MSU Plant Resilience Institute

msupri.bsky.social

15 March 2026 22:30

How comparable are plant drought studies, really? In a new @plantphys.bsky.social paper, a team of Plant Resilience Institute scientists, led by @bobvanburen.bsky.social, reanalyze hundreds of drought gene expression datasets and introduce new ML tools. #PlantScience 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Chris Thorogood

christhorogood.bsky.social

16 February 2026 23:34

Many parasitic plants produce tiny seeds as light as dust: you can barely even see them. But zoom in with a powerful enough microscope, and suddenly they reveal a hidden trove of jewels. (Thanks to Renata Piwowarczyk for the photos; microscopy by Justyna Kasińska)

New Phytologist

newphyt.bsky.social

28 January 2026 15:37

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

John Lovell

jotlovell.bsky.social

20 December 2025 07:59

The January issue of New Phytologist is online now, featuring on the cover @roseamarks.bsky.social’s article on the physiology and genomics of the resurrection plant, Myrothanus flabellifolia. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (I’m posting here for Dr. Marks, who is currently doing field work off the grid)

Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/

leakey77.bsky.social

10 December 2025 00:10

Delighted to share new work on the 3D anatomy and stomatal patterning of a C4 grass www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...