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Variation in fertility and sexual traits underlies the different evolutionary potential of Lemna hybrids

Lee et al. @Parched-Panama.bsky.social @Daniela-Cusack.bsky.social"

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Diagram of flower development and seed formation in the genus Lemna sect. Alatae.
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Salt-triggered anthocyanin biosynthesis

Gao et al.

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Proposed model of MdVQ8-mediated regulation of salinity-induced anthocyanin accumulation in apple.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Balanophora evolution, metabolic retention in reduced plastids, and obligate agamospermy

Svetlikova et al. @petrasvetlikova.bsky.social @tugutuguk @filiphusnik.bsky.social

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Sampled Balanophora populations from Taiwan and Japan.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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New @newphyt.bsky.social in the @BioFunLab

Tree evenness sustains multiple ecosystem services in boreal–temperate ecotone

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Led by CSC @BioFunLab student Tao Zhou w/ Zhenghu Zhou, Peter Reich @GuiyaoZhou and +!

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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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📢 New publication 'Cryptic signals: substomatal architecture influences stomatal responses to red #light and #CO2' by Muhammad Haroon, Caroline Ivsic, Frances Sussmilch, Anju Manandhar and Scott McAdam in @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱🧪

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#mesophyll
Cryptic signals: substomatal architecture influences stomatal responses to red light and CO2
The mesophyll provides a critical signal for stomatal responses to red light (RL) and CO2 in angiosperms. By contrast, the stomatal response to blue light (BL) is largely guard cell-specific. It is .....
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November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Tree evenness sustains multiple ecosystem services in boreal–temperate ecotone

Zhou et al.

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Effects of tree richness and tree evenness on ecosystem multiservices are not mediated by key species.
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Profile of Lin Zhang

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Photo Lin Zhang
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Plants for space exploration and Earth applications

Fountain et al.

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#plantscience
Representative model plant and crop species studied in space, and research topics discussed at the Liverpool workshop. Translating fundamental and applied plant research into tangible products that can be integrated into sustainable space food systems and a fully operational Bioregenerative Life Support System should be a priority moving forward. This figure was created in BioRender (Gilliham, M. (2025) https://BioRender.com/r9wldfx).
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Functions of Arabidopsis root lipid droplets

Scholz et al.

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Various enzymes enriched in the lipid droplet fraction of Arabidopsis roots that are involved in isoprenoid metabolism are localized to lipid droplets.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Community‐driven variations in snow algae color modulate snow albedo reduction

Almela et al.

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Summary of reflected radiation relative to clean snow and instantaneous radiative forcing across snow algae blooms of different colors.
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/5) Functional characterization of NRT1/PTR FAMILY (NPF) transporters: looking for a needle in a haystack
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NITRATE TRANSPORT 1/PTR FAMILY (NPF) substrates are very diverse, and include nutrients, secondary metabolites and hormones.
Fig. 2 Characterization methods of NRT1/PTR FAMILY (NPF) transport activity in heterologous expression systems (oocytes and yeast).
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life

2–5 June 2026
University of Córdoba, Spain

Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026

Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

#PlantScience
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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(🧵 1/6) Structural and physiological constraints on arborescent lycopsid establishment and growth
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Fig. 3 Sigillaria approximata tracheids in transverse section from proximal (a–c) and distal (d–f) in the trunk.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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One thing that strikes me about this viewpoint piece is that "observations" are the largest component of research at both the beginning and end of the timeline, but the kinds of observations involved are very different (kinds on the rise include remote sensing, flux towers, global datasets, etc.)
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d
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(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
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Fig. 1 Settings for manipulative global change experiments have changed substantially from their onset around the early 1980s to the present.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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New research from my group @parched-panama.bsky.social showing that rainforest drying suppresses root growth and biomass in surface soils, while stimulating deep root production! Let us know what you think!
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November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Climate research is shifting: from manipulative experiments to observation-led insight. This perspective urges funding and methods to adapt—and offers practical guidance for designing plant studies in a changed climate. From @newphyt.bsky.social 🌐🧪

📖: bit.ly/44vJXB0
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A new @newphyt.bsky.social Profile, this time on Roberto Solano:

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Interesting as always 👍

#PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Marchantia
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.

Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Research feels more like a hobby than work. It is like kids solving puzzles to reveal messages with important implications for knowledge & potentially for the sustainability of our planet

Roberto Solano @cnb-csic.bsky.social
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Roberto Solano
Roberto Solano, National Biotechnology Center, CSIC (Spain).
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November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @newphyt.bsky.social on leaf traits expressed over a latitudinal transect of plants in China: 314 species over 4000 km; differences in nutrient content for deciduous and evergreen plants; quantitative examination of traits; and the constrained evolution of evergreens.
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The extent to which leaf habit-mediated intraspecific variation influences the growth-defense syndrome in broadleaf woody plants

Zhou et al.

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Sampling locations and conceptual diagram.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Really proud to share this review with my new team. We started off making an excel file with all the NPF substrates for ourselves and decided to turn ot into something useful for the community. It contains some methods and an evolutionary perspective.
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 5d
Cracking the code of NPF transporters: function, specificity, and evolution in plants

#TansleyReview by Laura Morales de Los Ríos et al. @frannybarbs.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social

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#plantscience
Number of NRT1/PTR FAMILY (NPF) homologs found in different species of red algae and viridiae plants. The homologs have been classified based on a BLASTP against Arabidopsis using the classification established by Léran et al. (2014).
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

Thomas Review by @anneosbourn.bsky.social

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Societal Impact Statement also available in French and Spanish.

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Botanical illustration of Quillaja saponaria from Hooker (1897). The artist and lithographer was J.N. Fitch. The illustration was made from a specimen sent by Sir Thomas Hanbury, F.L.S., which flowered in his botanical garden La Mortola, Ventigmiglis, Italy in February 1987. A wild quillay tree growing in central Chile.
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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#Stomatal traits covary with #leaf #mycobiome diversity and composition

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by Apigo et al.

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
Examples of variation in abaxial stomatal length and density in Populus trichocarpa.
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Photosynthetic carbon allocation in desert plants

Cong et al.

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Conceptual framework illustrating photosynthetic carbon allocation patterns in Alhagi sparsifolia.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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The extent to which leaf habit-mediated intraspecific variation influences the growth-defense syndrome in broadleaf woody plants

Zhou et al.

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Sampling locations and conceptual diagram.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM