Online now by Simone Castellana, Matteo Dell'Acqua, Paolo Triozzi, ElenaCNR, 🌱Pierdomenico Perata SantAnnaPisa : using eGWAS on 934 non-redundant georeferenced Arabidopsis ecotypes, we have identified functional variants for the gene MBR1 affecting adaptation to rainy environments

New Article: "Retrotransposon addiction promotes centromere function via epigenetically activated small RNAs" rdcu.be/dSJzr With News & Views: "A centromere’s obsession with transposons" rdcu.be/dSJz4

The September 2024 issue of Plant Physiology from ASPB Oxford University Press is now online! Read the newest issue here: buff.ly/3owatFD #PlantSci

Dig into our latest September issue! 👀 🍌Virulence factors of banana fungus 🧬Learn about mini-Borgs 🤝Collaborate to tackle outbreaks 🦠Microbiome and autism spectrum disorder and more….. nature.com/nmicrobiol/vol…

New Article: "Stage dependence of Elton’s biotic resistance hypothesis of biological invasions" rdcu.be/dSTdH Elton’s hypothesis: species-rich communities are more resistant to plant invasion. Conclusion after analysis of 12000 Czech vegetation plots : it depends.

Happy to see The Plant Cell include this text in their author guidelines. I fully agree!

Majestic trees in the Smithsonian Magazine Smithsonian Trees of North America smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in… 15 Photographs of trees smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

Just out 📣 It is my pleasure to share our latest review on #effector #proteases from plant pathogens by Jessica Lee Erickson and yours truly : sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Exploring and exploiting the rice phytobiome to tackle climate change challenges #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communic…

NEW REVIEW OUT Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection. We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now! 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2… Highlights include: 🌱 Revisiting plant cuticle biophysics 🌱 Insights into a functional synthetic plant genome 🌱 Regulation of ethylene biosynthesis during leaf senescence 🌱 In Profile: @ecodaveo Wiley Plant Science

New Article: "A sucrose ferulate cycle linchpin for ferulyolation of arabinoxylans in plant commelinids" rdcu.be/dS79f With News & Views: "Cycling ferulate in monocot cell walls" rdcu.be/dS790

Thrilled to share our latest on RALF peptide signalling! Please have a look at our version of record eLife - the journal doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Ann-Kathrin Rößling Lothar Kalmbach Elke Barbez CIBSS

Maize in Southwestern Amazonia retained primitive traits long after crops domesticated elsewhere, new Science Advances research suggests. scim.ag/8h9

Australia’s first genetically modified fruit is ripe for a taste test. Could it avert a global banana apocalypse? theguardian.com/australia-news…

Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts Curr Opin Plant Biol by Fantin Mesny et al from Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Houston, we have space crops! 🌱🚀✨ Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space & research conducted on International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. Check out the “Houston We Have a Podcast” episode:

The newest discovery in our robustness research thanks to Dr. Shuyao Kong Shuyao Kong, Mingyuan Zhu, Richard Smith Lab 🇺🇦, David Pan, and Brendan Lane. Tradeoff between speed and robustness in primordium initiation mediated by auxin-CUC1 interaction disq.us/t/4po30i3