🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - FINAL CALL 🚨 📅 🪾💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧🪾📅 🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎 📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues #PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues

A new intergeneric hybrid has been developed in the Malvaceae. The hybrid was developed by crossing a member of the Callianthe genus and the Abutilon genus, and the traits of the hybrid are intermediate to those of the parents. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19073-25 #plantscience

📜 On this #DarwinDay, explore our Darwin Reviews 📜 📇 Darwin Reviews are our most prestigious review series, featuring carefully selected topics from leading plant scientists 📇 🌳 In 2025, we celebrated 75 years of JXB with a special Darwin collection: academic.oup.com/jxb...#DarwinDay, #PlantScience 🧪

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 🔬 Issue 4 is out now 🔬 📔 On the cover: Microscopic observation of stomatal immunity and hypersensitive response during Plasmopara viticola infection in a leaf of resistant grapevine (photo credit: Wei Zheng). 🔗 Read the full issue: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪

Radicle, dude! 🏄 Liu et al show that 'target of rapamycin' or TOR signaling regulates #maize radicle development by modulating starch metabolism and energy homeostasis 🌽 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Contrasting effects of experimental warming in the initiation year & the flowering year on #flower phenology of boreal understory species New #AB research by Christa Mulder, Eileen Schaub & Pamela Diggle doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #climatechange #Rhododendron #Viburnum

🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵 The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution

And another #PlantScience conference of potential interest!

#PlantScience conference of potential interest!

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Welcome to our new hub for plant stress science! We’re here to feature and discuss the latest on how plants cope with drought, temperature, metals, and other abiotic challenges. Got relevant work? Tag us! #PlantStress @planteditors.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social @isplore.bsky.social

SS3 in wheat starch granule initiation 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Ding et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Still time for an edit and #ImageIntegrity check! planteditors.com

How state transitions balance photosynthetic electron transport in plants – a quantitative study 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Hoochak et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

🇮🇳 Elevating the Value of Medicinal & Herbal Plants through Controlled Environment Agriculture - Christ University, Bengaluru, India 🪴 I’m very excited to speak at this event and to learn alongside colleagues over these three days. #cea #horticulture #plantbiology

🎉🆕📰🎉: Thermal behaviour of lipids in short-lived seeds of Australian rainforest species doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026!! 🌟 We belong in Science, and our inclusion fosters and drives innovation 🌟 🌱 Charlene Kunaka-Dambire shares her journey in a new blog post 👉️ aab.org.uk/idwgs2026/ #WomenInScience #IDWGS #plantscience

We're recruiting a PhD student to try and understand stress memory and gene function, using gene editing, in trees! #plantscience

New in Grassland Research: Flow cytometric DNA ploidy analysis across 13 perennial grass species. Expand understanding of genome size variation to support breeding, taxonomy & grassland ecology. Read & submit your research today🔗https://ow.ly/8mWC50YauYx #PlantScience #GrasslandResearch

Friday 20 Feb 2026 (15:00 UvA Science Park) “From Fertilization to Flower Design” by @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social From live imaging of pollen tube–synergid interactions in Arabidopsis and Petunia @petuniaplatform.bsky.social to flower genetic design. Host: Francesca Quattrocchio 🌺#PlantScience

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

New in Grassland Research: Flow cytometric DNA ploidy analysis across 13 perennial grass species. Expand understanding of genome size variation to support breeding, taxonomy & grassland ecology. Read & submit your research today🔗https://ow.ly/OblB50Yav14 #PlantScience #GrasslandResearch

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring: 1. Postdoc 2.PhD (UK applicants only) Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development. More info here- sites.google.com/view/root-re... #plantscijobs #plantscience

February Issue. Read FREE: Focus issue on plant epigenetics (see artist inspired cover); Defining the epigenetic toolkit as an evolvable trait; Precision plant epigenome editing; Expanding plant epigenetic code & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience

🌧️🌳 A multi-tissue genome-scale #model of Populus elucidates overexpression targets for improving drought tolerance by Julian Simas Coutinho Barbosa, Wheaton Schroeder, Patrick Suthers, Sara Jawdy, Jin-Gui Chen, Wellington Muchero, Costas Maranas doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course – Membranes in Organelle Biogenesis 📍 Spetses, Greece | 🗓️ 10–16 May 2026 A week with leading experts on organelle biology, membranes, lipids, and dynamics. ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026 🔗 Info: network.febs.org/videos/membr... 📝 Register: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl

📸 We’re delighted to unveil the winners of the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition 2025! 🏆 Overall Winner Raghuram Annadana (IG: macro_by_raghu). The image shows a parasitic wasp laying its eggs inside Banana Skipper butterfly eggs. Read more and view the galleries 🔽

Pathogen resistance with no #yield loss? Let's see what Wang et al. have to say about the role of effector UvScd1-secreting Bacillus subtilis as a biocontrol agent for #crop #disease management in this #FreeToRead article! doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience

Presented today with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @KCGEB1 Open Science, Global Impact: Elevating Your Institute and Career How can open science amplify both institutional reputation and individual careers? doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🧪🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social revealing that competitive environment, rather than herbivory, can drive short-term phytochemical responses in some plant species. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/qmwx @drjoshbrian.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #PlantScience

A cunning colonizer... Koskimäki et al. reveal the unique and rhizobia-like colonization strategies employed by the endosymbiont Methylorubrum extorquens DSM13060 to invade pine trees #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Tetrapyrrole biosynthetic intermediates act as chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signals to regulate intercellular trafficking via plasmodesmata 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Azim et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

🍅🦠 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🦠🍅 Application of in vivo-produced dsRNA specific to tomato brown rugose fruit virus reduces both viral RNA levels and disease symptoms in tomato plants, and triggers mild activation of innate immune responses - Weiss et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

From pest damage and invasive species to advances in monitoring and predictive tools, Bugs in the North brings together work that sheds light on insect-crop interactions in continental climates. Read the collection today 🐞▶️ https://ow.ly/am3b50Y8sZj #PlantScience #InsectResearch

In our latest preprint we report the unexpected discovery of Epi-STR, an R-stereoselective ortholog of the S-selective canonical Strictosidine synthases (STRs). Found in the rather obscure plant Pogonopus specious. This work was led by my stellar student Clara Morweiser! #natprod #PlantScience

CO-FT Regulation of flowering in Arabis alpina 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Sashidhar and Coupland @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience BS @mpipz.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers 📣 RECROP: Plant Adaptations to Extreme Environments Do you work on: 🌽 Crop stress resilience 🧂 Salinity 💧 Drought 🌡️ Heat 🦠 Plant-microbe interactions in extreme environments 🧪 Molecular, epigenetic & physiological mechanisms Submit your paper now: buff.ly/qJqmlaP #plantscience

So much love for the #grass in the #BadBunny half time show––brings joy to my #PlantNerd heart! 💚 #PlantAwareness 💚

🥇The amazing Daniela Döben received the prize of the jGBM @gbmev.bsky.social for her Master thesis on the redox metabolism of plant-microbe interactions 🌱🦠🔬 #MPMI @uni-muenster.de Huge congratulations, Daniela! 🎉🎉🎉 Also big shout out to the mentoring of @jan-oleniemeier.bsky.social 🙏

At long last, the Chlamy chloroplast ribosome hat 🎩 (now renamed the arm 💪) is here to say hello👋! We first spotted this extended structure in green algae a decade ago, and @florentwaltz.bsky.social did beautiful work bringing it into focus! #CryoEM ❄️ #TeamTomo 🔬 #PlantScience 🌾 #ProtistsOnSky 🧪

Better grasses, better pastures! 🌾 New research maps repetitive DNA in Urochloa species, key tropical forage grasses, uncovering Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons & satellite DNA that distinguish species and ploidy. #PlantGenomics #Cytogenetics #ForageCrops https://ow.ly/bnub50XW7rW

🧬 From Nature Plants: Plants send mobile small RNAs from maternal tissues to pollen, enabling essential gene control for normal male fertility. (Blake C. Meyers) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

🔬 Assistant/Associate Professor position oppening 🎓 📅 Applications: March 3 2026 in Odyssee 📅 Start date: September 1 2026 #academicjobs #research #highereducation #plantbiology #joboffer #enzymaticchemistry #plantchemistry #terpenoids #ecologicalchanges #ecology

This week in @science.org, a celebration of plant pangenomes. A pangenome analysis for massively polyploid sugarcane species, and one for Brassica rapa giving insight into subspeciation. What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)

Tune in to our next webinar 'all aabout' Roots & Soil Biology 📅 24 Feb - 1pm GMT 🔗 buff.ly/dcXsZR4 & hear from Gustavo Ferreira da Silva 'all aabout' his recently published paper 👇 #plantscience @aabiologists.bsky.social

(D)efficiency in motion...🪴 Hanashiro et al. show how secretion of organic acids & acid phosphatases is regulated in white lupin cluster roots to increase inorganic phosphate availability under P-deficient conditions doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #PlantNutrition

Congratulations, Hongwei Hou & the team for this beautiful story of the genomic basis of environmental adaptation of an amphibious plant, Hygrophila difformis, and for the beautiful cover! 共著論文がPlant, Cell & Environ雑誌の表紙に。おめでとうござます😍🌱🌊!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Differential gene expression in wild and cultivated cacti reveals diverse metabolic pathways for stressful environments doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience