New Letter: "Interspecific competition negates CO2 benefits for most plant species" rdcu.be/fxOGi Although community biomass increases under elevated CO2, dominant species capture most gains, masking substantial variation in species-level responses. #PlantScience

New Article: "The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for fine-tuned reproductive transitions" rdcu.be/fxOEJ With News&Views: "ULTRA(PETALA)-boosted plant Polycomb" rdcu.be/fxOET #PlantScience

New OA Article: "A VIM2/4 deletion, and premature truncations of CMT2 and FBX5, drive DNA methylation changes after colonization of a novel habitat" rdcu.be/fxOCc Cape Verde Arabidopsis rapidly evolved altered DNA methylation patterns through high-impact mutations. #PlantScience

New News & Views: "A grass-specific route to salicylic acid" rdcu.be/fxOA1 Two complementary studies in rice identify the missing SA biosynthesis enzymes and reveal that grasses and eudicots evolved distinct biochemical solutions to produce the same defence hormone. #PlantScience

New Article: "TIE1 acts as a maternal brake on fertilization-independent endosperm development by associating with PRC2 to enforce imprinting" rdcu.be/fxOzA With News & Views: "TIEing down the central cell proliferation" rdcu.be/fxOzP #PlantScience

This story is now published in @natplants.nature.com ! 🎉🎩 Check out the final article here: nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02361-1 Very similar to the original bioRxiv preprint, with the addition of some cool polysome analysis (in the supplementals)! Thanks and congrats to everyone involved! 🙏

Chloroplast-encoded small subunit extensions reshape the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome - Nature Plants

Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, researchers found a unique ‘arm’ domain on the small subunit of Chlamydomonas chlororibosomes. This discovery suggests that chlororibosome structure is more evo...

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Florent Waltz@florentwaltz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome! Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins. bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected! 1/n 🧵

New OA Article: "Chloroplast-encoded small subunit extensions reshape the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome" rdcu.be/fwoSj In situ cryo-electron tomography reveals a unique ‘arm’ domain on the small subunit of Chlamydomonas chlororibosomes. #PlantScience

New OA Article: "The deSUMOylase SPF2 and the cohesin regulators SGO2 and CTF18 suppress crossovers near centromeres" rdcu.be/fvZuX With News & Views: "Crossovers break new ground" rdcu.be/fvZu6 #PlantScience

New Article: "Non-native and invasive tree species are abundant in neotropical secondary forest but decline over time" rdcu.be/fvZt6 Decline of non-native trees suggests that native forest recovery can limit their abundance. #PlantScience

"Programmable design of synthetic plant immune receptors for pathogen protein recognition" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Online at @cellcellpress.bsky.social today: everything you always wanted (???) to know about Auxin Signaling and never dared to ask. From Jiashu, Aaron and Martijn in our team, with @luciastrader.bsky.social and Tongda Xu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The July issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

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

New Resource: "N1-methyladenosine mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/fu1P1 Global landscape of m1A mRNA methylation; uncovering physiological and molecular functions of m1A through the identification of novel m1A writers and readers in Arabidopsis. #PlantScience

New OA Letter: "Root developmental zonation is independent of cell wall pH" rdcu.be/fu1LZ A cell wall-anchored pH sensor shows that the cell elongation profile does not correlate with cell wall acidification in Arabidopsis roots. #PlantScience

New Perspective: "The hidden geometry of breeding constraints" rdcu.be/fu1J1 Plant breeding programmes based on additive models have performed well, but their gains are plateauing. This framework uncovers the power and limitations of plant breeding. #PlantScience

News & Views: "Clearance of splicing byproducts promotes plant defence" rdcu.be/fu1HS Pre-mRNA splicing generates seemingly useless byproducts called lariat RNAs. Tang et al. show that if not cleared, they act as precursors of small interfering RNAs that target defence genes. #PlantScience

#PlantScience Research Weekly: July 10, 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Lichen super pangenome reveals interaction repertoires; Maize multi-omics predicts phenotypes; Role of Tre6P in root development; A host-viral regulatory circuit affects chloroplast stability (1/2) @bobvanburen.bsky.social

Our editors write: - High light stress: Sun protection through light scattering rdcu.be/ftemS - Photosynthesis: Boosting Rubisco rdcu.be/ftem3 #PlantScience

New Article: "Neighbours rewire plant–soil feedback patterns via reshaping root microbiomes" rdcu.be/ftejZ Plant performance in conspecific and heterospecific soils is also determined by neighbours inducing changes in the root microbiome that regulate plant growth. #PlantScience

New Article: "Epigenetic regulation of TaFIP phytocytokine clusters confers basal resistance via receptor kinase TaFIPR in wheat" rdcu.be/ftehA Epigenetically regulated expression of FIP peptides upon pathogen challenge enables their perception by the receptor FIPR. #PlantScience

New Article: "Ancient peptide–redox signalling underlies sperm motility in Marchantia" rdcu.be/ftegk Sperm-derived RALF1 is perceived by the FER–LLG receptor complex, triggering NADPH oxidase activation & ROS production in sperm, which thereby promotes sperm motility. #PlantScience

You are a plant biologist and don't want to pipette anymore, because deep in your heart you always wanted to become an editor at Nature Communications. It is your lucky day. Check this: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu... Deadline 15th July. Come work with us, it's (mostly) fun !

New OA Letter: "The progression of leaf senescence is gated by the cytosolic arginine pool" rdcu.be/frzky With Research Briefing: "The cytosolic arginine pool represses the progression of leaf senescence" rdcu.be/frzlA #PlantScience

What if flowering plants didn’t rise after the dinosaurs died out? New fossils suggest angiosperms were already thriving 10 million years earlier—challenging a long-held evolutionary narrative. #Paleontology #Fossils #Evolution

New fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction - Berkeley News

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’ containing fossilized...

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The June issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu... #PlantScience

New Article: "N-myristoylation-mediated shuttling of TaMP from plasma membrane to chloroplasts increases wheat susceptibility to rust fungi" rdcu.be/fq4ac A rust effector interacts with membrane protein TaMP to promote its relocalization from the PM to chloroplasts.

New News & Views: "New tools crack repetitive cane" rdcu.be/fq38s About this paper @nature.com: "Genetic architecture of sugarcane traits in a polyploid genomics framework" rdcu.be/fq38G #PlantScience

New Editorial: "Protecting plants, protecting lives" rdcu.be/fq37u To address future agricultural and ecological challenges, plant protection requires integrative efforts spanning policy-making, scientific and technological innovations, as well as public engagement. #PlantScience

New Brief Communication: "Resetting of epigenetic cold memory through somatic embryogenesis in plant regeneration" rdcu.be/fq35d With News & Views: "Epigenetic reprogramming: Somatic embryogenesis resets the epigenetic cold memory" rdcu.be/fq36O #PlantScience