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Journal of Systematics and Evolution
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Commentary on "Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration" by Li Ping Tang et al. (2025) from
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Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration
In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain to...
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution
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🌳🌵🪴🌿Plants are amazing!🌴🌲🌱🌾 In this Commentary, Cai et al. explore the
#molecular
#evolution
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regulators that drive regenerative strategies like somatic embryogenesis and de novo organ regeneration in
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Molecular evolution of stem cell regulators driving powerful regenerative abilities in plants
Plants have evolved diverse regenerative strategies, such as somatic embryogenesis and de novo organ regeneration, governed by key transcription factors. This commentary summarizes the evolutionary t...
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution
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Using nuclear
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Cao et al. revisit Corydalis phylogeny, highlighting the need for studies integrating wider sampling, high-quality
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Revisiting the phylogeny of Corydalis with nuclear genes: Implications for its phylogenetic conflict and infrageneric classification
Robust phylogenies and comprehensive taxonomies are fundamental for understanding the evolution and classification of species-rich genera. Corydalis is one of the largest and most diverse angiosperm ...
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70072
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Plant Biotechnology Journal
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🍃 REVIEW 🍃 Negative Regulators of Rice Agronomic Traits: Functional Insights and Applications in Genome Editing-Based Breeding - Wu et al. 🔗
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)
3 days ago
Check out a recent publication from ASPS student member
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(LaTrobe Uni): Advances in seed omics Journal of Experimental Botany (2026). Congrats, Lucas! Link to paper :
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Advances in seed omics
This review synthesizes recent breakthroughs in seed biology enabled by cutting-edge omics technologies, revealing molecular mechanisms controlling seed de
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Javier Brumós
3 days ago
Participa en nuestra iniciativa Arte-Ciencia enmarcada en el XVIII Congreso de Biología Molecular de Plantas
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📍 Bilbao 🗓️ July 1-3
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Nature Portfolio
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Excited to share my PhD publication on plant–microbe interactions and biocontrol in tomato. Our study shows that pathogen-specific responses matter: strong in vitro antagonism by beneficial bacteria does not always translate into disease suppression in planta.
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Annals of Botany
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Impostors in South America: a new Batesian floral mimicry system involving orchids and Bignoniaceae models
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Impostors in South America: a new Batesian floral mimicry system involving orchids and Bignoniaceae models
AbstractBackground and Aims. Although Batesian floral mimicry is likely common, confirmed cases remain scarce. For instance, none have yet been documented
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Science Magazine
8 days ago
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs.
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Karolina Heyduk
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Please share with your trainees (will be useful for both undergrads and grad students!)
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
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A new study in
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reveals how bollworms suppress
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defenses. Wang et al. report
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bollworm effector HYPB1 targets dirigent protein GhDIR15, suppressing lignin
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Novel effector HYPB1 of cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) inhibits biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites and promotes feeding by targeting cotton dirigent protein GhDIR15
The cotton bollworm effector HYPB1 targets the cotton dirigent protein GhDIR15, suppressing lignin biosynthesis and weakening cell wall-mediated defense, thereby promoting insect feeding.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70270
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Julia Hanmer BSBI 🍁
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A great opportunity for budding naturlists!
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Abiotic Stress in Plants
3 days ago
Unlocking plant
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innovations
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Shicheng Guo
3 days ago
Discover how precise measurements of aberrant DNA methylation levels—largest gains at low CpG sites, losses at high CpG sites—revolutionize cancer biology! PMID:41896246, Nat Commun 2026, @NatureComms
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71089-5
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An unbiased approach to measure aberrant DNA methylation alterations | Nature Communications
The ability to accurately measure aberrant DNA methylation levels is integral to the understanding of DNA methylation biology. It is well-established that in cancer, the largest, and thus, most biologically important absolute gains of DNA methylation levels occur at CpG sites with low native levels while the largest losses occur at CpG sites with high native levels. Conventional wisdom assumes that the observed association between the degree of the alterations and the native levels are largely due to the limitations of change within the DNA methylation scale. Here, we present evidence that this association is largely caused by alterations occurring as a global rate of change relative to the native level. We show that DNA methylation alterations can be accurately compared by calculating the rate of change relative to the native level. Most importantly, this approach enables the identification of more biologically significant DNA methylation alterations. The authors show that, when looki
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Nature Plants
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New Review: "Leaf temperature and its departure from ambient air temperature"
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How leaf temperature deviates from air temperature informs species’ thermoregulation strategies. A meta-analysis-based Review to present a global picture of thermoregulation.
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Nature Plants
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New Article: "CDS-localized m6A drives co-translational RNA decay to relieve biotic and abiotic endoplasmic reticulum stresses"
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With News & Views: "m6A stops ER stress in its tracks"
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz
6 days ago
Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the
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in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies.
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PuckerLab publications
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Planning to sequence the genome of your favourite plant? This workflow based on ONT sequencing comes with hands-on instructions: "Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
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Journal of Experimental Botany
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🌾🥖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🥖🌾 This study displays a panorama of composition, function, chromosomal location, and transcriptional regulatory machinery regarding wheat seed storage protein (SSP) genes, facilitating mechanistic dissection of SSP accumulation and improvement of quality - Che et al.
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Excellent! Updating our "Marchantia nomenclature" text expander to refer to Bowman et al.
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Plant & Cell Physiology
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A comprehensive database for
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research Tanizawa et al. present the new improved MarpolBase
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- a central resource for M. polymorpha
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with near-telomere-to-telomere reference male Tak-1 and female Tak-2 genomes (ver. 7.1) 🆓
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[Important notice] To maintain nomenclature consistent and systematic, we strongly recommend that gene names/symbols should be registered before publications and presentations.
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New Phytologist
6 days ago
Endophyte-induced systemic spatial reprogramming of metabolism in Populus trichocarpa roots under drought 📖
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Plant Biotechnology Journal
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📝 BRIEF COMMUNICATION 📝 Engineering Herbicide Cross-Resistance in Rapeseed by Generating Stacked BnaALS Mutations via Sequential CBE and ABE8e-SpRY Editing - Ren et al. 🔗
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Trends in Plant Science
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Metabolic hijacking: how Xanthomonas feeds on plant sugars
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Metabolic hijacking: how Xanthomonas feeds on plant sugars
Xanthomonas pathogens threaten hundreds of crops by manipulating host metabolism for nutrient supply. Phan et al. and Wang et al. reveal two distinct effector strategies: hijacking fruit-ripening to release cell-wall sugars, and synthesizing xanthosan as a dedicated bacterial nutrient. These discoveries point to new resistance strategies for crop protection.
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New Phytologist
7 days ago
#TansleyReview
: Balancing mutualism: choice and sanctions in root–microbe symbioses Athira Sethu Madhavan &
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Boas Pucker
7 days ago
Looking for an excellent conference to present your latest plant research or to meet
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: International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) 6–10 September 2026
botanik-tagung.de
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Australian Cotton Science
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🧪 Improved forecasting of cotton canopy temperature for irrigation scheduling
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Improved forecasting of cotton canopy temperature for irrigation scheduling
Accurate forecasting of cotton canopy temperature (Tc) can effectively predict water stress for cotton crops, informing timely irrigation decisions. T…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192326001772
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Journal of Experimental Botany
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🌾🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬🌾 Recent advances in understanding homologous and homoeologous meiotic recombination in allopolyploid plant species have led us to propose a model for wheat homoeologous recombination and improving introgressions - Sourdille et al.
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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
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#BT2026DBG
abstract submission deadline May 31. Submit your abstracts soon!
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New Phytologist
6 days ago
Coupled allometric scaling in biomass and hydraulics sustains water balance 📖
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Seed World Europe
6 days ago
Researchers used genome editing to remove red pigmentation in lettuce while increasing beneficial flavonoids like quercetin. Lettuce rethink nutrient-tailored crops. 🌱
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Scientists Use Genome Editing to Develop Healthier Lettuce Crops
Researchers used genome editing to alter flavonoid production in red-leaf lettuce, removing red pigmentation while increasing beneficial compounds such as quercetin. The modified lettuce maintained no...
https://www.seedworld.com/europe/2026/05/11/scientists-use-genome-editing-to-develop-healthier-lettuce-crops/
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Trends in Plant Science
6 days ago
Soils set the optimal tension limit for plants
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Soils set the optimal tension limit for plants
Land plants extract soil water under negative vascular pressure, yet stomatal regulation begins at a conserved leaf tension (∼1.3 MPa) across diverse species. Carminati et al. demonstrate that soil hydraulic constraints, rather than xylem embolism vulnerability, drive this convergence, with leaf osmotic pressure helping to set the physiological threshold for stomatal regulation.
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Chenxin Li, PhD
6 days ago
What is people preferred midiprep kit for protoplast transfection nowadays?
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Thea Kongsted
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Although the red pigments made by flowering plants and liverworts are produced by distinct chemical pathways, here we found that they are induced by homologous complexes of transcription factors.
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Replicated repurposing of an ancestral transcriptional complex in land plants
Kongsted et al. find that, while the red pigments produced in liverworts and seed plants are distinct, they are regulated by homologous MYB-bHLH transcriptional complexes. They also find that in liver...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2826%2900466-5
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Teresa O'Meara
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We are hiring
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! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis
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John Innes Centre
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VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our Crop Genetics department, with tasks involving growing wheat lines, testing the plants for cold tolerance and phenotyping.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...
Deadline - 2 June 2026 Salary - £28,890 - £35,670 Contract - 12 months, full-time
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Research Assistant | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Crop Genetics Department at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.
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Heisler Lab
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Please re-circulate. New postdoc position available to study organ positioning in the flower at the University of Sydney. Cell polarity, auxin etc etc! Join our multidisciplinary RESYDE (
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
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Ever wonder how ubiquitination regulates plant receptor kinases?🤔 Then do we ever have a review for you!🫵 Zhou et al. look at what's new and next with the ubiquitin code of receptor
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The ubiquitin code of receptor kinases in plants
This review summarizes how ubiquitination regulates plant receptor kinases by controlling their stability, endocytosis, and activity through E3 ligases, often modulated by receptor kinase phosphoryla...
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Virginia Gewin
6 days ago
Scientists shared their standout days for this
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Best. Day. Ever. What does a good day in science look like?
Struggling to remember why you picked a career in science? Here are some heart-warming tales to jog your memory.
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New Phytologist
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Provenance legacies override species effects in shaping
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution
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This characterization of a new Late Permian species of Curvicubitidae by Xu et al. highlights the appearance of wing eyespots and bands-suggesting predator mimicry, a novel defense strategy in Permian insects.
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A new Late Permian species of Curvicubitidae illuminates the phylogeny and palaobiogeography of Pereborioidea (Insecta: Hemiptera)
This study revised the generic diagnosis based on Sinocurvicubitus haotianus Xu, Shih, Ren & Wang, sp. nov., a new species from Jiangxi Province, and interpreted the color bands and eyespot on the fo....
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Botany One
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PhD position: Tomato resistance to leaf mould disease // Wageningen
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Tomato production is threatened by leaf mould disease caused by Fulvia fulva. The aim of this PhD project is to discover novel tomato genes for durable resistance to leaf mould disease.
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PhD position: Tomato resistance to leaf mould disease
Are you interested in exploring the genetic potential of plant resistance? Do you enjoy the challenge of applying molecular and genetics approaches to unravel the plant-fungus interaction?
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Academic Europe
10 days ago
Job Alert Research Support Specialist (m/f/d) – Plant Development & Genetics Location: Cologne Deadline: June 8, 2026
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Journal of Experimental Botany
10 days ago
🌾🌍 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌍🌾 Harnessing the genetic diversity of wheat wild relatives is a promising strategy for developing climate-resilient, high-yielding wheat varieties, accelerated by advances in genomics, gene editing, and de novo domestication - Farooq et al. 🔗
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)
10 days ago
Abstract submission deadline is on 31st May 2026, if you want to present your
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research at this year’s International Conference of our German Society for Plant Sciences, the Botanik-Tagung 📆 6-10 September 2026 📍Bochum, Germany
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American Society for Horticultural Science
9 days ago
ASHS Career Center EDSA Design Dir - Hort and Biodiv
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Post Doc Rschr in Controlled Env Ag
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Plant Technologist
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Plant Health Care Mgr
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Abiotic Stress in Plants
9 days ago
Cell surface
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integrate plant
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, stress
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, and
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acquisition
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Cell surface receptors integrate plant immunity, stress adaptation, and nutrient acquisition
Plants thrive in complex and often hostile environments by continuously sensing and responding to a wide array of biotic and abiotic challenges. Central to this surveillance system are cell surface re...
https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385(26)00097-X
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Rushita Roy
9 days ago
Looking for PhD positions in Plant Stress & Disease Resistance. QTL mapping, and bioinformatics; protein expression experience. Portfolio + GitHub ready; seeking labs in crop resilience & disease resistance. Leads or reposts appreciated! 🔗 In bio
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Trends in Plant Science
9 days ago
Nitrous oxide mitigation in hybrid maize mediated by Massilia
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Nitrous oxide mitigation in hybrid maize mediated by Massilia
Massilia presents a functional paradox in maize heterosis: its enrichment correlates with lower nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, yet it lacks reduction genes. We propose that Massilia functions as an ecological hub, coordinating the rhizosphere microbiome and engineering the microenvironment to suppress N2O emissions. This paradigm guides new strategies for breeding climate-smart crops.
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