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We hope to see you in Ghent/Gent this summer, June 16-20th, for the International Conference on #Arabidopsis Research #ICAR2025 !!! 🔗 web.cvent.com/event/448810... #PlantScience More info to follow...!

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An alternative pathway to starch granule initiation unraveled in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. academic.oup.com/pcp/article-... @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social

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Chemical pruning..✂️🍅 Fang et al. identified 4-(2-phenylethynyl)-benzoicacid (PEBA) as a highly potent chemical pruner with inhibitory effects on #tomato seed germination & lateral bud outgrowth (due to perturbations in #phytohormones & biochemical pathways). 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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📢PCP is excited to sponsor the Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting on: 'Plant Reproductive Development and Genomics' 📅 18–22th May 2025 🏟️ Awaji Yumebutai Conference Center, Japan ✍️ Abstract deadline: March 7, 2025 🔗 www.csh-asia.org?content/2653 #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantGenomics

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Which gene? 🎑 📢 Liu et al. present Rice Reference Genes (RRG) tool, which assists in reference gene selection for 7 diverse experimental conditions in 5 tissues, providing a greater choice of more accurate & reliable reference genes in #rice 🌾💻 🧬 📃 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience #database

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Unisexual Spinach ♂️ Li et al shed light on the mechanism of sex differentiation in dioecious spinach plants, through identification of MALE STERILITY1 gene, which regulates male fertility and sex reversion, with implications for plant breeding programs 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience

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Decoupling to survive…💦 Petruzzellis et al. provide evidence for decoupled water potential between myco- and photobionts as a key adaptation allowing lichens to tolerate desiccation by prolonging #photosynthesis 🔆 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience #desiccationtolerance #abioticstress

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#JSPP 2025 Awards 🏆PCP top cited review award goes to: 🎉Alexander V Ruban & Sam Wilson🎉 for their critical review on the mechanisms and importance of Non-Photochemical Quenching in light harvesting for oxygenic #photosynthesis & for ensuring plant fitness💪🌱 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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#JSPP 2025 Awards 📢 PCP top cited research paper award goes to: @sebcarrere.bsky.social, Jerome Verdier & Pascal Gamas for their #PlantDatabase, MtExpress - a RNAseq-based gene expression atlas for the model #Legume #Medicago truncatula 🌱🧬 🎉Félicitations! 👏 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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Abstract submission open for #ICAR2025 Come join an outstanding selection of Plenary, Concurrent and Workshop speakers. We expect ~50 speakers selected from submitted abstracts… and of course plenty of posters! Www.icar2025.com #plantscience

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Self-healing…🩹 Park et al investigate host tissue repair mechanisms via wounding or parasitism, previously believed to elicit similar responses. Their results, however, show differences in upregulation of cell division- & vascular development-related genes🌱 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience

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🎉Congratulations to PCP Editor Chengcai Chu – Clarivate's Highly Cited Researcher in 2024 for contributions to #plantnutrition #plantscience #phytohormones www.webofscience.com/wos/author/r... Chengcai's Q&A: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... 📖Recent work: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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On this day 160 years ago (Feb, 8, 1865), Mendel gave the first of two talks about his experiments with peas 🫛 at the „Naturforschenden Verein“ (natural scientist’s club) in Brünn/Brno (then 🇦🇹 now 🇨🇿).

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📢PCP proudly sponsors the 7th International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology (July 7-11, Osaka) #pvb2025 Important Dates📅 🚅Travel Award application deadline - Feb 19 🗣️Oral presentations - Mar 17 🚩Poster presentations - May 29 For more details, see www.pvb2025.com/index.html #PlantScience

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🌺Petunia anthers subdued... Yue et al. combine epigenetic and omics data to uncover the role of two main regulatory factors (PhERF48 and PhMS1) in male fertility & DNA methylation of anther-expressed genes during maturation of petunia anthers 🌺🧬 🆓📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantreproduction

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#JSPP 2025 Awards Runner up of PCP best paper (4/4): Hairy times…! Ikeda et al. use sophisticated automated detection tools (with image analysis & machine learning) to uncover clock regulation of root hair elongation via long distance shoot-to-root signaling doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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#JSPP 2025 Awards Runner up of PCP best paper award (3/4): Sweet as… Narutaki et al. show how sucrose signaling also affects cambium maintenance, potentially playing a wider role in linking environmental signals with developmental programming in plants doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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#JSPP 2025 Awards Runner up of PCP best paper award (2/4): Switching sides… Miyata et al. provide a mechanistic insight into how #rice plants switch between #PlantImmunity & symbiosis, potentially providing a novel way to engineer rice that can benefit more from AM fungi doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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#JSPP 2025 Awards Runner up of PCP best paper award (1/4): Kurotani et al’s paper unlocks the secrets of the Nicotiana benthamiana genome, and provides a great additional resource for the #PlantScience community doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱 👉 Learn more and apply by April 25: http://bloome.aspb.org! #PlantScience

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Last day to register!

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#JSPP Awards 2025 - PCP Best Paper Goh et al. track the fascinating sights (and sounds) of root cell division using a combination of microscopy and sonography tracking doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... (NB. Be sure to check out the S-data files for cool movies!) #rootbiology #plantscience #microscopymonday

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Check out this month's featured papers and the first authors behind them! academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/re... 🌿🔬🧪👨‍🔬 #PlantScience

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📣Last day to have a chat with PCP Editors Yonghua Li-Beisson and Yuki Nakamura at the GRC Plant Lipids conference www.grc.org/plant-lipids... See recent special issue on plant and algal lipids academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/65/6 #PlantScience

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🔦 Transitioning to the dark side… Sakai et al show that PP2C19 protein phosphatase controls phototropic signaling protein NPH3 transition from blue light- to dark-form, suggesting that a phot1 signaling gradient is important for hypocotyl phototropism🌱 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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Making connections…🖇️ Hsu et al. report a detailed spatiotemporal characterisation of #plamodesmata in #Marchantia, with evidence pointing to complexity progression & callose accumulation having evolved before vascular & non-vascular plants diverged 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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🆕 new Year, new Volume, new Issue..! 🧪🌱 📰 covering #PlantScience topics such as secondary #metabolites to #phototropism, petunia #epigenetics, wound response in #parasiticplants, chemical pruning, and #cellwalls, plus a new rice database; read all about it here 👇 academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/66/1

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Improving rice grains with just one finger… ☝️ Sonowal and colleagues reveal how the DNA binding with One Finger transcription factor RPBF controls seed vigour in #rice through transcriptional regulation of galactinol synthase. 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #CropScience #PlantScience

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#JSPP Awards 2025 winners announced... Congratulations to: Takayuki KOHCHI and to JSPP Young Investigators: Yasuhito SAKURABA; Ginga SHIMAKAWA; Katsutoshi TSUDA; Sota FUJII; Yasuyo YAMAOKA 👏for their contributions to #PlantScience Full details on the JSPP website jspp.org/en/informati...

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Catch up with PCP Editor @jennymortimer1.bsky.social at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social joint meeting on Future of Agriculture and Genetic Engineering for Sustainability …and stay warm 🥶!!!

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🎉Congratulations to PCP Editor, Takayuki Tohge - recipient of Clarivate's Highly Cited Researcher in 2024 Award bsw3.naist.jp/eng/research... Read some of his recent works here: 📄 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... 🔆 📄 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... 🍅 📄 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... ❄️ #PlantScience #PlantMetabolism

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📣We're very excited to be sponsoring the first ever #PlantScience #chronobiology meeting of its kind 🕓🌱 The clock is ticking, so register here 👇 (NB. early bird registration ends March 1st): plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

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Researchers decode 95.6% of the genome of Nic | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Sensing back in time…🕓 Symonds et al. found calmodulin (CaM) and CaM-like orthologs in Chara braunii, suggesting complex Ca2+ signaling & sensing networks (incl. Ca2+mediated regulation via CaM-binding transcription factors) evolved early in the green lineage doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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Green awakenings… 🔆🌱 Banaś et al. reveal how in #Arabidopsis seedlings both the etioplast-to-chloroplast transition and the assembly of photosynthetic complexes occurs differently depending on blue- or red-light exposure. Find out more by reading here: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #️⃣ #PlantScience

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🚨Abstract Submission and registration is OPEN for ICAR 2025 #ICAR2025 Deadline to submit abstract for oral presentations: March 17th Early bird registration deadline: April 20th 🕸️www.icar2025.com

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In case you missed it…🔎 Kawade et al. explain the functional roles of Serine, Threonine, Arginine & γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in plant growth & development🌱 Review article: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... This article forms part of the special issue on #PlantMetabolites academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/64...

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Branching out… Ishida et al. uncover independent emergence of MBGT cell wall biosynthetic glycosyltransferase enzyme activity in 🏵️Rosids & Asterids🍅 On the cover: phylogenetic tree with discrete MBGT emergence; by ART ACTION Inc. c/o Paul Dupree (Uni. Cambridge) doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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Deadline extension for abstract submission (now until Jan 31) to the international meeting "Evolution of Plant Reproduction" organized by dfg-icips.org in Berlin (March 25-28, 2025) with a great line-up of speakers: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/ and hurry up to register! #PlantScience #PlantEvodevo

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Traffic control… 🚦 Hasegawa et al. discuss the latest research on the regulation of membrane trafficking components via #ubiquitination 🏴‍☠️, revealing its impact on hormonal signalling, and response to biotic and abiotic stress in plants🌱 Read review here doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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Share with🌿 plant-y & plant curious undergrads 🌾, including seniors! 🌴 Apply to be a PLANTS Scholar and receive a travel award for BOTANY 2025 in Palm Springs, CA (Jul 26-30, 2025), including mentorship from peer and experienced mentors! botany.org/home/awards/... 📆 Apps open now thru March 1st

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🍌We also love a good banana cover at PCP! See related article to find out more about the positive effects of the zinc finger protein MaCCCH33-Like2 on banana fruit ripening through its modulation of genes related to starch & cell wall degradation 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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👏 Great work by PCP Editor Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social in his new publication 👇

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Feeding symbiosis... Isidra-Arellano & @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social provide insight into the influence of phosphate & iron uptake and homeostasis on root nodule symbiosis, and how this could be harnessed for more efficient nitrogen fixation in legume crops. 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience

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Registration for Phyllosphere12 is open! 12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology June 6-9 2025 at OIST, Japan Speaker slots will be available and given based on a rolling basis. Register early! www.oist.jp/conference/p...

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Dear French and Japanese colleagues, mark your calendars! We are organising the bilateral France-Japan "Frontiers in Plant Biology" symposium. Date: November 19-21, 2025 Location: Strasbourg More information soon! #plantscience

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#microscopymonday Guo & Sarkar et al. reveal how cation exchange in #Arabidopsis trichomes is essential for elemental homeostasis and adaptation to mineral stress response. 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... Photo: elemental imaging in WT and CAX transporter mutants via SXRF microscopy #plantscience

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