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Nature Plants is an online-only, monthly journal publishing the best research on plants (hopefully).
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The December issue is now complete and fully online:
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#CommunityResource
: Yeast two-hybrid-sequencing and bifluorescence complementation resources for assessing
#protein–protein
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#mycorrhizal
#roots
: CKL2 as a case study By Ivanov et al. 👇 📖
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Plant Physiology
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Have you seen the December 2025 issue of Plant Physiology from @aspbofficial and Oxford University Press? Check it out here:
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News & Views: "How the florigen activation complex orchestrates flowering"
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Recent work on the FAC uncovers a multi-layered assembly mechanism and an unexpected spatiotemporal distribution of the complex.
add a skeleton here at some point
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New Article: "ATG5–HSP90.2-mediated micromitophagy as a cytological basis for maternal inheritance of plant mitochondria"
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Micromitophagy in male germline cells underpins paternal mitochondrial elimination and supports the zygote-to-embryo transition.
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Femke de Jong
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Plants are not completely resistant to necrotrophic pathogens. Instead they show a partial resistance phenotype also called quantitative disease resistance (QDR). Which is often seen as a range of partial resistance phenotypes in a population. 🧵1/6
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New Article: "Root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita uses secondary-metabolite-mediated soil microbiome shifts to locate host plants"
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A surprising ecological link between plant chemistry, soil microbes and parasite behaviour in the rhizosphere.
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New Brief Communication: "A CRISPR-based sequence proximity binding protein labelling system for scanning upstream regulatory proteins"
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CRISPR-based proximity labelling system to profile DNA-binding proteins such as PIF4 transcription factor .
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New Article: "Esterified-pectin-coupled polar stiffening controls grass stomatal opening"
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Esterified pectin localized at the stiff poles of maize stomata, modulating stomatal opening. Novel targets for stomatal engineering and higher water use efficiency.
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Femke de Jong
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Dandelions can be found in lots of places. For their seed dispersal they rein in the help of the wind, or a human blowing away the seeds. How far those seeds travel depends on the size of their parachute, or pappi. 🧵1/5
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"In When Trees Testify, plant biologist Beronda L. Montgomery explores the ways seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture. She reveals how knowledge surrounding these trees has shaped America since the very beginning."
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New Article: "GhZAT11 triggers wound-activated bud growth by accelerating sugar transport and cell division"
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A simple cut can wake up a dormant plant. Paper shows how a wound instructs buds to resume cell division and sugar transport, driving them to sprout.
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New OA Article: "Virulence on Pm4 kinase-based resistance is determined by two divergent wheat powdery mildew effectors"
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AvrPm4 effector / wheat Pm4. The pathogen can evade Pm4 recognition by expressing the suppressor SvrPm4, an RNase-like effector.
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Maddy Seale
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In
@science.org
this week: The interaction between flavonoids and rhizobial Nod factors during legume symbiosis
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The molecular basis of the binding and specific activation of rhizobial NodD by flavonoids
The specific partnership between legumes and rhizobia relies on a chemical dialogue. Plant flavonoids activate the bacterial transcription factor NodD, which triggers production of Nod factors that ar...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec3061
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New Perspective: "High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges"
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Living plant collections have critical educational, scientific and conservation roles.
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New Article: "Assembly of Arundinella anomala genome to facilitate single-cell resolved functional and developmental characterization of C4 distinctive cells"
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Arundinella is a C4 grass with variant Kranz anatomy and interveinal distinctive cells.
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New Letter: "New alleles of Arabidopsis BIK1 reinforce its predominant role in PTI and caution interpretations of other reported functions"
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Summary: be careful with legacy T-DNA mutants. [On the importance of BIKs in science, including
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
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New Article: "Structure of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii LciA guided the engineering of FNT family proteins to gain bicarbonate transport activity"
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Structure & mechanism of the bicarbonate channel LciA; expands the toolbox to boost plant photosynthesis.
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New Article: "Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development"
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With Research Briefing
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New Article: "Clumped canopy architecture raises global crop yield and reduces N2O emissions"
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With Research Briefing
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... in crops such as rice, wheat, maize and soybean.
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New OA Article: "Rapid local and systemic jasmonate signalling drives the initiation and establishment of plant systemic immunity"
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Novel reporter captures spatial temporal dynamics of systemic immunity: signal propagation and establishment depend on JAs.
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New Article: "Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent"
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80y of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forests driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as carbon sinks.
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New Resource: "Host microenvironment in potato–Phytophthora infestans interaction revealed by single-cell spatiotemporal transcriptome"
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... reveals cellular heterogeneity at the infection site and provides a resource to enhance potato disease resistance.
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New Article: "Decadal-scale observations are key to detecting the stabilizing effects of plant diversity in natural ecosystems"
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Phylogenetic diversity is the key driver of long-term stability, whereas plant height shapes short-term productivity dynamics.
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
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Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of
#NLR
#evolution
research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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New Article: "Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of OsFBN5-induced OsSPS3 catalysis"
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SPS3 is a key enzyme in plastoquinone-9 synthesis. FBN5 enhances SPS3 dimer activity by shifting its catalytic mechanism from alternating to synchronous.
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New Article: "A biosynthetic gene cluster for three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis"
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Non-aromatic, chorismate-derived compounds, abundant in the roots of Arabidopsis, are made by a biosynthetic gene cluster comprising five adjacent genes.
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New Article: "Arabidopsis IONIC CURRENT FAMILY A proteins facilitate environmental calcium acquisition essential for stress tolerance"
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High-order ica mutants show lower Ca2+ levels and higher stress sensitivity, revealing ICAs’ role in Ca2+ homeostasis.
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New OA Article: "Carotenoid biosynthesis drives root plasticity through aerenchyma and iron plaque formation in rice"
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Rice PHYTOENE SYNTHASE2 coordinates the carotenoid-derived biosynthesis of ABA and strigolactones, controlling iron plaque deposition and aerenchyma development.
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New OA Article: "A novel cis-element enabled bacterial uptake by plant cells"
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Key step in evolution of N-fixing root nodule symbiosis: control of NIN expression by a complex that regulated transcription much earlier in the arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis.
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Maddy Seale
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Also we have almost a mini special issue on bacterial nutrition strategies during plant Xanthomonas infection. Firstly, Wang et al investigate how bacteria use xanthosan to feed themselves and develop a strategy to exploit this for resistance:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A bacterial nutrition strategy for plant disease control
Xanthomonas spp. cause serious diseases in more than 400 plant species. The conserved AvrBs2 family effectors are among the most important virulence factors in xanthomonads, but how AvrBs2 promotes in...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady8325
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The December issue is now complete and fully online:
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
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New Editorial: "… of the Year"
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December is a time when ‘… of the Year’ pieces appear in all kinds of publications. For this year only, Nature Plants is joining the trend.
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New OA Article: "Engineering vascular potassium transport increases yield and drought resilience of cassava"
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Engineered cassava expressing a modified K+ channel, that enhances sugar flow, improves the yield and drought resilience.
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New Comment: "The critical importance of accurate chemical notation for the superoxide radical (O2•−) in the plant literature"
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... clarifies the correct notation for the superoxide anion, highlights widespread errors and urges standardization.
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New Perspective: "Integrating microbial siderophores into concepts of plant iron nutrition"
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Beyond rhizosphere iron reduction and secretion of phytosiderophores: the importance of microbial siderophores for plant iron nutrition.
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Comment in
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: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now"
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A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
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Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now
A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03970-0
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Our editors write: - Salt stress: Developing roots of tolerance
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- Plant–microbial symbioses: Strengthening mutualisms
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- Artificial light pollution: Turning the lights off
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New Comment: "Using large language models to address the bottleneck of georeferencing natural history collections"
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Available LLMs achieved a near-human level of accuracy quickly and affordably; their incorporation into workflows will increase efficiency.
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#Evolution
of
#conifer
seed cones 📖
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#TansleyReview
by @kmatsunaga @WileyPlantSci
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Maddy Seale
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My pick for In Other Journals this week: Targeted gene induction to generate stem cells for regeneration of recalcitrant species My summary here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee3887
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Journal of Experimental Botany
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📢 Issue 22, our final issue of 2025, is out now 📢 🌾 On the cover: Heterosis has been shown to increase seed yield, produce bigger seeds, reduce germination time and make seeds more tolerant/resistant. See Belcapo et al. 📝 🔗👉 Read the full issue now:
academic.oup.com/jxb...
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💡 EPSO welcomes the provisional agreement reached by the Trilogue on the legislative proposal for regulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in plants. EPSO offers to contribute on a scientific basis. 🌱
#PlantScience
#Biodiversity
#Food2030EU
#Bioeconomy
#LifeSciences
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Our editors write: - Plant genetics: The pan-genomics path to drought-resistant maize
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- Barley domestication: Sprouting at the right time
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- Heat tolerance: A novel player in selective autophagy
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Optimization for
#Arabidopsis
#floral
#dip
transformation 📖
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#Methods
article by Liu et al. @erhminlai @WileyPlantSci
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News & Views on a
@natcomms.nature.com
paper: "Zaxinone as a strigolactone antagonist"
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The apocarotenoid growth regulator zaxinone binds the SL receptor DWARF 14 (D14) as a long-lasting antagonist, interferes with signalling and induces SL biosynthesis.
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News & Views on 2 papers in
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: "Transcription factor-mediated recruitment of small interfering RNA production"
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Two studies uncover the recruitment of the key siRNA-producing RNA pol IV mediated by transcription factors to specific DNA sequences.
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Our editors write: - Organ patterning: Phyllotaxis by emerging apical vasculature
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A highlight of this paper in
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New Article: "Modelling the productivity of opportunity crops across Africa under climate change in support of the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils"
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African opportunity crops: several projected to outperform staples (particularly roots and tubers).
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Javier Brumós
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How do Xylem-Pole-Pericycle cells decide between forming a new Lateral Root or contributing to cambium formation & secondary growth? Cytokinins facilitate cambium development & reduce LR potency, shaping the entire root architecture!
@apmahonen.bsky.social
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Trends in Plant Science
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The genetics of paradoxes: CLE peptide signaling in the Arabidopsis root tip
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The genetics of paradoxes: CLE peptide signaling in the Arabidopsis root tip
Signaling of secreted CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION (CLE) peptides via CLV1-type receptor kinases is a central mechanism regulating stem cell pool size. Originally characterized in the context of shoot meristem maintenance, this network has been increasingly scrutinized in recent years for its role in Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) root meristem maintenance and organization. These analyses revealed unique, often seemingly paradoxical facets, which can be understood from the rewiring of CLE signaling networks in the root compared with the shoot. Here, we review the intricate interplay between distinct and antagonistic CLE signaling pathways in the primary root meristem, which suggests that the core function of CLE signaling in roots is to dynamically buffer antagonism between positive and negative signaling inputs, thereby enhancing developmental robustness.
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