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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?
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#science #plants #biotechnology #agriculture | Lucas van der Zee | 12 comments
🍒 The past years, I’ve been studying the fascinating self-organisation of flowers and fruits. In our opinion paper in Trends in Biotechnology, we explain how fruits can be grown directly from seeds or...
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PbrDGK3 participates in the homeostasis of endomembrane compartments in pollen tubes in pear
The pear is an important fruit tree, and ensuring normal fruiting is a crucial aspect of production. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of pear p…
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Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants - Nature Plants
Feng et al. uncover a retrograde trafficking route from the plant vacuole, showing that sorting nexins retrieve the plant-specific SNARE VAMP727 and revealing distinct pathways from the core retromer ...
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Promiscuous potatoes: the genetic basis of wild potato compatibility - Kirschner - 2025 - The Plant Journal
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Promiscuous potatoes: the genetic basis of wild potato compatibility
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NoSexPoorPollen: The evolutionary degeneration of pollen in asexual dandelions - Stockholm University
NoSexPoorPollen: The evolutionary degeneration of pollen in asexual dandelions - Stockholm University
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The SUbventral-Gland Regulator (SUGR-1) of nematode virulence | PNAS
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The SUbventral-Gland Regulator (SUGR-1) of nematode virulence | PNAS
Pathogens must precisely tailor their gene expression to cause infection. However, a signaling cascade from host signal to effector production has ...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Dogs and drones join forest battle against eight-toothed beetle
Forestry Research said the UK is the first country to eradicate the beetle after five-year battle.
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The Druids Oak is 800 years old - can it help save forests?
Scientists are decoding the DNA of Britain’s ancient oaks to crack the secrets of their superpowers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xz8r7egpo
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What is the difference between running a University and running a University?
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👷♀️ Building a new high-tech research greenhouse at the Wageningen University & Research campus: why WUR decides to invest in financially challenging times 💪 | Wageningen Plant Research
👷♀️ Building a new high-tech research greenhouse at the Wageningen University & Research campus: why WUR decides to invest in financially challenging times 💪 Serre Green, as the new research complex...
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Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants
Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...
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Reverse engineering of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 reveals key design principles of broader recognition spectra against evading flg22 epitopes - Nature Plants
By dissecting natural variants, Zhang et al. uncover design principles for engineering the FLS2 immune receptor with broad recognition spectra to detect evasive bacterial pathogens, offering a promisi...
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Checkout this article I found at PLOS:
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Four ZIPs contribute to Zn, Fe, Cu and Mn acquisition at the outer root domain
Author Summary Plants absorb essential mineral nutrients like zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), and copper (Cu) from the soil through their roots, but the specific proteins that mediate this process are not fully...
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011796
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‘….. the trustees of Regrow Borneo (RGB) have made the decision to formally close this UK-based charity’! but why is not clear?
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Since the 1980s, three quarters of the area’s tropical rainforest has been lost to deforestation. Our aim is to recreate living, breathing and complex rainforests here in Borneo. join the move...
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Canalization of flower production across thermal environments requires Florigen and CLAVATA signaling
The maintenance of invariant developmental phenotypes across disparate environments is termed canalization, but few examples of canalization mechanism…
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T-DNAreader: fast and precise identification of T-DNA insertion sites in plant genomes using RNA sequencing data - Genome Biology
Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation, which enables the delivery of DNA using transfer DNA (T-DNA) binary vectors, is an essential technique in plant research. T-DNAs randomly integrate into th...
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An egg parasitoid assesses host egg quality from afar using oviposition-induced plant volatiles
Parasitoids of herbivores exploit inducible plant volatiles to find plants with potential hosts from a distance, whereas at close range they typically…
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A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis: Cell
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A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.
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The establishment of the anther somatic niche with single-cell sequencing
The anther is the developmental housing of pollen and therefore the male gametes of flowering plants. The meiotic cells from which pollen are derived …
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Off‐target drift of the herbicide dicamba disrupts plant–pollinator interactions via novel pathways - Baucom - 2025 - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library
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Great news: California poppy (Eschscholzia californica Cham., Ranunculales, Papaveraceae, Eschscholzioideae) as a model organism to characterize developmental regulators in an evolutionary context
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Recent advances in improving yield and immunity through transcription factor engineering - Iswanto - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology - Wiley Online Library
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Recent advances in improving yield and immunity through transcription factor engineering
Recent advances have demonstrated that modulating transcription factors can help balance growth and immunity, which is critical to achieving high yield and disease resistance in crops. This review pr....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jipb.13932
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CRABS CLAW‐independent floral nectary development in Penstemon barbatus
Premise Plants secrete carbohydrate-rich nectar from specialized floral nectary glands to attract pollinators. Arabidopsis and Petunia (rosid and asterid core eudicots, respectively) share genetic c...
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.70058
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Botanical Society of America
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Temporal patterns in the mass flowering of Firmiana simplex: A new case of duodichogamy New
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research by Jing Liu, Zhi-Huan Huang, Jing-Peng Duan, Shuang-Quan Huang
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Rising economic and human costs from droughts worldwide require effective policies to limit losses and damage
The global land area affected by drought has doubled in the last 120 years. The cost of droughts has also risen sharply. An average drought in 2035 is projected to cost at least 35% more than it would...
https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2025/06/rising-economic-and-human-costs-from-droughts-worldwide-require-effective-policies-to-limit-losses-and-damage.html
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The Self-Reliant Plant
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Planten die hun eigen hachje redden
Kira Tiedge onderzoekt de chemische stoffen waarmee planten met hun omgeving communiceren, om zo robuuste gewassen te selecteren die beter bestand zijn...
https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/sustainable-agriculture/20250605-theselfreliantplant
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Travelling Plants: A Collaborative Project
During 2020, the Archives team at Kew Gardens developed a collaboration with the University of Roehampton, the University of the Third Age (U3A), and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), to cre…
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2023/05/travelling-plants-collaborative-project.html
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MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning: Cell Reports
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MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning
In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization, linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis. The research uncove...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247%2825%2900565-0
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Extending Mendel's legacy: the application of hawkweed PpPAR for inducing synthetic apomixis in hybrid rice
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OsPRMT6b balances plant growth and high temperature stress by feedback inhibition of abscisic acid signaling
Nature Communications - The methyltransferase OsPRMT6b is found to act as an ABA responsive factor to finely turn down ABA signaling via methylation of ABA receptor, thus facilitating growth...
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Replacement of the old dirty (heat producing?) diesel trains with electric ‘metro’ trains in Wales results in a remarkable plant growth along the tracks, especially the stations (Radyr) …. from last year ….
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Flowers as fungal extended phenotypes: nectar yeasts obfuscate among-plant differences in nectar sugar concentration | Biology Letters
Nectar-dwelling yeasts modulate the ecology of interactions between flowers and pollinators. We assess here the hypothesis that floral nectar traits, which are a central element in most plant–pollinat...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0095
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Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests - Nature Communications
Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. Here, the authors find that dominant tree species are taller and have softer wood compared to rar...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59754-7
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Californians also plant Pinus canariensis, a species native to the Canary Islands. It is very conspicuous after fire due to its ability to resprout from epicormic buds Bridge fire, San Gabriel Mtns More info:
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Hygrometrically controlled programmed cell death drives anther opening and pollen release | PNAS
Anther dehiscence is the process that facilitates pollen release from mature anthers in flowering plants. Despite its crucial importance to reprodu...
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Dual DNA demethylation mechanisms implement epigenetic memory driven by the pioneer factor PAX7 | Science Advances
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Dual DNA demethylation mechanisms implement epigenetic memory driven by the pioneer factor PAX7
Pioneer factor PAX7 highjacks control of DNA methylation maintenance, leading to enhancer demethylation and epigenetic memory.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6632?mc_cid=227ce81849&mc_eid=ed0d646679
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The role of floral scent in pollinator attraction
Scientists studied how the scents of a Solanaceae species vary and how they affect pollinator visitation and found that although floral perfume is an important factor, other signals might affect polli...
https://botany.one/2023/08/the-role-of-floral-scent-in-pollinator-attraction/
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Mario Vallejo-Marin: Buzzing Questions in Pollination
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Botanical Society of America
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Check out this new
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essay by Patrik Mráz & Barbora Šingliarová! Natural autopolyploids: Understanding their formation & establishment
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Leaf absorption contributes to accumulation of microplastics in plants - Nature
Absorption and accumulation of atmospheric microplastics by plant leaves occurs widely in the environment.
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How skunk cabbages and other smelly plants brew their foul odour
A small tweak to a common enzyme gives plants the ability to make smelly sulfurous molecules.
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Deciphering the complex roles of leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases (LRR-RKs) in plant signal transduction
Leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases (LRR-RKs) are essential receptor protein kinases in plants that are the key to signal perception and responses an…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168945225001128?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email
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The Plant Cell Panel Discussion: Translating research from Arabidopsis to crop plants and beyond May 30th .....!
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Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
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‘Major breakthrough’: A natural gene variant protects rice from heat waves
Discovery could help crop breeders preserve grain quality and harvest size as climate changes
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Century-old genetics mystery of Mendel’s peas finally solved
Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01269-8
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