♻️ Comparative plastomes of five Psittacanthus species: genome organization, structural features, and patterns of pseudogenization and gene loss by Saddan Morales-Saldaña and co-authors.
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Anemones with insect visiting.
🌸🐝 New article in @aobp.bsky.social explores how shifts in pollinators across space and time help maintain flower colour diversity in Anemone coronaria, linking insect preferences to when and where different colours bloom.
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♻️ Structure and ultrastructure of nuptial and extranuptial nectaries explain secretion changes throughout flower lifetime and allow for multiple ecological interactions by Hannelise Balduino and co-authors.
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♻️ Drought tolerance of cowpea is associated with rapid abscisic acid biosynthesis via VuWRKY57 in root by Misaki Tochihara-Tanaka and co-authors.
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♻️ Nutritional and physiological limitations shape the radiation-use efficiency response to legume proportion in C4 grass–legume mixtures by Nicolas Caram and co-authors.
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Rhododendron minus
🍃 New article in @aobp.bsky.social finds that pigments and plant architecture allow Rhododendron minus seedlings to cope with contrasting light conditions.
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♻️ Young apple tree development under agroforestry radiative conditions: a multi-scale morphological and architectural dataset by Francesco Reyes and co-authors.
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Ciénaga Las Cucharillas Natural Reserve
🍃 New article in @aobp.bsky.social showing that dominant species in a tropical urban wetland display distinct leaf traits and physiological strategies shaped by seasonality and soil conditions.
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♻️ Differentiation in water adaptation strategy between epiphytic and terrestrial species of Cymbidium, Orchidaceae by Tian-Yang Gao and co-authors.
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♻️ Seeing right through it: X-ray analyses of Uniola paniculata L. spikelets reveal seed production patterns across a wide spatial distribution by Héctor Pérez and co-authors.
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♻️ Fine-scale genetic differentiation in the bee-specialized Antirrhinum charidemi covaries more strongly with spatial isolation than with corolla colour by Myriam Heuertz and co-authors.
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Oncosiphon pilulifer
🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring plant–soil feedbacks during biological invasions. A greenhouse experiment shows how soil conditioning by the invader Oncosiphon pilulifer affects native plant growth and mycorrhizal colonization.
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Graphic from AoB PLANTS introducing Associate Editor Silvia Matesanz García (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain). The design features a green background with text highlighting her research focus on plant evolutionary ecology, her interest in phenotypic variation and climate stress, her motivation for being an editor, advice for early-career researchers, her favorite plant (Helianthemum squamatum), and her interests outside science. A circular photo shows her smiling outdoors in a sunny field of yellow flowers.
Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors
🌱 With a focus on evolutionary ecology, phenotypic variation, and climate stress, @smatesanz.bsky.social brings a passion for big questions, innovative thinking, and rigorous science to AoB PLANTS
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Tomato plant.
🍅 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how temperature affects tomato yield. Researchers developed a model linking temperature stress to pollen quality, seed set, and fruit mass to better predict crop performance.
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♻️ The water-related traits of flowers are more conservative than those of leaves for epiphytic and terrestrial species in Cymbidium, Orchidaceae by Feng-Ping Zhang and co-authors.
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♻️ The impact of drought stress under different soil matrices on physiological characteristics of soybean seedlings by Wei Zhao and co-authors.
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♻️ Marker-trait association analysis for root and shoot traits at the seedling stage of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) under water stress and normal conditions by Hooman Shirvani and co-authors.
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Conium maculatum
🌱 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring root anatomy in Conium maculatum. Microscopy analyses reveal stomata on the primary roots, challenging the idea that stomata occur only on aerial organs.
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♻️ The effects of a neighbour and its identity on roots’ plastic growth by Valentina Simonetti and co-authors.
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Crataegus sp.
🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how hybridization, polyploidy, and apomixis shape diversity in hawthorns (Crataegus).
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♻️ Soil microbiota enhance the population growth rate of a nitrogen-fixing herbaceous legume by Satu Ramula and co-authors.
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♻️ Wheat genotypes selected for their high early daytime stomatal conductance under elevated nocturnal temperatures maintain high yield and biomass by R Suzuky Pinto and co-authors.
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♻️ Heterostylous plants in an era of global change: a review on the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation by Marianne Kivastik and co-authors.
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Flyer titled “Meet the Editor: Colleen Doherty.” It features Colleen Doherty, Associate Editor of AoB PLANTS at North Carolina State University (USA). The flyer highlights her research focus on how plants integrate time into environmental responses and using plant biochemical potential to address technological challenges. She is excited about seeing the molecular section of AoB PLANTS grow. Her advice for authors is to clearly state the main research question, explain how it was answered, be honest about study limitations, and provide detailed materials and methods. Her favorite plant is pokeweed, which she describes as resilient, biochemically remarkable, and important for wildlife; she also likes hops, bamboo, rice, and sorghum. When asked about hobbies outside science, she jokes: “Free time? What’s that?” The design has a green background with plant-themed icons and includes a circular portrait of Doherty smiling in a lab setting.
🧬Great journals are shaped by thoughtful editors.
Colleen brings enthusiasm for growing the molecular section of AoB PLANTS, along with a passion for clear scientific questions & rigorous methods.
Get to know her in our latest #MeetTheEditor feature
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♻️ Hybrid fertility and the rarity of homoploid hybrid speciation by Harry Sanders
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a) Inflorescence of Stereosandra javanica (photo credit: Chen Shu, 12 June 2022, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121542719, image licenced under CC BY-NC 4.0, accessed 03 June 2025). b) Habit and floral illustration of Stereosandra javanica (illustration: C. Barrett). c) Map of occurrence data (‘preserved specimen’) downloaded from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.y8tg3v, accessed 03 June 2025).
🌿🍄 New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how full mycoheterotrophy evolved in orchids, with first-ever genomic data for Stereosandra javanica.
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♻️ Xylem vessel anatomy and hydraulic function scale in concert along the tip-to-base axis of an angiosperm tree by Swetlana Kreinert and co-authors.
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Macrotyloma uniflorum
🌱🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how genetic structure and seed traits in underutilised horsegram species could support breeding for climate resilience.
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♻️ Neighbour sensing through rhizodeposits in sorghum affects plant physiology and productivity by Shiran Ben-Zeev and co-authors.
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