Fascinating. Identification of a developmental hourglass in brown seaweed (kelp) in mid embryogenesis, like plants & animals Suggests evolutionary acquisition of multicelluarity relies on ancient genes that become entrenched early in multicellular lineages www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A decoy receptor derived from alternative splicing fine-tunes cytokinin signaling in Arabidopsis www.cell.com/molecular-pl... #plantscience

📜 Plant plasmodesmata bridges form through ER-dependent incomplete cytokinesis 🧑‍🔬 Ziqiang P. Li, Hortense Moreau, Emmanuelle M. Bayer, et al. 📔 Science 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Plasmodesmata

📜 Orchestrating ROS regulation: coordinated post‐translational modification switches in NADPH oxidases 🧑‍🔬 Xinyu Zhang, Dingliang Zhang, Yongliang Zhang, et al. 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #ReactiveOxygen #PlantPTMs

SERRATE drives phase separation behaviours to regulate m6A modification and miRNA biogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience

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Happy National Black Cat Day! Should it be international instead of national? Yes. But I'm not in charge so I can't do anything about it. Woodcut by Eileen Mayo, 1938. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O726847...

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Excited our paper on thermomorphogenesis of root growth has been published! Check it out to read up on how root cell division is flexible, elongation is constrained, and cryptochrome2 has a cool role to play in temperature responses. doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience #plantsci #rootbiology

Making yourself heard: why well-exposed flowers are an adaptation for bat pollination ($) https://botany.fyi/con5wp "Our results support the idea that exposure increases apparency, making the flowers easier to detect via echolocation." #Botany #PlantScience

Making sense of oxygen-sensing in the light of evolution! Nine years in the making, happy to have contributed to this journey - enjoy the read! The role of ERFVIIs as oxygen-sensing transducers in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool new work from Pierre Gautrat and @ronaldpierik.bsky.social in Natcomms on root-to-shoot signaling via cytokinin, regulating shade avoidance responses and nutrient acquisition. So complex! 😱 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantSci #PlantScience

When I wrote my Short History of Plant Microscopy, I wondered when I couldn't find any reference to 'monk's chambers' in Robert Hooke's "Micrographia". Apparently I'm not the only one who wondered: "Will the real Robert Hooke please stand up?" by Winfried S. Peters, in #ThePlantCell #PlantScience

♻️Development and application of an inexpensive open-source dendrometer for detecting xylem water potential and radial stem growth at high spatial and temporal resolution by Sean Gleason and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 https://buff.ly/4bl9Vsm #PlantScience

**SPECIAL ISSUE NOW OPEN** 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 Guest editors: Zachary Nimchuk, Federica Brandizzi, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova Deadline: 28th February '25 Email us if you'd like to submit a paper #JXBspecialissue #cellbiology #plantscience 🧪

Leaf cooling during extreme heat 🌡️🍃 Leaf thermal thresholds breached 🥵 Tradeoffs between thermal and hydraulic safety 🤝 Read about all this and more in our new paper in PNAS! #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The swamp-dwelling ‘bald cypress’ is today’s #SpookyScience feature (and Louisiana’s state 🌲)! The bald cypress is a pneumatophore, with roots growing just below the surface then protruding ⬆️ (believed to help the tree breathe). The tree’s “knees” don’t always look this spooky, but what a shot 📸 🧪