Who is ready to review but hasn’t had the opportunity? How can plant science journals welcome new reviewers across career stages and regions and support the people mentoring them? ASPB invites one concrete change to build capacity while protecting quality. #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2026

When does a request strengthen a paper, and when does it become a different study? How should reviewers distinguish essential evidence from an interesting next experiment? What helps authors see that distinction? Please keep examples general. #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2026

Plant Scientists: Think about the last peer review invitation you declined. What would have helped you say yes: more time, a better expertise match, clearer expectations, or institutional recognition? #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2026

Turnip Mosaic Virus-Based gRNA Delivery System for Plant Genome Editing (Ekkachai Khwanbua, Ryan R. Lappe, Austin A. Bierl, Steven A. Whitham) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Zea mays Drought-Overly Sensitive1/TUBA4 Is Wilty3, and Transcriptome Co-Expression Analysis of Shoot Meristem Mutant Tissues Reveals Wilty2/TUB6:Wi3 Interactions Associated With Stem Vascular Bundle Development (Anuradha Dhingra, Indra Adhikari, Christopher D. Rock) buff.ly/3Ad5nON @aspbofficial

Evidence That Sri Lanka Is the Origin of a Rare Nematode Resistance Gene in Rice (S. Yashodha S. D. De Silva, Ceilan Handy, Eduard Roumen, M. L. A. M. S. Munasinghe, Adam H. Price) buff.ly/x1DcQHd #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Silicon Nanoparticles and Methyl Jasmonate Enhance Productivity and Nutritional Quality of Vegetable Cluster Bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L.) Under Deficit Irrigation (Ali Sabah Alhasan, Heidar Meftahizade) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Nitrogen Status Rewires Transcriptional Regulation of Dhurrin, a Dual-Purpose Defense Metabolite in Sorghum bicolor (Alicia A. Quinn, Brian A. McKinley, Cecilia K. Blomstedt, John E. Mullet, Roslyn M. Gleadow) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Genomic and Functional Characterization of Sunflower Endophytes Reveals Mechanisms of Drought Tolerance and Growth Promotion (Muritala Muhammed, Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro, Olubukola Oluranti Babalola) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

The Metabolic Awakening of Barley Seedlings: A Time-Resolved View of How Germination and Light Shape Tissue-Specific Metabolic Network (Claude Y. Hamany Djande, Paul A. Steenkamp, Ian A. Dubery) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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Insights Into the Regulation of Salt Tolerance by Flavonoid and Cyanoamino Acid Metabolism in Sorghum-Sudangrass Hybrids (Yue Shi, Zili Liu, Shuancheng Liu, Wenjuan Chai, Junxiang Mu) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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Functional Genomics of Sulfur Metabolism in Rice: Insights From Transgenic and MicroRNA-Based Strategies (Fawad Rauf, Hakim Zamir, Hussam Ahmad, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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FLOWERING LOCUS T Genes MtFTb1 and MtFTb2 Act Redundantly to Promote Flowering Under Long Days in Medicago truncatula (Soledad Perez Santangelo, Richard C. Macknight) buff.ly/TDW0KRz #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

CISP, an Intrinsically Disordered Cold-Inducible Barley Protein, Functions as a Small RNA Chaperone (Yutaro Okumura, Md. Maksudul Haque, Shin-ichiro Kidou) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Under the Cover of Darkness: A Transcriptomic Exploration of Clubroot During the Night (Andrea Garvetto, Susann Auer, Freia Benade, Michaela Hittorf, Jutta Ludwig-Müller, Sigrid Neuhauser) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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Small Signaling Peptides in Sorghum bicolor: Integrating Phylogeny and Gene Expression to Characterize Roles in Stem Development (Evan Kurtz, Brian McKinley, John Mullet) buff.ly/xF0kjxW #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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Generative Cell Division, but Not Early Nuclear Reorganization, Requires Transcriptional Reactivation During Pollen Tube Growth (Mio K. Shibuta, Aina Komatsu, Tsugumi Aso) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Virus-Induced Gene Silencing in Calendula officinalis (Pot Marigold) (Daria Cuthbert, Connor Tansley, Melissa Salmon, Nicola Patron) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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Quantifying Growth and Lodging in Tef (Eragrostis tef) With Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) (Keely E. Brown, Haley Schuhl, Dhiraj Srivastava, Getu Beyene, Mao Li, Noah Fahlgren, Katherine M. Murphy) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

(A) Stand height was calculated as the difference between top (95%, blue line) and bottom (1%, red line) percentiles from the point cloud distribution. (B) An example of the 3D point cloud showing surrounding soil pixels. (C) A slice inside of a plot in the point cloud showing the distribution of plant heights across the canopy.

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Stage-Specific RNA Turnover Drives Small RNA Dynamics in Arabidopsis–Colletotrichum Interactions (Carolina E. Armijos, Thi-Thu-Huyen Chu, Richard J. O' Connell, Blake C. Meyers, Patricia Baldrich) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Schematic summary of miRNA and tRNA fragment dynamics during the infection stages of C. higginsianum in A. thaliana. The stages shown are in planta appressorium (PA), biotrophic phase (BP), necrotrophic phase (NP), in vitro appressorium (VA), and mycelia (MY). Differential accumulation of the sRNAs is color coded: green for A. thaliana, brown for C. higginsianum, and black for miRNAs and tRNA fragments that are similarly differential accumulation in both host and pathogen. Upregulation is indicated by upward arrows, and downregulation by downward arrows.

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Exogenous Hormone Treatments Reveal Species-Specific Regulation of Individual Components of Root Architecture and Salt Ion Accumulation in Cultivated and Wild Tomatoes (Maryam Rahmati Ishka, Eric Craft, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Gene Expression Patterns Regulating Peanut Reproductive Phenology (Carlos Henrique Cardon, Adnan Kivanc Corut, Ye Chu, Jason Wallace, Ran Hovav, Peggy Ozias-Akins ) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

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The Structure of the Chemotype Determining Locus in Cannabis sativa (Keith Allen, Anthony Torres, Reginald Gaudino) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Functional characterization of recombinant cannabinoid oxidocyclases. Purified proteins, secreted from sf9 cells infected with recombinant baculovirus, were functionally characterized. All assays were supplemented with CBGA precursor. Activity presented as percent of total CBGA converted was normalized against canonical CBCAS activity at 100% functionality. With CBCA as the dominant product of these enzymes, comparative analysis of activity for Clade C.4, Clade C.5, and Clade C.6 was carried out against CBCAS. In assays with purified protein from sf9 expression lower activity of CBCA production was observed in Clade C recombinant enzymes. Clade C.4 comparative activity was 26% of CBCAS, while Clade C.5 and Clade C.6 were 16% and 11%, respectively, of CBCAS.

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Subgenomic Distribution and Herbicide Cross-Resistance of ALS Gene Mutations in Allohexaploid Echinochloa crus-galli (Luan Cutti, Guilherme Menegol Turra, Filipi Mesquita Machado, et al) buff.ly/TBXVTAc #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

Subgenomic Distribution and Herbicide Cross‐Resistance of ALS Gene Mutations in Allohexaploid Echinochloa crus‐galli

Herbicide target site resistance in polyploid species is more complex than in diploids due to potential subgenome interactions. This study characterized mutations in the ALS gene across distinct…

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PLDC-Net: A Domain-Specific Base Model for Plant Leaf Disease Classification Domain Adaptation Tasks (David J. Richter, Kyungbaek Kim) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology

This week’s Signal Edition (4/30/26) is out!🌱 👉Read more buff.ly/3Gpzf56 #PlantScience

Integrated Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, and Ultrastructural Assessment of the Myco-Heterotrophic Plant, Monotropa uniflora (Sara Hazinia, Rezwan Tanvir, Yubo Wang, Zongyi Sun, et al) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial @wileyecology @sebiology