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Harnessing Bulk‐Segregant Mapping to Identify Trait‐Associated Genes in the Allopolyploid Model Plant Nicotiana benthamiana Forward genetics has been instrumental in identifying genes underlying desirable traits, yet its application to polyploid plants, many of which are key agricultural crops, remains challenging due to ...

📢 New publication 'Harnessing Bulk-Segregant Mapping to Identify Trait-Associated #Genes in the #Allopolyploid Model Plant Nicotiana benthamiana' by Zuba Ahmed et al. in Plant Biotechnology Journal 🧪🧬

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Join us for Talking Plant Science with Frank Sainsbury from Griffith University 🌱🧪

🗓️ Tuesday 3 March
🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT)
📍 Zoom, register here: bit.ly/TPS-FS

#event #webinar #plantscience

Trait space and compactness: A new perspective on explaining variations in primary productivity A fundamental question in ecology is why plant communities have large trait space yet strong coordination among those traits across large scales, despite these patterns seeming contradictory. Answeri...

📢 New publication 'Trait space and compactness: A new perspective on explaining variations in primary productivity' by Jiahui Zhang et al. in Ecology 🧪🌿

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

#Compactness #TraitSpace

Join us for People, Plants and the Law with Gary Nabhan 'Do Sacred Plants Have Standing? Religious Freedom of Expression & Biocultural Recovery of Sacred & Ceremonial Plants'

🗓️ Wednesday, 11 March
🕙 9-10am (AEST) / 10-11am (AEDT)
📍 Zoom, register here: bit.ly/PPL-GN

In poor taste: leaf palatability traits are not correlated with aboveground enemy release - Oecologia Many species experience less pressure from herbivores, predators, or pathogens in their introduced range than in their native range. This phenomenon, known as enemy release, is one explanation for the...

📢 New publication 'In poor taste: #leaf palatability traits are not correlated with aboveground enemy release' by Zoe Xirocostas et al. in Oecologia 🧪🥬

doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants Terrestrial vascular plants operate under negative water potential, which results in hydraulic tension in the vascular system. Vascular tension varies with transpiration and soil drying and is regulat...

📢 New publication ' #Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land #plants' by Andrea Carminati, Mathieu Javaux, Fabian Wankmüller and Timothy Brodribb in @science.org 🧪🌱

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

📢 New publication 'Exposure and sensitivity of threatened #plant species to changing #drought regimes: A global analysis' by Susan Everingham, Ian Wright, Lina Teckentrup, Stuart Allen and Rachael Gallagher in Biological Conservation 🧪

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#IUCN

Evaluation of mango (Mangifera indica L.) germplasm for phenotypic diversity and breeding potential in Pakistan - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Evaluation of mango (Mangifera indica L.) germplasm for phenotypic diversity and breeding potential in Pakistan

📢 New publication 'Evaluation of #mango (Mangifera indica L.) #germplasm for phenotypic diversity and breeding potential in Pakistan' by Wajiha Zaka Ansari, Hannan Mukhtar, Asjad Ali, Muhammad Arif, Javed Iqbal and Robert Henry in Scientific Reports 🥭🧪

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: A generic model for individual leaf size in maize, sorghum and pearl millet
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

#PlantScience

📢 New publication 'Insights into the molecular regulation of premature fruit drop - what we have learned from #mango (Mangifera indica) and other fruit crops' by Sophie Jones et al. in Scientia Horticulturae 🥭🧪

doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Speciation with gene flow Biodiversity is threatened by human activities, with extinction debt accumulating rapidly. Many of these activities change the connectivity of populations, fragmenting existing population systems or ...

📢 New publication 'Speciation with gene flow' by Zhiqin Long, Xu Zhang, Yue Yu, Gregory Owens, Diana Rennison, Clarisse Palma-Silva, Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos and Loren Rieseberg in Plants, People, Planet 🧬🧪

doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

#Speciation #GeneFlow

Join us for People, Plants and the Law 'Honoring the Gift: A Share-Alike Approach to Free Access to Seeds and Collaborative Futures', presented by Jean-Michel Ané, Jorge Contreras and Claudia Calderón!

🗓️ 18 February
🕙 9-10am (AEST) / 10-11am (AEDT)
🔗 bit.ly/PPL-CJJ

A generic model for individual leaf size in maize, sorghum and pearl millet AbstractBackground and Aims. Crop growth models (CGM) are a valuable tool for predicting crop performance in contrasting growing conditions and interpretin

📢 New publication 'A generic model for individual leaf size in maize, sorghum and pearl millet' by Paula Demarco, Erik van Oosterom, Jana Kholová and Graeme Hammer in Annals of Botany 🌾🧪
#CGM #crop

doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

The Genotype × Environment × Management (GxExM) Symposium will bring together leading minds to explore GxExM interactions and their role in advancing crop improvement strategies 🧪🌾

➡️Submit your EOI by 30 January: bit.ly/GEM-IV

Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus Species Complex Click on the article title to read more.

📢 New publication ' #Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus Species Complex' by Maddie James in Molecular Ecology Resources 🧬🧪

doi.org/10.1111/1755...

Integrative Genomics for Mango Genetics and Breeding Abstract. Mango is the second most important tropical fruit crop. Due to ever-changing environmental conditions, world mango production is facing challenge

📢 New publication 'Integrative #Genomics for #Mango Genetics and Breeding' by Bilal Ahmad et al. in Horticulture Research 🥭🧬🧪

doi.org/10.1093/hr/u...

The ameliorating influence of neighbouring plants on aboveground microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity Plants can have a facilitative effect on co-occurring neighbours by moderating microclimate conditions. In forested areas, vegetation can ameliorate macroclimate extremes relative to open areas, yet ...

📢 New publication 'The ameliorating influence of neighbouring #plants on aboveground #microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity' by Travis Britton, Thomas Baker, Shane Richards and Mark Hovenden in Oikos 🧪

doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Why mangoes fall before they’re ripe – and how science is helping them hang on

Each season, mango growers across Australia watch helplessly as millions of mangoes fall to the ground too early. Here’s why – and how science can help.

📢 New publication 'Further Results on Latin Squares with Disjoint Subsquares using Rational Outline Squares' by Tara Kemp and James Lefevre in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 🧮🧪

#LatinSquares #subsquares

doi.org/10.37236/14201

CLV3/EMBRYO-SURROUNDING REGION peptide signalling in legumes links plant development and environmental responses, with pea studies revealing that different CLE receptors play distinct and sometimes opposing roles in controlling shoot growth, especially under cool conditions, highlighting both conserved and flexible functions of this pathway beyond symbiosis.

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek

Upstairs, downstairs: conserved and divergent CLAVATA signalling in shoot meristem development and root symbioses by Tiana Scott and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social

#freeaccess article
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#RootBiology #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

#PlantSuccess December 2025 #newsletter is out now!
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The fluorescent probe DISBAC2(3) provides a high-throughput screening tool for evaluating abiotic stress tolerance in plants Rapidly screening for changes in membrane potential and for stress-tolerant crops is uncovered using the voltage-sensitive dye DISBAC2(3).

📢 New publication 'The fluorescent probe DISBAC2(3) provides a high-throughput screening tool for evaluating #abiotic #stress tolerance in plants' by Caroline Ivsic, Ping Yun, Frances Sussmilch and Sergey Shabala in Plant Physiology 🧪🌱

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

📢 New publication 'Independent horizontal transfer of #genes encoding α/β-hydrolases with #strigolactone binding and hydrolytic activities from bacteria to fungi and plants' by Qia Wang et al. in Molecular Plant 🧪

doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

📢 New publication 'The B-class #auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for #meristem organization in free-living #plant gametophytes' by Eduardo Flores-Sandoval et al. in Current Biology 🧪🌱

doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Convergence-Divergence Models: Generalizations of Phylogenetic Trees Modeling Gene Flow Over Time - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Phylogenetic trees are simple models of evolutionary processes. They describe conditionally independent divergent evolution from common ancestors. However, they often lack the flexibility to represent...

📢 New publication 'Convergence-Divergence Models: Generalizations of Phylogenetic Trees Modeling Gene Flow Over Time' by Jonathan Mitchell and Barbara Holland in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 🧪

doi.org/10.1007/s115...

#PhylogeneticTree #evolution

Helping Crop Plants Adapt to Harsher Environments The global population is growing quickly, and that means we need to find ways to produce more food without causing excessive harm to the planet. On top of this, climate change is making it harder for ...

📢 New publication 'Helping #Crop Plants Adapt to Harsher Environments' by Hanh Vo, Caitlin Dudley, Vanessa Tonet, Jazmine Humphreys and Eloise Foo in Frontiers for Young Minds 🧪🌾

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Chromosome-scale haplotype genome assemblies for the Australian mango 'Kensington Pride' 1 and a wild relative, Mangifera laurina, provide insights into anthracnose-resistance and volatile 2 compound biosynthesis genes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690335v1

We are pleased to announce that we are coordinating the next Genotype by Environment by Management ( #GxExM ) Symposium in November 2026 in Brisbane, Australia 🎉

EOIs are now open to help determine the size of the event and inform the program: 🔗 bit.ly/GEM-IV

Hear from Lizzie Wandrag, a plant community ecologist with a focus on examining how biotic interactions affect and are affected by plant species’ and community response to global change 🌱🧪

🗓️ Tuesday 2 December
🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT)
📍 Register: bit.ly/TPS-LW

Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic Prediction (EasiGP): Computational tool for interpreting ensembles of genomic prediction models A new computational tool, Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic Prediction (EasiGP), was created to interpret multiple genomic prediction models at the genomic level. EasiGP visualizes the in...

📢 New publication 'Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic #Prediction (EasiGP): Computational tool for interpreting ensembles of genomic prediction models' by Shunichiro Tomura, Melanie Wilkinson, Owen Powell and Mark Cooper in The Plant Genome 🧪

doi.org/10.1002/tpg2...

#CropBreeding