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A sound science journal for the 🌵🌿🌱 community established by @aspbofficial.bsky.social, @sebiology.bsky.social & Wiley Plant Science. Posts by societies and Editor-in-Chief @larrymyork.phenotyper.com
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🌿Plant Direct is an open-access journal dedicated to sound science in plant biology, published as a joint venture of the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Society for Experimental Biology, and Wiley.🌱

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Outside the lab, Naga Jyothi enjoys baking and gardening. buff.ly/815chqm

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February 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Rigon became interested in plant science because of the ongoing challenge of herbicide resistance evolution in weeds. buff.ly/XWjoHrl

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February 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Phospho-Proteomics Identifies D-Group MAP Kinases as Substrates of the Arabidopsis Tyrosine Phosphatase RLPH2 (Anne-Marie Labandera, Ryan Toth, Sierra Mitchell, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Schematic of the RLPH2 phospho-tyrosine (pY) substrate enrichment pipeline. Image generated with BioRender.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Cold Shock for Cold Tolerance: Phytohormone Dynamics in Sorghum Provides Insights (Luisa Neitzert, Natalja Kravcov, Yudelsy Antonia Tandron Moya, Steffen Windpassinger, Nicolaus von Wirén, Rod Snowdon, Benjamin Wittkop) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Overview of the developmental stages to be examined—BBCH35: flag leaf not yet visible, shortly before the appearance of the leaf tip; BBCH39: ligule of the flag leaf visible; BBCH51: emergence of the panicle.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Enhanced Pepper Resistance to Sclerotium rolfsii Through Root Development and Enzyme Modulation by Hexaconazole and Azoxystrobin (Yanlong Jia, Rong Wen, Chuanjing Liang, Xiaolong Lan, Tingting Mao, Dan Xing, Wenjie Lin) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
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January 23, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Membranous Interacting Partners of Phage-Type Plastid RNA Polymerase Have Limited Impact on Plastid Gene Expression During Chloroplast Development (Yushi Kurotaki, Yuki Hagiwara, Kosei Noto, Atsuo S. Nishino, Sho Fujii) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Analysis of Genetic Variation of Rice Straw Characteristics and Its Influence on Biomass (Mahta Mohamadiaza, Naser Farrokhi, Asadollah Ahmadikhah, Pär K. Ingvarsson, Mehdi Jahanfar) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Structure of rice stem. The rice stem consists of nodes and internodes, generally erect and cylindrical, with hollow internodes and solid nodes. The number and length of internodes vary among different varieties. The length of internodes in descending order is: internode 1 > internode 2 > internode 3 > internode 4 from top to bottom. Plant height is defined as panicle length plus stem length; panicle length is measured from the knotting area of the panicle to the tip of the highest grain, excluding the awn, and stem length is the distance from the base of the plant to node 1.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
SNRK3.15 Is a Crucial Component of the Sulfur Deprivation Response in Arabidopsis thaliana (Anastasia Apodiakou, Elmien Heyneke, Saleh Alseekh, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Photo of representative seedling rosettes at 11 DAT (18 DAS) on plates.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Speed Breeding Transgenic American Chestnut Trees Toward Restoration (Thomas Klak, Hannah Pilkey, Virginia G. May, Dakota Matthews, Allison D. Oakes, Ek Han Tan, Andrew E. Newhouse) buff.ly/p3Sk4Ua #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Transgenic American chestnut speed breeding scheme. Speed breeding of transgenic American chestnut can result in the induction of male flowers in as little as 5 months and female flowers in as little as 11 months after seed stratification. Some of the crosses performed result in fully matured burs (left downward arrow). Mature seeds can be harvested from fully matured burs and, after 2 months of stratification, seedlings can be cycled back for indoor flower production. Premature burs can be subject to immature embryo rescue via tissue culture (right downward arrow). Manually excised functional ovules were surface-sterilized, germinated, and multiplied in vitro, and rooted plantlets on soil cycled back for indoor flower production. Genotyping of transgenic seedlings from either mature seeds or embryo rescue can be performed to assess the copy number of the transgene of interest. Bolder arrows denote seedlings or plantlets subject to speed breeding flower production, while lighter arrows denote timelines for each stage. Notations: −/− indicates no transgene, +/− indicates a hemizygous transgenic line, and +/+ indicates homozygous transgenic line.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
RGB-Based Deep Learning for Freeze Damage Detection in Strawberry: Comparing Scratch and Transfer Learning Approaches on Custom Data (Nijhum Paul, G. C. Sunil, et al) buff.ly/D2VOLcj #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
An illustration of data acquisition setup in greenhouse.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Nucleoredoxin 1 in Wheat: Genomic Analysis and Demonstration of Its Role in Redox Homeostasis and Stress Resilience (Muhammad Sajawal Ghafoor, et al) buff.ly/3lQ8zsm #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Flow chart of experiments for the development of NRX1 knockout mutant wheat plants. Each of the three guide RNAs synthesized with suitable overhangs was assembled using golden gate cloning (Marillonnet and Grützner 2020), transformed into Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Hu et al. 2019), which were used to infect the leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana (Yuan et al. 2011). Ground leaf extract was used to rub-inoculate the leaves of the BW208 wheat line expressing the Cas 9 gene (Li et al. 2021; Smedley et al. 2021; Wang et al. 2022).
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December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
With the Wanfeng Lab, Ye attempts to answer how trees record their age and how age signals integrate into other processes such as development and stress responses. #WeAreASPB
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Three Novel Genomes Broaden the Wild Side of the Capsicum Pangenome (Christina Papastolopoulou, Ronald Nieuwenhuis, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Genome assembly and annotation metrics for the three new Capsicum genomes. Genome assembly and structural annotation statistics including BUSCO results for three de novo Capsicum genomes, compared to the public C. annuum Zhangshugang assembly. The BUSCO score was calculated using the Solanales_odb10 set.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Jeong finds it fascinating that plants carry out such complex functions. buff.ly/5unZIPc #WeAreASPB
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As a child, Shrestha would often accompany his parents to the crop fields and this developed his love for plants. buff.ly/ijt36D2 #WeAreASPB
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Root and Leaf Traits for Dehydration Avoidance and Enhanced Grain Yield in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L., Fabaceae) Under Drought (Tonny I. Selinga, Sipho T. Maseko, et al) buff.ly/yJk6B1Q #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Root and Leaf Traits for Dehydration Avoidance and Enhanced Grain Yield in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L., Fabaceae) Under Drought
Drought stress, which is exacerbated by climate change, is a major contributor to crop production losses in rainfed agriculture. Two genotypes of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata, (L.) Walp.) with…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Anne Plessis specialises in crops simply because she loves food! buff.ly/GTteu84 #WeAreASPB
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Seeing how ornamental plants respond from root to fruit inspired Gerardo to explore their resilience through high-throughput data buff.ly/IGZTXEy #WeAreASPB
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Barnwell is “endlessly fascinated by the diversity and variety of mechanisms that plants had to employ to stay alive” buff.ly/K6egQik #WeAreASPB
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Masayoshi enjoys working in outdoor fields. buff.ly/Qqa1OXB #WeAreASPB
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Surrounded by gardens and forests in rural Uganda, Odongo was captivated by the silent resilience of plants and the intricate ways they interact with their environment.https://buff.ly/fQLc184 #WeAreASPB
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Self-Compatible Turnera Mutants Suggests Glutathione S-Transferase 8 Is Involved in Overcoming S-Morph Female Self-Incompatibility Response (Paige M. Henning, Paul D. J. Chafe, et al) buff.ly/qLD2pbB #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Image of the S-morph (left) and L-morph (right) of T. joelii flowers with corolla removed (A). Diagram depicting compatibility relationships in crosses between an S- and L-morph individual (B). Compatible crosses are denoted with an arrow, and incompatible crosses are denoted with a line. Color denotes the origin of pollen (blue S-morph; pink L-morph).
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December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Plants are very important for cleaning the air that we breathe!” says First Author Aldowigh. buff.ly/3TFXRBw #WeAreASPB
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Nature's Shield: Exploring Nonglandular Trichomes (NGT) as Key Players in Plant Defense Mechanisms (Muhammad Ahmad, Sen Li, Yuming Dong, Songlin Yang, Yaru Wang, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology
Trichomes defensive role to protect plant from biotic stresses.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM