🌱 From Planta: Crop breeding has largely overlooked photosynthesis. Exploring Rubisco diversity in wild plants could reveal new paths to higher yields. (Pablo Luna-Rodriguez, Chaehee Lee, Grey Monroe) ▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantBiology

Rubisco limits plant breeding: can biodiversity unlock it? - Planta

Main conclusion Photosynthesis has been underestimated as a breeding target. A workflow that identifies or engineers superior Rubisco variants and introduces them into crops is urgently needed. Abstra...

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☀️ From NPJ Biodiversity: Solar siting often accounts for legally protected species and lands, but data gaps can leave other biodiversity areas overlooked. (Daphne Condon, M. Levin, N. Krasner, E. Forester, C. Holmes, B. Narwold, F. Robinson, Rebecca R. Hernandez) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Practitioner perceptions of biodiversity criteria for solar suitability analyses in the United States - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Practitioner perceptions of biodiversity criteria for solar suitability analyses in the United States

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🌱 From Plant Disease: Ganoderma adspersum can invade healthy sapwood in young peach rootstocks, highlighting how wounds may create entry points for orchard disease. (Daisy H. Ahumada, David M. Rizzo) ▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #PlantPathology

🌱 From Nature Communications: Hybrid vigor in maize may arise partly from master regulatory genes coordinating the activity of hundreds of other genes. (Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Genetics

The incomplete dominance of gene expression controlled by Trans-eQTL hotspots contributes to heterosis in maize - Nature Communications

This study shows that maize hybrids exhibit increased transcriptome activity than inbred parents in an incomplete dominance manner, contributing to hybrid vigor. This increase is primarily regulated b...

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🌱 From Global Change Biology: Better models of how stomata regulate carbon and water could improve predictions of crop performance and ecosystem responses to climate change. (Thomas N. Buckley) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

A Simple Stomatal Model That Unifies the Metabolic and Hydraulic Control of Carbon and Water Flux

This figure shows the model's predictions in response to the familiar stomatal effectors.

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🌱 From Frontiers in Plant Science: New DNA markers could help breeders identify valuable grape traits faster, accelerating the development of more resilient and sustainable varieties. (Dario Cantù) ▶️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla... #PlantScience #Genetics #PlantBreeding

Frontiers | An advanced genotyping tool to inspect grapevine variability: the Axiom®Vitis22K SNP array

Grapevine is one of the most relevant fruit crops worldwide, owing to its extensive distribution and considerable socio-economic significance. While the cult...

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🥑 From PNAS: Ancient genetic variation helps coordinate avocado pollination, offering new tools to breed higher-yielding orchards. (Jeffrey S. Groh, Gracie Ackerman, Graham Coop) ▶️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantBiology

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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🌱 From ISME Communications: Soil aggregates host distinct microbial communities, revealing that soil function depends on hidden structures. (Jonathan Y Lin, J Gontijo, C McMillan, J Fudyma, E Yao, J Sayre, J Emerson, C Lazcano, K Scow, Jorge Mazza Rodrigues) ▶️ academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Multi-omics resolved integration reveals microbial niche separation in soil aggregates

Abstract. The soil matrix is a heterogeneous mixture composed of aggregates—three-dimensional complexes composed of organic materials and mineral particles

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🌱 Communications Biology: Plants face a tradeoff between moving water quickly and preventing drought damage. Evolution shows they could not fully optimize both. (Maciej A. Zwieniecki) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

Torus-margo pits cannot function in vessel-bearing angiosperms - Communications Biology

Mechanistic modelling identifies conduit geometric constraints on torus-margo membrane function, resolving the surprising absence of this low-resistance, high-safety design in vessel-bearing plants.

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🌱 From Current Opinion in Plant Biology: Malate may play a bigger role in photosynthesis than once thought, helping plants balance carbon storage and protein production as CO2 rises. (Arnold J. Bloom) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

🍓 From G3: Lower-cost DNA tools could make precision strawberry breeding more accessible, helping identify superior plants faster. (Dominique D A Pincot, R Famula, C Lopéz, D Velasco, M Al Rwahnih, A Krill-Brown, S Knapp, Mitchell J Feldmann) ▶️ academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad... #PlantScience

Scalable medium-density genotyping platforms for cultivar identification, pedigree authentication, marker-assisted and genomic selection, and other applications in strawberry

Abstract. A broad spectrum of high-density genotyping approaches, including single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays, genotyping-by-sequencing, and whol

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🌱 From Environmental and Sustainability Indicators: California grows more pistachios per acre. Spain grows them with fewer inputs per pound, showing different paths toward sustainability. (Louise Ferguson, Elias Marvinney) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #Sustainability

Comparative sustainability assessment of pistachio production: A case study of California (USA) and Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) is a nutrient-dense nut, providing high-quality plant protein and well-suited to semi-arid regions, making it an importan…

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🧬 From Nature Biotechnology: Smaller, more efficient genome editors could expand precision breeding and gene editing in crops, making advanced tools easier to deliver and use. (Ugrappa Nagalakshmi, Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

Engineered TnpB genome editors for plants and human cells identified by ribonucleoprotein mutational scanning - Nature Biotechnology

TnpB endonucleases are engineered for improved genome editing.

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🌲From Nature Communications: Prescribed burns can save ancient forests. Recent fuel treatments helped thousands of giant sequoias survive extreme wildfires in California. (Dan J. Dixon, Xiaoli Dong, Andrew M. Latimer, Yufang Jin) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #Ecology #Wildfires

🌱 From The Professional Geographer: Urban farms do more than grow food. They strengthen community ties that help neighborhoods recover and build resilience after disasters. (Ana Zepeda, Clare E. B. Cannon, Amanda Crump) ▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #Agriculture

🌱 From Journal of Ecology: As mountain climates warm, some lower elevation wildflowers outperform local plants, but only at certain life stages. (Brandie Quarles-Chidyagwai, S. Ashlock, J. Schmitt, J. N. Maloof, Jennifer R. Gremer) ▶️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Ecology

🌱 From Nature: Salicylic acid helps plants balance defense and growth by controlling the stability of enzymes that break down the immune hormone. (Natalie Hamada, M. Palayam, J. Moe-Lange, G. Wyatt, S. Chang, A. Hu, S. P. Dinesh-Kumar, P. Zerbe, Nitzan Shabek) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Salicylic acid modulates its catabolic enzymes via proteasomal degradation linked to SCF-associated proximity networks - Nature Communications

Salicylic acid (SA) controls plant immunity but requires tight regulation. Here, the authors show that SA modulates its own inactivation by controlling the stability of its catabolic enzymes through c...

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🌾 From Plant Communications: Climate-resilient rice may depend as much on its living ecosystem as its genes, opening new paths for sustainable food production. (Esteban Veliz, Venkatesan Sundaresan) ▶️ www.cell.com/plant-commun... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #ScientificIllustration

Exploring and exploiting the rice phytobiome to tackle climate change challenges

The rice phytobiome is composed of an intricate network of interdependent and interrelated communities of micro- and macroorganisms and their surrounding environment. Dynamic interactions, facilitated...

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🌱 From Scientia Horticulturae: Delaying pruning at planting may help almond trees build deeper roots, strengthening drought resilience without sacrificing later canopy management. (Astrid Volder, Paul Martinez, Bruce D. Lampinen) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #Agriculture

Heading the trunk and pruning lateral branches at planting reduces deep soil fine root production of almond trees

Heading and removing all lateral branches when almond trees are planted is a common practice in California. Establishing a root system post-planting i…

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🌱 From Fire Ecology: High-severity wildfire can shift which trees return by increasing seed loss for pines and Douglas-fir, reshaping future forest diversity. (Victoria E. Mattsson, Nina E. Venuti, Andrew M. Latimer, Derek J. N. Young) ▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PlantScience #Wildfires

High-severity fire increases seed predation of non-fir tree species in a California mixed-conifer forest - Fire Ecology

Background High-severity fire activity in western US dry forests has increased in recent decades, with models projecting extensive declines in tree recruitment and tree species diversity for mixed-con...

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🥑 From Applied Food Research: Fatty acid and sterol analyses found most avocado oil labeled processed foods were inconsistent with authentic avocado oil. (Natalie Lopez-Alvarez, Xueqi Li, Benjamin Vizgordiski, Selina C. Wang) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #FoodScience

🐮 From Ecology and Evolution: Wolf presence may alter how cattle physiologically respond to seasonal conditions. (Christina M. Nord, Alexander Pritchard, Rosemary Blersch, Brenda McCowan, Jessica Vandeleest, Kenneth W. Tate, Tina L. Saitone) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Rangelands

Wolf Presence Disrupts Seasonal Variation in Hair Cortisol Among Free‐Ranging Beef Cattle

Predators exert indirect effects on prey populations beyond direct predation, but how predator reintroduction restructures prey physiology remains poorly understood. Using hair cortisol analysis in c...

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🌱 From BMC Genomics: Protein structure helps explain which plant genes are conserved and which tolerate change, improving interpretation of mutations for crop research. (Grey Monroe) ▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

Protein structure and selection pressure in plants: using mutation to understand the functional importance of protein structure - BMC Genomics

Recent advances in protein structure prediction have opened new avenues for understanding the potential impact of genetic mutations and how they might affect protein structure. In this study, we analy...

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🌱 From Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Some invasive plants may succeed not by choosing between growth and survival, but by escaping the tradeoffs that constrain native species. (Justin M. Valliere, Jennifer L. Funk) ▶️ www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #PlantScience #Ecology

Trade-off escape as a framework for understanding plant invasions

Trade-offs are a central organizing principle in ecology and evolution, defining feasible phenotypic combinations that shape life histories, species interactions, and community assembly. But what if i...

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🍅 From Food and Bioproducts Processing: A simple surface incision improved infrared tomato peeling, reducing energy use, minimizing waste and preserving nutrients while increasing processing efficiency. (Zhongli Pan) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #Postharvest #AgEngineering

Coupling incision pretreatment with catalytic infrared heating for high-efficiency tomato peeling

Current catalytic infrared peeling (CIP) of tomatoes is constrained by relatively long heating durations and unpredictable peeling locations. This stu…

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🌱 Food Microbiology: Indoor temperature and humidity help shape microbial communities in food facilities, suggesting climate control could support safer production. (Chad Masarweh, I. Sitepu, K. Kalanetra, R. Boulton, David A. Mills, Kyria Boundy-Mills) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌱 From The Plant Journal: Synthetic apomixis restored fertility in distant rice hybrids, opening a path to preserve high-yielding hybrid traits through clonal seeds. (Venkatesan Sundaresan) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #PlantBreeding

💧 From Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Better water demand forecasts can reduce costly overbuilding while helping cities prepare water and wastewater systems for future change. (Mary Cadenasso) ▶️ ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #WaterManagement

🌳 From Science: Forest fuel treatments reduced wildfire damages while returning an estimated $3.73 in benefits for every dollar invested, supporting proactive wildfire management and restoration. (Frederik Strabo, Matthew N. Reimer) ▶️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience #Wildfires

Wildfire damages and the cost-effective role of forest fuel treatments

Wildfires are among the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century, intensified by the accumulation of forest fuels after a century of fire suppression policies. Although fuel-reductio...

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