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Hoe sojabonen het meest uit geboden hulp halen

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 19h

Een symbiose met arbuscular mycorrhizal schimmels helpt planten bij een tekort aan voedingstoffen. Een nieuwe studie laat zien dat na aangaan van de symbiose de plant actief meer behulpzame microben rekruteert.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
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Een symbiose met arbuscular mycorrhizal schimmels helpt planten bij een tekort aan voedingstoffen. Maar in vlinderbloemige de regulatie is net even anders. Dit bestuderend vond een nieuwe studie da…

Wood-wide web unravels [excerpt]

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The Sceptical Botanist @timentwisle.bsky.social · 1d

Wood-wide web unravels? My take on the phenomenon that is more hype than hyphae...

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A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 18h

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!

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 23h

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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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 18h

Or go directly to the article:
Yang, X., et al., (2025), GmSPX5 regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and phosphate acquisition through modifying transcription profile and microbiome in soybean. Plant J, 124: e70511. doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

GmSPX5 regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and phosphate acquisition through modifying transcription profile and microbiome in soybean

Phosphorus limitation constrains crop productivity, yet how plants coordinate nutrient acquisition with microbial symbiosis remains unclear. This study identifies GmSPX5 as a dual regulator enhancing...

How soybeans get the most out of offered help

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 18h

A symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helps plants during nutrient shortages. A new study shows that once the symbioses is initiated the plant actively recruits more microbes to help.
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...

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A symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helps plants during nutrient shortages. But in legumes this is slightly different regulated. A new study analysing this finds that once the symbioses i…

GmSPX5 regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and phosphate acquisition through modifying transcription profile and microbiome in soybean

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 19h

Of ga meteen naar het artikel:
Yang, X., et al., (2025), GmSPX5 regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and phosphate acquisition through modifying transcription profile and microbiome in soybean. Plant J, 124: e70511. doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Phosphorus limitation constrains crop productivity, yet how plants coordinate nutrient acquisition with microbial symbiosis remains unclear. This study identifies GmSPX5 as a dual regulator enhancing...

Hoe sojabonen het meest uit geboden hulp halen

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 19h

Een symbiose met arbuscular mycorrhizal schimmels helpt planten bij een tekort aan voedingstoffen. Een nieuwe studie laat zien dat na aangaan van de symbiose de plant actief meer behulpzame microben rekruteert.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience

Een symbiose met arbuscular mycorrhizal schimmels helpt planten bij een tekort aan voedingstoffen. Maar in vlinderbloemige de regulatie is net even anders. Dit bestuderend vond een nieuwe studie da…

Is it a gene or a protein?

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 5d

Do you know how to distinguish between a protein or a gene, sole based on the style or typeface it is written in? If you are not so sure todays post is for you.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/is-it-a-ge...

#AcademicWriting #Jargon

Today I like to talk about you distinguish between a gene or a protein, and between a wild type version and a mutant or allelic version.

Is it a gene or a protein?

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 5d

Do you know how to distinguish between a protein or a gene, sole based on the style or typeface it is written in? If you are not so sure todays post is for you.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/is-it-a-ge...

#AcademicWriting #Jargon

Today I like to talk about you distinguish between a gene or a protein, and between a wild type version and a mutant or allelic version.

De invloed van CO2 op eikels

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 7d

Met meer CO2 groeien planten beter, toch? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het er wel op. Maar of dat voor iedereen goed nieuws is, dat valt nog te bezien.
Een nieuw studie zien hoe dit zit bij eiken. Lees er meer over op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/d...

🧪 #PlantScience

Met meer CO2 groeien planten beter, toch? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het er wel op. Planten worden groten en blijken ook nog eens meer en of grotere zaden te produceren. Maar of dat voor iedereen …

The influence of CO2 on acorns

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 7d

Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? IBut if that is good news for everyone, that is something that remains to be seen.
A new study dives into this for oaks, read more about it on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/t...

open.substack.com/pub/plantenz...

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Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? In first instance this appears to be the case. Plants get bigger and are also producing more and bigger seeds. But if that is good news for…

Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 7d

Or go directly to the article:
Barbara Karpinska, et al., Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees, Plant Physiology, 2025;, kiaf463, doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Growth under elevated CO2 rewired the proteome and transcriptome profiles of acorns produced by 200-year-old oak trees, resulting in lower seed protein con

The influence of CO2 on acorns

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 7d

Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? IBut if that is good news for everyone, that is something that remains to be seen.
A new study dives into this for oaks, read more about it on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/t...

open.substack.com/pub/plantenz...

🧪 #PlantScience

Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? In first instance this appears to be the case. Plants get bigger and are also producing more and bigger seeds. But if that is good news for…

Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 7d

Of ga meteen naar het artikel:
Barbara Karpinska, et al., Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees, Plant Physiology, 2025;, kiaf463, doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Growth under elevated CO2 rewired the proteome and transcriptome profiles of acorns produced by 200-year-old oak trees, resulting in lower seed protein con

De invloed van CO2 op eikels

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 7d

Met meer CO2 groeien planten beter, toch? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het er wel op. Maar of dat voor iedereen goed nieuws is, dat valt nog te bezien.
Een nieuw studie zien hoe dit zit bij eiken. Lees er meer over op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/d...

🧪 #PlantScience

Met meer CO2 groeien planten beter, toch? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het er wel op. Planten worden groten en blijken ook nog eens meer en of grotere zaden te produceren. Maar of dat voor iedereen …

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 8d

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries around how we keep our immune system under control

www.newscientist.com

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 8d

Currently working on a schedule and suggestions for posting notes and the like on BlueSly and other social platforms. This is something that doesn’t come natural to me, but as a solo-entrepreneur it is necessary to get the word out about what I do.

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 12d

A not so abbreviated post about what to look out for when using abbreviations in your writing. Read if you don’t want your next article to feel like a code that needs to be deciphered.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/to-abbrevi...

#AcademicWriting #BetterWriting

To abbreviate or not to abbreviate

About how too many abbreviations makes your reader feel they are deciphering a secret code, and what to do about it

To abbreviate or not to abbreviate

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 12d

A not so abbreviated post about what to look out for when using abbreviations in your writing. Read if you don’t want your next article to feel like a code that needs to be deciphered.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/to-abbrevi...

#AcademicWriting #BetterWriting

About how too many abbreviations makes your reader feel they are deciphering a secret code, and what to do about it

Parasiterende orgaan formatie

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Keiko Sugimoto @keikosugimoto.bsky.social · 13d

How do plants regenerate after wounding? Our new work shows that HSFA1 transcription factors are among the earliest wound-activated regulators of cellular reprogramming in plants!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 14d

Wounding activates the HSFA1 transcription factors to promote cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679115v1

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 14d

Parasiterende planten hebben een gastheer nodig. Om aan te hechten gebruiken ze een orgaan genaamd een haustorium. Nu geeft een nieuwe studie inzicht over hoe een haustorium zich ontwikkeld.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/09/30/p...
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Parasiterende planten hebben een andere plant nodig om te overleven. Met een orgaan genaamd een haustorium, hechten ze zich aan een gastheerplant en tappen voedingsstoffen af. Nu ligt een nieuw stu…

Parasitic plants need another plant to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they latch on their host plant to siphon away its nutrients. Now a new study shines some light on how the developm…

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 14d

Parasitic plants need a host to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they attach to their host. Now a new study gives insights in haustorium developmend.
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/09/30/p...
plantenzo.substack.com/p/parasite-o...

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Parasite organ formation

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 14d

Or go directly to the article:
Maxwell R. Fishman et al., (2025) Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants.Sci. Adv.11, eadw3965. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

www.science.org

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 14d

Parasitic plants need a host to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they attach to their host. Now a new study gives insights in haustorium developmend.
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/09/30/p...
plantenzo.substack.com/p/parasite-o...

🧪 #PlantScience

Parasite organ formation

Parasitic plants need another plant to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they latch on their host plant to siphon away its nutrients. Now a new study shines some light on how the developm…