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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 2h

🌡️💧How do plants cope with heat + drought together?
In Arabidopsis, the two stresses trigger a unique transcriptomic program that reshapes growth and water use, rather than simply adding individual responses.

📖 https://bit.ly/4nGMMY8
#PlantScience #HeatStress #Drought

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 2d

🦠Can two bacteria boost plant nitrogen efficiency? 🌱

New research shows that Bacillus subtilis + Azospirillum brasilense act synergistically to boost nitrogen uptake, biomass, and efficiency — paving the way for sustainable biofertilizers.
https://bit.ly/4fSM5as ##PlantSci #PGPR

Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 3d

Can potassium fertilizer boost purple sweet potato quality? 💜🥔
Huang et al. (2025) show that K treatments enhance anthocyanin biosynthesis, tuber quality & yield. KCl proved most effective, linking nutrient supply to pigment pathways.

https://bit.ly/4gsOmtb

Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 4d

❄️ Can climate change make Antarctic plants more vulnerable to cold?

Climate change and epigenetics: Unraveling the role of methylation in response to thermal instability in the Antarctic plant Colobanthus quitensis

https://bit.ly/3HIwCNM

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 5d

Spectral reflectance indices as a valuable tool in wheat breeding programs for assessing traits that typically require destructive measurements. Test and proof of concept on a panel of synthetic wheat under both control and salinity conditions.

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 6d

What are the impacts of three BPA exposure levels on parsley plants? Focus on physiological, biochemical, and metabolomic responses.

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 7d

🌿 Can one powerful gene family help cotton cope with drought & salt stress?

Identification of the MAP4K gene family reveals GhMAP4K13regulates drought and salt stress tolerance in cotton

https://bit.ly/47bJKVZ

Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 8d

🌾 Can a plant be both highly productive and drought-tolerant?

Better safe than sorry: the unexpected drought tolerance of a wetland plant (Cyperus alternifolius L.)

https://bit.ly/3Hw3aKV

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 8d

🔬Fulvic acid-releasing chitosan nanoparticles (Ch-FANPs) for promoting soybean growth and salt stress tolerance: physiological and molecular analyses.

Read more https://bit.ly/4nHxeT3

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 9d

🧪 How do plants sense & respond to bicarbonate stress in the soil?

A role for root carbonic anhydrase βCA4 in the bicarbonate tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana

https://bit.ly/3HOz59p

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 10d

🌱 Can beneficial bacteria help oilseed crops survive drought?

Biological amelioration of water stress in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) by exopolysaccharides-producing Pseudomonas protegens.

https://bit.ly/3UJKOch

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 10d

🥵What are the thresholds at which differential transpiration remains active and effectively cools reproductive tissues, as well as the developmental stages at which it is activated in soybean?

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 11d

🧫 Can deep learning help us make cleaner paper from trees?

Genetic improvement of low-lignin poplars: a new strategy based on molecular recognition, chemical reactions and empirical breeding

https://bit.ly/4lXDbu0

Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 12d

Do iron-based nanoparticles (Bio-NPs) synthesized through green biosynthesis from Haematococcus pluvialis strengthen seedling resilience under extreme environmental scenarios?

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 12d

Abies koreana recently experiences decline in seedling distribution with forest altitude. Can increased flash drought be the cause? The effects of flash drought on root carbon allocation, volatile and fatty acid modulation, and genome-wide changes are studied.

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 13d

How do plants in cold-arid mountains sustain carbon assimilation during short growing seasons? Investigation in seasonal dynamics and interspecific variability in photochemical performance of 310 individuals panning semi-deserts to subnival zones

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 14d

🧪 Can tweaking a single protein pocket make algae ultra-sensitive to herbicides?

Redesign of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii QB binding niche reveals photosynthesis works in the absence of a driving force for Q A-Q B electron transfer

https://bit.ly/469w6l9

Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 14d

🍃 Which kinases link ethylene to stomatal closure?
Research by Li et al. shows that calcium-dependent protein kinases mediate ethylene-induced stomatal closure in Arabidopsis & overlap with ABA pathways, revealing hormonal crosstalk in stress responses. https://bit.ly/4mrtDZa
#PlantSci #Stomata

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 15d

Check our new Special Issue gathering research aiming at advancing our understanding of photosynthesis.
All articles are free to read for 2 months

https://bit.ly/3HWyB14

Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 16d

Can transgenes + hybridization improve alfalfa? 🌱

New research by Bai et al. shows that fusing these strategies boosts seed yield and strengthens root rot resistance — a step toward more resilient forage crops.

Read at https://bit.ly/4fIbpQq

#PlantScience #Alfalfa

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 17d

Root restriction as a method to reduce plant size and enable high-throughput phenotypic screening of large sets of quinoa plants under controlled conditions: test and validation.
@iascsic.bsky.social @macroecology.bsky.social

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 17d

🍅 Can seaweed extracts help tomatoes cope with drought?

Antioxidant activity and comparative RNA-seq analysis support mitigating effects of an algae-based biostimulant on drought stress in tomato plants

https://bit.ly/4lIqYch

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 18d

Two months left before we close the submission deadline of our Special Issue on Root responses to multifactorial environmental constraints.
Welcome to submit

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 18d

Which genes helps pepper plants survive drought? 🌶️💧

Researchers, Choi, Lim & Lee, identified CaADBZ1, a bZIP transcription factor that boosts ABA sensitivity and enhances drought tolerance in pepper and Arabidopsis.

📖 https://bit.ly/3JkMDdc
#PlantScience #DroughtTolerance

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 18d

🍇This review reports and integrates current knowledge on grapevine epigenetic regulation as well as non-epigenetic non-coding RNAs in the response to biotic stress.

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