Our study on the evolution of shade avoidance, a "selfish trait" in plants, over 80 years of soybean breeding history. Led by @lukecoevo.bsky.social and Emanuel Kopp, and published here: doi.org/10.1111/eva..... Great stuff!

Shade Avoidance Restricts Soybean Breeding Progress and Increases Herbivore Susceptibility

High planting densities expose field crops to competition for light, which typically induces shade avoidance responses such as stem elongation. While adaptive in natural environments, these responses...

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Excited to share our latest publication by Evyatar Asaf. We demonstrate that non-conventional sowing architectures accelerated canopy closure, promoted ground cover, improved weed competitiveness, and enhanced yields up to 25%. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266615432600267X

Agromorphological-dependent sowing architecture promotes sesame yield under irrigated agro-system

This study evaluated non-conventional sowing architectures across distinct varieties and plant stands through field experiments conducted over two gro…

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Homoeo-alleles of wheat GNI2 fuel grain yields across input environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.28.721284v1

High density crop canopies create light environments that reshape plant development. Our new preprint uncovers novel wheat phytochrome variation linked to shade-induced plasticity, flowering time and architecture under simulated canopy shade. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our new preprint, a project initiated during my postdoc in the @stanfordstomata.bsky.social, on how plants encode environmental responsiveness in development 🌱 We use tomato to dissect how stomatal production is tuned by climate inputs via cis-regulatory variation in SPCH

Our new paper is out!

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Scaling law links development and resource use to grain yield in diverse environments Golan et al. @guy2golan.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scaling law links development and resource use to grain yield in diverse environments Golan et al. @guy2golan.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD fellowship available 📢! We are offering a 3-year fully funded PhD fellowship at the interface between functional ecology and quantitative genetics in Montpellier FR ! (Application deadline 31 July)

A new preprint! Inspired by Kleiber's law, we show how growth rate scales with biomass in wheat, and how this scaling connects resource use to reproduction and grain yield in diverse environments. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Scaling law links plant growth variation to grain yield in wheat stands

Growth rate, a key trait influencing plant resource use, scales predictably with plant mass, following remarkably consistent allometric power laws shaped by biophysical constraints and natural selecti...

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