🧪 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

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🏔️ 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 🧪

Join us for Webinar 2 in the OED series: Creating positive laboratory learning environments with Dr Sarah Rayment on 19 Nov 2025, 14:00–15:00 (GMT). Free to attend! Book now: www.sebiology.org/resource/sig... #OEDWebinar #Education #LabLearning

🚨 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

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🚨 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

One week to go until our webinar about "Reflections on co-production and impact in conservation physiology", presented by Dr Steven Cooke! Sign up here: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e... @SEBiology.bsky.social #ECR #EarlyCareerResearcher #PhD #Conservation #Physiology

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🎉 The SEB October 2025 Newsletter is out! This month: last call for Plenary Lecturers nominations, new webinars in Conservation Physiology, the upcoming OED workshop, and tons more. Don’t miss it: www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-october-2025-newsletter.html #Science #Biology #SEB #Newsletter

⏰ Deadline today! Nominate an outstanding scientist for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award, to be presented at the 2026 Annual Conference in Florence 🇮🇹. Submit here: www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html

🌽🧂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 🧪

Discover the Editor’s Choice from @theplantjournal.bsky.social by Martin Balcerowicz – Salicylic acid turns down the heat on thermomorphogenesis. Dive into how SA suppresses plant growth under elevated temperature. Read here: www.sebiology.org/resource/oct...

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🦊 Just a reminder! Our #Minecraft foxes resource is still available for exploring predator-prey interactions in a fun, interactive way. Check out now: www.sebiology.org/outreach/public-resources/minecraft-foxes.html #MinecraftEducation #EcologyInMinecraft #SEBOutreach

🚨 FINAL DEADLINE: 31 October 2025 🚨 Nominate now for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award to be presented at SEB 2026 in Florence 🇮🇹 Recognising exceptional contributions in experimental biology. Don’t miss out: www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html

Want to boost your interdisciplinary collaboration skills? Join us 12 Nov for a 2-hour online #workshop to learn mindset, tools & group problem-solving in interdisciplinary teams. 🗓️ 12 November 2025, 11:00–13:00 (UK time) 🔗 Book your place: www.sebiology.org/resource/boo...

☀️🌱 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 🧪

🚨 Deadline TOMORROW! Last chance to nominate for the SEB President’s Medal, recognising outstanding early-career scientists in Animal, Cell, Plant, and OED. Don’t miss out ➡️ www.sebiology.org/resource/last-chance-to-submit-nominations-for-seb-president-s-medal-and-plenary-lecture-awards.html

🧬 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)

🚀 New webinar series: ConPhys Conversations! First session with Dr Steven Cooke on co-production & impact in conservation physiology 🗓️ 5 Nov 2025, 14:00–15:00 GMT | Free Book now: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-event-calendar/conphys-conversations-1.html

🚨 in AAB-owned PBJ -> 'Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation'. Interesting read that explores the workability of proposed 20nt limits @epsoeurope.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿 📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi 📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025 📄 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

🎥 Talks now online from our 75th Anniversary Symposium! 🎥 Missed the conference or want to rewatch some of the fantastic talks? Recordings are now available on demand, exclusive to SEB members 🌿 🔗 sebiology.org/ressou... #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸 Quentin Cronk looks at how and why so many eudicot lineages jettisoned the petal, often to reinvent it via petaloidy of the remaining perianth whorl 🌼 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social

Discover how foxes and chickens can teach us about ecosystems ....even in Minecraft! 🦊🐔 Try this in-game experiment and explore predator-prey dynamics in a fun, hands-on way. 📚 Check out the full resource here: www.sebiology.org/outreach/pub... #ecology #STEM #Minecraft #scienceeducation #SEB

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🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿 🔬🧱 Plant Cell Wall Biology 🧱🔬 Editors: George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels 📅 Deadline: 31 December 2025 📣 We welcome contributions! 🔗 Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues?utm... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social (1/2)

Join us on 5th November to hear our Founding Editor Steve Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social speak about #Collaboration, #CoProduction and #Impact! Sign up here: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e... @sebiology.bsky.social #ECR #PhD

💡 INSIGHT 💡 Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧 Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social

⏰ Final day to register! Join our OED Webinar 1: Using AI in Student Assessment, Marking, and Feedback. Explore practical ways AI can enhance assessment and provide faster feedback to students. Register here: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-event-calendar/oed-webinar-1.html

🏅 Nominations are still open for the SEB awards! President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists: sebiology.org/grants/award... Deadline: 24/10/2025 Plenary Lectures - Apply now: sebiology.org/grants/award... Deadline: 31/10/2025

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🍅🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱🍅 Resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato is linked to variety-specific proteomic changes; the CAPE1 peptide restricts Ralstonia solancearum growth in planta - Zhang et al. 🦠🍅 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @bactodeath.bsky.social

Join us on 5 November 2025 for the new @conphysjournal.bsky.social webinar: “Reflections on Co-Production & Impact in Conservation Physiology” with Dr. Steven Cooke. Dive into lessons from co-produced science, stakeholder engagement, successes & failures Book now: www.sebiology.org/resource/boo...

🎥 @jxbotany.bsky.social 75th Anniversary Symposium recordings are now available and exclusively free for SEB members! Watch sessions on Beginnings, Growth, Maturity & Future 🌱 Watch them now: www.sebiology.org/resource/all...

⚡ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW⚡ 🌱 In this review, Yu & Feng establish a phylogenetically-guided classification framework of plant aspartic proteases, clarify their roles in development, stress, and adaptation, and identify future research priorities 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Curious how AI can transform student feedback and assessment? Join us in one week to hear from experts Nigel Francis and Jordon Millward + open discussion. Free webinar on 15 October 2025, 13:00-14:00 BST. Sign up now: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e... #Education #AI #Webinar

📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 In this review, Wang et al. describe the protease, chaperone-like, and substrate processing working modes of plant FtsH, and summarize the role of FtsH in organelle protein homeostasis 🔄 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🏅 Nominations are still open for the SEB awards! 🌟 President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists www.sebiology.org/grants/award... 🗓 Deadline: 24/10/2025 🎓 Annual Lecture Awards – honouring leading scientists across biology www.sebiology.org/grants/award... 🗓 Deadline: 31/10/2025

💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡 Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social

📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 🛡️ RD21-like proteases act in immunity and are targeted by unrelated effectors produced by a diverse range of plant pathogens throughout the plant kingdom - Huang & van der Hoorn 📝 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

How can AI reshape assessment in higher education without compromising fairness? Join us on 15 Oct for the OED Webinar: AI in Assessment, Marking & Feedback, featuring Nigel Francis & Jordon Millward. Free, online, includes audience Q&A. Register: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e...

🌟 Your success deserves the spotlight! We’re inviting SEB members only to promote their work in the upcoming Autumn 2025 Magazine. Whether it’s research, awards, funding or media coverage, let us celebrate your story. More information: www.sebiology.org/resource/pro...

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