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Genome-based mutant RNA mapping (GMRM) identifies an NLR pair underlying Yr6-mediated stripe rust resistance in wheat #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

October 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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Ali Raza

@aliraza6.bsky.social

Excited to share our review is on the Cover of @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social (Vol 30, Issue 10)🤩🎉😍

👉 #Panomics to manage combined #abiotic stresses in plants

🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Congratulations to all authors @agbioworld.bsky.social👏

@plantteaching.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

In this work, together with my wonderful co-authors (Yiran Li, Channapatna Prakash, and Zhangli Hu), we discuss how climate change-driven combined abiotic stresses threaten global crop productivity, and how panomics, AI-driven breeding, single-cell omics, and advanced phenotyping can guide the way for stress-smart crops of the future🌱

🔑 𝙆𝙚𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨:

Panomics + AI = unlocking novel molecular targets & pathways

Field-level validation + spatial/single-cell omics for real-world solutions

Synthetic biology and epigenome editing as next-gen breeding strategies

Crop wild relatives as hidden reservoirs of resilience

Designing "genetic circuits" and "full-gene packages" for enhanced tolerance

Ultimately, we propose panomics as a “social insurance” for crops, equipping them to withstand real-world stress combinations and secure sustainable agriculture in a changing climate 🌍✨

October 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM

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Plantae.org

@plantaeofficial.bsky.social

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: Plant receptor-like kinases sense extrinsic and host-derived signals and shape the microbiome (Cell Host Microbe) @carahaney.bsky.social @jumpy-botanist.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/0uZR93w

#PlantaePSRW

Review: Plant receptor-like kinases sense extrinsic and host-derived signals and shape the microbiome | Plantae

Plant genomes contain hundreds of genes encoding receptor-like kinases (RLKs), which are membrane-spanning proteins with an extracellular perception domain and an intracellular signaling domain.

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September 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Prof Braj Singh

@prof-braj-singh.bsky.social

In Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

Paddock Tree Arrangement and Pasture Photosynthetic Heat Tolerance in a Temperate Tree-Pasture Grazing System Under Climate Change Scenarios

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Paddock Tree Arrangement and Pasture Photosynthetic Heat Tolerance in a Temperate Tree‐Pasture Grazing System Under Climate Change Scenarios

Climate change and associated extreme heat events threaten productivity in agricultural systems. Integrating trees into grazing/pasture systems has the potential to enhance resilience to warming. How...

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September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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Trends in Plant Science

@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social

October Issue.Read FREE:Panomics to manage combined abiotic stresses in plants (cover by @aliraza6.bsky.social, @agbioworld.bsky.social); Plant microRNAs and calcium signaling;Coexistence ecology of pathogen-inhibiting microbes in the phytobiome &much more www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#plantscience

October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Tatsuya Nobori

@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

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October 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Chenxin Li, PhD

@chenxinli2.bsky.social

DNA mutagenesis driven by transcription factor competition with mismatch repair: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

DNA mutagenesis driven by transcription factor competition with mismatch repair

Competition between transcription factors and mismatch repair machinery drives localized hypermutation at regulatory elements, with implications for cancer and genome evolution.

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October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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New Phytologist

@newphyt.bsky.social

TaGSK3 phosphorylates TaNLP7 to repress #nitrogen deficiency-induced leaf #senescence in #wheat

A #Letter by Yang et al. 👇

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

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

TaNLP7 directly represses TaSGR and loss-of-function of TaSGR confers strong low-nitrogen tolerance in wheat.

October 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM

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New Phytologist

@newphyt.bsky.social

Unlocking #grass #leaf development: foundations for tunable #cereal design

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#TansleyReview by McAllister et al.

@drannisr.bsky.social @hildenelissen.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci
#PlantSci #genetics

Figure credit BioRender: Hilde, Nelissen (2025) buff.ly/uhRFPbx.

Leaf development engineering challenges and opportunities.

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October 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications

@mplantpcom.bsky.social

Call for Papers | Mol Plant & Plant Com is organizing a Special Issue on Transporters and Channels in Plant-Biotic/Abiotic Interactions | Submission Deadline: Feb 28, 2026; Publication: Sep 2026 ☘️If any questions, pls feel free contact mplant@sibs.ac.cn or plantcom@sippe.ac.cn

June 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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Muzammil Hussain

@plantmicrobiol.bsky.social

#Nano-selenium: a novel candidate for plant #microbiome #engineering

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

#microbilogy #nanotechnology @icn2.bsky.social @rsc-cnn.bsky.social @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social @natmicrobiol.nature.com @camri-igs.bsky.social @microbiomevif.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Nano-selenium: a novel candidate for plant microbiome engineering

The soil microbiome drives plant health and productivity. Recently, Sun and colleagues described a unique plant–microbe signaling cascade that enables selenium nanoparticle (SeNPs) formation by rhizos...

www.cell.com

May 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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Ali Raza

@aliraza6.bsky.social

We are editing a #Special_Issue “ #𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 #𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚-𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 #𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨” in an #OpenAccess J, 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨💯🤩

🖇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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June 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Plant Editors

@planteditors.bsky.social

Call for papers on #PlantScience abiotic stress responses! Don't stress about writing, just have us edit your paper before submission! planteditors.com/sales/

June 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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Ali Raza

@aliraza6.bsky.social

Thank you @plantteaching.bsky.social @plantaeofficial.bsky.social for featuring our review " #Genomics🧬 & #breeding🧫 tools to design #salinity-smart food #crops🌾" in #PlantScience Research Weekly🆒🤩🔥

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@aspbofficial.bsky.social

Most food crops are relatively intolerant to soil salinity, yet globally soils are becoming increasingly salinized. This excellent review by Raza et al. pulls together the myriad approaches that are being used to develop salinity-smart crops. It starts with an overview of how soil salinity affects crops plants and some of the mechanisms that facilitate salinity tolerance. The rest of the review describes the ways that genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) tools including genome sequencing, QTL mapping, GWAS, GS, HBB, pan-genomics, single-cell/tissue genomics and phenotyping, epigenomics and transgenomics, are being used to complement conventional approaches to designing salinity-smart crop cultivars. It is a thorough and well-illustrated article that integrates a discussion of today’s powerful tools with a description of how they are being used to address a specific and important food security challenge. This integration of tools with applications makes this an excellent article to share with students. (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) Plant Biotechnol. J. 10.1111/pbi.70104

June 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM

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Ali Raza

@aliraza6.bsky.social

Here is the direct link to the feature post

plantae.org/review-genom...

#genomics #salinity @jennysaile.bsky.social @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social @marianasartur.bsky.social
@spsplantsciences.bsky.social @c-spirit.org @mpipz.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social

Review: Genomic tools and breeding tools to design salinity-smart food crops | Plantae

Most food crops are relatively intolerant to soil salinity, yet globally soils are becoming increasingly salinized. This excellent review by Raza et al. pulls together the myriad approaches that are…

plantae.org

June 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM

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Muzammil Hussain

@plantmicrobiol.bsky.social

New research #alert🌟

Our #spotlight article in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social highlights how #rice #diterpenoids shape beneficial root #microbiota to combat plant-parasitic #nematodes. Sustainable nematode management just got a boost! 🌱💡

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

@microbiologysociety.org

Rice diterpenoids rewire microbiome to fight plant-parasitic nematodes

Microorganisms associated with plant roots can protect the host from plant-parasitic nematodes. Kudjordjie et al. recently demonstrated that rice diterpenoid phytoalexins are involved in the assembly ...

www.cell.com

May 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Muzammil Hussain

@plantmicrobiol.bsky.social

New research #alert🌟

Our #spotlight article in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social highlights how #rice #diterpenoids shape beneficial root #microbiota to combat plant-parasitic #nematodes. Sustainable nematode management just got a boost! 🌱💡

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

@microbiologysociety.org

Rice diterpenoids rewire microbiome to fight plant-parasitic nematodes

Microorganisms associated with plant roots can protect the host from plant-parasitic nematodes. Kudjordjie et al. recently demonstrated that rice diterpenoid phytoalexins are involved in the assembly ...

www.cell.com

May 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Muzammil Hussain

@plantmicrobiol.bsky.social

#Nano-selenium: a novel candidate for plant #microbiome #engineering

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

#microbilogy #nanotechnology @icn2.bsky.social @rsc-cnn.bsky.social @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social @natmicrobiol.nature.com @camri-igs.bsky.social @microbiomevif.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Nano-selenium: a novel candidate for plant microbiome engineering

The soil microbiome drives plant health and productivity. Recently, Sun and colleagues described a unique plant–microbe signaling cascade that enables selenium nanoparticle (SeNPs) formation by rhizos...

www.cell.com

May 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications

@mplantpcom.bsky.social

Potatome - harnessing natural variation of potatoes #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

May 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications

@mplantpcom.bsky.social

A plant virus causes symptoms through the deployment of a host-mimicking protein domain to attract the insect vector #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

May 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM

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Ali Raza

@aliraza6.bsky.social

Happy to share🆕 #OpenAccess review, #Genomics🧬-assisted #breeding for designing #salinity-smart future #crops🌾" is out in PBJ @sebiology.bsky.social @aabiologists.bsky.social 😍👏🎉

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

#GAB @plantteaching.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @ipes-food.org

May 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM

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Ali Raza

@aliraza6.bsky.social

🧬Panomics🧬to manage combined abiotic stresses in plants❄☀🫧🌊🌪🌱🌿🌽🪴🌾 in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social🔥🤩😍

🖇 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

📖 We propose leveraging #panomics and advanced #breeding tools to get insights into how plants manage #combined #abiotic stresses

#omics @agbioworld.bsky.social