al. reveal that variation in the OsPDX1.2 promoter enhances VB6 accumulation and cold tolerance in #rice. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #OpenAccess

🌾🧬 RESEARCH 🧬🌾 Colas et al. show that XRCC2 barley mutants exhibit delayed replication leading to defective meiosis, altered RAD51 orthologue behaviour, and reduced crossovers, as in canonical mammalian XRCC2 mutants but unlike those in Arabidopsis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

This work on the #endangered aquatic #plant Ottelia songmingensis lays the foundation for understanding #evolutionary forces behind #genome gigantism and guides #conservation genomics in endangered aquatic plants. doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #systematics #PlantScience

Engineered #nanoparticles at the #redox interface: Rewiring #ROS signaling and #stress responses in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @jipb.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @rsccnn.bsky.social @plantredox.bsky.social

ASHS Career Center Tenure Track Asst Prof, AI for Hort Crop Sys https://ow.ly/u8G550ZjgYk Lead CEA Research Specialist https://ow.ly/GyEH50ZjgYg Asst Nursery Mgr https://ow.ly/vRhr50ZjgYh More jobs at https://ashscareers.careerwebsite.com/jobs/ #plantsciencejobs

💻 🍃 #model-based inference of a dual role for HOPS in regulating guard cell vacuole fusion buff.ly/y90nDVH #PlantScience

Nature Communications is looking for a plant biology editor: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

New OA Letter: "The progression of leaf senescence is gated by the cytosolic arginine pool" rdcu.be/frzky With Research Briefing: "The cytosolic arginine pool represses the progression of leaf senescence" rdcu.be/frzlA #PlantScience

🌾💧 REVIEW 💧🌾 This review reveals how plants build a waxy surface barrier. It summarizes the genetic regulations, especially in cereals, and discusses how the knowledge guides the design of resilient crops - Niu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Plant #biology for a changing world: Expert reviews on crop #resilience, #breeding, & emerging #technologies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantSci @jipb.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @molplantsci.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social

For those of you attending #RBMP2026 this week, don't miss PRI faculty member @hatem-rouached.bsky.social's keynote talk on Thursday, "Decoding Nutrient Cues in Plant Developmental Decisions." Learn more at: rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info #PlantScience

🔬🧬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🧬🔬 Refined plant histone preparation protocols based on chemical labelling improve LC-MS/MS analysis and enable expanded epigenetic profiling of post-translational modifications in maize - Ryzhaya et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I can highly recommend Mary-Dell's autobiographical article in @plantphys.bsky.social: "Agrobacterium. A Memoir" academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... It's always best to read about great scientific discoveries from the scientists themselves. #PlantScience

📣 NEW ISSUE 📣 Our July issue is out now! 🔍️ On the cover: leaf surface glandular trichomes on a CRISPR-edited tobacco plant containing a HAIRPLUS (NtHAP) gene knockout. 📷️ Michael P. Timko @uvabio.bsky.social Read it in full 👉️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677652... #plantscience 🧪

Happy #CanadaDay! 🍁 In the latest issue, Canadian-based authors Symonds et al. show that #Arabidopsis calmodulin-like proteins CML13 & CML14 are novel myosin XI light chains that likely function in various myosin XI-related cellular & physiological processes doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

💻🌾 Use of an enhanced cultivar calibration framework for #DSSAT to examine effects of ecotype and time-series data by @luisvargasrojas.bsky.social Matthew Reynolds, and Diane Wang buff.ly/nYDjbB7 #PlantScience #drought

EPAPER from @rootdevelopment.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

SAVE THE DATE! #Botany2027 is heading to Buffalo, NY, July 31-August 4, 2027! Lake Erie shoreline, Niagara Falls nearby, and a rich variety of native flora await. Get ready to shuffle off to Buffalo with your botanical science community! More details soon. #IamaBotanist #BotanistsinBuffalo

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 #plants beat the heat? In this lily spp., LlSAPK2 enhances thermotolerance by phosphorylating and stabilizing the LlbZIP46 TF, which activates #heat shock factor #genes and reduces heat-induced cellular damage. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #FreeAccess

‪ #Bacteriophages help sustainable plant protection ✅#Phages restore 🌱 growth during 🦠 infection. ✅🧬 shows ⬇️🌱immunity & ⬇️bacterial virulence. #Biocontroll #PlantSci 🧪 #PMI @frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I've got something to "TORC" about! 😅 After 4 years building this project at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, I'm so excited to share that my first independent preprint is now online! ✨ I hope you like it: doi.org/10.64898/202... A short thread... 🧵 #PlantSci #PlantScience

🕸️ DARWIN REVIEW 🕸️ Robil & Scarpella show that vein patterns are more diverse than commonly thought, and identification of vein precursor cells is arbitrary and inconsistent across species, thus challenging current understanding of vein patterns 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

⏰⏰⏰ A great line-up for tomorrow's webinar all 'aabout' rice - including our next paper highlight! 🌾🧬 "Insights from controlled, comparative experiments highlight the limitations of using BSMV and FoMV for virus-enabled reverse genetics in rice" 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aab.... #plantscience

Women in plant science around the world #plantscience

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

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

Call for papers for our special issue, the third in a series focused on the #Himalaya! #evolution #systematics #PlantScience Submission deadline October 31st, 2026 @wileyecology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Zhang et al. report that in Populus, #gravity, not mechanical strain, redirects auxin and initiates tension #wood formation, revealing how #trees sense orientation, reshape their structure, and adapt to their #environment. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Molecular physiology of photosynthesis - Transcriptional and post-translational regulation of C4-CAM photosynthesis in Portulaca. In @renatacferrari.bsky.social ‘s lab @lmu.de www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Mary-Dell Chilton, plant transformation pioneer, passed away on June 24th. www.facebook.com/story.php?st... See also Plant Science Classic #6: bsky.app/profile/soms... #PlantScience 🧪

#PlantScience peeps, tell your newly minted PhDs!

Looking for the right platform to share your #research? APS offers 20+ opportunities to showcase your work—from journals and annual meeting abstracts to webinars, podcasts, and more. Find the best fit: https://www.apsnet.org/members/engagement/Pages/ShareResearch.aspx #plantpathology #planthealth

♻️ Neighbour sensing through rhizodeposits in sorghum affects plant physiology and productivity by Shiran Ben-Zeev and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

#PlantScience Research Weekly: June 26 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Special issue on Plant Evolution; Temp effects on stomatal development & dynamics; Evolution of cytokinin signaling; Peering into pyrenoids; New tech for Lunar fertilizers (1/3) @mjonikas.bsky.social @ivedesmet1978.bsky.social

Glad to see Anna's final PhD paper as a pre-print. Marchantia as a bioproduction chassis not only for markers but also for useful proteins. #PlantScience #SynBio www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 Call for papers Extreme #Heat: Extending the thermal limits of life Abstract deadline: 5 September 2026 Now open for submissions! Full details 👇 buff.ly/7zscPVF #PlantScience #CallForPapers