✨ The SEB December 2025 Newsletter is live! Check out the latest on the SEB Annual Conference 2026, Eco Mito Symposium, new editorial internships, & more. Full details: www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-december-2025-newsletter.html

A new @theplantjournal.bsky.socialEditor’s Choice by @transcription.bsky.social is now out! 🌿 Discover a research highlight that sheds light on plant cell wall biology. Read now: www.sebiology.org/resource/december-2025-tpj-editor-choice.htm

Check out some of expected reviews so far 📝 @jillec.bsky.social @cimmyt.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social #PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues (2/2)

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Thank you @sebiology.bsky.social for featuring me and my lab in the autumn magazine. My international journey has been incredibly valuable, including the fantastic people I have met and worked with. Read the full article here: issuu.com/societyforex... Our lab: move.research.vub.be/en/bnb-lab

Check out this great editorial from @conphysjournal.bsky.social !

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.

Check out some of expected reviews so far 📝 @plantphys-cam.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social #PlantScience 🧪 (2/2)

We know a lot about how cold-water fish 🐟 adapt to warming conditions, but what about #FluctuatingConditions? This new paper in #ConPhys explores #Trout growth rates and thermal tolerance in response to fluctuating temperatures 🌡️❄️. Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

🌱⚖️ RESEARCH ⚖️🌱 In Marchantia, amyloplasts function as statoliths in parenchymatous storage cells and play an important role in gravitropism; but gravitropism is not entirely abolished in the absence of starch granules - Hashimoto-Sugimoto et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Missed it the first time? The Autumn 2025 issue of SEB Magazine is already available on demand! Dive into powerful features on real-world biological challenges, inspiring interviews, and the latest breakthroughs across the SEB community. Catch up here: www.sebiology.org/news-publica...

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Save the date for Bioscience Careers Day 2026! Find out what skills and experience are necessary to thrive in today's rapidly evolving bioscience landscape. . 📆 3-5 March, 12:30-14:30, online Bookings will open soon: www.rsb.org.uk/bioscience-c... #BioscienceCareers #STEMCareers #BiologyCareers

Want to apply for the @rsb.org.uk Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year award? Join the webinar next Tuesday for guidance and tips on a strong application! More information: www.rsb.org.uk/he-bioscience-teacher-award

🧬🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅🧬 Tomato cytoplasmic male sterility caused by incompatibility between nuclear and cytoplasmic genetic information is restored through the action of multiple fertility restorer genes of tomato wild relatives - Iki et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🔬🪲 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🔬🪲 Glandular trichomes function as ultra-fast biomechanical defense triggers in tomatoes, rupturing upon contact with insects and exposing them to sticky and toxic secretions - Popowski et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @jaredpopo.bsky.social

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🟠🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🍅🟠 Tomato carotenoids contribute to photosynthesis, color ripe fruit and produce bioactive signals. Rodriguez-Concepcion et al. provide an update on how paralogs of key biosynthetic enzymes control carotenoid production. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🧬 CRISPR/Cas technology is an emerging tool for identifying nucleic acid sequences. Hak et al. present a user-friendly, extraction-free, rapid protocol for specific on-site detection of plant viruses using CRISPR/Cas13a. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝 🍅 Tomato 🍅 🔎 Guest editors Gibon, Beckles, Osorio & Ezura dive into the reviews, technical innovations and original research articles in this special issue that address the major challenges facing the tomato industry 🍅 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #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

🧬 RESEARCH 🧬 The endosomal sorting complex protein FYVE4, vital for biogenesis of multivesicular endosomes & vacuolar degradation of membrane proteins, interacts with PYL receptors to destabilize PYL4 & suppress abscisic acid signaling - Chen et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The SEB November 2025 Newsletter is out! 🎉 Autumn 2025 issue of SEB Magazine now available OED Webinar 3: “Inclusive learning in classrooms of the future” — register today All recordings from the JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium now online 📚 Dive in: www.sebiology.org/resource/seb...

🍭🍃 RESEARCH 🍃🍭 Trehalose 6-phosphate, a sugar signalling metabolite, is mainly present in the bundle sheath cells of Setaria viridis leaves - Tonetti et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The Autumn 2025 issue of SEB Magazine is now available on-demand! Dive into articles exploring the latest in biology and innovation. 🌱🐾 Read it here: www.sebiology.org/resource/the-autumn-2025-issue-of-seb-magazine-is-now-available-on-demand.html

🛡️ INSIGHT 🛡️ "Barley powdery mildew effector CSEP0162 interacts with the endosome membrane-binding domain of barley MON1" - Deb et al. share an update relevant to their earlier work, Liao et al. (2022) 🌾 Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

💨🌿 REVIEW 💨🌿 Environmental factors such as wind and plant-specific traits including leaf size can be manipulated to alleviate limitations imposed on photosynthesis by low leaf boundary layer conductance - Dupont et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @silverevialet.bsky.social

New @theplantjournal.bsky.social Editor’s Choice by @gwenkirschner.bsky.social: hints that NGATHA genes may have deeper evolutionary roots than we thought… and possibly before the carpel itself. 🌱👀 Read more: www.sebiology.org/resource/nov...

🧬 RESEARCH 🧬 Specific domains of the Arabidopsis RS2Z splicing factors contribute to their nuclear localization, nucleocytoplasmic dynamics, and ability to contact protein partners and specific pyrimidine-rich RNA motifs - Fanara et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🫛🧬 RESEARCH 🫛🧬 The genome and proteome of vicilin deletion mutants in pea have been defined. Intercrossed mutants lacking up to 19 vicilin genes show no reduction of protein concentrations in mature seeds - Rayner et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Applications are now open for ECRs to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Solving the Mysteries of Energy Expenditure Compensation' organised by Vincent Careau & Lewis Halsey. @jexpbiol.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social www.biologists.com/workshops/ju... #BiologistsWorkshops

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 🌍 JXB Issue 20 of 2025 is out now 🌍 🍇🔥 On the cover: Wildfire smoke lingers in a vineyard in Davis, California in August 2020 - see Paineau et al. in this issue 🔥🍇 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

🌟 SEB OED Webinar #3 is coming! “Inclusive learning in classrooms of the future” with Dr Joshua Tabor & Colin Keenan. Explore UDL, AI, gamification & immersive learning. 📅 10 Dec 2025 – 15:00 UK Book now: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-event-calendar/oed-webinar-3.html

🌿 NEW WEBINAR TODAY! "Translating Research from Lab-to-Field-to-Application" Prof Edgar Cahoon & Dr Hyojin Kim, U. of Nebraska–Lincoln 🗓️ 24 Nov 2025 | 🕔 17:00 CET | 10 am US Central Still on time to register 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @aabiologists.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 🌱 Issue 19 of 2025 - Peptides: A Treasure Chest of Structures and Functions 📘 Edited by Aleksandra Skirycz, Andrew Nelson & Alyssa Kearly 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

🫛 RESEARCH 🫛 Iron retention, coupled with symbiotic associations driven by the enrichment of Variovorax and Paecilomyces in the roots, confers tolerance to combined iron deficiency and drought in soybean - Hasan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🛡️ RESEARCH 🛡️ Endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by necrotrophic fungal pathogens activates the unfolded protein response pathway in Arabidopsis via the IRE1-bZIP60 arm, and this is required for immunity to these pathogens- Blanchard et al. 🍄 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️ Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🔥 RESEARCH 🔥 Shrub resprouting depends on pre-disturbance condition, with aridity, soil fertility & fire history as secondary drivers. Repeated disturbance reduces resprouting, & adult plants are more resilient under low water conditions - Zomer et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧪 Last chance to secure your spot Join tomorrow’s free webinar by @sebiology.bsky.social : “Creating positive laboratory learning environments”. 📅 19 Nov 2025, 14:00 UK time. Register now : www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e... Don’t miss out!

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 The overexpression of the nitrate transporter NRT2.7 stimulates growth by increasing the export of nitrate from the vacuole, the main cell compartment for nitrate storage - Armengaud et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @annekrapp.bsky.social

The new SEB Magazine is coming out this week! This issue, themed Real World Changes, highlights how biology drives impact! From restoring ecosystems and improving education to space farming and inclusion in science. Keep an eye out for its release!

🌿🔥 INSIGHT 🔥🌿 ✍️ "Legacies of stress and altered disturbance regimes threaten shrubland resilience" - Jacobsen & Pratt comment on recent research by Zomer et al. Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🍈🥒 RESEARCH 🥒🍈 Thermotolerant and thermosensitive cultivars of melon and zucchini plants exhibit differentially expressed genes that respond to the combination of watermelon mosaic virus infection and temperature stress - De Moya-Ruiz & Pedro Gómez 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

⚙️🌿 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🌿⚙️ Yao et al. describe the development and application of an automated leaf stomatal trait measurement tool for canola called SCAN for faster and more accurate trait screening towards breeding climate-resilient crops 🌾 🌼 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷 On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue! 🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

⏰ Only a few days left! Join our free webinar Creating positive laboratory learning environments on 19 Nov (14:00–15:00 GMT) with Dr Sarah Rayment. Learn how to boost student confidence & engagement in labs. Register here: www.sebiology.org/resource/onl...

🌻🫛 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌻🫛 Soybean transformed with the sunflower gene encoding transcription factor HaHB11 show increased grain setting due to an increased number of pollinated flowers, an effect that persists under heat stress - Raineri et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾💧 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾💧 Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🔴 🌿 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌿 🔴 The protein kinase SnRK1 acts on PRODUCTION OF ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT1 to regulate anthocyanin accumulation - Dieckmann et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @andreasrichter.bsky.social