👁‍🗨 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 The immunity paradox: how do plants survive without adaptive immunity? ✍️ Peter Balint-Kurti @ncstate.bsky.social 🌱🦠 A fresh perspective on plant immunity, highlighting quantitative resistance and tolerance beyond pathogen recognition 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71080

The immunity paradox: how do plants survive without adaptive immunity?

A perspective on plant immunity is proposed that differs from the prevalent view that centers on resistance based on receptors that recognize the pathogen. In this perspective, mechanisms of quantita....

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The main reason for developing our El Niño prediction capabilities is to mitigate its severe negative consequences.

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity

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Desde Canadá a Panamá hay más de 5000 especies de abejas clasificadas en 173 géneros. Se acaba de publicar la segunda edición de The Bee Genera of North and Central America y el pdf completo se puede descargar de este enlace del Smithsonian 🐝 scholarlypress.si.edu/publications... 🐝

"Siempre ha hecho calor" 🤷

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España cierra el julio más cálido registrado, con máximas de casi 45 grados y más de 300 récords de temperatura dozz.es/fj99m4

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

🚨🪲🧬🦠 We have a new preprint out! Link: doi.org/10.64898/202... Insects and microbes are more connected than we realize. Some insects owe part of their ability to feed on plants to genes acquired from bacteria millions of years ago 🤯 See what we found about glycoside hydrolases in leafhoppers.

🌾🧬AI can design crop populations by linking traits with management for productivity and climate resilience. As architect, it optimizes local designs; as regulator, it guides in-season adaptation A framework for sustainable intensification #plantscience www.cell.com/trends/plant...

AI-designed crop populations for sustainable intensification

Meeting food-security targets within environmental limits requires integrating genetic advances with data-driven design and adaptive management of crop populations as engineered systems. Herein, we pr...

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Unsustainable use of groundwater may have caught up with California’s Sacramento Valley. A study shows that land subsidence accelerated during the 2020–2022 extreme drought and is likely to be permanent, reducing the capacity of the aquifer. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/lmTP50ZuqcO

En Villar de Matacabras, un pueblo de tan solo 1 habitante, encontramos uno de los mejores ejemplos de iglesias románicas construidas en ladrillo de la provincia de Ávila. El templo, datado en el S. XIII, presenta un estado de ruina. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ arteviajero.com/articulos/vi...

Suzanna Schlemm "Veil", 2020 Oil on Canvas #art

🌾🌿Crop wild relatives and traditional landraces are key to food security and breeding. Conserving them requires better links between in situ and ex situ efforts. Global cooperation is needed to protect and use this vital genetic diversity. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Conservation of crop wild relatives and landraces for use in crop production - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Plant genetic resources — encompassing the taxonomic and genetic diversity of crop wild relatives, wild food plants and landraces — are vital to securing global food supplies. This Review synthesizes ...

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Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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¡Vamos a por el lunes! 🆕Empezamos con la viñeta de @jrmora.com 😭 Lágrimas 🔥 ctxt.es/es/20260701/...

Reading in journal club Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients

Plant tropisms enable roots to navigate complex soils by responding to directional environmental cues. Biological decay, although central to nutrient cycling, also creates microbially active and poten...

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✅📄Now Free Access: Genome-wide analysis of the CsAP2/ERF gene family of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and joint analysis of transcriptional metabolism under salt stress Get the paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Genome-wide analysis of the CsAP2/ERF gene family of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and joint analysis of transcriptional metabolism under salt stress

AbstractBackground. Sweet orange is an important economic crop, and salt stress can inhibit its growth and development.Methods. In this study, we identifie

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Los negacionistas o retardistas del cambio climático no son “gente que opina diferente”. Son una amenaza grave para nuestra supervivencia, y los muertos y damnificados por su culpa no van a dejar de crecer en los próximos años.

Apocalyptisch beeld van bosbranden in Zuid-Frankrijk. We documenteren onze eigen verdwijning in plaats van die te voorkomen!

🌾🌿 Higher plant diversity increases natural enemy-to-herbivore ratios in croplands (up to 846%), but enhances both herbivores and predators in natural systems. Diversified cropping supports preventive pest control and agricultural sustainability. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests

Plant diversity differentially affects trophic interactions across ecosystems.

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Desde el alto de Las Navas del Marqués, a la derecha #IFBurgohondo, a la izquierda #IFSierraOeste Vía Meteo Ávila

Back to la Mayora for a short visit

Bacquelé et al. The global biogeography of passerine songs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ornithology

The global biogeography of passerine songs

Although bird songs are classic models for understanding the evolution of vocal communication, their global diversity has long made the development of a unifying framework challenging. By analyzing th...

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📣 Registration is open for the 23rd International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics #ISRFG2026 🌾Fundamental science for climate resilient rice 🌾 📍 The Royal Society (London, UK), 8-11 September 2026 Register now: cvent.me/8VvnrA #plantscience #genomics

The case for an epiphyte area index Wischmeyer et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Climate change is outpacing our wheat. Wild relatives hold the keys: pest resistance, drought and salt tolerance, better nutrition Genomics and de novo domestication can unlock them. But we need investment, collaboration and field trials now @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Back into the wild: harnessing the power of wheat wild relatives for future crop and food security

Harnessing the genetic diversity of wheat wild relatives is a promising strategy for developing climate-resilient, high-yielding wheat varieties, accelerat

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New Editorial: "Europe’s two tiers of genome editing" rdcu.be/fu1Ur Nature Plants has existed for 11.5 years, during which time the European Union has been constantly struggling towards a clear stance on genome engineering. Perhaps they have finally found it. #PlantScience

Amid high food price inflation, the cost of a healthy diet has become a pressing issue. Discover how the cost of a healthy diet is measured and how we can work to lower the price of nutritious food for all. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3T27FlP #SOFI2026 #COAG30 #HealthyDiets

Pear Trees, 1903 - Gustav Klimt -

from our cover: hunting strategy correlates with eye arrangement in spiders www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...

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