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Intrinsically disordered regions are poised to act as sensors of cellular chemistry: Trends in Biochemical Sciences cell.com/trends/biochem… Trends in Biochemical Sciences

MEPs, science did its part. Now it's your turn. #NGT

🚨New Review! Crop traits and production under drought🌾 Vincent Vadez et al. discuss the influence of moderate drought on crop productivity and the role of physiological traits in drought tolerance and adaptation nature.com/articles/s4301… Free: rdcu.be/dxYXU

Researchers have elucidated the molecular regulation of gland development and the biosynthesis of essential oils in citrus, which have important practical value in industries such as flavoring and fragrance. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/5NI

A master piece from our colleague Fei Zhang Huazhong Agricultural University

Beautiful work from Dao-Xiu Zhou in the rice group Huazhong Agricultural University

Our Deep DNAshape paper is out Nature Communications - this method replaces our pentamer DNAshape method and predicts DNA shape, conformational flexibility, minor-groove electrostatic potential using a deep learning approach; work led by Jinsen Li USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences USC nature.com/articles/s4146…

Cherry blossom flowering date in Kyoto, Japan As the climate warms, the natural world is responding. In this case, the trees are blossoming earlier in the year. Data: ourworldindata.org/grapher/date-o…

Super excited to present our new work😁. A double-stranded RNA binding protein enhances drought resistance via protein phase separation in rice | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

A dsRNA-binding protein positively regulates rice drought tolerance through promoting stability of OsNCED4 mRNAs via protein phase separation #BiotechNatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

I am proud to announce that the Methods in Molecular Biology issue on thermomorphogenesis is now available online. This collection includes 23 current protocols for investigating how plants perceive and respond to high ambient temperatures. -- link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

🚨New Review! Warming temps are causing species' geographic ranges to shift. Jake Lawlor, Lise Comte, Jonathan Lenoir, @JennSunday et al document these shifts, their difference from expectations, and their effects. nature.com/articles/s4301… (free to read: rdcu.be/dE753)

"The temperature sensor TWA1 is required for thermotolerance in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/dH4gJ @nature At high temperatures, TWA1 changes its conformation and allows physical interaction with JAM transcription factors and TPL/TPR proteins for repressor complex assembly.

Also in this issue: The continuum of transcription factor affinities go.nature.com/3TdnCmK #JournalClub by Carl de Boer Free to read here: rdcu.be/dzL8o

SEPALLATA-driven MADS transcription factor tetramerization is required for inner whorl floral organ development (Veronique Hugouvieux, Romain Blanc-Mathieu, Aline Janeau, Michel Paul, Jeremy Lucas, Xiaocai Xu, Hailong Ye, et. al.) buff.ly/4dOu6kc ASPB #PlantSci

The OsSRO1c-OsDREB2B complex undergoes protein phase transition to enhance cold tolerance in rice #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plan…

Phosphorylation of phyB by GSK3s, a key mechanism that brings temperature sensors together 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #Commentary by Zubieta et al. highlighting the recent work by Yang et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Happy to be part of this amazing story! A natural gene on-off system confers field thermotolerance for grain quality and yield in rice: Cell cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Highlighted by Science. ‘Major breakthrough’: A natural gene variant protects rice from heat waves | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…