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Roots on steroids – how progestogens and androgens influence root morphology of angiosperms 🫚

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Research Highlight about Körber et al 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70459
Roots on steroids – how progestogens and androgens influence root morphology of angiosperms
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🌱 Specificity of brassinosteroid perception and its integration at signaling crossroads in vascular development

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´s editorial about the prizes and 2024 winners 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70567

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Editorial for TPJ paper prizes 2024
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Promiscuous potatoes: the genetic basis of wild potato compatibility 🥔
📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70529

About Behling et al: Genetic basis for broad interspecific compatibility in Solanum verrucosum
doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70426
Genetic basis for broad interspecific compatibility in Solanum verrucosum
Identifying the genetic components that contribute to the lack of prezygotic interspecific reproductive barriers in Solanum verrucosum will allow for more efficient utilization of crop wild relatives...
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Turbo-charging crop improvement: harnessing multiplex editing for polygenic trait engineering and beyond
✍️ Kangquan Yin and Chung-Jui Tsai

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70527

This is the last review of our SI Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise:
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In conversation with 𝐃𝐫. 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐠𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲
Prof of Biology. Grinnell College, USA.

“Thriving can’t be measured by productivity.” Prof. Montgomery reimagines success through inclusion, connection and care 🌱

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by @luisdeluna.bsky.social

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70513
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by The Plant Journal
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New mechanisms to enhance 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 in plants
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🌳 methylation dynamics: m6A and METTL4 in poplar doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70537

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🌾 Wheat transformation

This study presents a co-transformation method that boosts regeneration in hard-to-edit wheat using the mGRF4-GIF1 gene, enabling efficient genome editing and precision breeding.

👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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Reposted by The Plant Journal
Thank you very much to Editor Martin Balcerowicz (@transcription.bsky.social) for highlighting our work in the September issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social!

Article: doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Research Highlight: doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

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Too hot to defend: elevated temperature compromises systemic acquired resistance
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September 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Metabolites as dynamic regulators of cellular adaptation

The plastidial metabolite 𝐌𝐄𝐜𝐏𝐏 acts as a 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫, disrupting a repressor complex & activating CAMTA3 via calcium influx to turn on stress-defense genes

Zeng et al. Dehesh´lab
@ucriverside.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70478
Bimodal retrograde signaling disrupts a suppressor network and activates a key transcriptional activator to direct stress responses
This study reveals how the plastidial metabolite MEcPP functions as an integrator of metabolic and signaling cues, dismantling a transcriptional repressor complex while activating CAMTA3 via calcium ...
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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🍅🪰 Riboflavin in phloem sap helps wild tomato combat whiteflies

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

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September 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🍅 𝐒𝐥𝐄𝐈𝐍𝟐 links 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 to 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥: it regulates the DNA demethylase SlDML2 via SlALKBH2 and balances fruit growth vs. defense by modulating SlAGO4A/B-driven RdDM
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70484
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🌱 BRs are well-known plant hormones, but plants also make other steroids like 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 & 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬, whose roles are unknown

Körber et al show they reshape roots in angiosperms, independently of BRs—opening new research paths.

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70459
September 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🌾🦠Alfalfa-nodulation-senescence-& miR396b-MsGRF1c module

- Senescence limits alfalfa’s nitrogen-fixing power
- Here: the miR396b-MsGRF1c-MsGS2 pathway regulates nodule senescence via ROS, opening paths to stronger nitrogen fixation & higher yield.

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70468
The miR396b‐MsGRF1c module positively associates with alfalfa nodule senescence
The senescence of alfalfa nodule severely affects symbiotic nitrogen fixation, whereas the detailed mechanism is yet to be revealed. Here, we report that the miR396b-MsGRF1c-MsGS2 pathway regulates a...
doi.org
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
✨RNA-binding proteins orchestrating immunity in plants 🧬🌿🦠
✍️ Marcel Bach-Pages et al

RBPs govern plant immunity, but pathogens hijack them
🔎 This review explores the role of RBPs in defense & how this knowledge could boost resistance

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70433
RNA‐binding proteins orchestrating immunity in plants
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play a central role in plant immunity by controlling the form, function and fate of RNA and are directly targeted by pathogens to promote susceptibility. This review exami...
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