Nature Plants

The October issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu... #PlantScience

New OA Brief Comm: "Metabolically robust ratiometric autoluminescent reporters" rdcu.be/MdNALGQ53dGa In glowing plants, monitoring colour shifts instead of changes in luminescence intensity enables quantitative measurements of physiology despite changes in metabolic activity. #PlantScience

New Resource: "Chromosome-level phylogenomics and genome evolution of the grape family" rdcu.be/25RCaLYxvmia Family-wide phylogenomics sheds light on evolution of grapevine; role of Helitron transposons in the expansion and regulation of NLR resistance genes in grapevines. #PlantScience

New Article: "Rewriting wheat karyotypes through centromere-targeted chromosome engineering" rdcu.be/M5dMQ9xEboMa Centromere editing in wheat drives extensive, heritable rearrangements across multiple chromosomes; for engineering complex karyotypes in polyploid crops. #PlantScience

New OA Article: "Reconstructing spore evolution recalibrates the timescale of land plant diversification" rdcu.be/ZqJutaiDfFLa This study models the evolution of spore characteristics in living land plants to reinterpret their spore-dominated early fossil record. #PlantScience

New Article: "Synthetic activation of gibberellin signalling reveals spatial coordination of root growth" rdcu.be/cqCQ7FzApBFa A synthetic "bulky" gibberellin - receptor system enables spatial and temporal control of GA signalling. #PlantScience

New Article: "NIK receptor kinases propagate phytocytokine-triggered immunity by driving early phosphorylation events" rdcu.be/8k3QANQbiBCa NIKs are signal-propagating components downstream of multiple phytocytokine receptor complexes. #PlantScience

New OA Article: "MAKR6 integrates TMK and CAMEL/CANAR signalling for auxin canalization in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/4qHP127StZUa MAKR6 connects auxin signalling to PIN1 transporter regulation while integrating multiple cell-surface receptor kinase pathways. #PlantScience

New Editorial: "Nobels oblige" rdcu.be/QNrR9nBg5NRa October is Nobel Prize month, and at first glance it might seem that plant biology has again been overlooked. However, closer inspection shows notable involvement of ‘the green lineage’ in at least one of the prizes. #PlantScience

New OA Article: "Assembly-graph-assisted haplotype-resolved scaffolding of polyploid genomes" rdcu.be/wDfwnP3uLTEa GPhase overcomes key limitations of 3C data and substantially improves the accuracy, completeness and contiguity of complex polyploid genome assembly. #PlantScience

How Did Life Arise? In the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/s...

New Article: "Extreme greenhouse warmth triggered the two major floristic turnover events of the past 120 million years" rdcu.be/as2QWt5eukua Extinctions/emergence of flowering plants, gymnosperms & ferns were concentrated in the 2 warmest intervals of the past 130 My. #PlantScience

Arabidopsis PP2C clade B members are negative feedback regulators of MPK3/MPK6 MAPK cascade in plant immunity and development (Qin Qiu , Bixin Li , Panpan Ma , Shiyuan Wang , Xuying Ma , Xiaofei Tang , Shuqun Zhang , Mengmeng Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

📣Paper Alert! 🥳 A new study @cp-cell.bsky.social from the Schulze-Lefert group @mpipz.bsky.social reveals how Arabidopsis adapts its iron acquisition strategy to soil pH, using coumarins & bacterial pathways to access this essential nutrient. 👏 👉 bit.ly/4yEU9Em #plantsci www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Our October issue is out now! Featuring research on: 🐈 Feliform evolution 🛣️ Forest fragmentation from roads 🐟 Gene-regulatory evolution in salmonids Cover image from Hausharter et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

News & Views: "Branchpoints reveal metabolic gateways" rdcu.be/xq5sKZhVUJea Genomes sampled around decisive branches in grass evolution reveal when distinct starch and lignin pathways arose: two amino acid substitutions opened a tyrosine route into phenylpropanoid metabolism. #PlantScience

New Article: "N-glycosylation code diversifies paralogous chitinases to balance plant immunity and growth" rdcu.be/FYUFGfiTi8Xa Two chitinases that produce or degrade immunogenic chitin oligomers => plants that gain chitin-triggered fungal resistance without a growth penalty. #PlantScience

Here the authors use a global standardized dataset of plant–pollinator interactions to explore geographic patterns of specialization and their dependence on climate variables and taxonomic and functional identity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We like to think that new crop varieties are developed without modern techniques. But the honest story is that most are, even if they are not gene edited or genetically modified. So how do plant breeders now-a-days develop new crop varieties? plantenzo.substack.com/p/from-wild-... #PlantScience

New Article: "Maternal epigenetic regulation of embryonic patterning in plants" rdcu.be/1S5Hxp2SHTTa Post-fertilization remodelling of H3K27me3 in integuments regulates the timely activation of auxin transport genes => maternal-to-embryo auxin transport and embryonic patterning. #PlantScience

Happy to share that our study of the interaction between the MAX effector AVR-Pia and rice HMA domain-containing proteins has been published (as the cover article!) in PLOS Pathogens. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

I am proud to share my No-AI-assisted perspective review "Plant Peptide Hormones: Three Decades of Discovery and Emerging Paradigms" for the Centennial issue of @plantphys.bsky.social 🌱🍅. It's OA, so everyone can access! 1/ academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

New OA Article: "SNI1/NSE5 is a cold-sensitive brake on class II crossovers in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/P1VqD9W4RvQa With Research Briefing: "SNI1 governs how temperature reshapes crossovers and genetic diversity" rdcu.be/1ZSG6fvWCPJa #PlantScience

New Letter: "Long-term biomass growth unimpeded by short-term photosynthetic decoupling" rdcu.be/2B9JwqK1MtTa ...show that the decoupling between photosynthesis & plant wood growth reported in recent studies neither implies sink limitation nor constrains long-term biomass growth. #PlantScience

The September issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu... #PlantScience

New Editorial: "Engineering resilient forests" rdcu.be/9VhEudRpKxCa Climate change leads to changes in precipitation distribution and the frequency of extreme weather conditions. For temperate forests to survive this may require a targeted forest engineering approach. #PlantScience

"How SCREW finds its NUT" rdcu.be/k8vBj18vix9a A News & Views on 3 complementary structural studies published together about SCREW/CTNIP–NUT/HSL3 signalling: rdcu.be/AY11kgcFgTia rdcu.be/S6g7YM6WPjTa rdcu.be/16bsh4fYzpna

New OA Article: "REAP1/AtSWAP70 integrates RAB5 and ROP signalling during sexual reproduction" rdcu.be/kyZ4R2qBg9Da With News & Views: "ROP meets RAB at crossroads" rdcu.be/bqKfMzXQ26fa #PlantScience

New Review Article: "Advancing the adoption of RNA interference-based biopesticides" rdcu.be/1FyqN1rWWL5a Reliability, regulation, public acceptance and advances in design and delivery will shape growers’ decision-making and adoption of RNA interference-based biopesticides.

New Article: "Overcompensation of vegetation productivity after late-spring frost in the Northern Hemisphere" rdcu.be/hPE75sdFpLTa With Research Briefing: "Vegetation overcompensation after late-spring frost is widespread across terrestrial ecosystems" rdcu.be/8Kot7saaUrpa #PlantScience

New Correspondence: "CRISPR beyond biology: building a sustainable innovation system" rdcu.be/vPZVgFHi4Jza

New Resource: "Decoding the landscape of cell-type-specific co-expressed transcription factors in soybean" rdcu.be/Utz7VVXv9V4a With Research Briefing rdcu.be/no6fLGakNtya

Last talk today at #PPRM2026 by Moutassem Omary (Zipfel lab) illustrates the modularity and flexibility of PRR signalling: after redundant receptors, peptides and antipeptides, here come the secreted LRR domains that can basically replace BAK1 and interfere with various pathways. #PlantScience

Xu Wang (Schaller's lab), giving a talk at #PPRM2026 about new systemins in tomato, reminds us of the 1991 Science paper from Clarence Ryan's lab that basically started the whole field: 2 kg of tomato leaves to finally extract 1 ug of systemin. Amazing biochemistry. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Nice work by @cellsensing.bsky.social Glycan recognition by a plant damage-sensing immune receptor www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our September issue is out now! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🌶️ Genome evolution of peppers 🐦🦋 Bird and butterfly declines 🦍 Obstetrical dilemmas across primates Cover image from Song et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our editors write: - Climate change: Routes and rates rdcu.be/gyAhX2fVsrra - Arabidopsis: Col-0 genetic divergence rdcu.be/f6LHr9wpTXpa - Maize domestication: Yet another domestication-selected enhancer rdcu.be/nZMHQqeUfaba #PlantScience

New Letter: "An LRR co-receptor kinase essential for systemic nitrogen-demand signalling" rdcu.be/bePgscq8DY4a It is co-receptor for CEPR1, assigning a function to the last unknown clade of this receptor family. Key regulator of systemic N-demand signalling in plants. #PlantScience

New Article: "Zinc-finger proteins C3H14 and C3H15 maintain meiocyte identity in flowering plants" rdcu.be/u85ab4jLd2La ...by eliminating somatic transcripts in anthers. Their loss leads to ectopic transcript accumulation, pachytene arrest, ROS bursts and PCD in meiocytes. #PlantScience