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@newphyt.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:17 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

CRISPR helps confirm key rice transporter for bacterial blight resistance

This research, published in New Phytologist, could help breeders identify targets for developing varieties with enhanced resistance to safeguard yields and food security.

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@newphyt.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:09 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

Global patterns and environmental correlates of leaf length and width in forests

Pu et al.

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Distributions of community leaf length and width in global forests.

@jxbotany.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:01 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🌾🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🌾

Under low-sulfur conditions in both upland and lowland rice, EIL4-mediated gene regulation plays a key role, with SULTR1;1 contributing to increased root elongation - Maruyama et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Fig. 8.Growth of rice plants overexpressing SULTR1;1 in low-sulfur (LS) soil. Overexpression lines (Stox1 and Stox2) and their transgenic controls (T-cont) were grown under LS and control soil conditions (A). SULTR1;1 expression levels (B), sulfur concentrations in shoots (C) and roots (D), shoot DW (E), root DW (F), and root length (G) are shown as bar graphs. Data represent means ±SD (n=4 biological replicates; Tukey’s HSD, P<0.05 and P<0.01).

@theplantcell.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:18 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

Cryptic fate priming and lineage stabilization during Arabidopsis anther development (Jianzheng Wang , Xueyi Zhou , Wenhui Sun , Yeqiao Liu , Shiting Zhang , Hanji Li , Yuhan Zhao , Xinyi Xie , Zhenze Lei , Hong Ma , Fang Chang) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

@jxbotany.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:00 AMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🌸🧬 RESEARCH 🧬🌸

Arabidopsis flowers accumulate the sulfur by-product methylthioadenosine when methionine salvage is reduced, lowering methylation capacity and impairing fertility. Short-term spermidine treatment partly restores growth- Tremblay et al.

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Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Partial restoration of mtn1-1mtn2-1 phenotypes across developmental milestones. (A) Representative confocal images of 7-day-old Col-0 (WT), mtn1-1mtn2-1, and G3 roots obtained using the SR2200 cell wall stain, with the red asterisk indicating the end of the meristematic zone measuring from isodiametric cells of the QC to the first cell that doubles in length in the cortex cell layer. Scale bar=100 µm. (B) The length of the meristematic zone was measured, indicated by the red asterisk in (A). Statistical testing was performed using two-way Kruskal–Wallis tests with Dunn’s post-hoc test. Groups not sharing letters are significantly different (P<0.05; n=15). (C) After the WT, mtn1-1mtn2-1, and G3 plants reached ∼25 cm in height, the first 10 internodes between siliques were measured on the primary inflorescence branch for both Spd-treated and untreated plants and summarized in a PCA (n=15).

@plant-sci.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:22 AMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🌿🧬 CAM evolution reshapes more than its core pathway. In Yucca, weak mRNA-protein correlation points to post-transcriptional control, with shifts extending into nitrogen metabolism.

Cascading effects across primary metabolism. #plantscience @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

@plant-sci.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:32 AMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🌾🧬 A national US analysis finds GE crops boosted yields and stabilized production under climate stress, especially for corn and soybean.

Adoption also dampened climate-driven northward shifts in cultivation—evidence of adaptation value. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@plantbiotechj.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:00 AMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱

An Intronic Structural Variant in GhEBS1 Drives Cotton Fruit Size Divergence by Modulating Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression - Wang et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

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@cpbm-heddlelab.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:18 AMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🧬🌱 Fully funded PhD opportunity @durhamuniversity.bsky.social in the Bentham Lab

Designing Immunity from First Principles: AI Protein Design and Structural Biology to Build Synthetic Plant Immune Receptors

Apply by 27 Nov 2026 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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@dromius.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:36 AMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule?
@albinteulet.bsky.social found that

Type III effectors of symbiotic Rhizobia include diverse predicted transcriptional and post-transcriptional modulators.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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More information below.

@abioticstress.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:43 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

Unlocking plant #abiotic stress resilience through #biostimulants and #omics-driven innovations

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@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

October Issue. Read FREE: Women in plant science around the world; Waterlilies illuminate angiosperm evolution and inspire crop improvement; A new framework for plant NO metabolism?; Revealing the secret jobs of plant metacaspases & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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@abioticstress.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:30 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

A #NAC–MYB–cysteine regulatory #module enhances #drought and #salt tolerance in #soybean

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

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@theplantcell.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:22 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

A cryptic START domain regulates deeply conserved transcription factors (Courtney E Dresden , Ekaterina P Andrianova , Brian J Smith , et al doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

@jipb.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:05 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

All this #PlantScience and #OpenAccess too. Thanks, @abioticstress.bsky.social!

@theplantcell.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:26 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

Photoperiod and UV-B orchestrate ICR1 to control seed isoflavonoid accumulation in soybean (Mingyang Jian , Huan Wu , Cuirong Tan , Yushuang Yao , Shu Liu , Yilong Hu , Xingliang Hou , Chunyu Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

@insilicoplants.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:29 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

🌾 #modelling the dynamics and phenotypic consequences of tiller outgrowth and cessation in sorghum
by Graeme L Hammer, Greg McLean, Jana Kholová, Erik van Oosterom
buff.ly/epOglV0 #PlantScience #phenotyping

@newphyt.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 5:09 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

Genome-wide profiling reveals 5mC and 6mA dynamics during Flg22-induced plant immunity

Matthys et al. @mobi-ugent.bsky.social

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Using Oxford Nanopore sequencing, genome-wide DNA methylation responses to Flg22 were compared between Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. In both species, immune activation was marked by increased relative 5mC accumulation at (peri)centromeric regions compared with chromosome arms. In parallel, defence-responsive genes displayed an enhanced bimodal 6mA distribution flanking transcription start and termination sites following Flg22 elicitation. These findings identify shared methylation features associated with immune activation across two evolutionarily distinct plant species and associate 6mA remodelling with activation of the immune-responsive transcriptome.

@newphyt.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:35 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

Did you know that petals have 'windows' that affect the abundance of microbes within flowers?

Research published in New Phytologist reveals that they alter the amount of light and heat entering the flower, changing conditions that influence microbial abundance.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

@galofir.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:00 PMReposted by @sciplant.bsky.social

A new plant-bacteria immunological connection in the first preprint of our group at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social!
Straight from the top of Mt. Olympus ⛰️🦅

Led by Eirik @eiriklag.bsky.social, in collaboration with @geminiteamlab.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our preprint with the view from the top of the Olympus in the background

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