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Weak global trade‐off between frost and drought resistance in trees

Larter et al. @maxlarter.bsky.social

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Data distribution of the drought resistance and frost resistance databases.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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A cell‐type‐specific regulon controlling monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis with feedback and feedforward activation loops

Li et al.

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An extended idioblast regulon with feedback and feedforward activation network features in Catharanthus roseus.
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Strigolactone perception and nutrient responses

#TansleyInsight by Hu et al.

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A proposed model of strigolactone perception in rice.
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Diversification in environmental responses enabled by duplicated grass stomatal regulator SPCH

Erberich et al. @stanfordstomata@bluesky

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Loss of function OsSPCH mutants exhibit the same environmental insensitivities seen with mutations in Brachypodium distachyon SPEECHLESS paralogs.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A multiscale growth atlas of Arabidopsis: linking cell dynamics to organ development

Alimchandani et al. @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social

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Fig. 6. Heat maps of Absolute growth rates and relative growth rates for Arabidopsis thaliana’s most studied organs.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Maximum entropy networks show that plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations are anti-nested and modular

Ajaz et al.

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The two possible structures of plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi association bipartite networks analysed in this work. There are two sets or layers of nodes (plant species/populations and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa).
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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RabGDIs guide embryonic patterning via vacuolar dynamics in plants

Yin et al.

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Zygotic expression of a dominant-negative Rab5 compromises zygotic division and embryonic patterning.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Plasma membrane polarity and peptide resistance

Panthapulakkal Narayanan et al. @allanrasmusson.bsky.social

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Proposed model for cellulase-induced resistance to alamethicin and its inhibitor sensitivity in root epidermis.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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(🧵 1/6) Transcriptional outputs and condensates- formation and function
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In this Tansley insight Hutin et al. explore the formation and function of transcriptional outputs and condensates.
Fig. 1 Examples of biomolecular condensates in environmental response.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Adaptive evolution can mitigate the negative effects of temperature stress on plant-pollinator interactions

Traine et al.

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Experimental evolution design: from generations 1–6, plants originating from 98 full-sibling families were kept at either 23°C or at 27°C plus 6 ‘hot’ days of 30°C and were visited by Bombus terrestris bumblebees or hand pollinated.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Joshua trees make the cover of @newphyt.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, led by @kheyduk.bsky.social, showing that they use water-saving CAM photosynthesis — but only sometimes 🌿 buff.ly/WnPoRXa
The cover of the December 2025 issue of New Phytologist, with an image of a small western Joshua tree in the soft light of a desert morning
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Moss shutdown-restart mechanism for drought survival

Xiao et al.

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Phenotypic responses and water loss dynamics in Physcomitrium patens gametophores and Arabidopsis thaliana plants during dehydration–rehydration treatments.
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#TansleyInsight: Trehalose 6-phosphate – a central regulator at the crossroads of sugar #signalling, #metabolism, and development

By Franziska Fichtner
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Fig. 3 Intracellular localization of proteins involved in trehalose 6-phosphate (Tre6P) biosynthesis and signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#TansleyReview: Light #signal transduction in #plants: insights from phytochrome nuclear translocation and photobody formation

By Chang et al.
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Fig. 4 The photobody formatin of phyA and phyB.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#TansleyInsight: The path toward a unified trait space: synthesizing plant #FunctionalDiversity

Carlos Carmona & Eleonora Beccari
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Fig. 1 Schematic representation of broad groups of traits measurable across plant organs.
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#TansleyReview: #Leaf #evolution: integrating phylogenetics, developmental dynamics, and genetic insights across land #plants

Hokuto Nakayama & Neelima R. Sinha
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Fig. 2: Plant diversification and leaf evolution in the context of the fossil record of land plants.
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Evidence for plastome loss in the holoparasitic Mystropetalaceae

Letter by Yu et al.

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Inflorescences of Dactylanthus taylorii, Hachettea austrocaledonica, and Mystropetalon thomii. These photos were provided by Sebastian (Avi) Holzapfel (photo by David Mudge/Nga Manu), David Bruy and Liewen Lin, respectively.
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Transcriptional outputs and condensates – formation and function

#TansleyInsight by Hutin et al.

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Examples of biomolecular condensates in environmental response.
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Evolution of molecular communication in the permanent Azolla symbiosis

#TansleyInsight by Büyüktaş et al.

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Transmission of cyanobionts in both reproductive cycles of Azolla.
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"I'm motivated by the idea that the work we do … can ripple outward; that our research can serve people, protect biodiversity & contribute to a deeper appreciation of life on Earth."

In #Profile: @latinorchidbot.bsky.social
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Profile image of Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar Fig. 1 The Orchid Tree of Life poster visually summarizes the main findings of our study, ‘The origin and speciation of orchids’ (Pérez-Escobar et al., 2024).
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Plant ecophysiologist, data scientist & HMC climate & bio prof. Jessica Guo has co-authored a new paper in @newphyt.bsky.social examining how atmospheric drought shapes dryland plant productivity responses under variable precipitation regimes. Read more about Guo's work at uqr.to/guo-np.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Photo of a Joshua #tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave #Desert. Image courtesy of Karolina Heyduk.

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On the cover of New Phytologist volume 248, issue 5: Photo of a Joshua tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave Desert.
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Photo of a Joshua #tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave #Desert. Image courtesy of Karolina Heyduk.

📖 See Heyduk et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 248, issue 5: Photo of a Joshua tree (Yucca jaegeriana) at dawn in the Mojave Desert.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Water relations and aquaporins in birch

Õunapuu-Pikas et al.

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Leaves' share in whole-plant hydraulic resistance (RL) for Betula pendula in the free air humidity manipulation (FAHM) treatments.
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Engineering autonomously #luminescent #plants using fungal #bioluminescence pathway

A #ResearchReview by Yu et al.
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Fig. 2 The fungal bioluminescence pathway and its engineering in plants.
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM