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🌱✨ Discover the latest #PlantDevelopment research on #ScienceOpen!

Explore recent advances and insights from this essential scientific field — key to the sustainable future of agriculture, horticulture, and conservation on Earth. #PlantScience

Learn more in our blog post below. 👇

https://blog.scienceopen.com/2025/08/plant-development-research/

Why Are Tomatoes Staying Green This Summer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k6XqMSvu_8 @gardening #Gardening #PlantDevelopment #Horticulture

Plant evolutionary developmental biology (Evolutionary biology 🧬)

Evolutionary developmental biology is the study of developmental programs and patterns from an evolutionary perspective. It seeks to understand the various influences shaping the form and nature of life on the planet. Evo-devo arose as a separate branch of sci...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_evolutionary_developmental_biology

#PlantEvolutionaryDevelopmentalBiology #PlantDevelopment #EvolutionOfPlants #EvolutionaryBiology

New research by Li et al. provides mechanistic insights into AtGRF5-mediated transformation, while offering a practical solution to the challenges in cucurbit #crop #genetic modification.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13912
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#PlantSci #JIPB #PlantDevelopment #botany

This diagram, illustrating the one-step de novo shoot organogenesis (DNSO) method, demonstrates that overexpression of the morphogenic gene AtGRF5 significantly enhances genetic transformation efficiency in cucurbit crops by promoting callus proliferation and increasing dense cells during regeneration.

Cell wall remodeling is a vital but complex aspect of #plant regeneration. In their new #JIPB review, Zhang et al. explore the effects of this process on regeneration and provide insights into future research.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13911
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#PlantSci #PlantDevelopment #botany

Diagram indicating the role of cell wall remodeling in tissue repair, de novo organ regeneration, and somatic embryogenesis.

What are the experts saying?

Find out in our new special issue, packed with the latest expert reviews on #plant #science research!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447909/current

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#PlantSci #morphology #MolecularBiology #SynBio #CropSci #FoodSci #CRISPR #PlantDevelopment #JIPB #botany

Decorative image of the cover of JIPB Issue 3 for March 2025, showing a watercolor and ink style image of a tree with various plant research organisms in its leaves and branches, including corn, tomatoes, etc.

Plant development (Botany 🌱)

Important structures in plant development are buds, shoots, roots, leaves, and flowers; plants produce these tissues and structures throughout their life from meristems located at the tips of organs, or between mature tissues. Thus, a living plant always has embryonic tissues. By contrast, an animal embryo will very early produce all of the body parts that it will ever have in its life. W...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_development

#PlantDevelopment #Botany

I've been seeing a few #transcriptome wide association studies (TWAS) papers lately. This is another example, from #sorghum, combining GWAS and TWAS to study flowering time. Bonus - I imagine that there's a lot more value that can be gained from the 822 #RNAseq samples made publicly available

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628249v1.full.pdf

#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Sorghum

Manhattan plot and inferred pathway from combining GWAS and TWAS results

Our latest #JIPB Invited Expert Review explores #polyamines and the role that these valuable bio-stimulants and endogenous signaling molecules play in #PlantDevelopment and #stress response mechanisms.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13796
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#PlantScience #biochemistry #botany

Diagram illustrating the diverse roles of polyamines in various biological processes, as well as interactions between polyamines and both signaling molecules and environmental cues.

All the pieces are falling into place!🧩
Qiu et al. reveal that MYB52 negatively regulates ADF9-meditated #actin filament bundling in #Arabidopsis pavement cell #morphogenesis!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13762
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#JIPB #PlantSci #PlantDevelopment #epidermis #botany

Diagram comparing pavement cell morphogenesis in Arabidopsis WT, adf9, and myb52 mutant plants.

Hu et al. shed some💡#light💡on the mechanisms underlying light-mediated post-transcriptional #regulation of #plastid #gene expression.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13779
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#JIPB #PlantScience #RNA #plant #PlantDevelopment #Arabidopsis #HY5 #PIF1

Light signals are perceived by photoreceptors and transduced to downstream effectors that regulate the expression of genes encoding key factors involved in plastid RNA processing, including RNA editing and splicing, to promote chloroplast biogenesis.

Direct #seeding in #rice is convenient and cheap but not without issues. In their new #JIPB commentary, He et al. explore the role of #phytohormones in anaerobic germination.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13728
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#PlantSci #plant #PlantDevelopment #CropScience #botany

Diagrams to illustrate how crosstalk of hormone signaling pathways (ABA signalling and GA biosynthesis; ABA and JA signaling; AS biosynthesis and IAA catabolism) regulate submerged germination in rice (based on Sun et al., 2022; He et al., 2023; Wang et al., 2024)

🍊Fu et al. report🍊on a transcriptional🍊cascade that regulates🍊#plant height and #fruit🍊pigmentation in #citrus,🍊providing key genes for #breeding🍊novel varieties.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13719 🍊
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#JIPB #PlantSci #crosstalk #orange🍊#PlantDevelopment #botany

Diagram of the transcriptional cascade involving BBX22 and HY5 showing how they regulate internode elongation and fruit pigmentation in citrus

🍒New tools help us understand🍐the complex world of #fruit🍈#evolution🥭in a remarkable new study from Xiang et al.🍇
🥝https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13618 🫐
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#JIPB #PlantSci #angiosperm🍎#ovary #PlantDevelopment #botany

A summary tree showing angiosperm phylogenetic relationships at the family level.

Are you interested in the diversity of cellular patterns underlying morphogenesis and how it relates to morphogenesis? What about identifying such patterns in an objective way using topology? Look at our paper by first author Tejasvinee Mody just out in DEVELOPMENT. It provides a 3D digital atlas of ovule development in Cardamine. Terrific collab with mathematicians of Ulrich Bauer's group at TUM.

https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202590

#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantEvoDevo

In this🍒*sweet* #TBT, we're🍊heading back to the complex world of #fruit🍈#evolution🥭in this fascinating🍓(and #free!) paper by Xiang et al.🍇https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13618 🫐
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#JIPB🥝#PlantScience #angiosperm🍎#ovary #NuclearPhylogeny #phylogenetics #PlantDevelopment #botany