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Integrative Postharvest Biologist @ucdavisplants. | 🍅🥔 Metabolism & Physiology|Compassionate Excellence| ♥️ Barbados 🇧🇧|♥️ Sea turtle conservation 🐢|
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📣 Check out the Journal of Experimental Botany's newest special issue 📣

🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅
📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura

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The cover of Vol 76 | Issue 21 | 2025 of the Journal of Experimental Botany, Special Issue: Tomato. Purple banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of a ripe tomato fruit on its truss (credit: Marine Honoré).
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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🚨 CLOSING SOON 🚨

Don’t miss out! #JXB75 registration closes August 19 – secure your spot before it’s gone!

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August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🍊 From Science: Stabilizing MYC2 in citrus trees boosts resistance to Huanglongbing (Citrus greening disease). AI-designed peptides offer a new path for controlling uncultivable pathogens. (Daniel J. Kliebenstein)

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Fig. 1. Regulation of HLB resistance by a U-box E3 ubiquitin ligase PUB21 and its dominant-negative paralog PUB21DN. (A) Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of Rutaceae species and other species. The numbers of asterisks indicate the HLB resistance level of each species, and orange bars indicate the presence of a helitron transposon in PUB21 promoters. Green and brown bars indicate whether PUB21 or PUB21DN was present. (B) Transcriptomic analysis of plant U-box genes (PUBs) family in Citrus species in response to CLas infection. FC, fold change.
July 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Is plant single cell/nuc. & spatial transcriptomics your passion? Do you want to understand plant adaptation using cutting edge molecular & bioinformatics tools? Then come and join us to work together with @ceplas.bsky.social & @wggc-de.bsky.social. #plantjobs
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Scientist - Plant Single Cell / Spatial Analysis
The Institute IBG-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich is a key partner in the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), one of Germany’s leading plant science research networks. The group of Prof. D...
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July 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Fine-tuning RIPENING INHIBITOR (RIN) expression by introducing allelic mutations in its promoter using CRISPR/Cas9 multiplex editing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.664838v1
July 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🌱 From BMC Plant Biology: Transcriptional profiling of Japanese #plums reveals key ethylene and softening genes that distinguish climacteric ripening behaviors. (Po-Kai Huang, Diane M. Beckles & Carlos H. Crisosto)

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Comprehensive transcriptional analysis of ethylene and softening regulation in plums with distinct climacteric ripening behaviors - BMC Plant Biology
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying variations across climacteric categories in tree crops remains challenging, particularly due to the limitations of applying conventional genetic appro...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Pleased to have been awarded a Proof-of-Concept grant from @erc.europa.eu In collaboration with Elsoms Seed Ltd, Dr Lindsay Williams in our team will aim to improve the longevity of some of world’s most popular vegetables!!
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Researchers receive funding to boost the shelf-life of vegetables | Biological Sciences | Biology
A project led by Professor Steven Spoel and Dr Lindsay Williams has been awarded funding by the European Research Council to improve the longevity of some of world’s most popular vegetables.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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📝 EDITORIAL

In JXB’s 75th year, Editor-in-Chief John Lunn reflects on the journal’s evolution and looks ahead to future directions - including the announcement of our 2025 editorial interns! 🌱🎉

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Photos of our 2025 editorial interns: 🇳🇴 Luis Alonso Baez (NTNU) @luisalonsobaez.bsky.social‬ 🇩🇪 Vittoria Clapero (MPIMP) 🇧🇷 Níkolas Mateus (USP) 🇳🇬 Henry Njoku (Ibadan) 🇺🇸 Deeksha Singh (UC Davis) @sdeeksha1994.bsky.social‬ 🇭🇰 Katie Watson (HKU) @katiemwatson.bsky.social‬
July 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🌱From Scientia Horticulturae: Genome-wide study of MES genes in #cucumber shows CsMES6/9/13 respond to salt stress via SA and JA signaling. (Diane M. Beckles)
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Genome-wide characterization of cucumber methylesterase genes and the phytohormone-mediated response to salt stress
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an economically important vegetable crop but is susceptible to salinity stress. Methylesterases (MES) hydrolyze the m…
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July 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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🔬 From Plant Biotechnology Journal: A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in CsCCD1 alters splicing, reducing enzyme activity and increasing carotenoids in yellow-fleshed #cucumbers. (Diane M Beckles)

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An intronic SNP in the Carotenoid Cleavage Dioxygenase 1 (CsCCD1) controls yellow flesh formation in cucumber fruit (Cucumis sativus L.)
Vitamin A is a crucial yet scarce vitamin essential for maintaining normal metabolism and bodily functions in humans and can only be obtained from food. Carotenoids represent a diverse group of funct....
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July 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Its been yet another hot, dry week here in the UK... the perfect time to highlight this new #openaccess review from Nigel Halford's group @rothamsted.bsky.social on transport of ABA - the original #drought stress hormone 🌱

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Structural analyses of ABA transporters give new impetus to the study of ABA regulation
Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates key physiological processes and coordinates abiotic stress responses. In the six decades since it was first described, a huge amount of work has been conducted on ABA sy...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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New: “So many families in Sacramento see STEM fields as a path toward a better future. My family was no exception.” www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
I became a scientist, but I don’t know if my career will exist in five years | Opinion
“The opportunities I had as an aspiring researcher are gone. The path to a better life for kids in Sacramento is slipping away.”
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July 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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🌾🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾🧬

📝 Varying gene dosage through mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1 ) in polyploid wheat generates quantitative changes to CG methylation without the lethal consequences observed in other crops - Burrows et al.

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Fig. 1. (short legend see paper for full description): Null met1-1 mutants cannot be produced by crossing TILLING lines with disruptions in the three MET1-1 homoeologues. (A) Evolutionary relationships between MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis (AtMET1), rice (OsMET1a and OsMET1b), and wheat (homoeologue groups TaMET1-1, TaMET1-2, and TaMET1-3). (B) Crossing schematic showing the generation of the hexaploid MET1-1 populations: the C0465×C0884 population (top) and the C0451×C2028×C1292 population (bottom). (C) Structure of the three MET1-1 homoeologues. Filled rectangles represent exons, open rectangles represent untranslated regions, and lines represent introns. Triangles indicate the positions of the premature termination codon mutations in the TILLING lines used to produce the two hexaploid F2 populations (C0465×C0884, orange; C0451×C2028×C1292, purple). The green box signifies the Bromo adjacent homology domain (BAH) and the blue box signifies the C-5 cytosine methyltransferase domain.
July 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ever wondered...?

✏️ How can I find reviewing opportunities?
✏️What is expected of reviewers?
✏️How can I receive credit for my review?

Then come along to our #PeerReview workshop at #SEB2025! With @jxbotany.bsky.social & ConPhys.

➡️ Thurs @ 2.30pm
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July 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The sudden passing of Ken Tate, a #UCCE specialist,
@ucdavisplants.bsky.social professor, and excellent colleague, deeply saddens us. Ken had a gift for connecting people and science. He leaves behind a legacy of impact, friendship, and heart.
Learn more about him ➡️
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In memoriam: Ken Tate | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Kenneth W. Tate, UC Cooperative Extension specialist and professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, died unexpectedly on June 5, 2025.
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July 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
Circadian rhythms -24h internal clocks- regulate nearly all biological processes
This review traces
-history
-molecular basis
-tissue-specific roles
-and potential for boosting crop resilience in a changing climate.
✍️Stacey Harmer @ucdavis.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70275
The time machine: feedback loops, post‐transcriptional regulation, and environmental integration in the plant circadian oscillator
The plant circadian oscillator orchestrates daily and seasonal rhythms in key traits, such as growth, flowering, dormancy, and stress responses. This review summarizes current insights into the trans...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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🧬 ⚙️ REVIEW ⚙️ 🧬

TORquing chromatin: the regulatory role of TOR kinase in chromatin function - Dong et al.

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Fig. 1.Overview of TOR kinase signaling impacting chromatin. TOR phosphorylates a range of targets, including components of the translation machinery, downstream kinases, chromatin modifiers, transcription factors or metabolic proteins, thereby modulating their activity, localization, and nucleocytoplasmic shuttling. TOR signaling can also influence cytoskeletal dynamics, which in turn affects nuclear shape and structure. Colored elements indicate processes known to occur in plants, while those in gray refer to mammalian systems. Gray dashed arrows indicate uncertain or indirect pathways, while question marks indicate uncertain cellular localization of the process, highlighting potential areas for future research.
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📣 Join us for the 3rd Carbon Allocation in Plants Workshop 🇨🌿

🗓️ Oct 27–29, 2025

📍 INRAE Versailles – @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social

🌱 Explore carbon flow in plants with top researchers!

🔗 Register: bit.ly/4kYzzrT ⏳ 10th of August

ℹ️ Info: bit.ly/43HpN5P

🙏 Thanks to all partners 👇 see below
June 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#RootingForScience
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June 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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The JXB 75 years of science symposium looks great. I'm sorry I can't get there, JXB has been one of those journals that have been there for my whole career. As a society journal, any profits are given back to @sebiology.bsky.social to do even more good. @jxbotany.bsky.social #PlantScience
asps-oz.bsky.social Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · Jun 23
🌿 Journal of Experimental Botany 75th Anniversary Symposium! Sept 17-19, 2025 in Edinburgh.

Celebrating 75 years of plant science - from Beginnings to Future challenges. Travel grants now available!

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June 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨

🌾 WHEAT Special Issue Closes in 7 days! 🌾

We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript?
👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues

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jxbotany.bsky.social Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Apr 25
** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE **

🌾 WHEAT 🌾

Editors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Matthew Reynolds & Nicola Pecchioni

📅 Deadline: 30 June 2025

📝 We welcome contributions! 🔗 Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues

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The image shows different important targeted traits of wheat crop including ROS scavenging, spike diversity, cold/freezing stress, yellowing due to stripe rust infection, seed color diversity, spike mutant of wheat, infes- tation of wheat by cereal leaf beetle, leaf blight, root trait phenotyping and pre-harvest sprouting of wheat spike (courtesy of Reyazul Rouf Mir).
June 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Epigenetic Plasticity: From Model Plants to Crops

📘 Edited by Marco Catoni, Tamara Lechon Gomez, and Aline Probst

📸 Cover image by Yihan Dong

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Vol 76 | Issue 9 | 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Special Issue: Epigenetic Plasticity Cover image: This cover design features an octopus in a glass jar, symbolizing chromatin and the nucleus. The artwork is rendered in the Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) style. The ancient Chinese characters, written in cursive script (草書), represent ‘the dynamic regulation of chromatin’. The Yang seal (朱文) in seal script (篆書) signifies ‘chromatin’; the Yin seal (白文) signifies ‘nucleus’ (credit: Dr. Yihan Dong).
June 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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🌿 Journal of Experimental Botany 75th Anniversary Symposium! Sept 17-19, 2025 in Edinburgh.

Celebrating 75 years of plant science - from Beginnings to Future challenges. Travel grants now available!

www.asps.org.au/archives/55391

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June 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝

🧬 Epigenetics 🧬

🔎 Guest editors Catoni, Lechon & Probst dive into expert views, reviews, and original research exploring how plant epigenetics integrates developmental & environmental signals 🌱

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Box 1 The organization of genomic DNA into chromatin permits a dynamic regulation of the gene expression programme. Environmental and developmental signals that need to translate into an altered gene expression programme may elicit changes at the level of chromatin organization including the methylation of cytosines in the DNA molecule, the incorporation of specific histone variants into the nucleosome, and the setting of histone post-translational modifications. Together these different layers of epigenetic information allow the control of genome plasticity (e.g. by controlling mobile genetic elements), and permit the establishment of transient or heritable gene expression states to orchestrate developmental programmes and stress responses. The development of tools including cytidine analogues or epigenome editing provides the opportunity to artificially interfere with epigenetic regulation and to investigate chromatin-based epigenetic mechanisms. Created in BioRender. Catoni, M -2025
June 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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New Resource: "Transcription factor binding divergence drives transcriptional and phenotypic variation in maize" rdcu.be/esSwW

Genome-wide comparative analysis of DNA binding for 200 transcription factors in two maize inbred lines.
June 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM