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🥑 New article in @aobp.bsky.social tests whether green stem photosynthesis helps avocado trees cope with drought, revealing extra CO₂ gain doesn’t greatly improve drought tolerance.

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A conceptual figure demonstrating the relationship between stem photosynthesis and stem hydraulic conductivity. Figure by authors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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♻️Nutritional and physiological limitations shape the radiation-use efficiency response to legume proportion in C4 grass–legume mixtures by Nicolas Caram and co-authors.

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The effects of a neighbour and its identity on roots’ plastic growth
Plants interact with their neighbours below ground, and this study reveals that roots adjust their growth patterns based on both the presence and identity
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November 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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♻️The effects of a neighbour and its identity on roots’ plastic growth by Valentina Simonetti and co-authors.

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Differentiation in water adaptation strategy between epiphytic and terrestrial species of Cymbidium, Orchidaceae
Orchids exhibit several life forms, which may employ different water adaptation strategies. In this study of 24 Cymbidium species, the authors find that ep
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November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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♻️Differentiation in water adaptation strategy between epiphytic and terrestrial species of Cymbidium, Orchidaceae by Tian-Yang Gao and co-authors.

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Soil microbiota enhance the population growth rate of a nitrogen-fixing herbaceous legume
Abstract. Soil microbiota can modify a plant’s growth and chemistry, with consequences for plant population persistence. Therefore, an approach that consid
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November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social explores how Brazilian rice varieties respond to heat stress during flowering, revealing key molecular traits that help maintain fertility and energy balance under high temperatures.

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Heat stress affected gene expression in Brazilian rice cultivars. (a and b) Venn diagrams showing the number of heat downregulated (a) and upregulated genes (b) in IRGA 428 and BR-IRGA 409. (c and d) Heatmaps showing log2CPM of DEGs identified in IRGA 428 (c) and BR-IRGA 409 (d).
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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♻️Soil microbiota enhance the population growth rate of a nitrogen-fixing herbaceous legume by Satu Ramula and co-authors.

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Wheat genotypes selected for their high early daytime stomatal conductance under elevated nocturnal temperatures maintain high yield and biomass
Abstract. Global night-time temperatures are increasing and correlate with a decline in crop yield. Various aspects of nocturnal physiology in plants are u
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November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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🌸 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reveals how moderate climate warming affects floral traits and reproduction across the flowering season in Impatiens oxyanthera, showing that plants don’t respond to heat the same way at every stage.

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Determination of flower characteristics. (a) Vexillum width, (b) alae width, (c) corolla diameter, (d) channel width, (e) channel depth, (f) channel height, (g) nectar spur length, and (h) Nectar spur curvature.
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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♻️Wheat genotypes selected for their high early daytime stomatal conductance under elevated nocturnal temperatures maintain high yield and biomass by R. Suzuky Pinto and co-authors.

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Drought drives selection for earlier flowering, while pollinators drive selection for larger flowers in annual Brassica rapa
Using experimental populations of field mustard, we found that in drought there was natural selection for flowering early but pollinators selected for larg
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November 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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♻️Interconnected idioblasts in Peltaea polymorpha: a novel component of the mucilage-secretory apparatus in Malvaceae by Tatiane Maria Rodrigues and co-authors

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Drought drives selection for earlier flowering, while pollinators drive selection for larger flowers in annual Brassica rapa
Using experimental populations of field mustard, we found that in drought there was natural selection for flowering early but pollinators selected for larg
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October 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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♻️Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in two forest understorey herbs in response to forest management intensity by Charlotte Møller co-authors

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Floral traits underlying mating system differentiation in the wind-pollinated sister species Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara
Abstract. The shift from outcrossing to predominantly selfing is one of the most common transitions in plant evolution. This evolutionary shift has receive
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October 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️Taming the wild: domesticating untapped northern fruit tree and shrub resources in the era of high-throughput technologies by Jérôme Gélinas Bélanger

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Interconnected idioblasts in Peltaea polymorpha: a novel component of the mucilage-secretory apparatus in Malvaceae
Abstract. The anatomical and cytological characteristics of the mucilage-secretory system have been widely studied in Malvaceae. However, conflicting infor
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October 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring sing how drought can alter the competitive balance between alien and native plants in soils with uneven nutrient distribution, shedding light on invasion dynamics in a changing climate.

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Schematic representation of the experimental design. Plants were grown alone (i.e. absence of competition) or in a mixture of one alien plant and one native plant (i.e. presence of competition) in homogeneous (upper panel) or heterogeneous soils (lower panel) under drought or not.
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️Drought drives selection for earlier flowering, while pollinators drive selection for larger flowers in annual Brassica rapa by Kaushalya Rathnayake and Amy Parachnowitsch

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Experimental analysis of genetic and environmental interactions on leaf elongation and reproductive development in Lolium perenne
Abstract. Perennial grasses’ reproductive phenology profoundly impacts plant morphogenesis, biomass production, and perenniality in natural ecosystems and
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October 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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♻️Experimental analysis of genetic and environmental interactions on leaf elongation and reproductive development in Lolium perenne by Simon Rouet co-authors

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Tropical tree species with high wood specific gravity have higher concentrations of wood phosphorus and are more efficient at resorbing it
This study shows that the relationships of wood nutrients with wood specific gravity and wood anatomical traits can be nutrient-specific in a lowland tropi
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October 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️Tropical tree species with high wood specific gravity have higher concentrations of wood phosphorus and are more efficient at resorbing it by Andrés González-Melo co-authors

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Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in two forest understorey herbs in response to forest management intensity
This study explores how forest management, and the underlying environmental variables impacts local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in two understorey
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October 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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🌿New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how stomatal traits can be used to breed crops resilient to heat and drought and why now is the time to move from characterization to application.

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Schematic representation of advances in approaches to stomatal phenotyping, outlining (1) current phenotyping approaches, (2) future novel techniques, and (3) how phenotypic insights can lead to rapid deployment of stomatal traits in breeding programmes for impactful breeding outcomes.
October 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️Floral traits underlying mating system differentiation in the wind-pollinated sister species Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara by Michael Grillo and Andrés Gutiérrez

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Floral traits underlying mating system differentiation in the wind-pollinated sister species Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara
Abstract. The shift from outcrossing to predominantly selfing is one of the most common transitions in plant evolution. This evolutionary shift has receive
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October 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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♻️Novel perspectives on plastome evolution in Onagraceae by Chia-Ying Ou and co-authors

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Novel perspectives on plastome evolution in Onagraceae
Abstract. Previous systematic studies have generated abundant information on plants in family Onagraceae Juss., making this taxonomic group a model for und
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October 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️LIFE 4 Pollinators’ platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators by Fortunato Fulvio Bitonto and co-authors

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LIFE 4 Pollinators’ platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators
Abstract. Plant diversity is critical to ensure the future of humanity, as it provides essential ecosystem services and functioning. As recent estimates sh
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October 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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♻️Thriving in the tropics: spatial variation in heat resilience in the early diverging land plant, Marchantia inflexa by Hansika Herath and Nicholas McLetchie

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Biotic pressure outweighs the influence of resource availability on physical defence investment in a tropical tree
Plants defend themselves from herbivores using features like thorns. According to the resource availability hypothesis, a plant’s defenses depend on soil q
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October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️Biotic pressure outweighs the influence of resource availability on physical defence investment in a tropical tree by Bio Barriou Babah Daouda and co-authors

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Novel perspectives on plastome evolution in Onagraceae
Abstract. Previous systematic studies have generated abundant information on plants in family Onagraceae Juss., making this taxonomic group a model for und
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October 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring the future of GM and genome-edited wheat in Australia. The review explores biotech opportunities, regulatory challenges, and stakeholder roles in shaping adoption.

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Random mutagenesis, targeted mutagenesis, and transgenesis breeding approaches and their differing regulations in Australia. Random mutagenesis and SDN-1 mutagenesis approaches are unregulated, whereas transgenesis involving the insertion of novel DNA, SDN-2 mutagenesis involving the use of a template to make small mutations, and SDN-3 mutagenesis involving the use of a template to make large insertions are regulated as GM in Australia.
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️Everything everywhere all at once? Disentangling the long-lasting riddle of phylogenetic relationships and cryptic hybridization in the amphitropical genus Larrea byMaría Paula Quiroga and co-authors

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LIFE 4 Pollinators’ platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators
Abstract. Plant diversity is critical to ensure the future of humanity, as it provides essential ecosystem services and functioning. As recent estimates sh
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October 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how habitat loss and fragmentation affect heterostylous plants, revealing consequences such as reduced population size, biased morph ratios, disrupted pollination, and shifts toward selfing.

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Primula veris is one the most studied heterostylous species and is often used as a model species representing the heterostyly system.
September 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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♻️An ecological, phenotypic, and genomic survey of duckweeds with their associated aquatic environments in the United Kingdom by Kellie Smith and co-authors

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Bumblebee visitation and pollen dynamics in Palicourea coriacea (Rubiaceae): does coflowering with congeneric species matter?
This study investigates the pollination ecology of Palicourea coriacea in the Brazilian Cerrado to understand if flowering alongside P. officinalis modifie
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September 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM