Libby
@lhorrocks1302.bsky.social
Biology Undergrad 🌱🌾🧪
I get more excited than necessary about plants and agriculture
I get more excited than necessary about plants and agriculture
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IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
September 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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🌊 How do tomato plants cope when faced with both salt & waterlogging stress at the same time?
A combination of salt stress and waterlogging provides protection to tomato plants against the negative effects of waterlogging individually applied https://bit.ly/4ldoXoZ
A combination of salt stress and waterlogging provides protection to tomato plants against the negative effects of waterlogging individually applied https://bit.ly/4ldoXoZ
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌊 How do tomato plants cope when faced with both salt & waterlogging stress at the same time?
A combination of salt stress and waterlogging provides protection to tomato plants against the negative effects of waterlogging individually applied https://bit.ly/4ldoXoZ
A combination of salt stress and waterlogging provides protection to tomato plants against the negative effects of waterlogging individually applied https://bit.ly/4ldoXoZ
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Happy to share the new article from my former lab at IBMCP — the final chapter of my PhD!
We optimized geminivirus-based vectors for the controlled expression of recombinant proteins in plants, using autobioluminescence as a real-time reporter 💡🧬🌱
If you’re curious… 👀:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
We optimized geminivirus-based vectors for the controlled expression of recombinant proteins in plants, using autobioluminescence as a real-time reporter 💡🧬🌱
If you’re curious… 👀:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy to share the new article from my former lab at IBMCP — the final chapter of my PhD!
We optimized geminivirus-based vectors for the controlled expression of recombinant proteins in plants, using autobioluminescence as a real-time reporter 💡🧬🌱
If you’re curious… 👀:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
We optimized geminivirus-based vectors for the controlled expression of recombinant proteins in plants, using autobioluminescence as a real-time reporter 💡🧬🌱
If you’re curious… 👀:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
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💡 Even short-term mismatches in plant–pollinator timing can shape complex and fluctuating selection patterns, maintaining floral trait diversity and possibly slowing evolutionary change. (7/7)
👉 doi.org/g9v97c
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #Evolution #AoBpapers
👉 doi.org/g9v97c
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #Evolution #AoBpapers
pendingpublications
Pending Publication
doi.org
August 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
💡 Even short-term mismatches in plant–pollinator timing can shape complex and fluctuating selection patterns, maintaining floral trait diversity and possibly slowing evolutionary change. (7/7)
👉 doi.org/g9v97c
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #Evolution #AoBpapers
👉 doi.org/g9v97c
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #Evolution #AoBpapers
Seen some fear mongering around GMOs online and one argument is the impact of farms with very low generic diversity on the environment.
Maybe I’m missing something but surely improving crop yields with GM reduces our land use so we can rewild areas that would otherwise be used for agriculture?
Maybe I’m missing something but surely improving crop yields with GM reduces our land use so we can rewild areas that would otherwise be used for agriculture?
August 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Seen some fear mongering around GMOs online and one argument is the impact of farms with very low generic diversity on the environment.
Maybe I’m missing something but surely improving crop yields with GM reduces our land use so we can rewild areas that would otherwise be used for agriculture?
Maybe I’m missing something but surely improving crop yields with GM reduces our land use so we can rewild areas that would otherwise be used for agriculture?
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🧂Understanding S. Persica’s resilience mechanisms to saline-alkali stress: growth, photosynthetic efficiency, chlorophyll fluorescence, antioxidative defense, ionomic adjustments, and metabolomic responses are scrutinized.
Read more https://bit.ly/4m9c9Ak
Read more https://bit.ly/4m9c9Ak
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🧂Understanding S. Persica’s resilience mechanisms to saline-alkali stress: growth, photosynthetic efficiency, chlorophyll fluorescence, antioxidative defense, ionomic adjustments, and metabolomic responses are scrutinized.
Read more https://bit.ly/4m9c9Ak
Read more https://bit.ly/4m9c9Ak
Been reading Ravenous by @henrydimbleby.bsky.social and this book reminds me of all the reasons I get so excited about the powers of biology to help us in the future!!
July 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Been reading Ravenous by @henrydimbleby.bsky.social and this book reminds me of all the reasons I get so excited about the powers of biology to help us in the future!!
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Plants originating from more extreme biomes have improved leaf thermoregulation
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
July 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Plants originating from more extreme biomes have improved leaf thermoregulation
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Introducing my new #rstats package {kitchensink}
Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say?
Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!
Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say?
Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!
July 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Introducing my new #rstats package {kitchensink}
Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say?
Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!
Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say?
Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!
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In this #FreeAccess Brief Communication, Li et al. report that OsDNR1 disruption enhances both herbicide resistance and nitrogen use efficiency, contributing to #sustainable #rice production.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
July 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In this #FreeAccess Brief Communication, Li et al. report that OsDNR1 disruption enhances both herbicide resistance and nitrogen use efficiency, contributing to #sustainable #rice production.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
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Word of the Day: AGNOTOLOGY - the study of wilful attempts to spread ignorance.
July 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Word of the Day: AGNOTOLOGY - the study of wilful attempts to spread ignorance.
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New OA Letter: "Guard cells on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces use different compositions of potassium ion channels to drive light-induced stomatal opening" rdcu.be/evxO3
scRNA-Seq, OnGuard model, genetic modification show distinct AKT1/KAT1 on both sides.
scRNA-Seq, OnGuard model, genetic modification show distinct AKT1/KAT1 on both sides.
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New OA Letter: "Guard cells on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces use different compositions of potassium ion channels to drive light-induced stomatal opening" rdcu.be/evxO3
scRNA-Seq, OnGuard model, genetic modification show distinct AKT1/KAT1 on both sides.
scRNA-Seq, OnGuard model, genetic modification show distinct AKT1/KAT1 on both sides.
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Biodiversity loss is a climate change multiplier. Every species we lose, every ecosystem we destroy weakens the planet’s resilience capacity.
July 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Biodiversity loss is a climate change multiplier. Every species we lose, every ecosystem we destroy weakens the planet’s resilience capacity.
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New OA Letter: "Poltergeist-Like 2 (PLL2)-dependent activation of herbivore defence distinguishes systemin from other immune signalling pathways" rdcu.be/evfC4
Phosphatase PLL2 regulates proton pump activity at the PM and is required for insect resistance.
Phosphatase PLL2 regulates proton pump activity at the PM and is required for insect resistance.
July 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
New OA Letter: "Poltergeist-Like 2 (PLL2)-dependent activation of herbivore defence distinguishes systemin from other immune signalling pathways" rdcu.be/evfC4
Phosphatase PLL2 regulates proton pump activity at the PM and is required for insect resistance.
Phosphatase PLL2 regulates proton pump activity at the PM and is required for insect resistance.
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New issue featuring reviews on #light signaling, bamboo genomics, and #serotonin, plus cutting-edge research on dragonfruit (pitaya) #genomics, biotic and abiotic #stress, reactive oxygen species in #rice #pollen development, and more great #PlantScience.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447909...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447909...
July 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New issue featuring reviews on #light signaling, bamboo genomics, and #serotonin, plus cutting-edge research on dragonfruit (pitaya) #genomics, biotic and abiotic #stress, reactive oxygen species in #rice #pollen development, and more great #PlantScience.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447909...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447909...
Delighted to have received an award for getting the top overall mark in my second year!!
Turns out reading for the love of it and asking questions incessantly can sometimes get you places aha
Turns out reading for the love of it and asking questions incessantly can sometimes get you places aha
July 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Delighted to have received an award for getting the top overall mark in my second year!!
Turns out reading for the love of it and asking questions incessantly can sometimes get you places aha
Turns out reading for the love of it and asking questions incessantly can sometimes get you places aha
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🌼 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🧬
📖 Yang & Johannes explore DNA methylation dynamics in the shoot apical meristem, covering roles in stress response, stem cell regulation, TE silencing, and discuss possible solutions to current technological bottlenecks.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
📖 Yang & Johannes explore DNA methylation dynamics in the shoot apical meristem, covering roles in stress response, stem cell regulation, TE silencing, and discuss possible solutions to current technological bottlenecks.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🌼 SPECIAL ISSUE EXPERT VIEW 🧬
📖 Yang & Johannes explore DNA methylation dynamics in the shoot apical meristem, covering roles in stress response, stem cell regulation, TE silencing, and discuss possible solutions to current technological bottlenecks.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
📖 Yang & Johannes explore DNA methylation dynamics in the shoot apical meristem, covering roles in stress response, stem cell regulation, TE silencing, and discuss possible solutions to current technological bottlenecks.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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💧🌼 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 💧🌼
Prasad et al describe genome-wide transcript and epigenetic profiling of rapeseed under osmotic stress. Gene activation and H3K4me3 marks are correlated in several loci incl. P5CSA genes controlling proline accumulation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Prasad et al describe genome-wide transcript and epigenetic profiling of rapeseed under osmotic stress. Gene activation and H3K4me3 marks are correlated in several loci incl. P5CSA genes controlling proline accumulation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
July 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
💧🌼 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 💧🌼
Prasad et al describe genome-wide transcript and epigenetic profiling of rapeseed under osmotic stress. Gene activation and H3K4me3 marks are correlated in several loci incl. P5CSA genes controlling proline accumulation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Prasad et al describe genome-wide transcript and epigenetic profiling of rapeseed under osmotic stress. Gene activation and H3K4me3 marks are correlated in several loci incl. P5CSA genes controlling proline accumulation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Three elite loci enhance abiotic stress tolerance and maximize #grain #yield in #rice under challenging #environmental conditions by rationally regulating #GA content. Find out more about this promising strategy for #crop breeding--free to read right here!
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
June 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Three elite loci enhance abiotic stress tolerance and maximize #grain #yield in #rice under challenging #environmental conditions by rationally regulating #GA content. Find out more about this promising strategy for #crop breeding--free to read right here!
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience 🔓
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🍓 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍓
Baldwin et al reveal a correlation between the H3K27me3 histone mark and repression of a transcription factor cascade regulating colour and aroma development during dark chilled post-harvest storage of strawberry fruit ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Baldwin et al reveal a correlation between the H3K27me3 histone mark and repression of a transcription factor cascade regulating colour and aroma development during dark chilled post-harvest storage of strawberry fruit ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
June 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🍓 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍓
Baldwin et al reveal a correlation between the H3K27me3 histone mark and repression of a transcription factor cascade regulating colour and aroma development during dark chilled post-harvest storage of strawberry fruit ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Baldwin et al reveal a correlation between the H3K27me3 histone mark and repression of a transcription factor cascade regulating colour and aroma development during dark chilled post-harvest storage of strawberry fruit ❄️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Finger on the pulse...☝️
Zhang et al. have identified a C2H2 zinc finger protein, OsZOS2-19, in #rice, which negatively regulates #ABA sensitivity & cold response by modulating ROS accumulation & osmotic balance
Read article: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantColdStress
#PlantScience
#CropScience
Zhang et al. have identified a C2H2 zinc finger protein, OsZOS2-19, in #rice, which negatively regulates #ABA sensitivity & cold response by modulating ROS accumulation & osmotic balance
Read article: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantColdStress
#PlantScience
#CropScience
June 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Finger on the pulse...☝️
Zhang et al. have identified a C2H2 zinc finger protein, OsZOS2-19, in #rice, which negatively regulates #ABA sensitivity & cold response by modulating ROS accumulation & osmotic balance
Read article: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantColdStress
#PlantScience
#CropScience
Zhang et al. have identified a C2H2 zinc finger protein, OsZOS2-19, in #rice, which negatively regulates #ABA sensitivity & cold response by modulating ROS accumulation & osmotic balance
Read article: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantColdStress
#PlantScience
#CropScience