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A sound science journal for the 🌵🌿🌱 community established by @aspbofficial.bsky.social, @sebiology.bsky.social & Wiley Plant Science. Posts by societies and Editor-in-Chief @larrymyork.phenotyper.com
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Plant Direct Journal @plantdirectj.bsky.social · Dec 12
🌿Plant Direct is an open-access journal dedicated to sound science in plant biology, published as a joint venture of the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Society for Experimental Biology, and Wiley.🌱

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Unraveling Plant Recombination Patterns: Insights From Genome k-mers (Mauricio Peñuela, Camila Riccio-Rengifo, Jorge Finke, Camilo Rocha) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
CGR and FCGR. (Left) Step-by-step schematization to build a CGR of the ATGC sequence. (Middle) CGR of the first 100 kb of the Arabidopsis sequence. (Right) FCGR, with k = 3, of the first 100 kb of the Arabidopsis sequence.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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“Every discovery, whether in the lab or the field, brings new possibilities for innovation.” buff.ly/a2T4BdW #WeAreASPB
Mohammad Kamruzzaman (Him/His) is the First Author of Genome-wide association analyses identify hydrogen peroxide-responsive loci in wheat diversity published April 17 2025. He is a Senior Scientific Officer, Plant Breeding Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh. Education background includes a PhD in Molecular Plant Breeding, University of Bonn, Germany. Research interests include Abiotic stress, Plant Metabolism, GWAS, molecular plant breeding. Personal interests include Travelling, Exploring New Places.
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Li loves how plant science connects everything — economy, ecology, and even aesthetics. buff.ly/D1dA8ur #WeAreASPB
Linge Li (she/her) is the First Author of Effect of low red-to-far-red light on stem elongation and pith cell development in dicots published 15 April 2025. Li is a Researcher+Yuanyi Biotechnology Co.Ltd. Education background includes 2024 Ph.D Plant Environmental Physiology at Utrecht University; 2018 Plant Sciences and Natural Products at Leiden University; 2016 Biotechnology at Northeastern Forestry University. Research interests include Plant physiology, Abiotic stress. Personal interests include Video editing, painting.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Academician Yuan Longping's belief in 'writing research papers in the fields' serves as Xiaoqing Liu’s guiding compass. buff.ly/BLf8yTR #WeAreASPB
Xiaoqing Liu (He/him) is the First Author of Establishing an immune system conferring DNA and RNA virus resistance in plants using CRISPR/Cas12a multiplex gene editing published 07 April 2025. Liu is a Professor at BRI of CAAS. Education background includes: 2014 Ph.D Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at CAAS 2011 MSc in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at CAAS 2004 BSc Biotechnology Hebei Argicultural University. Research interests include Plant Biotechnology. Personal interests include Table Tennis.
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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“By modulating htACCase activity, it is possible to enhance lipid content in biological systems, offering a potential solution to meet the increasing global demand for fats and oils.” buff.ly/scYlOeU #WeAreASPB
Kiran-Kumar Shivaiah (He/his) is the First Author of Solution structure and NMR chemical shift perturbations of the Arabidopsis BCCP1 identify inter-subunit interactions potentially involved in the assembly of the heteromeric acetyl-CoA carboxylase published 21 March 2025. He is a Research Specialist, Michigan State University. Education background includes PhD Biochemistry at Iowa State University. Research interests include Coral lipid biology, Coral resilience, Lipid droplets. Personal interests include Resistance training, Book reading, Listening to music.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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In a season of gratitude, we reflect on our ASPB volunteers whose service powers everything we do. Your dedication is the cornerstone of our society. Thank you. 🌱
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November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Garhwal has a curiosity for home gardening that makes a powerful motivator. buff.ly/AHiFdbq #WeAreASPB
Vikas Garhwal (He/His) is the First Author of Unequal genetic redundancies among MYC bHLH transcription factors underlie seedling photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis published 13 February 2025. He is a Research Assistant at IISER Kolkata. Education background includes 2024 Ph.D Plant Molecular Biology at Indian Instititue of Science Education and Research(IISER) Kolkata, India. 2015 MSc Biotechnology at CSJM University Kanpur, India. 2013 BSc Biotechnology and Botany at CSJM University Kanpur, India. Research interests include Light Signaling, Temperature Signaling, Hormone Signaling, Root Development. Personal interests include Social Work, Teaching, and Sports Events Participation.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Leaf Anatomy, Volatile Metabolite Profile, and Cytotoxic Activity of the Endemic Seseli tomentosum Vis.: Insights Into Species-Specific Adaptations (Elma Vuko, Sanja Radman, Juraj Kamenjarin, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Seseli tomentosum Vis. in its natural habitat—degraded, stony pasture at the locality of Majdan, Municipality of Klis, Croatia. The plant is perennial, 50–100 cm tall, with a semi-woody rhizome and lower stem. One or two upright, thin, round stems develop from the rhizome.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Yang looks forward to using the "machine" of "plant cells" in the future to better serve mankind. buff.ly/d4WTlf3 #WeAreASPB
Yi Yang is the First Author of Delivery of marker-free DNA to plant genome by the transgenic selection-associated fragment elimination (T-SAFE) system published 05 February 2025. Yang is a Student at Shanghai Normal University. Education background includes 2021-2025 (expected to graduate with BSc Biology) Shanghai Normal University. Research interests include Plant immunity. Personal interests include reading novels, making handicrafts.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Integrative Transcriptomic and Phosphoproteomic Analysis Reveals Key Components of the SnRK1 Signaling Network in Rice (Maria C. Faria-Bates, Chandan Maurya, K. Muhammed Jamsheer, Vibha Srivastava) buff.ly/zo2QiqS #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Untargeted Proteomics Identifies Plant Substrates of the Bacterial-Derived ADP-Ribosyltransferase AvrRpm1 (Simranjit Kaur, Thomas Colby, Domenika Thieme, Carsten Proksch, Susanne Matschi, Ivan Matić, Lennart Wirthmueller) buff.ly/b8U3q0m #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
ADP-ribosylated peptide AYHPVYNETMSMGGGSSNEFGQWLDK (z = 3, mass = 3519.31 Da) from PLDGAMMA3-HA-StrepII coexpressed with AvrRpm1-Flag in N. benthamiana. Unmodified y-ions and y-ions with a neutral loss of AMP are indicated above the sequence logo. The horizontal line designates the possible sequence window for ADP-ribosylation. Asterisks indicate ions with a neutral loss of AMP (Δ347.06 Da).
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi loves plant science because it explores the intricate mechanisms of nature that sustain life on Earth buff.ly/g1jxQAd #WeAreASPB
Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi is the First Author of The significant effects of threshold selection for advancing nitrogen use efficiency in whole genome of bread wheat published 21 January 2025. Sadeqi is a Researcher at INRES-Plant Breeding, University of Bonn. Education background includes 2024 Ph.D Plant Breeding University of Bonn, 2011 MSc Plant Breeding, University of Tehran. Research interests include Plant Genomics, Statistical Genetics. Personal interests include Painting.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Deniz Ece Ozcan is a PhD student at Yildiz Technical University. buff.ly/HdXNLhR #WeAreASPB
Deniz Ece OZCAN is the First Author of Modification of Gene Expression Involved in Alkaloid Production in Opium Poppy by VIGS Combined With Pretreatment of Macerozyme Enzyme published 07 January 2025. Ozcan is a PhD student at Yildiz Technical University. Education background includes 2023-Ph.D Yildiz Technical University 2020-MSc Yildiz Technical University 2016- BSc, Yildiz Technical University. Research interests include medicinal plants, gene silencing, secondary metabolism - alkaloids, post-transcriptional regulation. Personal interests include swimming, knitting.
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Revealing the Application of Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Computed Tomography in Healthy Versus Unhealthy Interior Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) Conelets (Emelie Dykstra, Jarvis A. Stobbs, Esteban Galeano, Barb R. Thomas) buff.ly/7DuknH7 #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Avizo software volume rendering of lodgepole pine conelets 4-week postpollination (receptivity) from clone (genotype) 1401. Scale bar depicted to 700 μm, ticks at each 100 μm. Conelet tissue is visualized in blue; inner cavity space is visualized in red. The left panel depicts an early aborted conelet, whereas the right panel depicts a healthy conelet. (a, b) Visualization of the physical structures. (c, d) Cavity space in relation to the conelet tissue. (e, f) Isolated cavity space.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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📣Introducing the 2026 Plantae Editors! Returning in 2026, ASPB has appointed its new group of Plantae Editors to further support Plantae's growth and goal to serve as a community resource for plant biologists, by plant biologists.🌱

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November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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An Introduction to Network Analysis in Plant Biology (Chamindika L. Siriwardana, Ashleigh S. Carlton, Thalia Lizeth Moncayo, Elizabeth A. O'Bier, Laura E. Bartley) buff.ly/2Hl7Iaw #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Rose Bengal Is a Precise Pharmacological Tool Triggering Chloroplast-Driven Programmed Cell Death in Plants, Dependent on Calcium and Mitochondria, and Associated With Early Transcriptional Reprogramming (Yasmine Jnaid, Rory Burke, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Rapid and Cost-Effective Digital Quantification of RNA Editing and Maturation in Organelle Transcripts by Oxford Nanopore Target-Indexed-PCR (TIP) Sequencing (Zhihua Hua) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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CmSGT1, Transcriptionally Regulated by CmWRKY21 and CmWRKY31, Improves Powdery Mildew Resistance in Cucurbita moschata (Wei-Li Guo, Jin-Peng Zhao, Xue-Jin Chen, Bi-Hua Chen, Qing-Fei Li, Xin-Zheng Li) buff.ly/0MUMytg #PlantScience @aspbofficial
CmSGT1, Transcriptionally Regulated by CmWRKY21 and CmWRKY31, Improves Powdery Mildew Resistance in Cucurbita moschata
Powdery mildew (PM), mainly caused by Podosphaera xanthii, is a severe destructive disease that threatens the production of cucurbit crops globally. Heterologous transformation has shown that the…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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What is #PlantBio2026?

It’s the global meeting for plant scientists, from early career researchers to established scientists leading the field, from academia to industry.

📅 July 18–22, 2026
📍 Ottawa, Canada
🌍 Scientists from 50+ countries

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October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Genetic Regulation of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Cornus Species: The Roles of R2R3-MYB Transcription Factors (Žaklina Pavlović, Miriam Payá-Milans, Marzena Nowakowska, Matthew L. Huff, Kimberly D. Gwinn, Robert N. Trigiano, Marcin Nowicki) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Regulatory network of R2R3-MYB transcription factors and anthocyanin biosynthetic genes. Nodes represent MYB TFs (red = activators, green = repressors) and structural genes (green). Edges indicate regulatory interactions: arrows = activation, rectangles = repression. Gene expression patterns are cultivar-specific, based on RNA-seq and RT-qPCR data. Cultivars are labeled.
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A Study on the Response Mechanism of Davidia involucrata Baill. to Drought Stress Based on Transcriptomic Analysis (Shuang Li, Jiankuo Du) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Predicted tertiary structures of SDRPGs.
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Analysis of Genotypic Variations in the Anthocyanin Biosynthetic Pathway in Potatoes (Chae-Min Lee, Seung Yong Shin, Su-Jin Park, Ji-Sun Park, Changsoo Kim, Hyun-Soon Kim, Hyo-Jun Lee) buff.ly/u04SnK7 #PlantScience
Surface and cross section images. Potato plants were grown for the indicated time periods in soil and then tubers were harvested. Scale bars, 3 cm. w, weeks.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Early Flowering 3 (ELF3) Inhibits Hypocotyl Phototropism in Light-Grown Arabidopsis Seedlings (Geoffrey M. C. Cobb, Johanna Krahmer, Ganesh M. Nawkar, Alessandra Boccaccini, Sandi Paulišić, Christian Fankhauser) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Schematic showing the light treatments over the course of the experiment. Seedlings were grown for 4 days in long days (16-h light/8-h dark) at 21°C in combined LRFR + LB light. Bending assays were then conducted every 4 h over a 48-h timecourse, starting at dawn on the 5th day. In this schematic, yellow represents combined LRFR + LB light, black represents night, and blue represents combined LRFR + LB light supplemented with lateral blue light.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM