🌿SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW🌿 Silicon enhances plant resilience to abiotic stresses by modulating physiological & molecular responses, particularly under drought and metal(loid) toxicity & is a potential tool for sustainable agriculture - Mora-Sanhueza et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾 SUB1-mediated energy conservation (quiescence) combined with higher tissue tolerance is a more favourable mechanistic acclimation than energy expenditure (ion exclusion) under saline water submergence in rice - Chakraborty et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 Trihelix transcription factors control developmental processes, from embryogenesis to reproductive growth, responses to pathogens & abiotic stress, & epigenetic modifications after ethylene & ABA perception - Ibarra & Reynoso 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾 Ethylene antagonizes ABA-induced stomatal closure in rice by inhibiting the protein kinases CTR1 and 2, negatively regulating the chilling tolerance of seedlings - Huang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

☀️SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW☀️ Clemente-Moreno et al explore how cell wall dynamics can impact photosynthesis (via mesophyll conductance) & resilience to (a)biotic stress, giving new insights into optimizing photosynthesis & stress tolerance simultaneously. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾 The lipoxygenase gene OsLOX9, regulated by the transcription factor OsMYC2, is induced upon blast fungus infection and promotes jasmonic acid accumulation, thereby enhancing rice resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae - Wang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 Histone H3 methylation plays a critical role in regulating plant responses to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature, light, cadmium, and nutrient stress 🧂🌡️☀️💧 📝 Yu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾 Heat shock tolerance in a sorghum genotype was facilitated by up-regulation of osmoprotectants, chaperones, and reactive oxygen species scavengers & suppression of SnRK1, a metabolic regulatory kinase - Watson-Lazowski et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 In tomato the myo-inositol phosphate synthase gene SlMIPS2 is sharply induced early in phosphate starvation, and SlMIPS2 regulates cellular InsP6 levels and SPX–PHR1 interactions to control Pi homeostasis - Roychowdhury et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧪 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🧪 Clusters of phytocytokine & receptor protein family genes evolved in Salicaceae. Phytocytokines show antifungal & immune elicitation activities, with elicitor activity being dependent on clustered receptor proteins - Lintz et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience

☀️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ☀️ González-Delgado et al review how plants sense photoperiod, how humans have profited from manipulating the genetic factors controlling photoperiod, and the benefits & drawbacks such manipulations can have for agriculture 🚜 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🏔️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🏔️ Flexas et al review the findings of recent ecophysiological campaigns at remote sites at the limits of plant life and discuss their interest in the context of climate change ❄️☀️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

⚙️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚙️ Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿 📝 Wairich et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 Mitochondrial carrier proteins regulate metabolite transport and energy balance, helping plants adapt to drought, salinity & temperature extremes, supporting cellular processes and resilience 🧂🌡️ 📝 Monteiro-Batista et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌍🌽 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌽🌍 Global climate change is resulting in long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. This review highlights primary metabolic adjustments of plants to cope with future abiotic stressors 🌡️☀️💧 📝 Bulut et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🪲 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🪲 Non-host resistance is the most common, durable, and efficient outcome of plant defences against biotic stresses. This review highlights its role in plant–insect interactions- Pinheiro et al. 📝 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Read our paper here: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... 🌱 and @cadenkane.bsky.social's Insight on it here: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... 🌳

One of our favourite covers, awesome painting skills! 🌱🎨🧪

Happy to see our work published in the @jxbotany.bsky.social today! Feedback welcome. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Issue 17: Plant Stress Physiology: Safeguarding Food Security in a Changing Climate 📘 Edited by Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Agustin Zsögön, and Wagner L. Araújo 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

📝 EDITORIAL 📝 Nunes-Nesi, Araújo & Zsögön present highlights from the 19th Brazilian Congress of Plant Physiology (Oct 2024) & the accompanying Special Issue 🔎 The featured research spans adaptation, photosynthesis & mechanisms of stress & immunity 🌎 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

⚽️ 🌿 VIEWPOINT 🌿 ⚽️ Get the ball rolling: update and perspective on the role of chloroplast plastoglobule-associated proteins under abiotic stress ☀️ ✍️ by Sheng Ying @msupri.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Issue 17: Plant Stress Physiology: Safeguarding Food Security in a Changing Climate 📘 Edited by Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Agustin Zsögön, and Wagner L. Araújo 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

🚨 CLOSING SOON 🚨 The Special Issue on "Plant Proteostasis" closes on 30 November 2025 📅 📝 Edited by Pablo Manavella & Catharina Merchante We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript? 👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plant Proteostasis Editors: Pablo Manavella & Catharina Merchante Deadline: 30th Nov '25 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience @kmerchante.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social (1/2)

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Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. → academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿 📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi 📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025 📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

Mechanisms of carbon allocation to stem-like axial sink organs academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

Mysterious giants in the world of lipids-long linear isoprenoid functions in plant physiology and reproduction academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

🧬 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🧬 🔬 Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Plants 🔬 📝 Edited by Shahid Mukhtar 📅 Deadline: 28 February 2026 📣 Got a suitable manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues @smukhtarlab.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 (1/2)

🍇🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🍇 Botrytis cinerea infection is promoted by chitotetraose treatment, which has a role as a negative regulator of grapevine immunity, inhibiting MAPK phosphorylation and defense-related gene expression in roots & leaves - Marzari et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

#IJPB event Three inspiring days at the 3rd Workshop on Carbon Allocation in Plants 🌿 Thanks to all participants and sponsors for the great discussions! 👏 Special mention to Rozenn Le Hir @catsteam.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4dy5hHO and Wenjia Xu CHRODYNO team 👉 bit.ly/4fqSSq9 for sharing their works!

☀️🌱 Editor's Choice 🌱☀️ CLC2, a light chain in the clathrin complex, is a substrate of the ubiquitin ligase ATL5 and functions in seed longevity by influencing the expression of ribosomal protein genes in Arabidopsis - Hasegawa et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌽🧂RESEARCH🧂🌽 Phosphorylation of ZmWRKY104 by ZmMAPK7 enhances its ability to bind to DNA of the ZmSOD4 promoter and increases SOD activity, thereby improving salt tolerance in maize - Li et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌽🧂RESEARCH🧂🌽 Phosphorylation of ZmWRKY104 by ZmMAPK7 enhances its ability to bind to DNA of the ZmSOD4 promoter and increases SOD activity, thereby improving salt tolerance in maize - Li et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The plasticity of physiology and development in response to the environment is amazing and not always mediated by the same pathways in response to a same stimulus.

☀️🌱 Editor's Choice 🌱☀️ CLC2, a light chain in the clathrin complex, is a substrate of the ubiquitin ligase ATL5 and functions in seed longevity by influencing the expression of ribosomal protein genes in Arabidopsis - Hasegawa et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬🍠 RESEARCH 🧬🍠 Wounding in sweet potato leaves induces miR168-3p, which targets IbKTN80 to participate in systemic signaling - Chiu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🍇🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🍇 Botrytis cinerea infection is promoted by chitotetraose treatment, which has a role as a negative regulator of grapevine immunity, inhibiting MAPK phosphorylation and defense-related gene expression in roots & leaves - Marzari et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🐛🌿 REVIEW 🌿🐛 Dong et al. reveal how co-infestation by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci interferes with plant chemical defenses against caterpillars, affecting recruitment of natural enemies and providing insights for improved pest management strategies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾 REVIEW 🌾 Spontaneous deletion of bread wheat TaHKT1;5D led to unusually high leaf Na+ accumulation in a salinity-tolerant genotype; yet shoot growth and grain yield remained unaffected, independent of the salinity tolerance phenotype - Genc et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The sucrose:trehalose 6-phosphate nexus is conserved in flowering plants with different phloem loading and carbon storage strategies academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

🌾 REVIEW 🌾 Spontaneous deletion of bread wheat TaHKT1;5D led to unusually high leaf Na+ accumulation in a salinity-tolerant genotype; yet shoot growth and grain yield remained unaffected, independent of the salinity tolerance phenotype - Genc et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🐛🌿 REVIEW 🌿🐛 Dong et al. reveal how co-infestation by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci interferes with plant chemical defenses against caterpillars, affecting recruitment of natural enemies and providing insights for improved pest management strategies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

☀️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱☀️ Maize leaf tips exhibit the lowest photosynthetic recovery post-drought, due to water storage deficits and hydraulic failure, reducing whole-leaf water use efficiency - Liu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🔬🌹 RESEARCH 🌹🔬 Transcriptomic and functional analyses reveal a molecular framework of Botrytis cinerea colonization in rose, which integrates multiple fungal physiological processes and manipulation of plant cells - Li et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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🔬🌹 RESEARCH 🌹🔬 Transcriptomic and functional analyses reveal a molecular framework of Botrytis cinerea colonization in rose, which integrates multiple fungal physiological processes and manipulation of plant cells - Li et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

☀️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱☀️ Maize leaf tips exhibit the lowest photosynthetic recovery post-drought, due to water storage deficits and hydraulic failure, reducing whole-leaf water use efficiency - Liu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