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International journal publishing high quality, original plant science research. Owned by the not-for-profit New Phytologist Foundation.
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H isotopes in #plant #carbohydrates as a metabolic proxy

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Proposed benefit of an isotope-based carbon flux proxy.
December 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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'I am grateful that #PlantScience is so international and so full of people who are really motivated to try to improve the world for many living things.' – Dominique Bergmann

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December 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The New Phytologist Foundation supports symposia, conferences, meetings and other initiatives that further innovation and advancement in #PlantScience research around the world 👇

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December 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Abstract submission and registration for the #47NPS Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life, are open!

2–5 June 2026

Travel grant, selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026

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December 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Resources for assessing protein-protein interactions in #arbuscular #mycorrhizal roots: CKL2 as a case study

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#CommunityResource by Ivanov et al.

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14-3-3 RNA interference and proposed model.
December 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Soil history of extreme weather effects new plant growth inducing transcriptomic and structural changes

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Summary and proposed pathways for transcriptional regulation and biochemical shift due 5 W precipitation regime in combination with 30SPR in four grassland species
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#Leaf economics links #drought and #heat tolerance across contrasting habitats

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A conceptual framework describing how leaf carbon economics, drought, and heat tolerance are coordinated through the divergence of leaf habits of both evergreen and deciduous trees.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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H3K37ac promotes gene expression in response to salinity in #rice

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HDA705 mediates H3K37ac deacetylation to regulate the rice response to salt stress.
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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(🧵 1/6) Soil organic matter dynamics under changing precipitation regimes
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Fig. 1 Research history of soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics at the plant–fauna–microbe interfaces under changing precipitation and soil water availability.
December 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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#TansleyInsight The environmentally responsive plant epigenome: insights from jasmonate signaling

Zander and Vesper

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Jasmonic acid-induced reprogramming of the histone acetylation landscape.
December 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Discovery of the roles of SmMAPK4 in regulating tanshinone biosynthesis in Salvia miltiorrhiza

Zhang et al.

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Working model of SmMAPK4 in the process of regulating tanshinone biosynthesis.
December 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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#TansleyReview SOM under changing precipitation regimes

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Individual and interactive impacts of soil physicochemistry, microbes, fauna, and plants on soil organic matter dynamics.
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Quinoa guard cells adapt ABA response for efficient gas exchange under salinity

Huang et al.

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Long-term salt exposure increases water use efficiency in quinoa.
December 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The maize mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase gene ZmMAPKKK45 is associated with multiple disease resistance

Zhong et al.

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ZmMAPKKK45 affects maize resistance to northern leaf blight and gray leaf spot in the field.
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#TansleyReview: Mycelial dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi

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December 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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#TansleyReview: Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass #crops

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Fig. 4 Summarized yield and biomass increases reported in published photorespiratory bypass field trials.
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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#TansleyInsight | TIR innovations in plant immunity

Zhongshou Wu 👇

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Fig. 1 Mechanisms of Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR)/TIR-type NLR (TNL) protein function in plant immunity.
December 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#TansleyInsight: Trait-based island biogeography as a tool for studying future ecological communities

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Fig. 1 Islands used for studying temporal dynamics in island assembly.
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#TansleyInsight | The genetic architecture and spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptation across human-modified landscapes

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Fig. 1 Temporal genomic approaches for measuring selection coefficients from allele frequency change vary in power and accuracy depending on sampling design, sample size, and dominance.
December 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#TansleyInsight | The pulse of global vegetation: do individual rainfall events create a lasting imprint on photosynthesis?

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Fig. 1 A framework for plant hydraulic and photosynthetic responses to rainfall pulses, indicative of a hierarchy where larger rainfall pulses are required to elicit more prolonged responses across (a) soil moisture, (b) leaf water potential, (c) gross primary productivity (GPP), and (d) biomass growth.
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#TansleyInsight | Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning

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Fig. 3 Resource (here C and water) uptake, transport, and consumption shape resource distribution along the leaf-to-root axis, influencing C partitioning and plant functional traits under changing environmental conditions.
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#TansleyInsight | On growth and flow: hydraulic aspects of aboveground meristems

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Fig. 2 Hydraulic fluctuations at the cambium.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#TansleyInsight | On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion

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Fig. 3 Major traits hypothesized to impact the mutualist filter.
December 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers

Berg et al.

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Fine-scale geothermal variation shapes flowering phenology in the extreme AHQ habitat.
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM