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The influence of CO2 on acorns

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? IBut if that is good news for everyone, that is something that remains to be seen.
A new study dives into this for oaks, read more about it on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/t...

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Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? In first instance this appears to be the case. Plants get bigger and are also producing more and bigger seeds. But if that is good news for…

Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Or go directly to the article:
Barbara Karpinska, et al., Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees, Plant Physiology, 2025;, kiaf463, doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Growth under elevated CO2 rewired the proteome and transcriptome profiles of acorns produced by 200-year-old oak trees, resulting in lower seed protein con

The influence of CO2 on acorns

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? IBut if that is good news for everyone, that is something that remains to be seen.
A new study dives into this for oaks, read more about it on my blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/t...

open.substack.com/pub/plantenz...

🧪 #PlantScience

Plants grow better if they receive more CO2, aren’t they? In first instance this appears to be the case. Plants get bigger and are also producing more and bigger seeds. But if that is good news for…

Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees

1 4 5

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Of ga meteen naar het artikel:
Barbara Karpinska, et al., Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees, Plant Physiology, 2025;, kiaf463, doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Growth under elevated CO2 rewired the proteome and transcriptome profiles of acorns produced by 200-year-old oak trees, resulting in lower seed protein con

De invloed van CO2 op eikels

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Met meer CO2 groeien planten beter, toch? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het er wel op. Maar of dat voor iedereen goed nieuws is, dat valt nog te bezien.
Een nieuw studie zien hoe dit zit bij eiken. Lees er meer over op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/07/d...

🧪 #PlantScience

Met meer CO2 groeien planten beter, toch? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het er wel op. Planten worden groten en blijken ook nog eens meer en of grotere zaden te produceren. Maar of dat voor iedereen …

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3d

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries around how we keep our immune system under control

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 3d

Currently working on a schedule and suggestions for posting notes and the like on BlueSly and other social platforms. This is something that doesn’t come natural to me, but as a solo-entrepreneur it is necessary to get the word out about what I do.

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 6d

A not so abbreviated post about what to look out for when using abbreviations in your writing. Read if you don’t want your next article to feel like a code that needs to be deciphered.
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#AcademicWriting #BetterWriting

To abbreviate or not to abbreviate

About how too many abbreviations makes your reader feel they are deciphering a secret code, and what to do about it

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To abbreviate or not to abbreviate

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 6d

A not so abbreviated post about what to look out for when using abbreviations in your writing. Read if you don’t want your next article to feel like a code that needs to be deciphered.
aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/to-abbrevi...

#AcademicWriting #BetterWriting

About how too many abbreviations makes your reader feel they are deciphering a secret code, and what to do about it

aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com

Parasiterende orgaan formatie

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Keiko Sugimoto @keikosugimoto.bsky.social · 8d

How do plants regenerate after wounding? Our new work shows that HSFA1 transcription factors are among the earliest wound-activated regulators of cellular reprogramming in plants!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 8d

Wounding activates the HSFA1 transcription factors to promote cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679115v1

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 9d

Parasiterende planten hebben een gastheer nodig. Om aan te hechten gebruiken ze een orgaan genaamd een haustorium. Nu geeft een nieuwe studie inzicht over hoe een haustorium zich ontwikkeld.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/09/30/p...
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Parasiterende planten hebben een andere plant nodig om te overleven. Met een orgaan genaamd een haustorium, hechten ze zich aan een gastheerplant en tappen voedingsstoffen af. Nu ligt een nieuw stu…

Parasitic plants need another plant to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they latch on their host plant to siphon away its nutrients. Now a new study shines some light on how the developm…

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 9d

Parasitic plants need a host to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they attach to their host. Now a new study gives insights in haustorium developmend.
Read more about this study on my blog
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Parasite organ formation

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 9d

Or go directly to the article:
Maxwell R. Fishman et al., (2025) Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants.Sci. Adv.11, eadw3965. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 9d

Parasitic plants need a host to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they attach to their host. Now a new study gives insights in haustorium developmend.
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/09/30/p...
plantenzo.substack.com/p/parasite-o...

🧪 #PlantScience

Parasite organ formation

Parasitic plants need another plant to survive. With an organ called an haustorium they latch on their host plant to siphon away its nutrients. Now a new study shines some light on how the developm…

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 9d

Of ga meteen naar het artikel:
Maxwell R. Fishman et al., (2025) Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants.Sci. Adv.11, eadw3965. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

www.science.org

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 9d

Parasiterende planten hebben een gastheer nodig. Om aan te hechten gebruiken ze een orgaan genaamd een haustorium. Nu geeft een nieuwe studie inzicht over hoe een haustorium zich ontwikkeld.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/09/30/p...
🧪 #PlantScience

Parasiterende orgaan formatie

Parasiterende planten hebben een andere plant nodig om te overleven. Met een orgaan genaamd een haustorium, hechten ze zich aan een gastheerplant en tappen voedingsstoffen af. Nu ligt een nieuw stu…

7 things about writing great papers

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 13d

On many points academic writing is not so different from other sorts of writing. In my latest post you read how advise for fiction writers can be applied to academic writing.
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#AcademicWriting #BeterWriting #WritingAdvice

Or how to apply lessons from book writers to your paper writing

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 13d

On many points academic writing is not so different from other sorts of writing. In my latest post you read how advise for fiction writers can be applied to academic writing.
open.substack.com/pub/aboutaca...

#AcademicWriting #BeterWriting #WritingAdvice

7 things about writing great papers

Or how to apply lessons from book writers to your paper writing

open.substack.com

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 16d

For a long time, the question was could all plant cells develop into embryo’s. Now a group of researchers show that only specific cells have this possibility.
Read in my latest blog how they found this out
plantenzo.net/2025/09/23/p...
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🧪 #PlantScience

Potential for regeneration

For a long time, the question was if all plant cells could develop into embryo’s or that only specific cells can do that. Now a group of international researchers show in their latest article that …

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 16d

Or go directly to the article:
Tang et al., Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration, Cell (2025), doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Potential for regeneration

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 16d

For a long time, the question was could all plant cells develop into embryo’s. Now a group of researchers show that only specific cells have this possibility.
Read in my latest blog how they found this out
plantenzo.net/2025/09/23/p...
plantenzo.substack.com/p/potential-...
🧪 #PlantScience

For a long time, the question was if all plant cells could develop into embryo’s or that only specific cells can do that. Now a group of international researchers show in their latest article that …

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 16d

Of ga meteen naar het artikel:
Tang et al., Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration, Cell (2025), doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Redirecting

Voor lange tijd was de vraag of uit alle cellen embryo’s kunnen uitwikkelen, of alleen uit specifieke cellen. Nu laten een groep van internationale onderzoekers in hun laatste artikel zien dat alle…

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 16d

Voor lange tijd was de vraag of uit alle plantcellen embryo’s kunnen ontwikkelen. Nu laten een groep van internationale onderzoekers i zien dat alleen specifieke cellen die mogelijkheid hebben.
Lees op m’n blog hoe ze dat ontdekte plantenzo.net/2025/09/23/p...

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Potentie tot regeneratie

How avoiding turning your verbs into nouns makes your writing better

Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 20d

Scientists turn nouns into verbs almost mechanically. Making their writing as windy as a meandering vine. In my latest Substack post I discuss likely reasons why, the effect, and the remedy for it.
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#AcademicWriting #BetterWriting

Own your verbs

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