AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Plant volatile and non-volatile chemicals defend against seed predators using different strategies in an alpine plant-seed predator network Hua Wang, Yunshu Zhang, Xinqiang Xi, Karl Niklas, Shucun Sun www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social High water requirement controls germination phenology in Miconia rubiginosa (Melastomataceae), a late-rainy-season fruiting species from tropical seasonal ecosystems Diego Fernando Escobar et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

Botanists who do research with undergraduates, take note 👇🏼

All @ijpsjournal.bsky.social authors are special to us, but it is a particular treat to publish undergraduate research. To celebrate our undergrad authors, we started making mock journal covers featuring pictures of undergrad researchers at work. A thread of mock covers from 2025. /1 #PlantScience

Sneak peek of the January 2026 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social cover. As always, our managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social knocks it out of the park. #PlantScience

A review of 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social, as viewed through covers by our managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social (1/8) We started the year with this cool leaf blade from Psidium grandifolium. This species produce an exudate that naturally fluoresces! #PlantScience

Folks, this can compromise the confidentiality of the review process, as well as authors’ intellectual property rights. Doing it is a breach of peer review ethics.

Of interest to our followers. Editorial work is important and can be very professionally rewarding. #PlantScience

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social The evolutionary potential of plasticity in cleistogamy: exploring temperature-induced variations in flower cleistogamy across soybean (Glycine max L., Fabaceae) cultivars @marinastrelin.bsky.social et al www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Is hybridization an important consideration for ex situ conservation? A case study using white oaks at The Morton Arboretum EK Schumacher, M Evans, A Hamilton, M Westwood, S Hoban www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social SINDORA LEAFLETS FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE KON TUM FLORA OF CENTRAL VIETNAM Teng-Xiang Wang, @radiogondwana.bsky.social, Truong Van Do, Tao Su www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

Almost 20 years in the making! So happy to see this in print!

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Comparative Population Genetic Structure of Spirodela polyrhiza and the Lemna minor Species Complex (Lemna minor and Lemna japonica) Across the Northern US TT Hobble, JE Kerstetter, @exp-evoeco.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social First architectural analysis of a non-arborescent cladoxlopsid identifies two possible growth habits for the Carboniferous Cladoxylon taeniatum ​ @thibault-durieux.bsky.social, @aldpaleo.bsky.social, CJ Harper www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Morphological and anatomical changes during the flower-to-fruit transition in species of the parasitic family Loranthaceae. V Botero-Castaño, F Gonzalez, @nataliapabonm.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance @evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

Explore undergrad-powered research with this collection of papers authored by the next generation of plant scientists, in the International Journal of Plant Sciences. Read it here: https://ow.ly/pSi750Xm7nO International Journal of Plant Sciences

All @ijpsjournal.bsky.social covers are AI-free. Just sayin'

Folks, it is University Press Week! @ijpsjournal.bsky.social has been published by the non-profit @chicagojournals.bsky.social since 1896. Were it not for their support @ijpsjournal.bsky.social might not be celebrating its 150th birthday in 2025. 🎂 #UPWeek #PlantScience

In the November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social ‬ From the Archives: BIRBAL SAHNI INTRODUCES THE PENTOXYLEAE Peter Crane www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

In the November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Using physiological models to identify the relative importance of plant adaptations to environmental variation, an appreciation of Heckathorn and DeLucia (1991) H Maherali www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

In the Nov 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: 3 papers that paved the way to integrate the fossil record into a synthetic understanding of the origin and evolution of leaves in the euphyllophytes M Tomescu www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

In the November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 PENTACARPELLATE CAPSULAR FRUITS OF ERICACEOUS AFFINITY FROM THE PALEOCENE OF WYOMING, USA: SANDRAWIA GEN. NOV. B Tiffney, K Krinsky, W Judd, SR Manchester www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience

In the November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Pollen ultrastructure and phylogenetic relationships of Saportanthus from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal Mario Miguel Mendes, Maria Tekleva, Peter K. Endress, James A. Doyle www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience

In the November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Oldest known Malpighiaceae fossils: early Eocene Patagonian fruits support a wide paleolatitudinal distribution Caroline Siegert, Maria A. Gandolfo, Peter Wilf www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #Botany

In the November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 AN EXPLORATION OF FACTORS DRIVING PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN TRIODANIS Keegan McConnell, Alyssa Zhan, Jolie Linhart, Kurt M. Neubig, @flwrecoevo.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

Nov 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social featured cover article: 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in H. matronalis Kaitlyn Dawson et al www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience

The November 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social is out: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ijps/202... #PlantScience

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Another Primer in Plant Sciences! 🎉 🌱 Fantastic topic, lots of nuances reviewed here to clear up misconceptions. Check out the appendix for an extended glossary and some questions you can use to assess student understanding. Please consider writing a primer in your area of expertise!

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers in the Plant Sciences: Tracing the history of angiosperm systematics through Liliales and Asparagales @astragaler.bsky.social‬, @wile-phylote.bsky.social‬, @tribblelab.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 A new genus of permineralized Eocene fruits: Menispermaceae (Chasmantheroideae) from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Joaquin Rico, Ruth Stockey, Gar Rothwell, Graham Beard www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social EXTINCT SAPINDALEN FRUITS AND INFLORESCENCES FROM THE EOCENE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, EASTERN UTAH, USA: UINTACARPA ALATA GEN. ET SP. NOV. Steven R. Manchester, Walter S. Judd, Bruce H. Tiffney www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

November 2025 is a special month for @ijpsjournal.bsky.social, as the first issue of @ijpsjournal.bsky.social was published in November 1875. To celebrate our 150th, we've solicited short appreciations of our editors’, authors’, and readers’ favorite papers. See them all here: tinyurl.com/ym2ddx5y

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Fossil endocarps of the East Asian endemic genus Davidia Baill. from the Eocene of India and its palaeoclimatic and biogeographic implications A Ali, J-M Chen, S Ai, R Patel, RS Rana, Y He, T Su, M Khan www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Garcinia-like reproductive parts from the Early Eocene of India: Systematics, paleoecology, and biogeography Ashif Ali, Rafael Felipe Almeida, Raman Patel, Rajendra Rana, Tao Su, Mahasin Khan www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

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These mockup covers are so fun! This project was so much stronger thanks to the data provided by Alyssa and Jolie (pictured). Thanks @ijpsjournal.bsky.social for valuing the important contributions that undergrads make to research.

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis Kaitlyn Dawson et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience #Botany

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 AN EXPLORATION OF FACTORS DRIVING PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN TRIODANIS Keegan McConnell, Alyssa Zhan, Jolie Linhart, Kurt M. Neubig, @flwrecoevo.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience

🎂 to our fellow @chicagojournals.bsky.social science journal @qrb.bsky.social. Go check them out!

Patterns of hybridization are driven by many factors. Here we explore these patterns w a special emphasis on breeding system variation. Really great collab w wonderful students and colleagues!

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Oldest known Malpighiaceae fossils: early Eocene Patagonian fruits support a wide paleolatitudinal distribution Caroline Siegert, Maria A. Gandolfo, Peter Wilf www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #Botany

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 AN EXPLORATION OF FACTORS DRIVING PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN TRIODANIS Keegan McConnell, Alyssa Zhan, Jolie Linhart, Kurt M. Neubig, @flwrecoevo.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Pollen ultrastructure and phylogenetic relationships of Saportanthus from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal Mario Miguel Mendes, Maria Tekleva, Peter K. Endress, James A. Doyle www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social ‪ 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 PENTACARPELLATE CAPSULAR FRUITS OF ERICACEOUS AFFINITY FROM THE PALEOCENE OF WYOMING, USA: SANDRAWIA GEN. NOV. Bruce Tiffney, Kaitlyn Krinsky, Walter Judd, Steven R. Manchester www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Multiple ways to escape stick-world: 3 papers that paved the way to integrate the fossil record into a synthetic understanding of the origin and evolution of leaves in the euphyllophyte clade Mihai Tomescu www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis Kaitlyn Dawson et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience #Botany

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Using physiological models to identify the relative importance of plant adaptations to environmental variation, an appreciation of Heckathorn and DeLucia (1991) Hafiz Maherali www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

AOP and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social‬ From the Archives: BIRBAL SAHNI INTRODUCES THE PENTOXYLEAE Peter Crane www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience