☀️ An evaluation of Goudriaan's summary #model for light interception in strip canopies, using functional-structural plant #models doi.org/10.1093/insi... #FSPM #PlantScience

It was wonderful to present our Manifesto for Plant Science Education (published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social) at the Botanic Garden Education Network (BGEN) conference today. 🌱 Thank you Lauren Baker & organising committee for the invite! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great to be here in London as part of the BBSRC 'Accelerating impact in diet & health' impact showcase. We will be talking about the omega-3 tomatoes we have developed in collaboration with colleagues at @johninnescentre.bsky.social

🌿Check out our starter packs for scientists involved in developing computational algorithms, software, models, and tools to advance plant sciences. bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Are we missing someone? DM me! #PlantScience

Emergent feed-forward and isohydric responses to drought stress and atmospheric aridity: Insights and physical intuition from a time-dependent soil and plant hydraulic model by Fulton E. Rockwell doi.org/10.1101/2025... via bioRxiv #PlantScience

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Optimizing deep neural networks for estimating soil water retention curves: A comparison of metaheuristic and numerical algorithms by Mostafa Rastgou, Xiangping Jin, Qianjing Jiang, Shangkun Liu, Ruitao Lou, Jin Wang, Rongnian Tang, Yong He doi.org/10.1002/vzj2... via Vadose Zone Journal

Contextualizing Pan-Tropical Allometric Models for Biomass Estimation by Eustache Diemert and Anaëlle Dambreville doi.org/10.64898/202... via bioRxiv #PlantScience

Women shouldn't need to be feisty to survive in science. But it was tough for Margaret Cavendish 350 years ago, and it's still tough now #womeninstem occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

Modeling omics integration with HIVE identifies response signatures to multifactorial stress in plants doi.org/10.1093/plph... via @plantphys.bsky.social #PlantScience

💧 Water flow within and towards plant #roots-a new concurrent solution by Jan Graefe, Richard Pauwels, Michael Bitterlich doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

Towards smart canopies: Algorithmic design of maize canopy architectures that maximize light use efficiency. by Nasla Saleem, Talukder Zaki Jubery, Yan Zhou, Yawei Li, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Patrick S. Schnable, and Baskar Ganapathysubramanian doi.org/10.48550/arX... via arXiv

This special issue will feature selected contributions presented at the Interdrought VIII conference and external contributions #PlantScience #drought #Food Security

🌾 #modelling the dynamics and phenotypic consequences of tiller outgrowth and cessation in sorghum by G. L. Hammer, G. Mclean, J. Kholova, E. van Oosterom doi.org/10.1093/insi... #phenotyping #PlantScience

🌾 Development and stochastic validation of a parameterized #model of #maize stalk flexure and buckling by Michael Ottesen, Joseph Carter, Ryan Hall, Nan-Wei Liu, Douglas D. Cook doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

Oula does great science and was a pioneer in high CO2 / photosynthesis research. She is also a very humble, generous person. Great to read this profile #PlantScience

♻️ Introduction to special issue: floral ecology, genetics, and evolution in an unprecedentedly fast changing world by Xavier Picó and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

💻🌲 A mathematical #model integrates diverging PXY and MP interactions in cambium development doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

NEW! 🍅 A Functional-Structural Plant Model for Dwarf #Tomato Ideotype Identification in Vertical Farming #horticulture by Michele Butturini, Katarína Smoleňová, Jacopo Restina, Jacob Stolz, Jorad de Vries and Leo Marcelis doi.org/10.1093/insi... #FSPM #PlantScience @wurplant.bsky.social

💻 💧 #CPlantBox: a fully coupled #modelling platform for the water and carbon fluxes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum doi.org/10.1093/insi... #CPlantBox #PlantScience

This session focuses on the development and applications of modelling, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, and remote sensing to improve nitrogen efficiency and reduce losses.

📢 Abstracts are now being accepted for oral and poster presentations for the XXIII Nitrogen Workshop 📅 May 25–29, 2026 in Sassari, Italy Check out the Nitrogen and the Digital Era session led by Alessia Perego and Francesco Morari www.nworkshop26.it #PlantScience

We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics

Coming soon: X-Palm: A predictive model for oil palm production that analyzes source-sink relationships and yield periodicity (Vezy et al.) Virtual Plant Laboratory: Comprehensive software for constructing, simulating, and visualizing functional-structural plant models (Morales et al.)

Now available: 📰 PlantBiophysics.jl: a high-performance, modular software for prototyping and scaling biophysical models from leaf to canopy (Vezy et al.) 📰 ecAraCore: A temperature-aware metabolic model that simulates plant physiological responses to thermal stress (Wendering and Nikoloski) ...

🌱 Attention plant scientists & students! Do you want to tap into the power of computer models but find them too daunting? Check out our Methods for Plant Modelling articles! We break down: ✅Algorithms & software ✅ Models ✅ Tools for easy reuse. Read for free at: academic.oup.com/insilicoplan...

🌾 Join us at the 4th International Wheat Congress! Register now and save with Early Bird offers (until 31 Jan 2026). Join the global wheat community shaping the future of wheat science & innovation. 👉 www.iwc2026.com/register/

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Neat article on @botany.one where Kasey Barton shares her love of plants and some details for the upcoming special issue on seedling traits and climate change in @annbot.bsky.social. Paper proposals close Feb 1. 🌱 botany.one/2025/12/kase...

by Iqra Akram, Lukas Rohr, Kentaro K Shimizu, Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi, and @yassato.bsky.social

NEW! Spatial heterogeneity of disease infection attributable to neighbor genotypic identity in barley cultivars doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience #OpenAccess

This is a Methods for Plant Modeling article These articles describing software, tools, models, and other resources in an accessible way, making them suitable for educational use. See more at: academic.oup.com/insilicoplan...

by Rémi Vezy, Simon Treillou, Samuel Mackeown, Emilie Peynaud, Raphaël P A Perez, Thomas Arsouze, and Jean Dauzat

I’m editing this issue 👇🌲🌿🍃🌱🌳🍄🌾🪴

💻 🍃🧬 Integrating genomic prediction and genotype specific parameter estimation in ecophysiological #models: overview and perspectives doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

by Erin N. Bodine, Caroline Bush, Alex Capaldi, Rachel S. Jabaily

🍍💻 #modelling differences in reproductive effort between iteroparous and semelparous reproductive strategies in Bromeliaceae doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

📢 Submit to in silico Plant's Special Issue on “Simulating plant-plant interactions and community dynamics” edited by Andrew Friend (University of Cambridge) ℹ️ Find out more: academic.oup.com/insilicoplan... #PlantScience #DGVM

🌼 Graph metric learning quantifies morphological differences between two genotypes of shoot apical meristem cells in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience

💻🌾 Cropbox: a declarative #crop #modelling framework doi.org/10.1093/insi... #APSIM #PlantScience

This is wonderful news for the plant engineering biology community. You can read more about @plantgene.bsky.social in their @theplantjournal.bsky.social article - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Poisonous Plants call for papers is now live. This focus issue arose from the symposium of this name at the Antwerp @sebiology.bsky.social - It's an open call. Please repost 🌾🪴🌱☠️🌾 academic.oup.com/aob/pages/sp... Also advertised on the main AoB page as a link to the above.

by Maleana G Khoury, Kenneth S Berenhaut, Katherine E Moore, Edward E Allen, Alexandria F Harkey, Joëlle K Mühlemann, Courtney N Craven, Jiayi Xu, Suchi S Jain, David J John, James L Norris and Gloria K Muday

Researchers use partitioned local depth (PaLD) to search for patterns within time series transcriptome data academic.oup.com/insilicoplan... #Arabidopsis #GRN #PlantScience

A new mathematical model of photoinhibition by Tim Nies, Shizue Matsubara and Oliver Ebenhöh academic.oup.com/insilicoplan...

Modelling wheat yield at field level in Morocco by Achraf Mamassi, Marie Lang, Bernard Tychon, Mouanis Lahlou, Joost Wellens, Mohamed El Gharous and Hélène Marrou academic.oup.com/insilicoplan... #PlantScience

📣 Check out the Journal of Experimental Botany's newest special issue 📣 🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅 📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social

Development of a sophisticated DT as a dynamic representation of the field, modeling crop growth, canopy architecture, and competition for light, water, and nutrients. Integrate advanced sensors and simulation tools to guide robotic actions for yield optimization and enhanced biodiversity.

Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most needed to close the skill gaps. www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)