Femke de Jong
@plantenzo.bsky.social
Plant scientist turned science journalist, writing among other things about plants. I am based in the Netherlands, so next to English post maybe in Dutch. You can visit my website on http://plantenzo.net/en-2/
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Thinking about writing a plant science newsletter, starting in the new year One that is a bit more extensive than my current blog.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Thinking about writing a plant science newsletter, starting in the new year One that is a bit more extensive than my current blog.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
Thinking about writing a plant science newsletter, starting in the new year One that is a bit more extensive than my current blog.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Thinking about writing a plant science newsletter, starting in the new year One that is a bit more extensive than my current blog.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
To poll interest, react with a ♥️ when interested.
Reposted by Femke de Jong
Lately I am coming across posts telling me how you can use AI for processing the articles you want to read quicker. At first my first thoughts were “yuck”. As I quite like reading academic articles.
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lately I am coming across posts telling me how you can use AI for processing the articles you want to read quicker. At first my first thoughts were “yuck”. As I quite like reading academic articles.
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
Today I learned that the genes that are active during the maturation, or ripening of a seed are quite young compared to those involved in embryo development and seed germination. 🧵1/3
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Today I learned that the genes that are active during the maturation, or ripening of a seed are quite young compared to those involved in embryo development and seed germination. 🧵1/3
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Eyeing that pile of papers you told yourself you would read it might be tempting to hand them over to ChatGTP or another AI and ask it to distil the message form it.
#AcademicWriting #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
#AcademicWriting #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Eyeing that pile of papers you told yourself you would read it might be tempting to hand them over to ChatGTP or another AI and ask it to distil the message form it.
#AcademicWriting #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
#AcademicWriting #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
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☀️🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🍅☀️
Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
☀️🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🍅☀️
Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Heuvelink et al. examine how light intensity, photoperiod, spectrum, directionality and energy regulate whole-plant physiological processes including morphogenesis, source–sink interactions and assimilate partitioning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Lately I am coming across posts telling me how you can use AI for processing the articles you want to read quicker. At first my first thoughts were “yuck”. As I quite like reading academic articles.
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lately I am coming across posts telling me how you can use AI for processing the articles you want to read quicker. At first my first thoughts were “yuck”. As I quite like reading academic articles.
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
#AcademicReading #ReadingPapers #AI #SpacedRepetitions
Reposted by Femke de Jong
Om de koude winter te overleven, stoppen bomen en andere meerjarige planten in de winter met groeien. Maar hoe dat precies werkt is nog niet helemaal bekend. Zweedse en Chinese onderzoekers zochten het uit.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Seizoen afhankelijke groei onderbreking
Bomen en andere meerjarige planten stoppen elk jaar wanneer het kouder wordt met groeien. Een strategie die hun helpt om de koude winter te overleven. Maar hoe planten dat precies reguleren is nog …
plantenzo.net
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Om de koude winter te overleven, stoppen bomen en andere meerjarige planten in de winter met groeien. Maar hoe dat precies werkt is nog niet helemaal bekend. Zweedse en Chinese onderzoekers zochten het uit.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Reposted by Femke de Jong
As a survival strategy trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. How they are regulating this is not completely known. A group of Swedish and Chinese researchers found out.
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Season dependent growth pause
Trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. A strategy that helps then to survive the cold winter. But how plants are regulating this is not completely known. A gro…
plantenzo.net
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
As a survival strategy trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. How they are regulating this is not completely known. A group of Swedish and Chinese researchers found out.
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
As a survival strategy trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. How they are regulating this is not completely known. A group of Swedish and Chinese researchers found out.
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Season dependent growth pause
Trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. A strategy that helps then to survive the cold winter. But how plants are regulating this is not completely known. A gro…
plantenzo.net
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
As a survival strategy trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. How they are regulating this is not completely known. A group of Swedish and Chinese researchers found out.
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PLantScience
Om de koude winter te overleven, stoppen bomen en andere meerjarige planten in de winter met groeien. Maar hoe dat precies werkt is nog niet helemaal bekend. Zweedse en Chinese onderzoekers zochten het uit.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Seizoen afhankelijke groei onderbreking
Bomen en andere meerjarige planten stoppen elk jaar wanneer het kouder wordt met groeien. Een strategie die hun helpt om de koude winter te overleven. Maar hoe planten dat precies reguleren is nog …
plantenzo.net
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Om de koude winter te overleven, stoppen bomen en andere meerjarige planten in de winter met groeien. Maar hoe dat precies werkt is nog niet helemaal bekend. Zweedse en Chinese onderzoekers zochten het uit.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/12/02/s...
#PlantScience
Reposted by Femke de Jong
The abstract of your paper has a big influence on if the reader will read your paper or not. Your paper can hold all the information that the reader needs, but if it doesn’t hint at that in the abstract it is likely the reader skips it for the next one.
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The abstract of your paper has a big influence on if the reader will read your paper or not. Your paper can hold all the information that the reader needs, but if it doesn’t hint at that in the abstract it is likely the reader skips it for the next one.
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
The abstract of your paper has a big influence on if the reader will read your paper or not. Your paper can hold all the information that the reader needs, but if it doesn’t hint at that in the abstract it is likely the reader skips it for the next one.
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The abstract of your paper has a big influence on if the reader will read your paper or not. Your paper can hold all the information that the reader needs, but if it doesn’t hint at that in the abstract it is likely the reader skips it for the next one.
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #Abstract
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De meeste planten houden niet van te veel zout. Ze schieten ervan behoorlijk in de stress, verliezen hun eetlust, of beter gezegd hun bladgroenkorrels, en gaan langzaam dood. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
De meeste planten houden niet van te veel zout. Ze schieten ervan behoorlijk in de stress, verliezen hun eetlust, of beter gezegd hun bladgroenkorrels, en gaan langzaam dood. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
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Most plants don’t like to much salt. They get pretty stressed out about it, lose their appetite, or to be more accurate their chloroplasts, and die slowly. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Most plants don’t like to much salt. They get pretty stressed out about it, lose their appetite, or to be more accurate their chloroplasts, and die slowly. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
Most plants don’t like to much salt. They get pretty stressed out about it, lose their appetite, or to be more accurate their chloroplasts, and die slowly. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Most plants don’t like to much salt. They get pretty stressed out about it, lose their appetite, or to be more accurate their chloroplasts, and die slowly. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
De meeste planten houden niet van te veel zout. Ze schieten ervan behoorlijk in de stress, verliezen hun eetlust, of beter gezegd hun bladgroenkorrels, en gaan langzaam dood. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
De meeste planten houden niet van te veel zout. Ze schieten ervan behoorlijk in de stress, verliezen hun eetlust, of beter gezegd hun bladgroenkorrels, en gaan langzaam dood. 🧵1/4
#PlantScience #SaltStress
#PlantScience #SaltStress
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Opening a new document, ready to start writing, then searching for that perfect first sentence you freeze. What if you mess it up? In my latest post I give you tips how to overcome this freeze.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
How to deal with blank page stress
Or how to stop staring in the void of the blinking cursor
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Opening a new document, ready to start writing, then searching for that perfect first sentence you freeze. What if you mess it up? In my latest post I give you tips how to overcome this freeze.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
Opening a new document, ready to start writing, then searching for that perfect first sentence you freeze. What if you mess it up? In my latest post I give you tips how to overcome this freeze.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
How to deal with blank page stress
Or how to stop staring in the void of the blinking cursor
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Opening a new document, ready to start writing, then searching for that perfect first sentence you freeze. What if you mess it up? In my latest post I give you tips how to overcome this freeze.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-dea...
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips
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Net als wij mensen hebben planten soms last van virussen. Die kunnen grote schade aanrichten. Daarom willen onderzoekers graag weten hoe die virussen te werk gaan zodat ze waar mogelijk de virussen tegen kunnen houden.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Net als wij mensen hebben planten soms last van virussen. Die kunnen grote schade aanrichten. Daarom willen onderzoekers graag weten hoe die virussen te werk gaan zodat ze waar mogelijk de virussen tegen kunnen houden.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
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Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Interrupting virus replication
Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
plantenzo.net
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Interrupting virus replication
Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
plantenzo.net
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Just like us humans, plants are also infected by viruses. These can cause lost of damage. Therefore, researchers like to know how these viruses work, so they can stop them where possible.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Net als wij mensen hebben planten soms last van virussen. Die kunnen grote schade aanrichten. Daarom willen onderzoekers graag weten hoe die virussen te werk gaan zodat ze waar mogelijk de virussen tegen kunnen houden.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Net als wij mensen hebben planten soms last van virussen. Die kunnen grote schade aanrichten. Daarom willen onderzoekers graag weten hoe die virussen te werk gaan zodat ze waar mogelijk de virussen tegen kunnen houden.
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
Reposted by Femke de Jong
Wham bam CAM!
Former lab member @njorisfleck.bsky.social and colleagues just showed that some carnivorous plants do CAM photosynthesis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌱☀️🧪
🌱☀️🧪
Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Wham bam CAM!