🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬 SA-induced stomatal closure via ROS→NO→K+ is unique to seed plants and is absent in ferns/lycophytes with only ROS production - Zhang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🧂🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🧂 The transcription factor BRASSINOSTEROID-RELATED HOMEOBOX 1 acts as a hub in mediating crosstalk between salt stress and brassinosteroid signaling in Arabidopsis - Hasegawa et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

It feels soo close!! Very excited to host the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference this Friday at Leeds. Download the official program here blackinplantscience.org/bips-confere...

Happy to finally see my PhD work published in @jxbotany.bsky.social. A big thanks to all the people involved in the work including my mentor @malinowskilab.bsky.social. Feel free to delve in..

🌱 Light does more than fuel photosynthesis, it guides plant growth and survival. Discover how the TOR kinase connects light signals to metabolism and stress responses in a new @jxbotany.bsky.social review featuring Mikhail Schepetilnikov

🌾🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🌾 Strigolactones exhibit a dual action by repressing tillering to indirectly promote barley grain size, while directly repressing grain size later during reproduction - Kelly et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Phloem cell proliferation in Plasmodiophora brassicae-induced clubroot galls doesn't directly depend on PEAR transcription factors, despite transcriptional up-regulation - Singh et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @sdeeksha1994.bsky.social @malinowskilab.bsky.social

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿 Plant Proteostasis 🌿 📝 Edited by Pablo Manavella & Catharina Merchante 📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025 📄 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @kmerchante.bsky.social

🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬 Continuous cell proliferation and de novo meristem formation drive clone-forming growth and prolonged longevity in epiphytic fern gametophytes - Wu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 HFR1 regulates chlorophyll biosynthesis and protochlorophyllide accumulation partly through PIFs during the de-etiolation process, thereby influencing singlet oxygen production and resultant photo-oxidative bleaching - Chaturvedi et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Oct 24th (Fri) - The EARLY BIRD registration and abstract submission DEADLINE for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM is fast approaching! @cspbscbv LINK HERE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025 Early bird discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members and $40 for postdoc members!

Journal of Experimental Botany explains the complex strategies used by plants and by insects in their struggle to survive.

Deadline alert! Still plenty of time to have your paper checked by our plant biologist editors and image integrity team! Don't forget our $95 image integrity only option... we have the software and the 🦅 👀! planteditors.com

🌸🫛 RESEARCH 🫛🌸 "Faba bean overproduces flowers and serially aborts them to a final pod number. We show that final pod number depends on resource availability, and flower abortion is neutral for yield" - Manson et al. 🌸 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌿 REVIEW 🌿 PPO, an enzyme vital for heme & chlorophyll synthesis, is the target of photodynamically active herbicides. The slow emergence of resistance to PPO herbicides enables more sustainable weed control strategies - Ali et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿 📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi 📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025 📄 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

**UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE** "Sulfur Signaling" Editors: Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi Deadline: 30th November 2025 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience 🌕 #sulfur (1/2)

🌾🦠 RESEARCH 🌾🦠 The BSL2 gene, isolated through map-based cloning approach, encoding a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, plays negative roles in regulating the innate immune response and broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice - Wang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

PSRW OCT 17 plantae.org/plant-scienc... 4 reviews: Beautiful mutations: Chemical defense arsenal; Understanding viral symptom development; Cell fate determination. Also, Reprogramming somatic embryogenesis. (1/2) @somssich.bsky.social @geminiteamlab.bsky.social @likeyoda1.bsky.social

🪲🌿 REVIEW 🌿🪲 Beyond bitter: plant triterpenoids in the battle against herbivorous insects. Mathur et al. explore triterpenoids as key players in plant defence & crop protection 🪲 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸 Quentin Cronk looks at how and why so many eudicot lineages jettisoned the petal, often to reinvent it via petaloidy of the remaining perianth whorl 🌼 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social

🎥 Talks now online from our 75th Anniversary Symposium! 🎥 Missed the conference or want to rewatch some of the fantastic talks? Recordings are now available on demand, exclusive to SEB members 🌿 🔗 sebiology.org/ressou... #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

A V232M missense mutation in rice OsLSZ1 inhibits β-carotene biosynthesis and impairs chloroplast development during seedling stage at low temperatures academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

🌾 DARWIN REVIEW 🌾 Prado et al. examine environmental and genetic factors for heat and drought stress tolerance in crops, assess the limitations of current breeding programs, and discuss emerging technologies to develop climate-resilient crops 🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📝 EDITORIAL: 75 years of JXB (1950–2025) Ahead of last month’s anniversary conference, John Lunn reflected on JXB’s evolution & announced a special series of Darwin Reviews from leading scientists, capturing the state of plant science today 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌾🌼 Flowering Newsletter 2025 🌼🌾 "Flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous wind-pollinated grass flowers to the large flowers of California poppy with its bright petals" - @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/JXBFNL?utm_so... A 🧵 incoming... #FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪 1/9

Speaking of special issues in #PlantScience, plenty of time for a quick edit!

Dynamic changes to the plastoglobule lipidome and proteome in maize during heat stress and recovery academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

💡 INSIGHT 💡 Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧 Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social

🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿 🔬🧱 Plant Cell Wall Biology 🧱🔬 Editors: George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels 📅 Deadline: 31 December 2025 📣 We welcome contributions! 🔗 Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues?utm... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social (1/2)

Save the Date: #PPATH2026, Norwich, 8–10 September 2026 @BS_PP

Proteomic responses under differing pH and pCO2 levels in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana are consistent with a hybrid carbon concentrating mechanism academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... @jxbotany.bsky.social

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 ✨ JXB Issue 16 of 2025 is out now ✨ 🫛 On the cover: Blooming flowers of a faba bean plant from a crop in Australia (photo credit: Dr Jason Brand; see Manson et al.) 🫛 🔗👉 Read the full issue: academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Check out the new flowering newsletter and why California poppy flowers are @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social's 'favourite flowering image'.

🌾🌼 Flowering Newsletter 2025 🌼🌾 "Flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous wind-pollinated grass flowers to the large flowers of California poppy with its bright petals" - @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/JXBFNL?utm_so... A 🧵 incoming... #FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪 1/9

Wow, @jxbotany.bsky.social has ten (!!!) amazing special issues open for submission. academic.oup.com/jxb/pages/sp...

Some very nice #OpenAccess #grapevine #reviews in that @jxbotany.bsky.social issue, on rootstock ideotypes, #ClimateChange, and grapevine–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interactions!

And their special issue from August, "Grapevine Research: Expanding Knowledge to Secure a Sustainable Future" academic.oup.com/jxb/issue/76...

And ok this is a bit older than a week, but cheers to @jxbotany.bsky.social for this paper from their special issue! bsky.app/profile/jxbo...

🍅🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱🍅 Resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato is linked to variety-specific proteomic changes; the CAPE1 peptide restricts Ralstonia solancearum growth in planta - Zhang et al. 🦠🍅 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @bactodeath.bsky.social

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱 Thylakoid protein EGY1 interacts with the magnesium chelatase H subunit to regulate chlorophyll accumulation, balance chlorophyll synthesis and protein homeostasis, and influence chloroplast development in var2 - Zhang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 🌱 Qi et al. address current challenges in revealing protease roles in biological processes and present systematic methodologies for identifying bona fide protease–substrate pairs in plants 🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @simonstael.bsky.social

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱 26S proteasome disassembly occurs during leaf senescence. While proteasomal subunit genes are up-regulated, proteasome protein levels do not increase. However, cytokinin application enhances proteasome activity - Wang et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱 🔬 ECLIPSE is a potential adaptor protein that links ubiquitinated inner nuclear membrane proteins to the CDC48 complex, facilitating their degradation and maintaining nuclear membrane integrity in plants - Calvanese et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱 Jeran et al discuss the trafficking of plastid-targeted proteins, focusing on regulatory bottlenecks and mislocalization. PSBO, a PSII subunit, may link proplastid-to-chloroplast differentiation with plastid quality control 🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

13CO2 labelling: new uses for a well-established photosynthesis research tool academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱 Jeran et al discuss the trafficking of plastid-targeted proteins, focusing on regulatory bottlenecks and mislocalization. PSBO, a PSII subunit, may link proplastid-to-chloroplast differentiation with plastid quality control 🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 🌱 🔬 Mantz et al. review current methods and developments for mass spectrometry-based identification of protein termini and discuss their use for plant protease substrate identification 🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @degradomics.bsky.social

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📝 Hoernstein et al. consolidate information on Acylamino acid-releasing enzyme, a serine protease affecting plant development & aging, & emphasize its conserved features across all kingdoms of life 🌱🦠🧫 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @reskilab.bsky.social