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Plant & Cell Physiology (PCP) – an academic society journal supporting the plant science community #OUP #JSPP
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · Mar 19
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💡Discover the latest manuscripts accepted in PCP:
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Advance articles | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic
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🌟Featured Review!🌟

Imaizumi & Ifuku provide a comprehensive review discussing the structural, functional & evolutionary aspects of PSII in oxyphototrophs

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#Photosynthesis
#PlantScience
A text and graphical summary of the review paper by Imaizumi and Ifuku (2025), and a photo and text biography of the first author
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Spinning around...💫

Shikanai et al discuss the evolution of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like/Photosystem I supercomplex and how it has been optimised to maintain photosynthetic activity in terrestrial angiosperms exposed to harsh light environments

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The chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex: evolutionary considerations
Abstract. The chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase (NDH)-like complex facilitates the ferredoxin-dependent reduction of plastoquinone, coupled with proton transl
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Special bumper issue on #Photosynthesis out now!🔆🌿

Read the accompanying editorial by organising editors:

⭐ Jian-Ren Shen
⭐ Toshiharu Shikanai
⭐ Mei Li
⭐ Maria Ermakova @mariaermakova.bsky.social
⭐ Wataru Sakamoto @watarusakamoto.bsky.social

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December 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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PsbS as a Conserved Regulator of Non-photochemical Quenching Across Green Lineage Evolution academic.oup.com/pcp/article-... @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
PsbS as a Conserved Regulator of Non-photochemical Quenching Across Green Lineage Evolution
Abstract. Excess light during photosynthesis induces harmful reactive oxygen species. As a defense mechanism, plants possess rapidly reversible energy-depe
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November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Harnessing light energy🔆

Special Issue #Photosynthesis out now!

19 articles on the basics, mechanisms & applications of photosynthesis

With thx to Guest Editors: J-R. Shen, T. Shikanai, M. Li, @mariaermakova.bsky.social @watarusakamoto.bsky.social

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#PlantScience
Volume 66 Issue 11 | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. Publishes original articles reporting significant findings in broad aspects of plant biology.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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⏳ Final weekend to apply!
Students & Early Career Researchers — secure your travel award and free registration for #IWC2026Bologna 🇮🇹
Deadline: Sunday, 30 Nov 2025
Apply now 👉 www.wheatinitiative.org/opportunities
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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November Research Highlights - meet the first authors behind the work!

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Kaori Kohzuma @kohzuma.bsky.social
Ko Imaizumi
Keisuke Kawakami
Zhang Jingqi
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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November Research Highlights 🤩

- featuring select papers from our special issue on #Photosynthesis #PlantScience

- and the #earlycareer first-authors behind the work!

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November 2025 Research Highlights
Role and diversification of plastid ATP synthase Editor’s Choice – Free access! ATP synthase is a universally conserved rotary enzyme that couples proton moti
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November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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International Marchantia Workshop 2026

Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026
Kobe, Japan

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November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Pick of the bunch! 🫵

View the latest Editor's choice paper: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

Don't miss out on past Editor's Choice articles, click here:
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Title, abstract extract and icon image from the October Issue's 'Editor's Choice paper' on NMOD database https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf101
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Smoking...!

Xu et al. present Nicotiana multi-dimensional omics database - NMOD biodb.com.cn/NMOD/index.h..., a user-friendly database integrating tools useful for research into disease resistance mechanisms & molecular breeding in #tobacco

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#DatabasePaper💻
#PlantScience🌱
Graphical abstract containing text and diagrams to explain how the NMOD database works, including the types of datasets and data sources utilised, and its many functions/applications in plant science.
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Going nuts for tea... 🌰🍵

Bai et al. have discovered that tea plants become more resilient to biotic and abiotic stresses when intercropped with chestnuts due to upregulation of the CsWRKY15 transcription factor

See doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience
CsWRKY15 from tea plant promotes its auto-resistance when intercropped with chestnut
Abstract. To explore the role of WRKY transcription factors in resistance, a WRKY15 homologous gene, CsWRKY15, and its promoter were isolated from tea plan
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Congratulations to PCP Editor, Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social for his great contribution to the plant science community! 💐🔬
kenichitsuda.bsky.social Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you for citing our work. I will continue contributing to the scientific community by publishing rigorous and reliable research.

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November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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TOR kinase involved in regulating the development of maize radicle through starch metabolism academic.oup.com/pcp/article-... @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social
TOR kinase involved in regulating the development of maize radicle through starch metabolism
Abstract. Target of Rapamycin (TOR) signaling plays a pivotal role in regulating various cellular processes, including energy metabolism and growth. In thi
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October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Psychedelic plants... 🌿✌️

Nolan et al. have identified morphological & molecular differences in modern & traditional Cannabis cultivars, showing how selective breeding for larger trichomes enhances phytocannabinoid production for improved drug cultivars

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Bigger is better: modern Cannabis trichomes are larger and more productive than their landrace ancestors
Abstract. Cannabis sativa L. (Cannabis) is a medicinal plant that produces and stores an abundance of therapeutic and psychoactive secondary metabolites, i
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November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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In her article on @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social , botanist @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social hypothesizes that reduction of negative effects (from parasitic flowering plants) may be hampered by other causes of climate change, such as extremely high temperatures and severe drought.
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Strange Plants And The Weirding Climate: Parasitic Plant Physiology Under Climate Change
Abstract. Parasitic flowering plants are often seen as keystone species due to the broad influence they exert on communities worldwide. Positive and negati
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November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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3-in-1 action...

Yamamoto et al. report the efficient way in which Arabidopsis encodes a unique protein necessary for threonate metabolism (instead of the 3 enzymes required for the bacterial pathway), as part of the ascorbate degradation process in plants

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#PlantScience
Metabolism of L-threonate, an ascorbate degradation product, requires a protein with L-threonate metabolizing domains in Arabidopsis
Abstract. L-Threonate is one of the major degradation products of ascorbate in plants. While bacteria can utilize L-threonate as a sole carbon source by co
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November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join

Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef

Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025

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Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
The logo of the conference symbolises a plant cell, plant leaves, plant cell's organelles, and a bug. It also offers the details of the 39th Conference Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) taking place from 16th to 19th March 2026 in Hennef, Germany
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Right on track...🛤️

Obara & Tominaga have characterised the subcellular dynamics of plant myosin XI and found that it acts as part of a novel transport mechanism to co-ordinate cargo movement & #actin track remodelling

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November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Standing tall...🌾

Yamaguchi et al. have identified a novel membrane protein (BRITTLE CULM 4) that affects cellulose composition in the secondary cell walls of #rice

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#PlantCellWalls
The rice BRITTLE CULM 4 gene encodes a membrane protein affecting cellulose synthesis in the secondary cell wall
Abstract. The formation of secondary cell walls, which provide mechanical strength to the plant body, depends on numerous factors. Studies on rice brittle
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November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Stress hub...🤯

Korek et al. characterised the #strigolactone repressor HvD53A in #barley, providing evidence for its role as a central node connecting SL signalling to stress resilience - at the expense of #photosynthesis

📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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🚨 I'm excited to share that my new publication is now available at @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social 📃 Building on numerous publications and on my own recent research, I discuss several ways in which #GlobalChange 🌎🌍🌏 affects the physiology of #ParasiticPlants 🌱

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Strange Plants And The Weirding Climate: Parasitic Plant Physiology Under Climate Change
Abstract. Parasitic flowering plants are often seen as keystone species due to the broad influence they exert on communities worldwide. Positive and negati
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November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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💡Great insight from PCP Editor @jennyrussinova.bsky.social on the use of #brassinosteroids to precision engineer crops
-see original post below

Find out more about BRs in action in our special issue
➡️ academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/65...

Organised by B. Poppenberger, J. Russinova & S Savaldi-Goldstein
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Seasons of change...

To understand climate impact on plant clock biology, Muranaka et al. studied diel rhythmic genes in #Arabidopsis halleri over 4 seasons, finding cooperation in the temperature-dependent regulations of circadian rhythmicity & growth

doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience
Schematic diagram with text illustrating hypothetical relations between clock amplitude and growth, from figure 6 of Muranaka et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf092
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Surviving Arctic conditions... 🥶

Kolomiiets et al. identify a new Klebsormidium strain from the High Arctic Svalbard region & investigate the mechanisms underpinning its extreme resilience to cold, desiccation, N-starvation, & freezing stress

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#PlantScience
#ExtremeBiology
Figure 1 from the paper by Anastasiia Kolomiiets et al. 2025. Left panel shows a photo of a plexus of filaments of K. flaccidum on agar plates. The right panel shows mature (longer) and young (shorter) filaments of K. flaccidum.
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM