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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 17h

Apply for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal!

'It was exciting to have a chance, as an early career researcher, to write something in my voice, with my take on where my field is going.' – Matthew Naish, 2024 #TansleyMedal winner

Deadline 1 November 2025:

New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science

The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an early career researcher.

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Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social · 1d

Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
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Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions

Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

Did you miss our webinar with 2024 New Phytologist Tansley Medal winner Matthew Naish?

We've got you! Watch the webinar for free here: doi.org/10.52843/cas...

Q&A is open until 10 October - a great opportunity for asking Matthew about his #TansleyMedal-winning research!

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

(🧵 8/8) While at Johnson's lab, she discovered that cyanobacteria can use the circadian clocks identified by Johnson and collaborators to measure day length and produce photoperiodic responses akin to those seen in eukaryotes.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

(🧵 7/8) Luísa Jabbur is a Brazilian biologist and Johnson's former PhD student, who now works at the John Innes Centre, UK, as a BBSRC Discovery Research Fellow.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

(🧵 6/8) This changed the then prevalent paradigm that circadian clocks are transcription/translation based, and the KaiABC clock has now become the most well-described circadian clock.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

(🧵 5/8) Carl H. Johnson is an American biologist based at Vanderbilt University, USA. He was part of the “quadrumvirate” of scientists responsible for the identification of circadian rhythms in the cyanobacterium Sychococcus elongatus, and the discovery of its KaiABC clock complex.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

🌱 The authors behind the paper 🌱

(🧵 4/8) The authors of this review are two chronobiologists who specialise in circadian rhythms and photoperiodism in cyanobacteria.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

(🧵 3/8) ...to put forward a novel hypothesis for how photoperiodism could have evolved. The authors propose that this evolution could have happened before the emergence of the first circadian clocks, which are, by and large, the mechanism by which organisms measure the photoperiod.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

(🧵 2/8) In this Tansley insight, Jabbur & Johnson build upon their recently published work, which reports that a species of cyanobacteria can use day length as a cue of upcoming seasons to adapt to survive winter temperatures, (Jabbur et al., 2024)...

Fig. 2 A possible pathway for the early evolution of photoperiodic responses, before the emergence of a circadian clock.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/8) Could photoperiodic responses have evolved prior to the emergence of circadian clocks?
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig. 1 (a) Model for how photoperiodic time measurement works across different species. (b) Examples of the photoperiodic pathways in plants (upper) and mammals (lower).

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Marylou Mantova @maryloumantova.bsky.social · 2d

Just published by Gonzalez et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social:

Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬

Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Marta Torres @martillatorres.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh from the oven! We show how bacterial fitness for plant colonization is strongly influenced by growth substrate…! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @newphyt.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov

Bacterial fitness for plant colonization is influenced by plant growth substrate

Despite advances in our understanding of bacterial plant colonization, the extent to which growth substrate influences the molecular mechanisms enabling bacteria to efficiently colonize plants remai...

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Maria Clara Castellanos @calacastellanos.bsky.social · 3d

👇 🌸 see Special Issue in New Phytologist on Nectar & nectaries with many ways of studying nectar biology - including our 2024 paper on nectar traits evolutionary potential @a-romerobravo.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: #Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae). Photo by Evin Magner, courtesy of the University of Minnesota CBS Conservatory.

📖 See Virtual Issue: Nectar and nectaries
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#PlantScience

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · 4d

So glad to see our article on #evolvability of flower nectar and morphology and its role under novel pollination environments featured in this virtual issue @newphyt.bsky.social.
There is still so much to know about the regulation and #evolution of #nectar and its role in angiosperm evolution!

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: #Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae). Photo by Evin Magner, courtesy of the University of Minnesota CBS Conservatory.

📖 See Virtual Issue: Nectar and nectaries
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#PlantScience

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 5d

The 2025 #CSPB_ERM conference website is now ONLINE!
LINK: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

Early registration: Oct. 24
Regular registration: Oct. 25-Nov. 12
Abstract deadline for oral/poster presentations: Oct. 24

Student/postdoc registration fees are heavily discounted. See you soon!

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 3d

#TansleyInsight: Multifaceted roles of #autophagy in plant–virus–insect #interactions

Yunjing Wang, Qian Gong & Yule Liu 👇

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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Integrated plant–virus–insect crosstalk.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 3d

Unlocking #grass #leaf development: foundations for tunable #cereal design

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#TansleyReview by McAllister et al.

@drannisr.bsky.social @hildenelissen.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci
#PlantSci #genetics

Figure credit BioRender: Hilde, Nelissen (2025) buff.ly/uhRFPbx.

Leaf development engineering challenges and opportunities.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 3d

#TansleyReview: An updated history of TDIF-PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning

He et al. 👇

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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Comparison of wild-type and pxy pxl1 pxl2 er erl1 erl2 Arabidopsis thaliana plants.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d

#Leaf #evolution: integrating #phylogenetics, developmental dynamics, and genetic insights across #land #plants

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#TansleyReview by Hokuto Nakayaman and Neelima R. Sinha

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Simplified regulatory models and predicted origins of gene families.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America

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#TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social

@uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci

Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.

Ectomycorrhizal fungi being introduced together with their plant hosts on Isla Victoria, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1936.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d

#TansleyReview: Evolutionary and functional #relationships between plant and microbial C1 metabolism in terrestrial #ecosystems

Jardine et al. 👇

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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Metaphorical illustration of methyl group production during C1 photosynthesis and its utilization by S-adenosyl methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferases.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 5d

(🧵 6/6) Through joint efforts, the authors aimed to shed light on this pressing and highly relevant topic.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 5d

(🧵 5/6) Together, they combine complementary expertise—protein modifications (Jean-Philippe Reichheld) and mRNA regulation (Rémy Merret)—to highlight the role of post-translational modifications in cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates in plants.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 5d

🌱 The authors behind the paper 🌱

(🧵 4/6) The authors of this review represent two French plant biology institutes affiliated with the CNRS, located at the Universities of Perpignan and Strasbourg. The team consists of Margaux Legoux and her two supervisors, Rémy Merret and Jean-Philippe Reichheld.

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