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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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Li loves how plant science connects everything — economy, ecology, and even aesthetics. buff.ly/D1dA8ur #WeAreASPB
Linge Li (she/her) is the First Author of Effect of low red-to-far-red light on stem elongation and pith cell development in dicots published 15 April 2025. Li is a Researcher+Yuanyi Biotechnology Co.Ltd. Education background includes 2024 Ph.D Plant Environmental Physiology at Utrecht University; 2018 Plant Sciences and Natural Products at Leiden University; 2016 Biotechnology at Northeastern Forestry University. Research interests include Plant physiology, Abiotic stress. Personal interests include Video editing, painting.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Academician Yuan Longping's belief in 'writing research papers in the fields' serves as Xiaoqing Liu’s guiding compass. buff.ly/BLf8yTR #WeAreASPB
Xiaoqing Liu (He/him) is the First Author of Establishing an immune system conferring DNA and RNA virus resistance in plants using CRISPR/Cas12a multiplex gene editing published 07 April 2025. Liu is a Professor at BRI of CAAS. Education background includes: 2014 Ph.D Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at CAAS 2011 MSc in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at CAAS 2004 BSc Biotechnology Hebei Argicultural University. Research interests include Plant Biotechnology. Personal interests include Table Tennis.
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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“By modulating htACCase activity, it is possible to enhance lipid content in biological systems, offering a potential solution to meet the increasing global demand for fats and oils.” buff.ly/scYlOeU #WeAreASPB
Kiran-Kumar Shivaiah (He/his) is the First Author of Solution structure and NMR chemical shift perturbations of the Arabidopsis BCCP1 identify inter-subunit interactions potentially involved in the assembly of the heteromeric acetyl-CoA carboxylase published 21 March 2025. He is a Research Specialist, Michigan State University. Education background includes PhD Biochemistry at Iowa State University. Research interests include Coral lipid biology, Coral resilience, Lipid droplets. Personal interests include Resistance training, Book reading, Listening to music.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Garhwal has a curiosity for home gardening that makes a powerful motivator. buff.ly/AHiFdbq #WeAreASPB
Vikas Garhwal (He/His) is the First Author of Unequal genetic redundancies among MYC bHLH transcription factors underlie seedling photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis published 13 February 2025. He is a Research Assistant at IISER Kolkata. Education background includes 2024 Ph.D Plant Molecular Biology at Indian Instititue of Science Education and Research(IISER) Kolkata, India. 2015 MSc Biotechnology at CSJM University Kanpur, India. 2013 BSc Biotechnology and Botany at CSJM University Kanpur, India. Research interests include Light Signaling, Temperature Signaling, Hormone Signaling, Root Development. Personal interests include Social Work, Teaching, and Sports Events Participation.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Yang looks forward to using the "machine" of "plant cells" in the future to better serve mankind. buff.ly/d4WTlf3 #WeAreASPB
Yi Yang is the First Author of Delivery of marker-free DNA to plant genome by the transgenic selection-associated fragment elimination (T-SAFE) system published 05 February 2025. Yang is a Student at Shanghai Normal University. Education background includes 2021-2025 (expected to graduate with BSc Biology) Shanghai Normal University. Research interests include Plant immunity. Personal interests include reading novels, making handicrafts.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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“'During school, my friends and I would compete to see who could solve physics, chemistry, math, and biology problems the fastest!” buff.ly/eGpuouV #WeAreASPB
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi loves plant science because it explores the intricate mechanisms of nature that sustain life on Earth buff.ly/g1jxQAd #WeAreASPB
Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi is the First Author of The significant effects of threshold selection for advancing nitrogen use efficiency in whole genome of bread wheat published 21 January 2025. Sadeqi is a Researcher at INRES-Plant Breeding, University of Bonn. Education background includes 2024 Ph.D Plant Breeding University of Bonn, 2011 MSc Plant Breeding, University of Tehran. Research interests include Plant Genomics, Statistical Genetics. Personal interests include Painting.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Deniz Ece Ozcan is a PhD student at Yildiz Technical University. buff.ly/HdXNLhR #WeAreASPB
Deniz Ece OZCAN is the First Author of Modification of Gene Expression Involved in Alkaloid Production in Opium Poppy by VIGS Combined With Pretreatment of Macerozyme Enzyme published 07 January 2025. Ozcan is a PhD student at Yildiz Technical University. Education background includes 2023-Ph.D Yildiz Technical University 2020-MSc Yildiz Technical University 2016- BSc, Yildiz Technical University. Research interests include medicinal plants, gene silencing, secondary metabolism - alkaloids, post-transcriptional regulation. Personal interests include swimming, knitting.
