New OA Brief Comm: "Cross-kingdom RNA interference promotes arbuscular mycorrhiza development" rdcu.be/e72nc Symbiotic fungi forming widespread arbuscular mycorrhiza symbioses use cross-kingdom RNAi to silence plant genes and promote their colonization of host roots.

New Article: "Grass inflorescence morphodynamics guides yield improvement in wheat" rdcu.be/e72m7 Morphodynamic modelling reveals how timing and fate shape diverse grass inflorescences. ID of an early-heading paired-spikelet mutant, which exhibits robust yield gains.

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🌿 How do plant ABC transporters move hormones? Structural studies reveal how hormone transport is controlled, offering a framework to understand transport across species and inform crop engineering. ✍️ An et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70782

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...

Cool paper [in french] about cushion plants, a morphological adaptation to high/dry environments. A pity they don't mention my favourites, the quite extreme Andean Llareta, and the New Zealand sheep plant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yareta en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoulia... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushion...

Press release on this paper - Global hotspots of plant bacterial pathogens revealed www.uwa.edu.au/news/article...

Dear authors. Please make it easy for reviewers to find changes in your revised manuscript. Signed #yourfriendlyreviewer

New Article: "Amazon rainforests are rejuvenating their canopies by producing more photosynthetically efficient young leaves under climate change" rdcu.be/e7z6M The authors mapped the continental-scale fraction of age-dependent leaf area index.

New Article: "An NLR–transposase fusion gene from rye provides broadly effective resistance to stripe rust in wheat" rdcu.be/e7z39 Broad-spectrum stripe rust resistance gene Yr83 coned from rye; encodes a unique NLR–transposase fusion protein. #PlantScience

🌱🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬🌱 TORC1 integrates phosphorus and iron signals to regulate root architecture under stress, revealing key mechanisms of root plasticity and offering novel strategies to improve phosphorus use efficiency in crops – Choi et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

#TansleyInsight: Masters of perception: phosphorylation-dependent signaling in plants Mark Roosjen, Justin W. Walley & Dolf Weijers 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Two new papers about DICER-LIKE 4: Article: "Molecular basis of plant DCL4 action that outcompetes DCL2" rdcu.be/e6YJV Letter: "Molecular basis of DRB4-assisted long RNA processing and 21-nucleotide siRNA biogenesis by DCL4 in plants" rdcu.be/e6YLC

New OA Article: "High-frequency biparental inheritance of plant mitochondria upon chilling stress and loss of a genome-degrading nuclease" rdcu.be/e6GEA Maternal inheritance of mitochondria breaks down in cold when a mitochondrial DNA degrading nuclease is defective.

I'd like to remind everyone that CAM has evolved as many if not more times than C4. There are entire biomes where CAM is dominant. If you like tequila, or pineapple, or your pretty orchid you got at the grocery store, you can thank CAM. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. Or CAMtalk as it were.

"Cassava crops under a spreading viral threat" www.nature.com/articles/d44... As climate change reshapes Africa’s agricultural zones, cassava brown streak disease is moving into new regions, threatening a critical buffer against hunger. "The challenge is that CBSD is caused by two viruses"

The February issue is fully online, with a cover depicting a close-up of clonal plantlets from the amazing Kalanchoe nicknamed "Mother of thousands": www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

New OA Article: "Photorespiration is linked to DNA methylation by formate as a one-carbon source" rdcu.be/e6oUz Arabidopsis reassimilates formate produced during photorespiration via the cytosolic folate cycle to fuel DNA methylation: a metabolic–epigenetic bridge.

New Editorial: "Celebrating photosynthesis" rdcu.be/e6oTm Photosynthesis is both an elegantly simple and dazzlingly complex process. The year 2026 marks anniversaries of the discoveries of both of these layers.

New Article: "The overlooked role of root water content in the root economics space" rdcu.be/e6oK2 Combining metabolic theory with global datasets, Li et al. show that root water content is a stronger predictor of root growth traits than the widely considered root N.

New Letter: "High-efficiency, transgene-free plant genome editing by viral delivery of an engineered TnpB" rdcu.be/e4XHZ Viral vectors to deliver engineered smaller RNA-guided endonucleases eTnpBc, achieving high levels of somatic and heritable editing in plants.

New Article: "A distorter–restorer system drives quantitative reproductive isolation in rice" rdcu.be/e4XHC The S44 locus is a unique quadripartite distorter–restorer system governing reproductive isolation between O. longistaminata and other rice lineages...

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multifaceted roles of BBX transcription factors: impacts on key agronomical traits and environmental resilience #TansleyReview by Lira et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Our editors write: - Plant–microbe interaction: Root engineering blocks methanogens rdcu.be/e4yJc - Marchantia immunity: Fungi genes to fight fungi rdcu.be/e4yJl

New Article: "Deep learning-based semantic matching of cis-regulatory DNA sequences facilitates the prediction of gene function" rdcu.be/e4yHX PhytoBabel is an AI model designed to capture the semantic similarity of cis-regulatory sequences across distant species.

New Letter: "Generating self-incompatible hybrid potatoes through haploid breeding" rdcu.be/e4pj2 Self-incompatible diploid potatoes via haploid breeding. F1 hybrids prevent fruit set, redirect C to tubers, increase the harvest index and enable hybrid seed production.

New Article: "A feedback regulatory loop by MAPK–CCA1 engages auxin signalling to stimulate root foraging for nitrate" rdcu.be/e39v1 Nitrate sensing by NLP7 engages a MEKK–MAPK cascade to phosphorylate the circadian clock protein CCA1, establishing a + feedback loop...

#TansleyReview: Cellular signaling during pollen-stigma interaction in #Brassicaceae nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Zhang et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Out in @science.org this week, two fungal enzymes synthesise DHHA, which controls cell wall porosity and turgor in plant pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #mycology #plantscience

New review from P Genschik’s team in @jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins. 👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology. ▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext

"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face." "I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."

Our editors write: - Dormancy release: A florigen prepares for spring rdcu.be/e3ytg - Sustainable forest management: Decentralized forestry governance exacerbates rural inequalities rdcu.be/e3ytm

New OA Article: "Stages of biomolecular condensate formation in pro-β-carboxysome assembly" rdcu.be/e3yri Carboxysomes are cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating compartments with a proteinaceous shell. Here: elucidation of the role of the shell adaptor protein ApN.

A research team, incl. @leibnizipk.bsky.social, used rapeseed to demonstrate the interrelationship between genetic variation, transcriptional regulation, microbiome composition and nutritional phenotypes. All results in @natplants.nature.com. ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/2m78uau8 ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/386kczms

Plant Science Research Weekly --  The last one standing: A point mutation that suppresses the lazy quadruple mutant phenotype (PNAS) (Summary by Sophie Zoe Farkas @sophiezoe.bsky.social)

🧱⚙️ SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW ⚙️🧱 Simonaviciene et al. highlight the current research on plasmodesmata cell walls and their biomechanical properties and discuss the challenges and opportunities of parametrizing and dissecting their function. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

New OA Resource: "Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity" rdcu.be/e29Ro ...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.

CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions #TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Very nice & complete review on inositol pyrophosphate metabolism and signaling in plants by Ricardo Giehl @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social . Also includes an impressive to-do-list...

#TansleyInsight: Endophytes with #mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications Yuan et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Plants "talk" internally — and now we can watch it happen. MAPPI lets us track shoot-to-root Ca²⁺ signals in real time 🌱⚡ @ScienceAdvance! @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This week in @science.org, a celebration of plant pangenomes. A pangenome analysis for massively polyploid sugarcane species, and one for Brassica rapa giving insight into subspeciation. What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)

🌿 Ancient Guaraní wisdom: leaves sweeter than sugar, yet holding none. Nature's elegant deception binds to tongues with molecular poetry. ✍️ Read more 🔬: tpc8.short.gy/Ln8Hzoc7 🍃 Where tradition meets science, truth tastes sweetest #Stevia #Sweetener #Nature #PlantScience #TPC8

New Article: "MIRO1-mediated mitochondrial fusion is required for stomatal immunity in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/e2vq2 Phosphorylation of the mitochondrial protein MIRO1 promotes mitochondrial fusion and energy metabolism, enabling effective stomatal defence.

New OA Article: "Large-scale multi-omics unveils host–microbiome interactions driving root development and nitrogen acquisition" rdcu.be/e2g8f In Brassica napus, identifying microbe-associated loci and a beneficial bacterium, Sphingopyxis, that promotes N uptake.

Out Now! The building blocks of one of the most complex flagellar nanomachines #MicroSky

Out in @science.org this week: A decline in epigenetic silencing of TEs in older plant organs but not in the shoot meristem. TCX5 and TCX6 help regulate DNA methylation in this context. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience