How do you survive on less than 25mm of rain per year? Nolana mollis fooled botanists for decades with its brine-coated leaves, but new experiments reveal the real secret lies underground.
Image: Nolana mollis by felipecancino – https://www.flickr.com/photos/felipecancino/4942898032/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11958080
🎍#Bamboo is remarkable: fast #growing, #ecologically significant, and #economically valuable.
Wang et al. explore the #genomics, #biotechnology, and #molecular mechanisms behind its growth, #development, and #stress responses. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13909
@wileyplantsci
#PlantScience #botany #review
@christhorogood.bsky.social Replying from the Fediverse thanks to #Bridgy 🔗
Please come & find more iconic plants in Southeast Asia, to intrigue more people & inspire protection of ecosystems!
👏 to you & collaborators for terrific work with #Rafflesia:
https://ccrr.obga.ox.ac.uk/
#plants #PlantScience
📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
https://doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
🔍 Even if CP seeds don’t last forever, they do last long enough to make seed banking a powerful tool for conservation. Cryostorage offers even more security. (8/8)
#PlantScience #Conservation #CarnivorousPlants #SeedBanks #Biodiversity
🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Longevity, Cryopreservation, and Propagation of Carnivorous Plants Seeds: Insights From 13 Species in Long-Term Ex situ Collections’ in @AnnBot by Daniel Ballesteros and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/8)
Mathematicians solve centuries-old mystery of how ‘broken’ tulips get their stripes
https://globalplantcouncil.org/mathematicians-solve-centuries-old-mystery-of-how-broken-tulips-get-their-stripes/ via Global Plant Council
#PlantScience #model
The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference
19-23 October 2025 | Kashiwa, Japan
Forests “Talk” Before a Solar Eclipse: Study Reveals Mysterious Electrical Communication
#science #biology #botany #ecology #environmentalscience #environment #plants #plantscience
📢 Welcome new isP Editor Andrew Friend!
Dr. Friend is a Professor at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Geography and the Conservation Research Institute. His research focuses on the
functioning of plants within the Earth system, in particular the physiology of carbon relations, controls on growth processes, and the competitive interactions between individuals within ecosystems.
How do parasitic plants find their prey? New study shows dodder vines use touch sensitivity and light detection to hunt victims. These master grafters even attempt to parasitize metal objects.
Learn more: https://wp.me/pdRZhH-m3g
How do parasitic plants find their prey? New study shows dodder vines use touch sensitivity and light detection to hunt victims. These master grafters even attempt to parasitize metal objects. Learn more: wp.me/pdRZhH-m3g #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
In this article, isP founding editor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz explores the key features of L-systems and their current modeling capabilities
https://doi.org/pnfk via the Journal of Theoretical Biology
#PlantScience #Modeling
Harnessing the Power of Synthetic Data for Deep Learning Image Analysis
📰 Story: https://botany.one/2024/04/harnessing-the-power-of-synthetic-data-for-deep-learning-image-analysis/ via @botanyone
🔬 Research: https://doi.org/pfrz
#PlantScience 🧪
Long-term study maps greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils
A study measured greenhouse gas emissions from farm soils over multiple years, revealing nitrous oxide is highly unpredictable, unlike carbon dioxide. This large, detailed dataset helps improve climate models and guide farming practices to reduce emissions, especially from cornfields under conventional tillage with high nitrogen fertilizer use.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/long-term-study-maps-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-agricultural-soils/ via UofICollegeofACES #Agriculture #PlantScience #Science
New analysis sheds light on specific genes found in all grasses
A new computational biology pipeline has mapped out over 13,000 groups of protein-coding genes conserved across grasses, offering a powerful tool for researchers investigating gene function in these economically and ecologically vital species.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/new-analysis-sheds-light-on-specific-genes-found-in-all-grasses/ via Rothamsted #PlantScience #Science
🌱🧬 Machine learning meets plant science! Ethylene's secret role in stress resilience revealed. Climate-proof crops might just be a gene away! 🌍 #Genomics #PlantScience #ClimateAdaptation https://emmecola.github.io/genomics-daily
🌽 #FSPM quantifies the contribution of component plant traits to #maize N uptake and use
by Jie Lu, Tjeerd Jan Stomph, Guohua Mi, Lixing Yuan, Jochem Evers
https://doi.org/nvrh #PlantScience
Next time you see tiny thrips on a flower, remember: they might be doing vital pollination work! (9/9)
Read the full article 👉 https://doi.org/ph5h
🌱🌸 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Tiny but significant: on the importance of thrips as pollinators’ in @AnnBot by Cristina Pop and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)
