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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 19h

For the remainder of 2025, we are offering an #ImageIntegrity scan using software and the keen eyes of our editors for only $95. For this price, can you afford not to get a scan??? Upload a pdf of your figures (<50Mb) at planteditors.com and put "Image Integrity only" in the notes! 👀

Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 23h

Seriously just have us do the #ImageIntegrity scan before you submit, because somewhere someone has lost track of which 🍅 or Y2H image goes where. #SciCom

Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 23h

Have our language and #ImageIntegrity experts go over your paper before you submit it to one of these special issues! planteditors.com

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 1d

Surreal to hear folks don't think agricultural biosecurity isnt a national security risk and a massive strategic weakness for ALL countries on earth.

We are very very VERY not secure when it comes to food production. We are one big blight away from ruin.

Everyone needs to eat.

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 1d

Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar!
Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏
#MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci

Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 1d

Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9

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Muhammad Atiq Ashraf @atiqashraf25.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share that a review close to my Heart is now out in Plant, Cell & Environment.
@isplore.bsky.social
This review synthesises current knowledge of how hormonal crosstalk drives lateral organs growth in different fruit crops under hypoxia and reoxygenation revealing mechanisms.
#Plantscience

Phytohormone Networks Orchestrating Lateral Organ Adaptations to Hypoxia and Reoxygenation in Fruit Crops

This review synthesises current knowledge of how hormonal crosstalk drives lateral organs growth in different fruit crops under hypoxia and reoxygenation, revealing mechanisms that sustain oxygen upt...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Vitek Latzel @vtec.bsky.social · 1d

In strawberry, transgenerational effects (TGE) depend on how plants reproduce:
Clonal offspring: stronger TGE from abiotic stresses
Sexual offspring: stronger TGE from biotic interactions
Even DNA methylation inheritance follows this split.
Reproduction mode shapes what kind of memory plants pass on

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 1d

New pre-print from the team!

The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.

Have a read!

#PlantScience
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 1d

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1

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Erik Schäffer Lab @schaefferlab.bsky.social · 1d

Another study from the lab🔬🎉

Our paper, "The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub" is now published in the Journal of Cell Science!

Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

#PlantCellBiology #Kinesin #CellDivision #Microtubules #ZMBP

The tail domain of the plant kinesin-12 POK2 is a versatile interaction hub

Summary: In vitro reconstitution experiments reveal that the tail domain of the kinesin-12 POK2 interacts with microtubules, MAP65-3 and lipids as a possible mechanism for division site deposition and...

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American Society for Horticultural Science @ashs-hort.bsky.social · 1d

Can sap analysis reveal citrus nutrientional needs better than conventional methods? UF/IFAS tested it on 'Ray Ruby' grapefruit in Florida 🍊Results show promise and pitfalls. #HortTechnology https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTTECH05697-25
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Phosphorus (P) levels (A) standard plant leaf P content, (B) soil P content, (C) leaf sap P concentration from New Age Laboratories, and (D) leaf sap P concentration from NovaCropControl. The red line represents the bottom of the optimum range, and the green line represents the top of the optimum range of the respective nutrient from each methodology. In sap analysis graphs, + represents nutrient excess and – represents nutrient deficiency, based on nutrient mobility.

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Mayank Sharma @mayankdu.bsky.social · 1d

Hot off the press, first PI paper 🎉. Reporting a novel protein (VIA1) involved in thylakoid membrane biogenesis. VIA1 (similar to ESCRT-II) and bind to chloroplast ESCRT-III (VIPP1). Showing a direct role of VIPP1 in thylakoid biogenesis.
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social

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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 23h

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

Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 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 🧪
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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Plant Cell Wall Biology". The issue will be edited by George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels. There are two images on the postcard:
Above Cross-section of a developing Arabidopsis seed (courtesy of George Haughn, UBC Botany).
Left Holly leaf skeleton showing the vasculature of lignified plant cell walls (courtesy of Lacey Samuels, UBC Botany).

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 1d

💡 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

Fig. 1.Effects of drought on plant metabolism and coping strategies. Drought is suggested to be first sensed in the roots and communicated to the rest of the plant via Ca2+, ROS, ABA, and small peptide signalling. Drought responses are manifold (left half); for example, plants can escape drought by increasing developmental speed in combination with early flowering, invest in their root system to maintain soil water uptake, synthesize compatible solutes to maintain the osmotic potential, and decrease their leaf transpiration by reducing stomatal conductance (reviewed in Farooq et al., 2009; Kuromori et al., 2022; Yang et al., 2021). Stomatal closure in turn starts a cascade of effects on metabolism (right half), causing reduced CO2 influx and ROS stress in the chloroplast, negatively affecting photosynthesis. Processes stimulated by drought are indicated with upwards arrows, and processes negatively affected by drought are indicated by downwards arrows. Figure created in BioRender

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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 23h

Have our language and #ImageIntegrity experts go over your paper before you submit it to one of these special issues! planteditors.com

Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 1d

Tagging #PlantScience!

Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 1d

Sept. 9–11, 2026 in Norwich, UK! www.bspp.org.uk/conferences/...

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 2d

The KEY🔑 to regulating Rubisco phase separation in the Chlamydomonas algal pyrenoid. Beautiful work by Shan He, @mjonikas.bsky.social, and friends. #PhaseSeparation #CO2 #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 🌍

Martin Jonikas @mjonikas.bsky.social · 2d

Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics #Photosynthesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Australian Cotton Science @auscottonsci.bsky.social · 2d

🧪Engineering Gossypol-Free Cottonseeds for Future Global Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability
iadns.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Engineering Gossypol‐Free Cottonseeds for Future Global Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability

This study depicting the role of transcriptomics, RNA interference (RNAi), and CRISPR/Cas9 technologies in the breeding of glandless cottonseed and glanded cotton tissues. This approach demonstrates ....

iadns.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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LBVpam @lbvpam.bsky.social · 2d

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Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · 2d

A week to go... #EngBio ECRs Meetup returns on 20 Oct. Join us to hear great talks from Konstantina Beritza and
Caroline Faessler 🌱 Don't miss it!
@camplantsci.bsky.social

Sign up here👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

#plantsciences #marinemicroalga #Nicotianabenthamiana

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American Society for Horticultural Science @ashs-hort.bsky.social · 2d

For mulberry production, white/yellow films or purple/green films can be selected for rain avoidance cultivation based on specific production goals to adjust ripening periods and improve fruit quality. #HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI18905-25
#plantscience

Ripening process of mulberry fruits under films with different colors.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 2d

🌸 Want to subscribe to the Flowering Newsletter? 🌸

If you’d like to receive an email notification when the latest FNL is compiled, please email us at j.exp.bot@lancaster.... with your name, email address, and the subject line ‘Flowering Newsletter’ ✉️

#FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪
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Home - Lancaster University

Lancaster University is among the best in the UK. A Top 15 university in the UK league tables, we are also highly ranked in international league tables such as the QS World Rankings.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 2d

🌾🌼 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 🧪
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Flowers of California poppy (Eschscholzia californica). Two fused sepals form a hat-like structure that has already dehisced, while four free bright orange petals adorn the blossom. Inside the flower, though not visible from this perspective, are numerous stamens arranged in several whorls and a gynoecium composed of two carpels. The gynoecium is surrounded by a floral cup forming a wide rim, which can be seen on the lower left, once all other organs have fallen off. (Image credit: Annette Becker.)

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Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking the barrier: NRT1.1B bridges ABA signaling across membranes #plantscience

Breaking the barrier: NRT1.1B bridges ABA signaling across membranes

Coordination of nutrient signals and stress responses is essential for plant survival. Recently, Ma et al. reported that the nitrate transporter NRT1.1B binds abscisic acid (ABA) and regulates the SPX4–NLP4 module to activate ABA-responsive genes. This represents a potential transmembrane ABA perception mechanism that complements the canonical PYR– protein phosphatase type 2C (PP2C)–SnRK2 pathway.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 1d

📢 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

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Canadian Journal of Plant Science @canjplantsci.bsky.social · 1d

Optimizing the evaluation of root system architectural traits in Brassica napus | Yang et al.: buff.ly/eSZ7AJr
#plantscience

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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology @jipb.bsky.social · 1d

Hu et al. report that MdGRF10 phosphorylation stabilizes MdASMT1 for #melatonin-mediated #salt tolerance in #apple.

Get a sneak peek at this new study! ⬇️
🍎 doi.org/10.1111/jipb...

#PlantScience #AbioticStress

Annotated flow diagram across extracellular and intracellular space to illustrate how the salt-activated receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase MdPBL34 phosphorylates the 14-3-3 protein MdGRF10 to stabilize the melatonin synthase MdASMT1, promoting melatonin synthesis to scavenge excessive reactive oxygen species in apple under salt stress.

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