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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An Introduction to Network Analysis in Plant Biology (Chamindika L. Siriwardana, Ashleigh S. Carlton, Thalia Lizeth Moncayo, Elizabeth A. O'Bier, Laura E. Bartley) buff.ly/2Hl7Iaw #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Rose Bengal Is a Precise Pharmacological Tool Triggering Chloroplast-Driven Programmed Cell Death in Plants, Dependent on Calcium and Mitochondria, and Associated With Early Transcriptional Reprogramming (Yasmine Jnaid, Rory Burke, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Rapid and Cost-Effective Digital Quantification of RNA Editing and Maturation in Organelle Transcripts by Oxford Nanopore Target-Indexed-PCR (TIP) Sequencing (Zhihua Hua) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Genetic Regulation of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Cornus Species: The Roles of R2R3-MYB Transcription Factors (Žaklina Pavlović, Miriam Payá-Milans, Marzena Nowakowska, Matthew L. Huff, Kimberly D. Gwinn, Robert N. Trigiano, Marcin Nowicki) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Regulatory network of R2R3-MYB transcription factors and anthocyanin biosynthetic genes. Nodes represent MYB TFs (red = activators, green = repressors) and structural genes (green). Edges indicate regulatory interactions: arrows = activation, rectangles = repression. Gene expression patterns are cultivar-specific, based on RNA-seq and RT-qPCR data. Cultivars are labeled.
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A Study on the Response Mechanism of Davidia involucrata Baill. to Drought Stress Based on Transcriptomic Analysis (Shuang Li, Jiankuo Du) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Predicted tertiary structures of SDRPGs.
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Determination of the Mechanisms of MCPA Resistance in Amaranthus powellii (Isabelle Aicklen, Mithila Jugulam, Todd Gaines, William Kramer, Martin Laforest, Darren Robinson, Peter Sikkema, François Tardif) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Venn diagram of differentially expressed genes from the reference-based alignment. Overlapping ovals represent differentially expressed genes that are shared among contrasts. Genes are considered differentially expressed if they have a log2 fold-change of > 2 or < −2 and an adjusted p-value of < 0.05. The contrasts are represented as follows: (1) 501-treated (RT) versus 511-treated (ST), (2) 501-untreated (RU) versus 511-untreated (SU), (3) RT versus RU, and (4) ST versus SU.
September 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Soybean Cyst Nematode-Resistant Protein AATRhg1 Affects Amino Acid Homeostasis and Betalain Accumulation (Yulin Du, Soyoung Jung, Hiroshi Maeda, Andrew F. Bent) buff.ly/jfHRbLv #PlantScience
Representative images of transgenic Wm82 soybean roots expressing RUBY alone (EV), RUBY with overexpression of wild-type Rhg1-GmAAT (Rhg1-GmAAT WT), RUBY with overexpression of Rhg1-GmAAT Y268L, and RUBY with overexpression of Rhg1-GmAAT D122A constructs. Scale bars = 10 cm.
September 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Unraveling the Role of P450 Reductase in Herbicide Metabolic Resistance Mechanism (Carlos Alberto Gonsiorkiewicz Rigon, Satoshi Iwakami, Todd A. Gaines, Franck E. Dayan) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Process of electron transfer from NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase to the catalytic site of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase. Two electrons are sequentially transferred from NADPH to the heme group of P450 through the cofactors FAD and FMN, each transferred in single-electron steps. Cytochrome P450, once activated by the electron transfer, catalyzes the oxidative breakdown of a substrate by inserting one oxygen atom into the chemical compound. Created with Biorender.
August 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Analysis of the Genetic Diversity of Houttuynia cordata Thunb Germplasm and Associated Variations in Lead Content (Min He, Feifeng Mao, Liyu Wang, Guidong Zu, Jingwei Li, Xiuhong Xu, Wanping Zhang) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Cluster analysis of the Pb2+ enrichment ability. (a) Cluster analysis of agronomic traits and endogenous Pb2+ content. (b) Cluster analysis of 72 accessions of H. cordata.
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Oxygen Consumption Rates and Germination of Green Soybean Seeds Produced Under Heat–Drought Stress (M. A. Martinez, N. H. Montechiarini, C. O. Gosparini, B. Oppedijk, B. van Duijn) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
August 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The Q-Warg Pipeline: A Robust and Versatile Workflow for Quantitative Analysis of Protoplast Culture Conditions (Léa Bogdziewiez, Rik Froeling, Patricia Schöppl, Jeanne Juquel, Ioanna Antoniadi, Vladimìr Skalický, et al) buff.ly/XLGtPZv #PlantScience
Description of the experimental procedure in the wet lab. (A) Starting biological material can be any plant tissue. (B) Cell wall from tissue is digested by enzymes to release protoplasts. Protoplasting protocols depend on the plant tissue. (C) Protoplasts are cultivated in different conditions to be compared. Following a period of culture, the cell suspension is imaged and analyzed.
August 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Assessment of Seed Priming With Melatonin to Improve Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Under Magnesium Deficiency (Khouloud Bouzidi, Abdelmajid Krouma) buff.ly/y54SlKS #PlantScience
Schematic representation of the metabolic processes that are triggered in response to Mg-D and Mg-D-Mlt, in common bean plants. C: control, Car: carotenoids, Chl-a: chlorophyll a, Chl-b: chlorophyll b, DW: dry weight, ETR: electron transport rate, Fv/Fm: maximum quantum yield of PSII, Mg-D: magnesium deficiency, Mg-D-Mlt: magnesium deficiency melatonin-seed primed, PSII: photosystem II, qP: photochemical quenching, qN: non photochemical quenching, R-Mg: root Mg, Sh-Mg: shoot Mg, YII: the fraction of energy that is photochemically converted in PSII.
July 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Effect of Ammonium:Nitrate Application Ratios on Growth and Nitrogen Metabolism of Tea Plants (Camellia sinensis L.) (Takuo Enomoto, Natsuki Tone, Takaya Ishii, Hisako Hirono, Ayako Oi, Yuhei Hirono, Takashi Ikka, Hiroto Yamashita) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
(a) Appearance of 1-year-old tea plants and their organs. (b) Appearance of tea plants grown in this study.
July 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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BdNRT2A and BdNRT3.2 Are the Major Components of the High-Affinity Nitrate Transport System in Brachypodium distachyon (Laure C. David, Mathilde Grégoire, Patrick Berquin, Anne Marmagne, Marion Dalmais, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience
Rosette area of wild type (WS), atnrt2.1-1 and three lines expressing Pro35S::BdNRT2A, Pro35S::GFPBdNRT2A, or Pro35S::BdNRT2A-GFP in the atnrt2.1-1 mutant. Plants were grown hydroponically for 40 days on a nutrient solution containing 0.2 mM NO3.
July 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Cucurbitacin Profile and Metalloid Stress Response in Cucurbita pepo L. Upon Arsenic Exposure (Gerardo Flores-Iga, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Purushothaman Natarajan, Padma Nimmakayala, Umesh K. Reddy, Nagamani Balagurusamy, Aldo Almeida) buff.ly/7pQDu8S #PlantScience
High arsenic concentrations are detrimental for Cucurbita pepo root growth. (a–d) Representative pictures of Cucurbita pepo roots grown under different Arsenic concentrations for 2 weeks.
July 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Functional Relationships of Two NFU Proteins in Maintaining the Abundances of Mitochondrial Iron–Sulfur Proteins (Jun Zhao, Manasa B. Satyanarayan, Joshua T. VanSlambrouck, Alexander J. Kolstoe, Michael J. Voyt, Glory O. Jamesa, Fei Yu, Yan Lu) buff.ly/SFTte9G #PlantScience
July 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Regulatory Coordination of Photophysical, Photochemical, and Biochemical Reactions in the Photosynthesis of Land Plants (Lianhong Gu, Bernard Grodzinski, Jimei Han, Telesphore Marie, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Yang C. Song, Ying Sun) buff.ly/ePnSKLU #PlantScience
June 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM