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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

❄️New article on cold exposure and orchid propagation. Chilling thresholds affect survival, shoot growth, and tuber development in Mediterranean terrestrial orchids, with carry-over effects across growing seasons. @gwendeconninck.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/rp2w

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seeds in storage aren't quite the same as seeds in the wild 🌱 Now in @botany.one 🌿 botany.fyi/5pyiaj Full paper: doi.org/rp2s #PlantScience

Chaenactis douglasii alpina in Nevada by Matt Lavin / iNaturalist CC BY

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌳 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring whether gall anatomy responds to environmental gradients. The study examines how investment in protective vs. nutritive tissues relates to climate across Neotropical plant-gall systems Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/rp22 #PlantScience

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social on inflorescence evolution in Eugenia. Five developmental patterns, all homologous and derived from a common ancestral scaffold, suggest that flexibility may be a key innovation in E. sect. Umbellatae 🧬 Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/rp2t

Inflorescences of Eugenia and Myrtus: (a, b) axillary flowers in Myrtus communis with flower reiteration shown by arrowheads; (c) auxotelic inflorescence with cataphylls in Eugenia neosilvestris; (d) auxotelic inflorescence in Eugenia acutata; (e) fasciculiform inflorescences axes shown by arrowheads in Eugenia astringens; (f) glomeruliform inflorescence in Eugenia neograndifolia; (g) thyrsoid inflorescence with a dichasial arrangement shown by an arrowhead in Eugenia guanabarina; (h) racemiform inflorescence in Eugenia biflora. Photographs taken by A.G. (a, b, c, e, f, g) and T.N.C.V. (d, h).

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors. 🌿 🌸 Studying floral ecology, pollination and plant reproductive strategies, Roçio Pérez-Barrales values supporting the scientific community through ethical publishing. Get to know Rocío in our #MeetTheEditor feature. #PlantScience

"AoB Plants 'Meet the Editor' card for Rocío Pérez-Barrales, Associate Editor at the University of Granada, Spain. Her research focuses on floral ecology, pollination-mediated selection, and plant breeding systems. She values the journal's ethical, non-predatory practices, advises 'less is more' for submissions, names Linum suffruticosum as her favorite plant for its pollen-placement architecture, and enjoys travel, the outdoors, and theatre outside of science. Includes a circular photo of her outdoors with a backpack.

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors. 🌿 🌱 Studying plant–soil interactions and biological invasions, Jean Burns enjoys discovering the diversity of new research that comes across her desk and helping shape it for the AoB PLANTS community. Get to know her in our #MeetTheEditor feature.

Graphic introducing AoB PLANTS Associate Editor Jean Burns of Case Western Reserve University, USA. Her research focuses on plant–soil interactions and biological invasions. She enjoys seeing new research projects as an editor, advises authors to position their work within the broader literature, names irises as her favourite plant, and enjoys gardening and playing “elephant game” with her 7-year-old.

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors. 🌿 Studying how plant populations evolve and adapt to changing environments, Elena Hamann @elena.hamann.bsky.social explores the roles of abiotic stress and biotic interactions in plant evolution. 🌱 Get to know her in our #MeetTheEditor feature.

AoB PLANTS 'Meet the Editor' graphic featuring Elena Hamman, Associate Editor from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, with a photo of her among potted plants. Text covers her research focus on plant population evolution and adaptation to environmental stress, her enthusiasm for editing, publishing advice, her favorite plant (Oxalis triangularis), and her interests outside science (traveling, being outdoors, time with friends and family).

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🍃 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how leaf damage influences embolism spread and hydraulic function during drought, revealing substantial spatial variation in the effects of mechanical damage. 💧🌿 Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/rk52 #PlantScience

Illustration of the hypothesis tested in this study. (a and b) Show the shape of vulnerability curves (% embolized pixels vs. time) expected for each treatment (control—no damage, midrib damage, lamina damage) and species (A. rubrum: palmate leaves and C. erythrophyllum: pinnate leaves). We expect the pinnate leaf to show higher vulnerability than the palmate one and midrib and lamina to exhibit higher embolism rates (lower T50) than the control treatment. (c) Shows the expected spatial pattern of embolism spread for equivalent-sized areas in each treatment for the pinnate species. We expect a higher number of embolism to initiate in the proximity of the damaged areas, particularly around the midrib damage.

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how dry storage and flooding shape seed dormancy and germination in two threatened wild rice species, with implications for their conservation under climate change. 💧🌱 Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/rk5z #PlantScience

Natural habitats and collection sites of Sri Lankan wild rice (Oryza) species; a: O. nivara, b: O. rhizomatis. Red colour arrow indicate the wild Oryza species.

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

♻️ Young apple tree development under agroforestry radiative conditions: a multi-scale morphological and architectural dataset by Francesco Reyes and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience