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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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apmweber.bsky.social Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 7d
🧬⚡ Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 ⚡🧬

Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application.

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February 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - FINAL CALL 🚨

📅 🪾💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧🪾📅

🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎

📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues

#PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues
jxbotany.bsky.social Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Dec 17
🪾 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🪾

💧 Interdrought VIII: Pathways from understanding drought responses of plants to on-farm impact
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry

📅 Deadline 28 Feb 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪
Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Interdrought VIII: Pathways from understanding drought responses of plants to on-farm impact". The issue will be edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry. The images on the postcard are of rice fields under drought conditions in Tanzania (top left & right) and the Philippines (bottom) (courtesy of Amelia Henry, IRRI).
February 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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A new intergeneric hybrid has been developed in the Malvaceae. The hybrid was developed by crossing a member of the Callianthe genus and the Abutilon genus, and the traits of the hybrid are intermediate to those of the parents. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19073-25
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Morphological differences between Abutilon (left, pollen parent) × Abutilanthe (middle) and Callianthe (right, seed parent). (Top) Leaf, (Bottom) flowers. (scale upper left).
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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📜 On this #DarwinDay, explore our Darwin Reviews 📜

📇 Darwin Reviews are our most prestigious review series, featuring carefully selected topics from leading plant scientists 📇

🌳 In 2025, we celebrated 75 years of JXB with a special Darwin collection: academic.oup.com/jxb...

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An illustration of tree rings with text centred in a circle: "A special collection of Darwin Reviews to celebrate 75 years of JXB"
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🔬 Issue 4 is out now 🔬

📔 On the cover: Microscopic observation of stomatal immunity and hypersensitive response during Plasmopara viticola infection in a leaf of resistant grapevine (photo credit: Wei Zheng).

🔗 Read the full issue: academic.oup.com/jxb...
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The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 4 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Rust coloured banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of green grapevine cells under a microscope, and the stomata guard cells are visible. Photo legend: "Microscopic observation of stomatal immunity and hypersensitive response during Plasmopara viticola infection in a leaf of the resistant grapevine Vitis riparia cv. Qingdahean (photo credit: Wei Zheng). See Ji et al., pp. 1324–1337."
February 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Radicle, dude! 🏄

Liu et al show that 'target of rapamycin' or TOR signaling regulates #maize radicle development by modulating starch metabolism and energy homeostasis 🌽

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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Target of rapamycin kinase is involved in regulating maize radicle development through starch metabolism
Abstract. Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling plays a pivotal role in regulating various cellular processes, including energy metabolism and growth. In thi
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February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Contrasting effects of experimental warming in the initiation year & the flowering year on #flower phenology of boreal understory species

New #AB research by Christa Mulder, Eileen Schaub & Pamela Diggle

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#botany #plantscience #climatechange #Rhododendron #Viburnum
Rhododendron groenlandicum. Left image is an inflorescence bud in early spring. Right image is a flower primordium from an inflorescence collected at dormancy. Sepals and petals have been removed.
February 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵

The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology

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#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Haley Branch. Methodological illustration for asking whether X affects plants. “Question” provides an example of a question that both ecologists and evolutionary biologists ask, with categories of traits often of interest. “Experiment” shows trait examples and comparisons (populations, environmental, across time). Types of traits are where evolutionary biologists could expand their breadth. “Outcome” describes lasting effects of whether X affects traits to the point that it is passed on and contributes to future generations or it leads to extinction. “Outcomes” is where ecophysiologists could expand their work. Images courtesy of Dr. Stefanie Sultmanis (vein density), Dr. Beatrice Harrison Day (root section), and Dr. Vanessa Tonet (leaf cavitation).
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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And another #PlantScience conference of potential interest!
pgrp2026.bsky.social Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · Nov 27
🎉 The PGRP2026 website is live & registration is OPEN!

👉 malaga-en.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index

Check out our amazing lineup of speakers
Don’t miss out: we´ll also select speakers from submitted abstracts ❗️

Hurry up! we have limited seats!

