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Beneath our feet, clover quietly fixes nitrogen and feeds livestock, but climate change is testing its ability to persist. New genomics research at Earlham Institute is uncovering the genetic basis of cold tolerance to breed improved cultivars. 🌱🧬 #CropScience #PlantScience

Unlocking the agricultural value of clover

Across fields and grasslands, clovers often go unnoticed beneath our feet, but for PhD researcher Jhih-Sheng Liu, they provide a fascinating opportunity to understand how genomics can deliver tangible benefits for farmers and the environment.

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Check out our🆕 #OpenAccess review on how #melatonin seed #priming strengthens plant #resilience against #abiotic stresses. We discuss emerging #molecular insights and future #breeding strategies toward designing next-generation, stress-smart #crops 🪴🌾🧬 🖇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Melatonin seed priming (MSP) is rapidly emerging as a green and climate-smart strategy for enhancing plant stress tolerance. MSP triggers defensive molecular, biochemical, and physiological reprogramming during germination, thereby improving plant performance under subsequent stress conditions. This review synthesizes recent mechanistic insights into how MSP confers stress tolerance across diverse species by modulating redox signaling, hormonal homeostasis, and stress-related gene networks. We elucidate the synergistic potential of MSP when combined with nanoformulations, other priming agents, or beneficial microbes. We also discuss its crosstalk with key signaling pathways to better understand the tolerance mechanisms. Furthermore, we propose a forward-looking strategy that integrates omics, genome editing, speed breeding, and molecular phenotyping methods to improve MSP applications for the development of stress-smart crops.
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This new #JIPB #OpenAccess #review explores how #melatonin seed priming enhances abiotic stress tolerance and proposes an integrative roadmap of advanced molecular and breeding tools to design next-gen, stress-smart #plants. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #CropSci

🌾🌿Plant diversity shifts multitrophic interactions: croplands see stronger top-down pest control, while grasslands and forests show bottom-up effects. Crop diversification could be a key preventive strategy for sustainable pest management #plantscience @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests

Plant diversity differentially affects trophic interactions across ecosystems.

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Why Do Lemurs Always Return to the Same Tree? www.botany.one/why-do-lemur... A new study in Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park reveals that seventy percent of individual trees receive only a single visit from lemurs over a year and a half. #Botany #PlantScience

Why Do Lemurs Always Return to the Same Tree?

A new study in Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park reveals that seventy percent of individual trees receive only a single visit from lemurs over a year and a half.

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