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Jaz Humphreys
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Postdoc @UTas with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success 🧬🍃💻 #plantscience #genetics
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New outreach publication Frontiers for Young Minds with @jaz-humphreys.bsky.social, Vanessa Tonet, Caitlin Dudley and Eloise Foo. @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social
For kids, reviewed by kids, discussing how we use nature for our crops!

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Helping Crop Plants Adapt to Harsher Environments
The global population is growing quickly, and that means we need to find ways to produce more food without causing excessive harm to the planet. On top of this, climate change is making it harder for ...
kids.frontiersin.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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August 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Check out our recent work published in
@newphyt.bsky.social showing how pea plants protect basal buds during drought while maintaining hydraulic connection to the stem, ensuring rapid regrowth when rewatered. @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Basal axillary buds in pea are hydraulically connected to the stem but are protected during drought by osmotic adjustment
Plants prioritise water allocation to tissues that support their survival and reproduction during drought, but little is known about their tissue-specific drought tolerance mechanisms. In the case o.....
doi.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM