#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

📢 Check out issue 12 of JXB 📢 📔 On the cover: A rice floret with the lemma and palea removed, showing the inner floral organs, namely, the lodicule, stamen, and pistil (image credit: Pichang Gong) 🌾🌸 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology @plant-sci.bsky.social

Epi(c) Editing...✂️🧬🌱 Hirata et al have developed a novel #DNAmethylation editing tool in #Arabidopsis & demonstrate its potential for #epigenome editing in #plantscience through the targeted de novo methylation of specific sites in FWA doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantEpigenetics

Well #wood you look at that, our #PlantScience feed is full of tree content today, and we are here for that! 🌳 🌲

From xylem atlases to developmental continuity in forestry #plantscience

Professorship Agricultural Bioinformatics. Gießen, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #Plantsciencejobs www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

🌙☀️ INSIGHT ☀️🌙 McAusland & Murchie comment on work by Shahi et al. showing that wheat leaf dark respiration acclimates more strongly at night than during the day in response to nocturnal warming 🌡️ 📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Complete elucidation and heterologous reconstruction of the biosynthetic pathway of camptothecin #PlantScience #SecMet From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@planteditors.bsky.social blog post on #accessible color schemes updated with a discussion of this paper (in Resources, at the end). #SciCom planteditors.com/figures-in-f...

#Melatonin seed #priming: A climate-smart, green strategy to enhance #abiotic stress tolerance in plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantSci @jipb.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @plantmetabolism.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantbiology.bsky.social

🔥❄️ SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH ❄️🔥 In this paper, Sathasivam et al. present a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge on plant lipidome responses to heat and cold stresses through a systematic review and meta-analysis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿 Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interactions 🌿 📝 Edited by Pablo Del Cerro Sanchez, Jose Maria Vinardell & Catherine Jacott 📅 Deadline: 14 July 2026 📄 Got a manuscript? Contact us 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues?utm... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 #BeMiPlant #SEFIN2026 1/2

What made #trees possible? New study points to #drought survival. #Evolution Published from #plantSci scientists in @currentbiology.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...