Christa Testerink
@christatesterink.bsky.social
Plant physiologist at Wageningen University and Research
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Warm temperature and mild water stress cooperatively promote root elongation: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Led by Scott Hayes and @minnieleong.bsky.social
@pph-wur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social
Led by Scott Hayes and @minnieleong.bsky.social
@pph-wur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social
Warm temperature and mild water stress cooperatively promote root elongation
Hayes and Leong et al. show that warm temperature and mild water stress synergistically
enhance root elongation in Arabidopsis. The response is mediated by SnRK2.2/2.3 and
COP1 through regulation of H...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Warm temperature and mild water stress cooperatively promote root elongation: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Led by Scott Hayes and @minnieleong.bsky.social
@pph-wur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social
Led by Scott Hayes and @minnieleong.bsky.social
@pph-wur.bsky.social @wurplant.bsky.social
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IPGSA 2025 is going on in BEAUTIFUL Fort Collins, Colorado,
from June 29th to July 3rd. EARLY REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION deadlines due April 15th! 54 talks chosen from abstracts and 22 Travel Awards to USA and INTERNATIONAL scientists. Register and apply for awards NOW. 🌱 #plantscience
from June 29th to July 3rd. EARLY REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION deadlines due April 15th! 54 talks chosen from abstracts and 22 Travel Awards to USA and INTERNATIONAL scientists. Register and apply for awards NOW. 🌱 #plantscience
March 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
IPGSA 2025 is going on in BEAUTIFUL Fort Collins, Colorado,
from June 29th to July 3rd. EARLY REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION deadlines due April 15th! 54 talks chosen from abstracts and 22 Travel Awards to USA and INTERNATIONAL scientists. Register and apply for awards NOW. 🌱 #plantscience
from June 29th to July 3rd. EARLY REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION deadlines due April 15th! 54 talks chosen from abstracts and 22 Travel Awards to USA and INTERNATIONAL scientists. Register and apply for awards NOW. 🌱 #plantscience
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The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
March 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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How do potato cultivars cope with salt stress? With Rumyana Karlova (PPH-WUR) we are glad to share that our paper investigating potato plants' response to salt stress is out www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ! with @pph-wur.bsky.social @christatesterink.bsky.social
Potato cultivars use distinct mechanisms for salt stress acclimation
Soil salinity induces osmotic stress and ion toxicity in plants, detrimentally affecting their growth. Potato (Solanum tuberosum) suffers yield reduct…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
How do potato cultivars cope with salt stress? With Rumyana Karlova (PPH-WUR) we are glad to share that our paper investigating potato plants' response to salt stress is out www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ! with @pph-wur.bsky.social @christatesterink.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Light. This Focus Issue will gather original research articles and invited reviews on mechanistic aspects of light–regulated responses. Submission Deadline: 09/2025. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...
March 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Light. This Focus Issue will gather original research articles and invited reviews on mechanistic aspects of light–regulated responses. Submission Deadline: 09/2025. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...
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We've got some 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 speakers at our 75th birthday conference. Sign up now to join them in September bit.ly/JXB75 🎉 🌳 🧪 #plantscience
@janelangdale.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @kinpanchung.bsky.social @dianebeckles.bsky.social
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March 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We've got some 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 speakers at our 75th birthday conference. Sign up now to join them in September bit.ly/JXB75 🎉 🌳 🧪 #plantscience
@janelangdale.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @kinpanchung.bsky.social @dianebeckles.bsky.social
@janelangdale.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @kinpanchung.bsky.social @dianebeckles.bsky.social
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🚨Job alert!
🔬Postdoc in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants at @w-u-r.bsky.social!
🗓 Deadline: April 7, 202
📍Start: June 1, 2025
Details: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#Postdoc #PlantScience #WUR
@erc.europa.eu @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
🔬Postdoc in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants at @w-u-r.bsky.social!
🗓 Deadline: April 7, 202
📍Start: June 1, 2025
Details: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#Postdoc #PlantScience #WUR
@erc.europa.eu @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher: ERC-funded project 'Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants'
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March 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚨Job alert!
🔬Postdoc in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants at @w-u-r.bsky.social!
🗓 Deadline: April 7, 202
📍Start: June 1, 2025
Details: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#Postdoc #PlantScience #WUR
@erc.europa.eu @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
🔬Postdoc in Cytoplasmic Inheritance in Plants at @w-u-r.bsky.social!
🗓 Deadline: April 7, 202
📍Start: June 1, 2025
Details: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
#Postdoc #PlantScience #WUR
@erc.europa.eu @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
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🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!
Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature
Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!
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🚨 Exciting News! #ICAR2025 Preliminary Schedule with confirmed invited speakers is online 📅
🎟️ Early bird registration is open until April 20, but don't wait. Half the tickets are already gone!
📢 Abstract submission is open
🔁 Please RT & spread the word! See you at icar2025.com🌱💡
🎟️ Early bird registration is open until April 20, but don't wait. Half the tickets are already gone!
📢 Abstract submission is open
🔁 Please RT & spread the word! See you at icar2025.com🌱💡
Summary. - International Conference on Arabidopsis Research: ICAR2025
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February 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 Exciting News! #ICAR2025 Preliminary Schedule with confirmed invited speakers is online 📅
🎟️ Early bird registration is open until April 20, but don't wait. Half the tickets are already gone!
📢 Abstract submission is open
🔁 Please RT & spread the word! See you at icar2025.com🌱💡
🎟️ Early bird registration is open until April 20, but don't wait. Half the tickets are already gone!
📢 Abstract submission is open
🔁 Please RT & spread the word! See you at icar2025.com🌱💡
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New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.
Because diversity increases excellence!
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
Because diversity increases excellence!
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
February 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.
Because diversity increases excellence!
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
Because diversity increases excellence!
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
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Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air.
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm
Plants grow complex root systems to extract unevenly distributed resources from soils. Spatial differences in soil moisture are perceived by root tips, leading to the patterning of new root branches t...
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February 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air.
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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📜 Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots
🧑🔬 Jasper Lamers, @christatesterink.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAbioticStress #PlantStress #PlantSaltStress #PlantPhysiology #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 Jasper Lamers, @christatesterink.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAbioticStress #PlantStress #PlantSaltStress #PlantPhysiology #Phytohormones
Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots | PNAS
Soil salinity presents a dual challenge for plants, involving both osmotic and ionic
stress. In response, plants deploy distinct yet interconnected...
www.pnas.org
February 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
📜 Abscisic acid signaling gates salt-induced responses of plant roots
🧑🔬 Jasper Lamers, @christatesterink.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAbioticStress #PlantStress #PlantSaltStress #PlantPhysiology #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 Jasper Lamers, @christatesterink.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAbioticStress #PlantStress #PlantSaltStress #PlantPhysiology #Phytohormones
And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And.... the story is now out in PNAS, greatly improved with new data since the pre-print, so check it out and find out how ABA plays an unexpected role in root responses to salinity. @pph-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Algae and Aquatic Plants. This Focus Issue welcomes the submission of research articles on photosynthetic organisms found in aquatic or semi-aquatic environments. Submission Deadline: 11/2025. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/pages/plant-physiology-call-for-paper…
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Algae and Aquatic Plants. This Focus Issue welcomes the submission of research articles on photosynthetic organisms found in aquatic or semi-aquatic environments. Submission Deadline: 11/2025. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/pages/plant-physiology-call-for-paper…
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REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 2025 Conference are now OPEN. www.ipgsa2025.org
Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience
Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience
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January 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 2025 Conference are now OPEN. www.ipgsa2025.org
Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience
Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience
Amazing story in @nature.com by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social Anders Meibom and others; revealing intracellular Na+ and other elements in roots and ... a new SOS1 location. Moving the field forward!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation - Nature
This study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or trace elemen...
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January 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Amazing story in @nature.com by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social Anders Meibom and others; revealing intracellular Na+ and other elements in roots and ... a new SOS1 location. Moving the field forward!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SOS2 phosphorylates FREE1 to regulate multi-vesicular body trafficking and vacuolar dynamics under salt stress (Guoyong Liu, Yonglun Zeng, Baiying Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Liwen Jiang, Yan Guo) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf012
January 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
SOS2 phosphorylates FREE1 to regulate multi-vesicular body trafficking and vacuolar dynamics under salt stress (Guoyong Liu, Yonglun Zeng, Baiying Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Liwen Jiang, Yan Guo) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf012
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We've made it, just before Christmas! 🎄🤶🏾
I'm happy to share the first >>PRE-PRINT<< of my group!😊 The first manuscript of the first PhD student! Good job Asif!🙌🏾🎉👏🏾💪🏾🤗🥳
#plantresearch #seedmaturation #seedresearch #plantevo
I'm happy to share the first >>PRE-PRINT<< of my group!😊 The first manuscript of the first PhD student! Good job Asif!🙌🏾🎉👏🏾💪🏾🤗🥳
#plantresearch #seedmaturation #seedresearch #plantevo
The angiosperm seed life cycle follows a developmental reverse hourglass https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629609v1
December 24, 2024 at 10:12 AM
We've made it, just before Christmas! 🎄🤶🏾
I'm happy to share the first >>PRE-PRINT<< of my group!😊 The first manuscript of the first PhD student! Good job Asif!🙌🏾🎉👏🏾💪🏾🤗🥳
#plantresearch #seedmaturation #seedresearch #plantevo
I'm happy to share the first >>PRE-PRINT<< of my group!😊 The first manuscript of the first PhD student! Good job Asif!🙌🏾🎉👏🏾💪🏾🤗🥳
#plantresearch #seedmaturation #seedresearch #plantevo
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Explore all focus issues and see the call for papers for upcoming focus issues academic.oup.com/plphys.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic
Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants
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December 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Explore all focus issues and see the call for papers for upcoming focus issues academic.oup.com/plphys.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
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Plant Physiology regularly publishes focus issues that dive deep into key areas of plant science. From plant stress responses to metabolic regulation, these issues bring together cutting-edge research on critical topics.
📖Read the latest focus issue at academic.oup.com/plphys/issue.... 🌿
📖Read the latest focus issue at academic.oup.com/plphys/issue.... 🌿
Volume 196 Issue 4 | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic
Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants
academic.oup.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Plant Physiology regularly publishes focus issues that dive deep into key areas of plant science. From plant stress responses to metabolic regulation, these issues bring together cutting-edge research on critical topics.
📖Read the latest focus issue at academic.oup.com/plphys/issue.... 🌿
📖Read the latest focus issue at academic.oup.com/plphys/issue.... 🌿
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Get ready to celebrate the release of the @plantphys.bsky.social special issue on Hypoxia & Plants with this exciting seminar hosted by @aspbofficial.bsky.social @rsasidharan.bsky.social 🌾🌊
#plantscience
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#plantscience
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January 28: Plant Physiology webinar, Hypoxia and Plants | Plant Science Today
Celebrating the January 2025 Focus Issue on Hypoxia and Plants Tuesday, January 28, 2025 7 AM EDT | Noon UTC | 1 PM CET | 9 PM Tokyo | About This Webinar The January 2025 Focus Issue of Plant…
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December 15, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Get ready to celebrate the release of the @plantphys.bsky.social special issue on Hypoxia & Plants with this exciting seminar hosted by @aspbofficial.bsky.social @rsasidharan.bsky.social 🌾🌊
#plantscience
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#plantscience
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A knock-in of a 10bp heat shock promoter element in front of cell-wall-invertase genes improved heat stress response in rice and tomato!!!
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
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Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
Lou et al. engineered source-sink relations to improve carbon partitioning by targeted insertion of heat-shock cis-elements into cell-wall-invertase genes using prime editing. This delivers climate-smart crops with higher yields under normal conditions and stable yields under heat stress in tomato and rice.
www.cell.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:08 AM
A knock-in of a 10bp heat shock promoter element in front of cell-wall-invertase genes improved heat stress response in rice and tomato!!!
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Root depth is important 4 drought resilience & soil carbon storage. Studying it in Arabidopsis is tough due to its small roots. Enter ClearDepth: a simple, low-cost method to quantify root depth in soil. It even works for crops like rice! #PlantScience #roots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ClearDepth: a simple, robust, and low‐cost method to assess root depth in soil
Root depth is important for plant drought tolerance and represents an avenue for carbon sequestration in deep soil layers thus helping mitigate the effects of climate change. ClearDepth offers a simp....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Root depth is important 4 drought resilience & soil carbon storage. Studying it in Arabidopsis is tough due to its small roots. Enter ClearDepth: a simple, low-cost method to quantify root depth in soil. It even works for crops like rice! #PlantScience #roots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Proud to share our new @plantphys.bsky.social review exploring the anatomical and molecular basis for root adaptations to the environment. Prashanth Ramachandran and Andrea Ramirez detail cell types and pathways that help plants stay resilient in a changing world. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Rooting for survival: how plants tackle a challenging environment through a diversity of root forms and functions
Abstract. The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricul
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December 9, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Proud to share our new @plantphys.bsky.social review exploring the anatomical and molecular basis for root adaptations to the environment. Prashanth Ramachandran and Andrea Ramirez detail cell types and pathways that help plants stay resilient in a changing world. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...