Join us in Málaga, Oct 5–7, 2026 🌞
February 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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#PlantScience conference of potential interest!
icom2026.bsky.social ICOM2026 @icom2026.bsky.social · 16d
ℹ️ Reminder: Abstract submission for #ICOM2026 is OPEN!

🦘 Deadline is 28th February, 2026

💻 Submissions here 👇
icom2026.org/abstract/

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February 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
Davis Summer Population Genomics Program
Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Welcome to our new hub for plant stress science!

We’re here to feature and discuss the latest on how plants cope with drought, temperature, metals, and other abiotic challenges.

Got relevant work? Tag us!

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February 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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SS3 in wheat starch granule initiation

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by Ding et al.

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Isolation of durum wheat mutants defective in SS3a or SS3b.
February 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Still time for an edit and #ImageIntegrity check! planteditors.com
jxbotany.bsky.social Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 7d
🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🔬 Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Plants 🔬

📝 Edited by @smukhtarlab.bsky.social

📅 Closing date: 28 February 2026

📇 Got a suitable manuscript? Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues

#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
jxbotany.bsky.social Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Oct 22
🧬 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🧬

🔬 Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Plants 🔬

📝 Edited by Shahid Mukhtar

📅 Deadline: 28 February 2026

📣 Got a suitable manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues

@smukhtarlab.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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How state transitions balance photosynthetic electron transport in plants – a quantitative study

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by Hoochak et al.

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Schematic depiction of the lateral distribution of photosystems within stacked and unstacked thylakoid domains for Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type plants, along with associated LHCIIs.
February 10, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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🇮🇳 Elevating the Value of Medicinal & Herbal Plants through Controlled Environment Agriculture - Christ University, Bengaluru, India

🪴 I’m very excited to speak at this event and to learn alongside colleagues over these three days.

#cea #horticulture #plantbiology
February 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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🎉🆕📰🎉: Thermal behaviour of lipids in short-lived seeds of Australian rainforest species
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Thermal behaviour of lipids in short-lived seeds of Australian rainforest species
AbstractBackground and Aims. Recent studies on desiccation-tolerant Australian rainforest seeds demonstrated that some were short-lived in storage. We soug
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February 11, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026!!

🌟 We belong in Science, and our inclusion fosters and drives innovation 🌟

🌱 Charlene Kunaka-Dambire shares her journey in a new blog post 👉️ aab.org.uk/idwgs2026/

#WomenInScience #IDWGS #plantscience
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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We're recruiting a PhD student to try and understand stress memory and gene function, using gene editing, in trees! #plantscience
kleinevehnlab.bsky.social KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 7d
PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
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February 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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New in Grassland Research: Flow cytometric DNA ploidy analysis across 13 perennial grass species. Expand understanding of genome size variation to support breeding, taxonomy & grassland ecology.

Read & submit your research today🔗https://ow.ly/8mWC50YauYx

#PlantScience #GrasslandResearch
Cover of Grassland Research journal showing a winding river through diverse grassland ecosystems with scientific icons.
February 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Friday 20 Feb 2026 (15:00 UvA Science Park) “From Fertilization to Flower Design” by @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social
From live imaging of pollen tube–synergid interactions in Arabidopsis and Petunia @petuniaplatform.bsky.social to flower genetic design. Host: Francesca Quattrocchio
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February 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
bossdorf.bsky.social Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 15d
We are still looking for a PhD student to work on feedbacks between plant invasion and riverbank erosion, embedded in the @terra-cluster.org. In collaboration with geoscientists and modellers; cool combination of field work & experiments. Position is in the Tielbörger lab, in collab with our group.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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New in Grassland Research: Flow cytometric DNA ploidy analysis across 13 perennial grass species. Expand understanding of genome size variation to support breeding, taxonomy & grassland ecology.

Read & submit your research today🔗https://ow.ly/OblB50Yav14

#PlantScience #GrasslandResearch
Cover of Grassland Research journal showing a winding river through diverse grassland ecosystems with scientific icons.
February 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
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February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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February Issue. Read FREE: Focus issue on plant epigenetics (see artist inspired cover); Defining the epigenetic toolkit as an evolvable trait; Precision plant epigenome editing; Expanding plant epigenetic code & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant...

#plantscience
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM