Call for papers: Green cities for plants, people and the planet
Open for submissions on the theme of advancing plant-focused solutions for building resilient, green and sustainable cities.
Deadline: 15 November 2026

Call for papers: Green cities for plants, people and the planet
Open for submissions on the theme of advancing plant-focused solutions for building resilient, green and sustainable cities.
Deadline: 15 November 2026
A parts list for the plant mitochondrion: AtMitoCarta catalogs 1,609 mitochondrial proteins of Arabidopsis, 236 of them newly defined and 147 of unknown function, and finds that 15% of mitochondrial protein families are specific to plants.
OsMAPK20-1 and OsMAPK20-4 phosphorylate OsCK2β3 to regulate its stability in response to phosphate starvation in rice (Mengyang Xie , Meng Yan , Hudong Kuang , Wang Chen , Zhujun Wang , Yanhua Zhu , Honghui Lin , Jian Yang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
It's time to apply for the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal!
The prestigious prize is awarded annually to early career scientists that have made an outstanding contribution to #PlantScience.
Deadline: 1 November 2026. Apply now: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...
Check out some of expected articles so far 📝
Luciano Freschi
🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨
🔬 Reactive Species in Plants
📝 Edited by Francisco J. Corpas, José M. Palma, Rosa Rivero & Ann Cuypers
📅 Closing date: 31 October
📇 Got a suitable manuscript? Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
LF1 mediates brassinosteroid signaling to regulate leaf angle development in rice (Jing You , Bingyu Ning , Yi Zhang , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Don't miss our webinar next Tuesday!
Featuring talks from:
🌱🐜 Olivier Van Aken & Abraham Cisneros-Ontiveros (Lund University) @biologylu.bsky.social #plantscience
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💻 🍃 Optimal coordination between photosynthetic acclimation strategy and canopy architecture in two contrasting #cucumber cultivars
by Yi-Chen Pao, Hartmut Stuetzel, Tsu-Wei Chen
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🌱 From Frontiers in Soil Science: Sheep grazing cover crops increased soil nitrogen when vegetable crops needed it most, without increasing compaction or nitrate leaching risk. (Sequoia R. Williams, Frances Neill, Niuniu Ji, Amélie C. M. Gaudin)
#Plants have evolved complex #nutrient foraging systems. Liu et al. review research developments in the field and provide a framework for designing nitrogen-efficient #crops adapted to heterogeneous soil #environments.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
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We are delighted to be Silver Sponsors of #PGRP2026! Look for our Deputy Executive Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Jie Shen from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences if you want to discuss publishing #PlantScience with us and @wileylifesci.bsky.social!
Regulatory plasticity balances photosynthetic electron flow with enhanced pH-dependent cytochrome b6f control in Arabidopsis (Ryouhei Kobayashi , Zenpei Shimatani , Keiji Nishida , Toshiharu Shikanai) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
I am now retired. It's time to thank all those who have been part of my academic "journey". There was so much to discover. The network of friends & companions will continue to exist. A new chapter starts, not entirely without science, but different…
💻 🍃 Bottom-up multiscale #modelling of guard cell walls reveals molecular mechanisms of stomatal biomechanics
by Hojae Yi and @candersonlab.bsky.social @psubiodept.bsky.social
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Most grass pollen looks alike under an ordinary microscope. Deep learning on superresolution images picks up the differences: in a 25,000-year lake record from Mt. Kenya, grass diversity declined substantially 21,500 to 16,000 years ago, during the region's harshest ice-age cooling.
StHY5 activates StSP6A to control photoperiod-induced tuberization in potato (Meiqi Shi , Lijie Xuan , Yunke Zhu , Zejiang Huang , Jun Hu , Guangcun Li , Yanfeng Duan , Lu Liu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
📬 Our September C-SPIRIT Newsletter is out! 🌱
Meet the Graham Lab, explore our University of Manitoba feature, check out the new BAR Single Cell Data Portal, and catch up on publications, events & more! 🔬🧬
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Chromatin homogenization triggers burst of CHH methylation in soybean (Lesheng Cao , Tianxu Zhang , Shuang Ma , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Check out the latest step-by-step protocols in various #LifeSciences fields.
#BioinformaticsandComputationalBiology #CancerBiology #CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #Mechanobiology #PlantScience #StemCell