Extremely thrilled to share that the Zygnema #genomes paper is now out Nature Genetics We hope that this will be a great resource for all #plantsci #algae MadLand #evolution rdcu.be/dGnWJ

REVIEW: Vacuolar Degradation of Plant Organelles- Marisa S Otegui, Charlotte Steelheart, Wenlong Ma, Juncai Ma, Byung-Ho Kang, Victor Sanchez De Medina Hernandez, Yasin Dagdas, Caiji Gao, Shino Goto-Yamada, Kazusato Oikawa, Mikio Nishimura buff.ly/4aV4Yq9 ASPB #PlantSci

An analysis of almost quarter of a million forest plots finds that up to half of European forest biodiversity may be lost owing to climate change over the course of this century and provides tools to promote climate-resilient forests deep into the future.

nature.com/articles/s4155…

Our bumper April issue is live!

On the cover: Climate impacts on wine🍇🍷

Reviews on:
- Plant responses to changing rainfall🌧️🌱
- Food production data scarcity🌾📊
- Arsenic in groundwater⚠️🚰

Plus a set of Climate Chronicles for 2023 (inc. editorial)!
nature.com/natrevearthenv…

News & Views: 'A sweet victory for sugarcane genomics' rdcu.be/dF2Dr

A comment on the recent sugarcane genome nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…

'Owing to its size and complexity, the genome of modern sugarcane has never been previously assembled in its entirety'

New Books & Arts: 'What’s in a name?' by Elizabeth Haswell, free to read at rdcu.be/dF2By

It is a review of the book 'Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science' written by Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝

mhpbooks.com/books/unrooted/

My review of Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝's new book, Unrooted, is out in Nature Plants! It's a bittersweet memoir about the pleasures of systematics, the challenges of motherhood, and the many ways that academia devalues plants, people, and descriptive approaches.

nature.com/articles/s4147…

REVIEW: Protein degradation in the auxin response (Martijn de Roij, Jan Willem Borst, Dolf Weijers) buff.ly/3JvAajA Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social ASPB #PlantSci

The Plant Cell in a Nutshell: Variegated Canvases: The Diverse World of Plant Shoot Stem Cells plantae.org/variegated-can… ASPB #PlantSci

Check out this study on host genetic variants, environment and microbiomes for maize in Nature Plants
nature.com/articles/s4147…

“Arabidopsis doesn’t have pathogens!” :)

Direct link to this fantastic historical review:
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

News & Views: 'Peptide signalling: IRON MAN is a jack of all trades' rdcu.be/dFJzR

The functions of a small family of non-secreted peptides, originally identified as critical communicators of the plant’s iron status, have expanded.

New Review: 'Chromatin dynamics and RNA metabolism are double-edged swords for the maintenance of plant genome integrity' rdcu.be/dFJxH

New Editorial: Down-to-earth drought resistance rdcu.be/dFJuT

Drought is a serious threat to global food security. In upstream research, crop drought-tolerant traits are often studied under extreme drought conditions, which can seem irrelevant in the eyes of breeders.

Tomato root specialized metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence within a biosynthetic gene cluster science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our Big Flowering Plant Bang paper is now out in Nature!! So excited to have been part of this massive collaborative effort led by the Kew Gardens team, involving 279 co-authors from 27 countries!
#angiosperms #phylogenomics
nature.com/articles/s4158…

📄 New Publication: Zig, Zag, and ’Zyme: leveraging structural biology to engineer disease resistance
Alex McClelland Dr. Wenbo Ma aBIOTECH

Full text ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

tsl.ac.uk/publications/1…

Optimizing nutrient transporters to enhance disease resistance in rice: a review bit.ly/3V4k1Zr

New Perspective: 'Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web' rdcu.be/dFvnV

'The prevalence and potential functions of common mycorrhizal networks have been increasingly capturing the interest of science and society, sometimes leading to hyperbole and misinterpretation.'