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Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants @katharinamel1.bsky.social et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Proposed model for the stepwise evolution of DELLA functions in the green lineage.

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#SUMOylation fine-tunes CGE1-mediated chloroplast protein import Caijuan Wang, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/RFW5RC... #PlantScience

A proposed model illustrating how CGE1 SUMOylation regulates chloroplast protein import and TIC-associated machinery homeostasis.

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'Advances in genomic technology have greatly improved our ability to characterize diversity, yet breeding programs often continue to draw from a limited set of genetic resources.' Yu Guo and Martin Mascher nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

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The New Phytologist Foundation is a sponsor of ComBio 2026, 29 September –1 October, Sydney, Australia: www.combio.org.au #PlantScience

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'My path into science was anything but traditional, and those experiences broadened my perspective on science and scientists. If I can help someone see that they belong in science, that is deeply meaningful to me.' In Profile: Mandy Slate nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

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Mutations in SUMO conjugating enzyme reveal contributions of sumoylation to plant stress resilience and yield Lilian Nehlin, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Impact of mutations in Arabidopsis SUMO conjugating enzyme on protein structure and growth habit.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are pleased to sponsor the 8th International Conference on Duckweed Research and Applications: Model plant and novel crop, the thousand faces of duckweed www.8thicdra.info/home #PlantScience

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Coupled decline in growth and fine-branching signals drought-induced beech mortality Schmied et al. @gerhardschmied.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Conceptual synthesis of drought-induced mortality in European beech.

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ZmSPL12‑ZmYUC5 module tunes root auxin homeostasis for drought‑adaptive root growth plasticity in maize Xu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Proposed model of ZmSPL12-mediated drought resistance through auxin regulation in maize.

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The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to sponsor the 3rd IJPB International Symposium, taking place in Versailles, France, this week. #PlantScience

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Phytochemical divergence between above- and belowground tree organs along elevational gradients Asefa et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BYP59S...

Hypothesized patterns of phytochemical differentiation between aboveground (leaves) and belowground (roots) organs along elevational gradients.

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Bonus post: Pollination mechanism of Gongora where a scent collecting Euglossa sp. falls from the labellum and struggles against the anther cap. In this video, the anther cap was not removed and pollinarium deposition did not occur. Video taken by J. Dean near Viterbo, Colombia.

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CNGC hypermorphic allele confers blast resistance via calcium overload-induced cell death Liu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/Y8BDSI...

Mutant etd1 with spontaneous and Magnaporthe oryzae elicitor-triggered cell death.

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're pleased to sponsor the 13th International PhD School on Plant Development, 23–25 September, Neustadt, Germany: raissiglab.org/plantdevosch... #PlantScience

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Nondefense functions of plant specialized metabolites: ecological phenomena, molecular mechanisms, and evolutionary implications #TansleyInsight from Carley nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Nonexhaustive overview of empirically validated nondefense functions caused by or correlated with variation in four well-studied classes of plant specialized metabolites – glucosinolates, alkaloids, terpenoids, and flavonoids/polyphenols – separated into different categories of nondefense functions.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Exceptional diversification of floral form in a specialized pollination mutualism nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig. 1 Example of images used in this study.

Lankester digital composite plate of Brassia caudata, photographed by Diego Bogarín

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Adaptation in mixed-ploidy populations Grünig et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Distribution of genomic variation in diploid and tetraploid populations of Biscutella laevigata from low and high elevation.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The PSI‐NDH supercomplex prevents chilling‐induced PSI photoinhibition Takeuchi et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UMWGHQ...

Photosystem I and PSII photoinhibition under chilling stress in wild-type (cv Hitomebore) and NADH dehydrogenase-like complex-deficient rice.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to sponsor the EMBO workshop on Plant calcium signalling, taking place in Primošten, Croatia, this week: meetings.embo.org/event/26-cal... #PlantScience #EMBOCalciumSignaling

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✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/3) Nondefense functions of plant specialized metabolites: ecological phenomena, molecular mechanisms, and evolutionary implications nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig. 1 Nonexhaustive overview of empirically validated nondefense functions caused by or correlated with variation in four well-studied classes of plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) – glucosinolates (green text), alkaloids (blue text), terpenoids (yellow text), and flavonoids/polyphenols (purple text) – separated into different categories of nondefense functions.

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Linking drought strategy to climate of origin in a widespread C4 grass: hydraulic traits, xylem anatomy and stomatal behaviour in Themeda triandra Jacob et al. @vin-jacob.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Figure 1. Three-panel figure showing summer climate across the eight Australian Themeda triandra study populations. (A) Map of mean summer temperature (°C), with cooler areas shown in blue and warmer areas in yellow to red; study populations are marked by open circles and labelled. (B) Map of mean summer precipitation (mm), with lower precipitation shown in brown/orange and higher precipitation in blue; the same population locations are marked. (C) Scatterplot of mean summer precipitation against mean summer temperature for the eight populations, with points labelled by population. Populations span broad climatic gradients, ranging from approximately 16–32 °C in temperature and 70–430 mm in precipitation; mean summer temperature and precipitation were not significantly related.

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Duckweed responses to salinity: a meta-analysis and systematic review Bueno et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Duckweed trait responses to sodium chloride show coordinated patterns across studies.

If you were at Clock Club at the John Innes Centre in Norwich this week, you might have caught @antdodd.bsky.social introducing the first of our 2027 symposia: Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms! #49NPS www.newphytologist.org/events/49-nps 👀

Ant Dodd stands at a lectern in front of a presentation slide.

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Unraveling epigenetic and genetic variations in response to cold stress in two lotus ecotypes Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/V3PMME...

Global DNA methylation patterns in 21 natural Nelumbo nucifera populations.

Vinita Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Mirror-image flowers, or enantiostyly, refer to plants with left- and right-handed flowers. Usually, this is genetically fixed, but in some cases, a plant has both L & R flowers. Rhuthuparna solved this pattern in her PhD on Didymocarpus podocarpus. TrEE lab, IISER Bhopal @newphyt.bsky.social

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BioClocks UK @bioclocksuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A huge thanks to @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @antdodd.bsky.social for hosting our #ClockClub today and to our sponsors for making it possible! @newphyt.bsky.social, @gensocuk.bsky.social as well as BMG Labtech, Cairn Research, Novogene, PHCBI, SHIMR and New England Biolabs

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eCOMET: an #Rstats package for evaluating metabolic diversity and enrichment from LC-MS/MS data to test ecological hypotheses from individuals to ecosystems Choi et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Latest updates from the New Phytologist Foundation | September 2026

In your latest monthly update from The New Phytologist Foundation: Apply for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal, find out more about peer review, plus more details on our first symposium of 2027. www.newphytologist.org/news/latest-... #PlantScience

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Apply for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal, find out more about peer review, plus more details on our first symposium of 2027.

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βCA1 integrates CO2 and light cues via stromal pH regulation to optimize PSII performance Wang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YJGMDT...

Distinct roles of tomato chloroplast stromal βCA1 and cytosol/plasma-membrane βCA2 in regulating internal leaf structural and external morphological traits, respectively, under different CO2 conditions. aCO2, ambient CO2, 400 μmol mol−1; eCO2, elevated CO2, 800 μmol mol−1.

While blue #oaks are known for their high #drought-tolerance, many blue oaks died during the record breaking drought in 2012-2026. As climate change drives more severe drought events, predicting where drought-induced blue oak mortality may occur is important for conservation planning. 🧵1/2

Trees in a temperate landscape with rolling hills.

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#TansleyInsight: AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors Dipp-Álvarez & Hernández-García 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @jorgehg.bsky.social

Fig. 1 AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs (ARFs) and the nuclear auxin pathway.

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#TansleyReview: Reproductive thermotolerance: from flower development to seed initiation Chu, Chang & Li 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Fig. 3 Strategies for improving plant reproductive thermotolerance.

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#Viewpoint: Cell-based crop phenotyping for future climates Shabala et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Fig. 4 Flow chart illustrating the proposed pathway for improving the throughput of fluorescence imaging-based phenotyping by using robotics and machine learning (ML) approaches.

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#Viewpoint: The value of Arabidopsis as a model for secondary xylem research Dolzblasz et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Fig. 1 Structure of the stem and the hypocotyl during primary growth.

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A cross-species post-translational modification profiling of histones by LC-MS/MS revealed conserved oxidative modifications in plants A #Letter by Cheng et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Fig. 1 Conservation of post-translational modifications (PTMs) in histones across six plant species.

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