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European Forest Plants Are Migrating Westwards, Nitrogen Main Cause https://botany.fyi/7p9g2n New research reveals nitrogen pollution, and to a lesser extent climate change, unexpectedly as the key driver behind surprising westward shifts in the distribution of plants. #Botany

How to Cope With Stress in the Desert—The Date Palm Approach (OA) https://botany.fyi/1984d8 Du et al summarise the current state of biochemical stress defence mechanisms including avoidance, osmotic and metabolic adjustments and reactive oxygen species scavenging, addresses whole-plant regulations and trade-off between stress compensation/defence and growth of date palms. #Botany #PlantScience

Postdoctoral Research Associate https://botany.fyi/eyqzcf The University of Essex is looking for an individual to join Dr Pallavi Singh's group as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, working on the FLF grant titled ‘REVOLUTION: Unravelling the regulation and evolutionary innovations in grass species to engineer high water use efficiency in rice,’ The role holder will use a range of methods to understand and enhance water use efficiency in rice. #PlantSciJobs

3DFin: a software for automated 3D forest inventories from terrestrial point clouds (OA) https://botany.fyi/ubbchm Laino et al have developed 3DFin, a novel free software program designed for user-friendly, automatic forest inventories using ground-based point clouds. #Botany #PlantScience

Drone discovers hidden Hawaiian plant species https://botany.fyi/s0v7ji The drone used its 'Mamba' claw to gather a sample of the cliff-hanging carnation. #Botany

High-Resolution Disease Phenotyping Reveals Distinct Resistance Mechanisms of Tomato Crop Wild Relatives against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (OA) https://botany.fyi/b78l7g Einspanier et al applied a low-cost (<1.000 €) phenotyping system to measure lesion growth dynamics of wild tomato species (e.g., Solanum pennellii or Solanum pimpinellifolium). #Botany #PlantScience

Unravelling the complex relationship between fire frequency, flooding, and plant diversity in the world’s largest flooded savanna. 📰 Story: https://botany.fyi/mizxnt 🔬 Research: https://botany.fyi/zfmy52

Bigger genomes provide environment-dependent growth benefits in grasses (OA) https://botany.fyi/somppl Simpson et al found that evolutionary history, photosynthetic pathway and life history all influence the distribution of grass species' genome size. #Botany #PlantScience

Tree Germination Sensitivity to Increasing Temperatures: A Global Meta-Analysis Across Biomes, Species and Populations (OA) https://botany.fyi/rfbrjr Vicente & Garzón reviewed 50 papers addressing 63 species and 250 populations. Then, we conducted a meta-analysis to assess warming effects on germination percentage and time, and how germination is modulated by climate at seed origin.

Network analyses predict major regulators of resistance to early blight disease complex in tomato (OA) https://botany.fyi/v9x3fi Tominello-Ramirez et al expanded existing functional gene annotations in tomato and using network statistics, and analyzed the transcriptional modules associated with defense and susceptibility. #Botany #PlantScience