I feel like a fraud reblogging about botany or other scientific research when I don't even have more than a bachelor's degree in STEM (or at all). I want to learn more but I'm broke, have no energy and right now can barely manage the energy of trying to keep from losing more ground than I am.

🌾📊 RESEARCH 📊🌾 Integrating biochemical data, gene networks, and protoplast assays, we identified sorghum genes associated with starch and protein contents, and protein digestibility, providing insights into grain quality improvement - Séne et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Emerging roles of glutaredoxins in plant metabolism academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

Start of another week... Still hurting and feeling really tired; most of my personal problems remain. In any event I need to try to get some sleep but can't nod off.

Explosive dehiscence 🧨 💥 🌸 Some older JXB research featured in this recent Yahoo! News article Yahoo! article: www.yahoo.com/news/article... Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #plantscience 🧪

🍃🌸🌀 EDITOR’S CHOICE 🌀🌸🍃 By studying a wild Arabidopsis plant that does not precisely synchronize leaf and flower formation, Dieudonné et al. showed that perturbation of developmental timing in nature can arise from several unexpected genes and widespread shifts in gene expression dynamics.

I'm not ok and it doesn't matter... I'm tired of life; I'm tired of this emptiness.

I'd missed out on reading the Oglaf webcomic for a while and missed this gem. www.oglaf.com/fetching/

Yeah... Suspect the incident at the WH was staged because nothing else has been working to improve Herr Shitler's reputation and they're working the whole "Chosen by Heaven" bullshit like before, with the added benefit of giving an excuse to increase the police surveillance state crackdown...

Been a fun, neuropathy filled morning...

🌱🧩 RESEARCH 🧩🌱 The BIRD protein NUTCRACKER is a component of the core regulatory network that controls the stem cell niche and cell division the rice root meristem - Kirschner et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌿📐 RESEARCH 📐🌿 The transcription factor OsbHLH55 functions as a negative regulator in the BR signaling pathway and suppresses OsWRKY53 expression by binding to its promoter, thereby influencing leaf inclination in rice - Ruan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾🧲 RESEARCH 🧲🌾 Mutating the rice Fe transporters OsVIT1 and OsVIT2 increases seed Fe levels but reduces plant tolerance to Fe excess, revealing a possible trade-off in biofortification strategies - Benato et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

I'm tired, sad and broken... Too tired to type an explanation and I doubt it will mean anything among the countless posts on here, but as for me?

🌡️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🌡️ Plants lacking both TREX subunits THO5A/B exhibit mild developmental defects but are very sensitive to high temperatures. Consistently, they are impaired in the nuclear export of heat-induced mRNAs - Ettner-Sitter et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌿💧 BRIEF COMMUNICATION 💧🌿 An anthranilate synthase involved in the biosynthesis of L-tryptophan interacts with the stress hormone, abscisic acid (ABA), and is required for ABA-induced closing of stomata - Yu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Lupine and Larkspur #Photography #Nature #Scape #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #EarthDay #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #Landacape

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”. RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.

It Is A Murder Cult

Got to come up with money to replace all those missiles Trump is shooting at fishing boats and elementary schools. bsky.app/profile/fact...

📊🌱 REVIEW 🌱📊 A new approach to phenotype prediction is reviewed, integrating diverse biological and environmental data to improve genetic gain for more sustainable agricultural breeding - Jighly et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

We have lost Rep. David Scott (D) who passed away at age 80. Despite his declining health, he insisted on staying in office and running for re-election for a 14th term. He spent his last moments on Earth robbing the world of progress for no other reasons than selfishness and hubris.

🌱🧬 BRIEF COMMUNICATION 🧬🌱 The soybean nodule-specific cystatin gene GmCYS18 promotes nodulation and nodule development, while the cysteine proteases reversibly inhibited by GmCYS18 inhibit nodulation and nodule development in soybean - Yuan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Regarding the earlier post, the night wasn't as exhausting as it typically is but I'm no less stressed... For some reason my goddamned age is an ENDLESS source of fascination that comes up WHOLLY too much. I don't need reminders of where I am in life.

No one, and I mean no one, will ever choose to help this country again. What a complete and total piece of shit.

The liberals are starting to grasp escalation ladders. Now let's get them to understand that "oh no the cops have all the guns and will always be instinctive fascists" is an escalation rung they still haven't made sufficient preparations for.

For any biologists struggling to develop an intuition around how latent representations and/or generative models work

@jim-stewartson.bsky.social Lays out The Palantir Manifesto: A techno-religion for the neo-fascist manosphere that provides a road map for the post-Trump regime. Tesla, SpaceX, and Palantir are overvalued by historic proportions and need to be taken down if American democracy is to survive.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

Seems to me this white supremacist administration wants to know who informed on their friends. apnews.com/article/sout...

Having to fight really hard to not have a dissociation episode... I'm depressed, anxious, tired and I have to deal woth people when my mind is so scattered I'm not sure what to do anymore. There's too much to do and my resources to deal with them are already depleted... I feel broken and useless.

Oh so you want to defund the police? I cannot believe the gall. These brave and women put their lives on the line for you every single day. Well not you specifically, or that democrat lady, or those schoolchildren.

This is a glorious sign.

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

I encourage people who hold this view about police drones to check out the etymology of the word 'surveillance'

Every Republican politician was chosen by Putin Putin monitoring kid porn sites, using ALL of the data points collected about these men, picking ones vain enough to want to be a politician Plied with money, hubris and leveraged blackmail Putin chose these idiots to destroy us from the inside

🤝🌿 COMMUNITY RESOURCE 🌿🤝 This article by Paterlini et al. highlights strategies being used by various stakeholders (institutions, professional societies, community groups, educators, and individuals) to promote a plant science culture that is welcoming to all. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

Yesterday I was talking to a Hungarian friend about how she hopes the new government claws back the billions grifted by Orban while in office. We’re going to need the same thing here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

🍬🔬 REVIEW 🔬🍬 "Resolving subcellular sucrose concentrations in plant tissues" - Zhang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

youtu.be/-FgtP7tpg1A A cover of "The Boxer" I particularly like...

Pretty bad tonight... Even though my mother seems to be be getting better my heart aches. I miss her, I miss my absent furbabies and family. My arms ache for missing holding my pups and being held by those who love(d) me... It's an emptiness deep as the expanse of night and its distant stars...

Never forget our brothers and sisters being crushed by the mass incarceration machine!

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🚦🌱 REVIEW 🌱🚦 Worthington & Lee review how cell-to-cell signaling via plasmodesmata emerges from core regulatory machinery and recurring mechanistic themes, enabling context-dependent coordination of development and responses to environmental cues and stresses. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...