Physiologia Plantarum
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Physiologia Plantarum
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An international journal committed to publishing full-length original plant biology research papers, minireviews and special issues.
CALL FOR ARTICLES
This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that explore complex and multilevel plant-bacterial-fungal-viral interactions, which modulate crop physiology and biochemistry under abiotic stress.
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@wileyecology.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Interested by Plant Mitochondrial Biology? Check the ToC of our newly compiled Special Issue https://bit.ly/4pBi8zh
Articles fall within the fields of protein function and biogenesis, mtDNA and CMS, physiology and respiration, signalling and mitochondrial dynamics.
@wileyecology.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How do plants discriminate between pathogenic and mutualistic fungi? The alterations to the root transcriptomic landscape during pre-symbiosis with a pathogen or mutualistic fungus were analysed.
@fungidownunder.bsky.social @jgi.doe.gov

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December 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🌱Can a prebiotic & a probiotic create a super-defense for crops?

A study by Jiao et al. combining Levan with Levan-metabolizing Bacillaceae creates a synergistic super-defense in tomato and wheat. The combo is especially effective in poor soils.
https://bit.ly/49iyUhV
##PlantImmunity #Plantsci
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🧠 Can plants remember past stress to prepare for future challenges?

The Plant Mind: Unraveling Abiotic Stress Priming, Memory, and Adaptation

https://bit.ly/4nGY2Ck
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Villanova et al. reveals that Skeletonema marinoi can perform mixotrophy and thrive in cold, low-light conditions.
Glycerol was found to significantly boost biomass productivity, achieving results comparable to CO2 enrichment.
Read at https://bit.ly/48bVTKv ##Algae #Diatoms #Mixotrophy
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌿 Can melatonin help medicinal plants survive drought?

Integrated physiological and transcriptomic analysis reveals transcription factors are crucial for melatonin-mediated drought tolerance in E. ulmoides

https://bit.ly/4qSptw1
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🧫 Gelling agents dictate callus fate in Arabidopsis!

The paper compares Agar, Phytagel, and Gelrite and found that media rigidity is the only physical property that correlates with callus phenotype and differentiation.

https://bit.ly/47TfXjz
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🧂 How does a salt-tolerant sugar beet manage stress at the molecular level?

Ubiquitination proteomics of sugar beets under salt stress response revealed roles of photosynthesis, Ca 2+ signaling, and the proteasome system

https://bit.ly/4nP0ozj
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🥶 How does a medicinal plant thrive in freezing temperatures?

Transcriptomics and metabolomics analyses reveal new insights into cold resistance in Paeonia veitchii

https://bit.ly/43Z6DcC
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🌶️ Could one tiny protein make pepper plants more drought-sensitive?

Pepper JAZ protein CaJAZ1- 06 negatively regulates drought stress and abscisic acid signaling

https://bit.ly/4omi1Yi
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🍅Performance of two foliar-applied biostimulants ( a seaweed and plant amino acid-based formulation, and a potassium-rich botanical extract) on tomatoes under open-field conditions.

Read more https://bit.ly/3KWagts
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New gene expression analysis by Zhang et al. (2025) identifies key regulatory genes in 10 gene families that control woodiness and defense in cucumber. Crucial targets for stress-tolerant crop development!

Read the study https://bit.ly/4nLYnE7
##cucumber #lignin #plantsci
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🥶What are the molecular mechanisms in Physalis grisea under low temperature stress? Transcriptomic, metabolomic, and physiological analyses were carried out.

Read more https://bit.ly/4ocR1KY
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌾How does a single PPR protein restore male fertility in rice?

Takatsuka et al. find that a specific Pentatricopeptide Repeat protein acts as a molecular scissor, cleaving the toxic mitochondrial orf312 RNA in Tadukan-type CMS rice.

https://bit.ly/3JKPBbj ##Rice #PPRProtein #Plantsci
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Complex interplay between climatic factors: What are the individual and interactive effects of temperature and soil moisture on the root metabolome of the alpine Himalayan dwarf shrub Rhododendron anthopogon?
@popecolibot.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

Read more https://bit.ly/48J9h9H
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
⤵️What physically shapes the thylakoid grana?

Böde et al. (2025) confirms that non-bilayer lipid phase behavior is the biophysical force stabilizing the high membrane curvature essential for efficient photosynthesis.
Read more at https://bit.ly/4osTTU0
##Chloroplast #Plantsci
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🧂What is birch bZIP5 function and mechanisms in conferring tolerance to saline-alkali (NaHCO3) stress?

Read more https://bit.ly/42X1txw
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
OPEN CALL FOR ARTICLES: This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that explore complex and multilevel plant-bacterial-fungal-viral interactions, which modulate crop physiology and biochemistry under environmental abiotic stressors. @wileyplantsci.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/3J9ae0J
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
How do RNA viruses manage plant lipid metabolism at high temperatures?

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November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Review Highlight

The review by Bolay et al. revolvs around the reprogramming of cyanobacteria by rewiring

👉 Read the highlight at https://bit.ly/3L6EQ3q

👉 Read the full review at https://bit.ly/4r13bYO
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🌞 Can light-damaged plants actually protect themselves by shutting part of their photosynthesis down?

PSII photoinhibition as a protective strategy: maintaining an oxidative state of PSI by suppressing PSII activity under environmental stress
https://bit.ly/4hWcXHS
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🍲What are the adaptive responses of QingFeng , a newly identified basil cultivar, to high salinity and drought stress?

Read more https://bit.ly/4qFvPPp
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
How does H2S talk to Nano-Mn to save plants from chromium? 🧬🛡️
Ayyaz et al. reveal that the combo triggers improved nutrient uptake, reduced Cr accumulation, and a massive antioxidant defense boost in rapeseed.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3WHpCoi
##H2S #PlantStress
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Systemically induced production of VOCs in plant undamaged tissues under herbivore attack with respect to below/aboveground signaling put to the test.
@jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social @andreaghirardo.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4obw4jy
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM