New Resource: "Transcription factor binding divergence drives transcriptional and phenotypic variation in maize" rdcu.be/esSwW Genome-wide comparative analysis of DNA binding for 200 transcription factors in two maize inbred lines.

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝 🧬 Epigenetics 🧬 🔎 Guest editors Catoni, Lechon & Probst dive into expert views, reviews, and original research exploring how plant epigenetics integrates developmental & environmental signals 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @alineprobst.bsky.social

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New OA Letter: "Guard cells on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces use different compositions of potassium ion channels to drive light-induced stomatal opening" rdcu.be/evxO3 scRNA-Seq, OnGuard model, genetic modification show distinct AKT1/KAT1 on both sides.

Raising the BAR each time… Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social talks about 20 years of the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology and the latest updates to this community resource #ICAR2025

Plants go NE(c)K and NE(c)K with animals & fungi... Mase et al functionally characterise a sole #Marchantia NEK kinase, thought to determine growth direction in plants, & identified its role in meristematic cell division control (similar to animals & fungi) 🔀 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Finger on the pulse...☝️ Zhang et al. have identified a C2H2 zinc finger protein, OsZOS2-19, in #rice, which negatively regulates #ABA sensitivity & cold response by modulating ROS accumulation & osmotic balance Read article: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantColdStress #PlantScience #CropScience