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Caroline Dowling
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Assistant Editor (Commissions) at the Journal of Experimental Botany 📝
PhD in Plant Genomics from UCD 🌻 🧬
Fulbright '22 alum to Cornell
Plantae fellow '20 alum
Irish 🇮🇪
Lived in 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇹🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j8xFSIUAAAAJ&hl=en
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📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

🌱 Issue 19 of 2025 - Peptides: A Treasure Chest of Structures and Functions

📘 Edited by Aleksandra Skirycz, Andrew Nelson & Alyssa Kearly

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#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🌿 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌿

Gómez-Espinoza et al. aim to broaden current perspectives on the multifunctional roles of oxalate oxidases in plant development, stress responses, and redox regulation.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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🏔️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🏔️

Flexas et al review the findings of recent ecophysiological campaigns at remote sites at the limits of plant life and discuss their interest in the context of climate change ❄️☀️

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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☀️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ☀️

González-Delgado et al review how plants sense photoperiod, how humans have profited from manipulating the genetic factors controlling photoperiod, and the benefits & drawbacks such manipulations can have for agriculture 🚜

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Issue 17: Plant Stress Physiology: Safeguarding Food Security in a Changing Climate

📘 Edited by Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Agustin Zsögön, and Wagner L. Araújo

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#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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🌾🌼 Flowering Newsletter 2025 🌼🌾

"Flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous wind-pollinated grass flowers to the large flowers of California poppy with its bright petals" - @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/JXBFNL?utm_so...

A 🧵 incoming...

#FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪
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October 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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🎥 Talks now online from our 75th Anniversary Symposium! 🎥

Missed the conference or want to rewatch some of the fantastic talks? Recordings are now available on demand, exclusive to SEB members 🌿

🔗 sebiology.org/ressou...

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🌿 Kicking off Day 3 of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference! 🌿

We began with Session 3: Maturity
Chaired by Madelaine Bartlett (University of Cambridge, UK) & Cristobal Uauy (John Innes Centre, UK)

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🌿 Next up at the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference! 🌿

Session 2: Growing - chaired by Agustin Zsögön (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil) & Diane Beckles (University of California, Davis, USA)

Here is Agustin introducing the first speaker… 🎤

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🌿 Kicking off Day 2 of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference 🌿

We start with Session 1: Beginnings & Roots
Chaired by Diana Santelia (ETH Zürich) & Steve Penfield (John Innes Centre)

👩‍💻 If you’re joining us online, don’t forget to share your questions in the Zoom chat!

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

👩‍🔬 ECR Workshops 👨‍🔬

Boost your skills & confidence:

1️⃣ Academic Peer Review – first steps, best practices & future challenges
2️⃣ Preparing a manuscript for submission
3️⃣ Presentation skills

⏳ Don’t miss it! Register by Aug 31 🗓️

#PlantScience 🧪
August 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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🌟 #JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

On Sept 18, we will have our first session:

🌱 BEGINNINGS - the origins of plants and the start of the plant life cycle 🌱

🎤 Invited speakers incl Steve Penfield & Kin Pan Chung

⏳ Join us! Register by Aug 19 🗓️

👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

#PlantScience 🧪
August 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬

⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️

👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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We're excited to announce that The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social) is sponsoring our 75th anniversary meeting! 🎉

A huge thank you for supporting this milestone event ✨

📅 Registration closes August 19th
👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

@sebiology.bsky.social #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪
August 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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🍇 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 🍇

🍇 Grapevine Research: Expanding Knowledge to Secure a Sustainable Future

📘 Edited by Nathalie Ollat, Eric Gomès & Sarah Jane Cookson

📸 Cover image by Agnès Destrac & Theo Derenoncourt

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#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
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August 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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**DEADLINE ALERT**

🚨 The deadline for abstracts & travel grants for our 75th Anniversary Conference is 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 - 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆

Don't miss your chance to be part of this one-off #plantscience meeting in Edinburgh 🌱 🌾 🌳 💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Event website: bit.ly/JXB75 🧪
July 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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🌿 We’re at Plant Cell Wall 2025 meeting in Vancouver!

Come visit us to chat all things publishing in JXB and of course, to grab some JXB merch while you’re at it!

We’re proud to be sponsoring the meeting, and excited to announce the special issue coming soon!

🧪 #PlantScience #PlantCellWall2025
July 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🚨 1 month left!
#JXB75 abstract submission and travel grant deadlines are fast approaching!

📅 Deadline: July 22

🌍 Join us in September in lovely Edinburgh 🏰 for a celebration of 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany!

🔗 bit.ly/JXB75?utm_sou...

#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Cover in Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) style 🎨
An octopus in a glass jar symbolizes chromatin within the nucleus. Flowing cursive script (草書) represents dynamic chromatin regulation. The Yang seal (朱文) in seal script (篆書) signifies chromatin; The Yin seal (白文) signifies nucleus. Artwork: Dr Yihan Dong
June 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Epigenetic Plasticity: From Model Plants to Crops

📘 Edited by Marco Catoni, Tamara Lechon Gomez, and Aline Probst

📸 Cover image by Yihan Dong

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#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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June 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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And speaking of 75 years... 🎉 don’t miss #JXB75!

We’re celebrating 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany with a special symposium in Edinburgh, Sept 17-19 🏛️🌿

There may even be birthday cake... 🎂👀

Stellar speakers & travel grants 👉 🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
📜 75 years on since our very first issue, JXB continues to publish cutting-edge photosynthesis research ☀️🌱

☀️🌱 Start exploring the new Photosynthesis Virtual Issue on now ⬇️

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#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

@sebiology.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

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June 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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📜 75 years on since our very first issue, JXB continues to publish cutting-edge photosynthesis research ☀️🌱

☀️🌱 Start exploring the new Photosynthesis Virtual Issue on now ⬇️

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

@sebiology.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

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June 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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VIRTUAL ISSUE

🌱☀️ Photosynthesis ☀️🌱

📜 JXB has a long history of publishing impactful photosynthesis research - dating back to the very first issue in March 1950, which featured 'The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis’ by Benson & Calvin 🔬

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...
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June 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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🌽 🚜 DARWIN REVIEW 🚜 🌾

🌵 New crops on the block: effective strategies to broaden our food, fibre, and fuel repertoire in the face of increasingly volatile agricultural systems – Phillips et al.

🥝 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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🧪 #PlantScience
June 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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✈️ JXB75 Travel Grants are now LIVE on the website ✈️

📢 Calling all ECRs attending the #JXB75 Symposium – apply now for travel support!

👉 More info here: sebiology.org/events...

🧪 #PlantScience @sebiology.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM