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Plant Physiology-international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular bio, genetics, biophysics, and environmental bio of plants

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The October 2025 issue of Plant Physiology from ASPB and Oxford University Press is now COMPLETE! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/plphys/issue... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Volume 199 Issue 2 | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic
Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants
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bHLH090 promotes insect resistance by positively regulating myrosin idioblast development and myrosinase biosynthesis (Lijuan Zhou, Linyan Zhu, Siyuan Liu, Limei Liu, Wenbin Wang, Zijing Zhang, Houping Wang, Xiaolan Chen) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
bHLH090 promotes insect resistance by positively regulating myrosin idioblast development and myrosinase biosynthesis
The transcription factors FAMA and bHLH090 work together to activate TGG1 expression, thereby promoting the development of myrosin idioblast cells and enha
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November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Maize root mucilage alters stomatal responses to soil and atmospheric drought: Implications for plant water use (Gaochao Cai, Asegidew Akale, Efstathios Diamantopoulos, Frederic Leuther, Lara Kersting, Scott McAdam, Shurong Liu, Mutez A Ahmed) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Maize root mucilage alters stomatal responses to soil and atmospheric drought: Implications for plant water use
Increased maize root mucilage enhances unsaturated hydraulic conductivity, delays hydraulic stress onset, and shifts toward anisohydric stomatal behavior u
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November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Mapping auxin dynamics in the formation of lateral roots with a dual-DR5 reporter (Blanca Jazmin Reyes-Hernández) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Mapping auxin dynamics in the formation of lateral roots with a dual-DR5 reporter
Roots grow downward and branch outward through the process of lateral root (LR) formation, building a root system that secures water and nutrients. In most
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November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Strigolactones inhibit axillary bud outgrowth through transcription factor MdSPL6-mediated regulation of ABA levels in apple (Xingqiang Fan, Huixia Li, Yao Xiong, Doudou Chen, Yuqing Zhang, Haochen Sun, Yi Wang, Zhenhai Han, Wei Li) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Strigolactones inhibit axillary bud outgrowth through transcription factor MdSPL6-mediated regulation of ABA levels in apple
Strigolactones inhibit apple axillary bud outgrowth by promoting MdSPL6-dependent activation of MdHB53 and MdTCP18, which elevates ABA levels and defines a
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Algae and Aquatic Plants. This Focus Issue welcomes the submission of research articles on photosynthetic organisms found in aquatic or semi-aquatic environments. Submission Deadline: 11/2025. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/pages/plant-physiology-call-for-paper…
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Early Land Plant Evolution – Phylogenetics, Paleobotany, and Evo-devo Physiology. Submission Deadline: 03/2026. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...

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November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The HsfA1a-BAG5b module mediates thermotolerance through activating autophagy in tomato (Mingming He, Jiating Wu, Yan Yang, Qingshen Cui, Nuo Fan, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The HsfA1a-BAG5b module mediates thermotolerance through activating autophagy in tomato
Heat shock transcription factor A1a enhances tomato thermotolerance by upregulating B-cell lymphoma2 (Bcl-2)-associated athanogene 5b (BAG5b) and interacti
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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Multi-omics-based insights into tomato adaptation to multifactorial stress combination (Lidia S Pascual, Enrique Serna, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Multi-omics-based insights into tomato adaptation to multifactorial stress combination
Multifactorial stress combination triggers a complexity-dependent molecular and metabolic reprogramming.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A ubiquitin–GhUBX–GhCDC48 module regulates secondary cell wall thickening in cotton fiber (Yihao Zang, Lishan Yu, Longen Ma, Xiaoran Li, Lisha Xuan, Chenyu Xu, Yayao Zhang, Zhanfeng Si, Jieqiong Deng, Tianzhen Zhang, Yan Hu) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
A ubiquitin–GhUBX–GhCDC48 module regulates secondary cell wall thickening in cotton fiber
The UBIQUITIN REGULATORY X protein promotes the proteasome-mediated degradation of CELL DIVISION CYCLE 48 and regulates secondary cell wall thickening in c
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November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Arabidopsis INHIBITOR OF GROWTH 2 promotes flowering by regulating NuA4-dependent H4 acetylation levels at FT and SOC1 (Javier Barrero-Gil, Alfonso Mouriz, Raquel Piqueras, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Arabidopsis INHIBITOR OF GROWTH 2 promotes flowering by regulating NuA4-dependent H4 acetylation levels at FT and SOC1
INHIBITOR OF GROWTH 2 promotes flowering by regulating NuA4-dependent histone H4 acetylation levels at floral integrator genes in Arabidopsis.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Roles of enzymes VvNCED1 and VvCCD1 in β-damascenone biosynthesis: Insights into aroma development in grapes (Xiao Meng (孟潇), Xuechen Yao (姚雪辰), Yi Wei (韦漪), Yachen Wang (王雅琛), Huimin Zhang (张慧敏), et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Roles of enzymes VvNCED1 and VvCCD1 in β-damascenone biosynthesis: Insights into aroma development in grapes
Enzymes that cleave carotenoids and produce abscisic acid in grapes drive the formation of β-damascenone, contributing to floral and fruity aroma during be
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November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The fluorescent probe DISBAC2(3) provides a high-throughput screening tool for evaluating abiotic stress tolerance in plants (Caroline Ivsic, Ping Yun, Frances C Sussmilch, Sergey Shabala) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The fluorescent probe DISBAC2(3) provides a high-throughput screening tool for evaluating abiotic stress tolerance in plants
Rapidly screening for changes in membrane potential and for stress-tolerant crops is uncovered using the voltage-sensitive dye DISBAC2(3).
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November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NEWS & VIEWS: When opposites compensate: proton flux crosstalk between envelope antiporters and ATP synthase (Ritu Singh) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
When opposites compensate: proton flux crosstalk between envelope antiporters and ATP synthase
Photosynthesis underpins life on Earth by converting solar energy into the chemical energy that sustains nearly all food webs. In plants, photons are absor
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Enhanced cell aggregation in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii rbo1 mutant in response to multifactorial stress combination (Lidia S Pascual, Devasantosh Mohanty, Ranjita Sinha, Thi Thao Nguyen, et al) #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Enhanced cell aggregation in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii rbo1 mutant in response to multifactorial stress combination
The unicellular algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii responds to multifactorial stress by forming aggregates, suggesting that multicellularity evolved as a resp
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November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Mutagenesis of FT genes in early flowering kiwifruit suggests diverse roles in regulation of growth and flowering (Erika Varkonyi-Gasic, Tianchi Wang, Dinum Herath, Charlotte Voogd, Andrew C Allan, Joanna Putterill) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Mutagenesis of FT genes in early flowering kiwifruit suggests diverse roles in regulation of growth and flowering
Kiwifruit FT primarily controls the ability of shoots to grow, FT1 regulates the timing of terminal flowering, while FT2 and YFT have no effect on flowerin
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November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Source–sink transport as a constraint on photosynthesis and a driver of ecophysiological patterns (Christopher Vincent, Syed Bilal Hussain, Juan M Losada, Johannes Liesche) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Source–sink transport as a constraint on photosynthesis and a driver of ecophysiological patterns
Abstract. The movement of sugars from autotrophic to heterotrophic organs is a major potential constraint on photosynthesis in vascular plants. There is no
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November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Two Stabiliser loci suppress Tam3 transposition without compromising transposase production in Antirrhinum (Shasha Wang, Takako Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Kuwabara, Megumi Hirata, Ikumi Yuasa, Kenji Nakahara, Cathie Martin, Yuji Kishima) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Two Stabiliser loci suppress Tam3 transposition without compromising transposase production in Antirrhinum
Snapdragon has Stabiliser genes known to repress Tam3 transposition, and these loci are Tam3 derivatives that generate small RNAs suppressing transposition
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November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Paulinella chromatophore transit peptide part2 adopts a structural fold similar to the γ-glutamyl-cyclotransferase fold (Victoria Klimenko, Jens Reiners, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The Paulinella chromatophore transit peptide part2 adopts a structural fold similar to the γ-glutamyl-cyclotransferase fold
The crTPpart2 domains of chromatophore-targeted proteins in Paulinella chromatophora adopt a conserved fold, suggesting that this structure aids in importi
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November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NEWS & VIEWS: Battling herbivores: the volatile story of tea (Nilesh D Gawande) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Battling herbivores: the volatile story of tea
Tea plants (Camellia sinensis) are prone to herbivore attacks, which can cause severe yield losses. Plants possess strong systemic defense mechanisms to co
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November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Establishment of an efficient and versatile genome editing platform for L. ruthenicum (Ying Sun, Zheng Hong, Wenwen Wang, Hong Zhang, Xiang Ren, Ximan He, Tingting Kan, Yunfang Fan, Chong Wang, Youlong Cao, Hui Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Establishment of an efficient and versatile genome editing platform for L. ruthenicum
An efficient transformation and genome editing toolkit in black goji berry enables genetic studies and accelerates breeding of this valuable medicinal and
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November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The natural Msc-4 allele confers genic male sterility via conserved and divergent gene regulatory mechanisms in pepper (Heshan Du, Xiaofei Zhang, Ren Li, Bin Chen, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The natural Msc-4 allele confers genic male sterility via conserved and divergent gene regulatory mechanisms in pepper
A nonsense mutation in pepper CYP703A2 causes genic male sterility by disrupting pollen development without affecting vegetative growth, highlighting its p
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November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The autoactivity of tomato helper NLR immune proteins of the NRC clade is unaltered in Nicotiana benthamiana prf mutants (Daniel Lüdke, Hsuan Pai, AmirAli Toghani, Adeline Harant, Chih-Hang Wu, Sophien Kamoun) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The autoactivity of tomato helper NLR immune proteins of the NRC clade is unaltered in Nicotiana benthamiana prf mutants
Nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat immune receptors of the NRC clade act in one direction, with autoactive helpers able to trigger hypersensitive c
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November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
NEWS & VIEWS: Carbon sink–source dynamics influence bud awakening under warming and defoliation (Laura Fernández-de-Uña) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Carbon sink–source dynamics influence bud awakening under warming and defoliation
Plant metabolism largely depends on carbohydrates. Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs; i.e. those not constituting biomass) are a key energy source and serv
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November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM