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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)
The last one standing: A point mutation that suppresses the lazy quadruple mutant phenotype | Plantae
Gravity is perceived by amyloplast sedimentation in gravity-sensing cells, a process relying on the relocalization of LAZY proteins from the amyloplast to the plasma membrane.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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)
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🧱⚙️ 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.
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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 🧪
February 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
🧱⚙️ 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 🧪
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.
...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.
February 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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.
...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.
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CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
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#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
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February 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
CLE peptides in plant-biotic interactions
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
#TansleyInsight by Nicolas Frei dit Frey and Thomas Spallek
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#plantscience
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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...
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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...
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#TansleyInsight: Endophytes with #mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications
Yuan et al.
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February 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
#TansleyInsight: Endophytes with #mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications
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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
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MAPPI lets us track shoot-to-root Ca²⁺ signals in real time 🌱⚡
@ScienceAdvance! @science.org
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February 9, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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/...
MAPPI lets us track shoot-to-root Ca²⁺ signals in real time 🌱⚡
@ScienceAdvance! @science.org
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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)
What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)
February 6, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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)
What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)
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🌿 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
✍️ Read more 🔬: tpc8.short.gy/Ln8Hzoc7
🍃 Where tradition meets science, truth tastes sweetest
#Stevia #Sweetener #Nature #PlantScience #TPC8
The Sweet Science of Stevia: Nature's Molecular Marvel 🌿
Discover the molecular science of stevia: from taste chemistry to extraction, metabolism, and sustainability. Complete guide to nature's sweetener.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
🌿 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
✍️ 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.
Phosphorylation of the mitochondrial protein MIRO1 promotes mitochondrial fusion and energy metabolism, enabling effective stomatal defence.
February 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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.
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.
In Brassica napus, identifying microbe-associated loci and a beneficial bacterium, Sphingopyxis, that promotes N uptake.
February 4, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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.
In Brassica napus, identifying microbe-associated loci and a beneficial bacterium, Sphingopyxis, that promotes N uptake.
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Out Now! The building blocks of one of the most complex flagellar nanomachines #MicroSky
The building blocks of one of the most complex flagellar nanomachines
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 03 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02275-wA near-complete model for the complex structure of the Campylobacter jejuni flagellar motor revealed different mechanisms of assembly, activation and stability from the simple ‘classical’ flagellar model. Some of the additional motor structures in C. jejuni are conserved and only found in species of Campylobacterota, whose ancestor likely co-opted type IV pilus components from bacteria in the deep ocean.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Out Now! The building blocks of one of the most complex flagellar nanomachines #MicroSky
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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/...
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Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs
Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
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It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?
From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge
variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems.
What makes a meristem? T...
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February 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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⚙️🦠 REVIEW 🦠⚙️
Turley & Faulkner explore the function of plant heavy metal-associated domain-containing proteins and speculate about their functions at plasmodesmata by drawing from plant–pathogen interaction studies.
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#PlantScience 🧪 Christine Faulkner
Turley & Faulkner explore the function of plant heavy metal-associated domain-containing proteins and speculate about their functions at plasmodesmata by drawing from plant–pathogen interaction studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 Christine Faulkner
February 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
⚙️🦠 REVIEW 🦠⚙️
Turley & Faulkner explore the function of plant heavy metal-associated domain-containing proteins and speculate about their functions at plasmodesmata by drawing from plant–pathogen interaction studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 Christine Faulkner
Turley & Faulkner explore the function of plant heavy metal-associated domain-containing proteins and speculate about their functions at plasmodesmata by drawing from plant–pathogen interaction studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 Christine Faulkner
New Article: "Large slow-growing hydrophytes increase wetland carbon storage" rdcu.be/e14Z6
Wetlands dominated by larger, slower-growing and highly hydrophytic plants, rather than those with higher functional diversity, tend to store more soil organic carbon.
Wetlands dominated by larger, slower-growing and highly hydrophytic plants, rather than those with higher functional diversity, tend to store more soil organic carbon.
February 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
New Article: "Large slow-growing hydrophytes increase wetland carbon storage" rdcu.be/e14Z6
Wetlands dominated by larger, slower-growing and highly hydrophytic plants, rather than those with higher functional diversity, tend to store more soil organic carbon.
Wetlands dominated by larger, slower-growing and highly hydrophytic plants, rather than those with higher functional diversity, tend to store more soil organic carbon.
New Article: "Elucidation of gene clusters underlying withanolide biosynthesis in ashwagandha through yeast metabolic engineering" rdcu.be/e14YH
4 cyt. P450s, 1 dehydrogenase, 1 sulfotransferase build core scaffold of products with neurological/anti-cancer properties.
4 cyt. P450s, 1 dehydrogenase, 1 sulfotransferase build core scaffold of products with neurological/anti-cancer properties.
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
New Article: "Elucidation of gene clusters underlying withanolide biosynthesis in ashwagandha through yeast metabolic engineering" rdcu.be/e14YH
4 cyt. P450s, 1 dehydrogenase, 1 sulfotransferase build core scaffold of products with neurological/anti-cancer properties.
4 cyt. P450s, 1 dehydrogenase, 1 sulfotransferase build core scaffold of products with neurological/anti-cancer properties.
New Article: "Amino-acid-transporter-mediated assembly of rhizosphere microbiota enhances soil organic nitrogen acquisition in rice" rdcu.be/e14Uv
The japonica allele of LHT1 enhances organic N use efficiency by recruiting specific rhizosphere microbiota.
The japonica allele of LHT1 enhances organic N use efficiency by recruiting specific rhizosphere microbiota.
February 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
New Article: "Amino-acid-transporter-mediated assembly of rhizosphere microbiota enhances soil organic nitrogen acquisition in rice" rdcu.be/e14Uv
The japonica allele of LHT1 enhances organic N use efficiency by recruiting specific rhizosphere microbiota.
The japonica allele of LHT1 enhances organic N use efficiency by recruiting specific rhizosphere microbiota.
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Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs
Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...
www.science.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI
With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK
How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.
With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK
How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 AM
New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI
With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK
How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.
With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK
How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.
New OA Article: "Long-distance transport of siRNAs with functional roles in pollen development" rdcu.be/e1pxk
...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.
...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.
January 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM
New OA Article: "Long-distance transport of siRNAs with functional roles in pollen development" rdcu.be/e1pxk
...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.
...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.
New Article: "Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction" rdcu.be/e1pvY
...pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species and highlighting the need to protect slow-growing trees.
...pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species and highlighting the need to protect slow-growing trees.
January 30, 2026 at 1:49 AM
New Article: "Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction" rdcu.be/e1pvY
...pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species and highlighting the need to protect slow-growing trees.
...pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species and highlighting the need to protect slow-growing trees.
The January issue is now fully online, and free-to-read links to all articles have been posted on Twitter and BlueSky:
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The January issue is now fully online, and free-to-read links to all articles have been posted on Twitter and BlueSky:
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
New Editorial: "Crystal ball time" rdcu.be/e0ND4
The great physicist Niels Bohr is reported to have said that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”, but that should not stop us trying to guess what 2026 might bring.
The great physicist Niels Bohr is reported to have said that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”, but that should not stop us trying to guess what 2026 might bring.
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
New Editorial: "Crystal ball time" rdcu.be/e0ND4
The great physicist Niels Bohr is reported to have said that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”, but that should not stop us trying to guess what 2026 might bring.
The great physicist Niels Bohr is reported to have said that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”, but that should not stop us trying to guess what 2026 might bring.
New Article: "Creating a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing" rdcu.be/e0NAR
De novo domestication by identifying and stacking CRISPR-induced mutations to create a new intermediate off-season oilseed crop.
De novo domestication by identifying and stacking CRISPR-induced mutations to create a new intermediate off-season oilseed crop.
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
New Article: "Creating a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing" rdcu.be/e0NAR
De novo domestication by identifying and stacking CRISPR-induced mutations to create a new intermediate off-season oilseed crop.
De novo domestication by identifying and stacking CRISPR-induced mutations to create a new intermediate off-season oilseed crop.