🌱🧬 Under P limitation, Arabidopsis roots secrete malate to recruit Acinetobacter to the rhizoplane, where they mobilize otherwise inaccessible phosphorus. A mutualism for nutrient acquisition in poor soils. #plantscience @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Mutually beneficial interactions between bacteria and Arabidopsis promote phosphorus nutrition and growth

Over 20% of root-associated bacteria promote Arabidopsis seedling growth under phosphorus (P) deficiency in a host-dependent manner. Further analyses showed that P-deficient plants secrete malate to a...

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🌱🧬 TIE1 is a maternal brake blocking fertilization-independent endosperm. In tieQ mutants, autonomous endosperm forms, like fis mutants. TIE1 recruits FIS-PRC2 to silence key targets. Insights into apomixis and fixing hybrid vigor. #plantscience @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TIE1 acts as a maternal brake on fertilization-independent endosperm development by associating with PRC2 to enforce imprinting - Nature Plants

Plants that form seeds without fertilization could fix hybrid vigour. This study determines that the maternal protein TIE1 serves as a brake to prevent autonomous seed development without fertilizatio...

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High-resolution carbon and biodiversity mapping shows correlated losses across space and agricultural products - Nature Food

Food systems substantially impact carbon storage and biodiversity, with food consumption driving four-fifths of losses on agricultural land, particularly through animal-sourced foods. Targeted interve...

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Happy to share our🆕 #OpenAccess Opinion "Distinct regulatory networks🧬⚙️mediate plant adaptation to multifactorial #abiotic stress combinations❄️💧🧂💡🌡️🪨: rethinking of plant stress #genetics🧬🌾🪴" is out in 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨🎉🎊 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scinews.bsky.social #plantsciene #drought

🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation. @lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬 paper doi.org/10.1093/plce... expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch

🆕 #Blog: Half a day’s pay for a healthy household diet in PNG. ✏️ Emily Schmidt (IFPRI), Kristi Mahrt & Helmstrude Sikas Iha (IFPRI) 🔗 https://devpolicy.org/half-a-days-pay-for-a-healthy-household-diet-in-png-20260627/ @cgiar.org #PapuaNewGuinea

Half a day’s pay for a healthy household diet in PNG - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

New PLUWS 2025 survey data show healthy diets cost up to 45% of a low-skilled worker's daily wage in urban PNG, raising NCD risks.

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🌾 Agriculture produces about 33% of global greenhouse gas emissions. So why does it receive only about 3% of climate finance? That gap is long overdue for a fix, says @cgiar-emd.bsky.social 📰Read the article 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4y0QVey @devex.com

Devex Dish: Agriculture has high climate impact but low climate funding. Why?

What CGIAR’s Ismahane Elouafi sought at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference.

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Important implications for all of us involved in pedagogy in the plant sciences and related fields…

Plant Science Spotlight@plant-sci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌱🧠Generative AI is reshaping plant science, democratizing data analysis & lowering entry barriers. But training must evolve Six strategic shifts needed: AI literacy, critical thinking, bias awareness, & equitable access #plantscience @bar-plantbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🌱🧠Generative AI is reshaping plant science, democratizing data analysis & lowering entry barriers. But training must evolve Six strategic shifts needed: AI literacy, critical thinking, bias awareness, & equitable access #plantscience @bar-plantbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective

Abstract. In recent years, a deluge of big and diverse datasets from hundreds of plant species, coupled with spectacular innovations in artificial intellig

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Final panel sessions at the @fao.org #SmartFarming Conference 2026 bringing to an end an elective week - plants at heart of biological insights and sustainable futures!

Have you ever wondered how the epigenome is modified during the transition from seed to seedling? Here, we show that water uptake by Arabidopsis seeds triggers the eviction of the H2B variant H2B.8, thereby revealing replication-independent chromatin reprogramming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hup Aoife, award for community service at #SMBE2026 👏👏

Great to present our latest work at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! Using temporal genomics in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata, we asked whether standing genetic variation can support rapid adaptation under contemporary climate change.

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When did liverwort oil body cells originate? Here, Susan and I provide quantitative evidence that they emerged by at least the Middle Devonian (~390 Ma!), shedding light on a key anti-herbivory defense mechanism of early land plants!

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Homology of the dark cells of Paleozoic liverworts with the specialized oil body cells of modern liverworts (Marchantiophyta) Tremblay and Mercadal nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BWYYSE...

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Optimized R2 retroelement complexes for DNA insertion into plant genomes - Nature Biotechnology

R2 retrotransposons are used to integrate DNA into plant and crop 25S ribosomal DNA sites.

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Just heard about this… sounds like fascinating insights into our friend Arabidopsis and diverse strategies for thriving in urban niches… Floret et al, @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dozens of genetic variants sustain adaptation to urban spatial heterogeneity in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.27.734931v1

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Thrilled to be in beautiful (if rather sticky!) Copenhagen for the @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE Conference. Some wonderful stuff on the program!

🌾🧬PlantGFM is a genomic AI model trained on 12 plant genomes. It designs entirely new plant genes. Seven AI generated candidates all worked in living plants. Two produced stable proteins. A new era for plant synthetic biology #plantscience advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

PlantGFM: A Genomic Foundation Model for Discovery and Creation of Plant Genes

A plant genomic foundation model pre-trained on 12 species enables both accurate gene prediction and de novo gene design. Through AI-human knowledge screening, seven designed sequences showed transcr...

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Were constantly told by the forestry industry that commercial plantations are good for carbon when undisturbed native forests are so much better

Svante Thunberg@svantethunberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them." This study is "shocking" - as in "we've been lied to by the forest industry" and... it's not in our climate models. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...

One of my role models in academia, combining brilliance with humility-Noboru Mizushima, & I like him even more now ❤️ “If I was given the chance to repeat my research career, I think I would choose to study plant biology.” journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Interview with Noboru Mizushima – President of the Japan Society for Cell Biology

Noboru Mizushima is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he runs a laboratory studying the mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy and o...

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🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

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The Research Ireland ARC Hub for ICT was officially launched today at @wearetudublin.bsky.social. The Hub will support ICT and AI researchers across Ireland through targeted funding, training, mentorship, and access to industry networks. Read here: www.researchireland.ie/news/arc-hub...

Very happy to be at @tudublin.bsky.social for launch of the #ARCHubforICT! @researchireland.ie

What excuse do the other countries have for delaying nature restoartion?

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Mindblowing and inspiring that Ukraine has managed to continue its dam removal efforts in spite of everything. freshwaterblog.net/2025/11/04/u...

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^. Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know! #Plantscience

(Correction!) TOMORROW is the 2nd webinar from University of Galway's Ryan Institute MSc in Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security class (MScCCAFS) on latest developments at #COP30! Live on YouTube... 🗓️ Weds, Nov 19th.🕘 12pm Brazil Standard Time / 3pm Ireland lnkd.in/es-JdWdt Free to join!

Happy #LGBTQ+InSTEMDAY to one and all!

Checked out our shiny new website yet? bsbi.org New to @bsbibotany.bsky.social or #WildFlowerID? We think you'll find it easier than ever to access resources, hear about events & learn more about wild plants in your area. Seasoned botanist? All your fave pages are still there + lots of new stuff!