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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · Oct 28
New introductory post! We are a scientific editing service, founded in 2008, providing scientific editing (and writing and social media!) by plant biologists, for plant biologists. Got a grant, manuscript, or other document that needs attention? Get started here: planteditors.com
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Role of cAMP in TIR1/AFB auxin signaling: open issues #plantscience
Role of cAMP in TIR1/AFB auxin signaling: open issues
The canonical mechanism by which the phytohormone auxin regulates transcription has been one of the cornerstones of plant signaling. The recent unexpected discovery of cyclic AMP (cAMP) as a second messenger in this pathway has revised its foundations while leaving many open questions and gaps in our understanding; these will be discussed in this forum article.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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From #plant-#microbe interactions to #epigenetics and ecological #genomics, Genome welcomes it all.

Submit to the Brazilian Excellence in Plant Genetics and Genomics collection by Dec. 1, 2025 ▶️ ow.ly/x0HY50Wuhqy

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November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Avenues and challenges for realizing higher yielding photorespiratory bypass crops

#TansleyReview by Meacham-Hensold et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Summarized yield and biomass increases reported in published photorespiratory bypass field trials. Percentage biomass increases are reported for tobacco and poplar, and yield increases for potato and rice.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🧬 RESEARCH 🧬

Post-translational modification of Rubisco activase varies between species, highlighting the limitations of extrapolating findings from model organisms to inform crop improvement strategies - Bhatnagar et al. 🌾

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Fig. 1.Phylogenetic representation of the amino acid present at the phosphorylation site (peptide position 78) within extant Rca gene models. Ancestral states for families and, when available, deeper orders of Angiosperms, are denoted at their corresponding nodes as pie charts. The confirmation of bootstrap values is given in Supplementary Fig. S1.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Not one, but two microscopy masters from @slcuplants.bsky.social speaking at Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists - Raymond Wightman and How-Wei Wu!

#NikonMicroscopy #microscope #lightmicroscopy #plantscience #FLIM #confocal #biology
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Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists

Date: Wednesday 7th January, 2026

Time: 9:15 – 17:00

Location: Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall, Clerici Building, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🚨 We welcome your submissions to our Special Issue “Resilience to drought - new frontiers towards climate-smart crops and cropping systems"
🗓️ Submit by 31 Dec 2025
🧑‍🔬 Guest Editors: Amir Hajjarpoor, Karine Chenu & Jana Kholová
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November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We are pleased to announce that Dr Lawrence Griffing, Associate Professor, Director of Microscopy and Imaging Centre, Associate Director of Nikon Center of Excellence, at Texas A&M University, will be presenting at our event in Oxford - Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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🍇 From Plant Phenomics: Multi-trait spectral modeling improved predictions of grapevine leaf nutrients, offering a more accurate vineyard monitoring. (Parastoo Farajpoor, Alireza Pourreza, Mohammadreza Narimani, Matthew W. Fidelibus)
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Multi-Trait Spectral Modeling for Estimating Grapevine Leaf Traits and Nutrients
Analysis of leaf hemispherical radiative properties for retrieval of its biochemical and mineral nutrients could lead to a powerful monitoring approac…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🍎 In this #OpenAccess research article, Wu et al. explore the role of natural variations in the MdBPM2/MdRGLG3-MdNAC83 network to improve post-harvest cold storage of #apples 🍏
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
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Natural variations in MdBPM2/MdRGLG3‐MdNAC83 network controlling the quantitative segregation of apple fruit storability
During postharvest cold storage of apples, the NAC transcription factor MdNAC83 binds to the promoters and activates the expression of downstream genes and is regulated by E3 ligases, which promote i...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Whether you are #PlantScience, #FungiFriends, #BugSky, #Microbe researchers, or one of the many other experimental systems out there, we welcome your submissions to our special issue on #genome #evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This #DeepLearning model integrates #morphological and #molecular data for species identification in the Fabaceae, illustrating the value of DL for species identification and barcode evaluation in #plant #systematics.

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Annotated flow diagram illustrating a deep learning framework integrating morphological traits and DNA barcodes (ITS2, matK, rbcL) to identify Fabaceae species. By combining image data and molecular sequences, a CNN artificial neural network (MMNet) enables automatic species identification and barcode evaluation.
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Happy to share our 🆕review "Role of plant #peroxisomal #catalase in #temperature❄️☀️ and #drought💧🌵 stress: Physio-biochemical and #molecular perspectives" is out in PPB @elsevierconnect.bsky.social 🥳🤩

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November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Enhancing NLR activation by endophytes carrying recognized effectors that are expressed in the presence of ROS. #plantimmunity
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Genetically engineered plant endophytes broaden effector-triggered immunity
Hou et al. engineer plant endophytes to express effectors that trigger NLR-mediated ETI upon pathogen infection, regardless of whether pathogens carry recognizable effectors. The sentinel bacterium ma...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨
We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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🍇 From Journal of Plant Physiology: Grapevines adapt to drought type: under gradual stress, they “procrastinate,” delaying defense, while rapid drying triggers fast ABA-driven escape responses. (J. Orozco, M.A. Zwieniecki)
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Fig. 1. – Scheme of the experimental setup. Gradual reduction of water provided under progressive drought (PD; water-green) treatment started on day 0. To achieve rapid drought (RD; grey), irrigation on the selected group of grapevines was interrupted from day 27; before that date, plants were watered up to pot capacity as controls. The yellow square represents control plants maintained at well-watered conditions throughout the whole duration of the experiment. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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🧬 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reports a streamlined genetic transformation method for pearl and finger millet, achieving up to 18% efficiency and enabling CRISPR-based gene editing in seeds.

Full #openaccess
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Steps followed for the seed-piercing transformation protocol in pearl millet and finger millet. The pearl millet seeds of ICMB95444 genotype were (A) soaked in water for 18–20 h, (B) subsequently, the soaked seeds were placed in a 90-mm Petri dish containing the Agrobacterium suspension. Similarly, the seeds of finger millet belonging to the KNE796 genotype were (C) also soaked for 16–20 h and (D) placed in Agrobacterium suspension. The embryonic portion of (E) pearl millet and the (F) finger millet seeds were pierced with a needle that had been dipped in Agrobacterium suspension carrying the binary vector, and (G, H) subjected to vacuum infiltration at 15 mmHg for 15 min. The infected (I) pearl millet and (J) finger millet seeds were inoculated on co-cultivation media for 3 days. The flowchart on the right depicts the protocol component of seed-piercing transformation. The protocol commences with the soaking of sterilized seeds in autoclaved water, followed by piercing with a sterile needle dipped in the Agrobacterium suspension. The infected seeds were then placed on co-cultivation media for 3 days in the dark.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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📢Final stretch for the registrations to the Symposium on Plant Biology!!
🚨Registration will close on 24 November🚨

📅 Date: January 6 and 7
📍 Location: Saint-Étienne

Register here: urls.fr/Z35Ctz

#plantbiology #innovation #research #SaintEtienne #networking #youngscientists #science
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢

🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷

On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!

🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...

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The cover of Vol 76 | Issue 18 | 2025 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Light green banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of a watercolour painting. "Sapling of North American tree species and common city tree Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Poplar). This watercolour painting depicts the young potted trees of this species used in Johnson et al., pp. 5573–5587. Trees were placed in freezers while their leaves were imaged to track ice formation and spread. This research revealed that the pattern of ice spread in these leaves is governed by vein anatomy and provided the first visualisation of freeze-induced xylem embolism (air bubble formation) in leaf veins. (Image credit: Kate Johnson.)"
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Plant Health Assistant Officer - Botanic Gardens Conservation International
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Plant Health Assistant Officer - Botanic Gardens Conservation International | Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Temporary - full time - 20 November 2025
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November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸

González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼

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Fig. 4.Changes in meristem activity and identity across the seasons. Circular diagram illustrating the multiple developmental transitions that occur in aerial meristems of Arabidopsis during the year. The temperature profile and timing of events are based on a field trial conducted in Norwich, UK (Lu et al., 2022). The apical vegetative meristem (VM) acquires reproductive identity during late autumn and early winter, after which it initiates floral primordia and later becomes dormant. In spring, flowering-promotive conditions trigger bolting, and the VM from the primary inflorescence (PI), now fully transitioned into an inflorescence meristem (IM), resumes reproductive development in the I2 zone of the inflorescence. Although delayed in their floral transition, axillary meristems (AMs) follow a similar developmental fate in the I1 zone. Finally, IMs undergo proliferative arrest in summer.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#plantscience #horticulture #scienceconference #HorticultureIndustry
#ASHS 2026 Dallas, Texas, Aug 3-7, 2026
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🍐 Issue 18 Research - Crop Molecular Genetics 🍐

A multi-parental cross design identified a series of QTLs associated with fruit firmness and storability in pear – Grignaffini et al.

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Fig. 1.Density plot of the pear fruit firmness and softening distribution assessed for PR_120 (A) and PR_121 (B) populations, respectively. For both plots, the x-axes indicate the firmness value in Newtons, while on the y-axes the trait density is reported. The phenotypic distribution is visualized in red for the firmness assessed at harvest (H), in green for the firmness assessed in post-harvest (PH), while the blue area indicates the loss of firmness or softening (SOFT). For each distribution plot, the mean value is indicated by a coloured dashed vertical line.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#Gene scarcity and resistance breakdown limit the utility of #plant NLRs. Li et al. review work by Wang et al. (2025) in
@Nature
, describing a bioengineering strategy to create broad-spectrum #resistance to potyviruses.

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#PlantSci #virus
Diagram to illustrate proteolytic activation strategy for the bioengineering of plant NLRs, which engineers decoy proteins (e.g., PBS1) by modifying their protease cleavage sites, or fusing a removable N-terminal blocking peptide carrying a protease cleavage site to an autoactive NLR (aNLR), to achieve pathogen-dependent immune activation.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📢 We're #hiring for a new Administrative Officer to oversee accounting, financial support, and human resources.

🔗 Read more and apply: jobs.eppo.int/gs7adm2025

⏱️ Apply by 13th December!
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM