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compoundchem.com Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 1d
It's spooky season and that means pumpkin carving 🎃

What are the compounds behind the vegetal smell of pumpkin and why does pumpkin spice have nothing to do with them?

This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look!

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of pumpkins. The colour of pumpkins is due to carotenoid compounds such as beta-carotene, the same compound that gives carrots their orange colour. The vegetal aroma of pumpkins is mainly due to cis-3-hexen-1-ol, along with other six-carbon alcohols and aldehydes. Canned pumpkin is often not the same type of pumpkin as those used for carving, and consequently the aroma compounds differ, including burnt-smelling 2-methylbutanal, coffee furanone, and furfural. Pumpkin spice flavour has little to do with pumpkin and more to do with the spices added, including cinnamon, nutmeg and clove.
October 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
journalsysevo.bsky.social
Have we re-posted the updated Angiosperm phylogeny APG V lately? And the poster! #PlantScience #Systematics #Evolution
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 20d
The new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

An updated classification of Angiosperms
It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo...

🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology
Poster for the new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG V) plant classification. It presents the current phylogenetic relationships among angiosperms, along with flower images representing all families
October 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
planteditors.bsky.social
Deadline alert, get those applications in for the @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Medal, #PlantScience researchers!
wileyecology.bsky.social Wiley Ecology, Environment and Sustainability​​ @wileyecology.bsky.social · 2d
The @newphyt.bsky.social #TansleyMedal recognises an outstanding contribution to #PlantScience.

🌱 Open to researchers 3–5 years post-PhD
🌱 Shortlisted applicants submit a #TansleyInsight
🌱 Winner receives £2000 (GBP)

Deadline: 1 November 2026

Apply now!
🔗 https://bit.ly/4xqJ5u6
October 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM
ameliacervera.eurosky.social
#TEsky #PlantScience #PlantBiology
jefowlerjr.bsky.social John Fowler (he/him) @jefowlerjr.bsky.social · May 13
Interesting new preprint from the Ou lab, using long-read sequencing to characterize transcriptional initiation in LTR transposons in maize
biorxiv-plants.bsky.social bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · May 13
The gene-like promoter and transcription of LTR retrotransposons. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723830v1
October 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
jennifermach.bsky.social
#PlantScience on sorghum!
plantcellatlas.bsky.social Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · 1d
Register now to listen to PCA member Dae Kwan Ko's talk on "Mapping Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Underlying Abiotic Stress Responses in Sorghum."
waliianhydro.bsky.social WALIIAnhydro @waliianhydro.bsky.social · 1d
We are very excited to begin announcing the contributed speaker's of this year's WALII Symposium taking place on November 12, 2026! 💧

You can view the full schedule of speakers and register for the virtual event here: walii.science/2nd-virtual-...

#WALII2026 #LifeWithoutWater
October 27, 2026 at 4:49 PM
seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social
🎉 Two fern evo-devo PhD opportunities available at the University of Birmingham:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Application deadline 23rd November. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested 🙂
#Plantsci_jobs
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October 27, 2026 at 12:48 PM
jennifermach.bsky.social
Congrats!! Adding #PlantScience for the feeds...
October 28, 2026 at 12:13 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
We are pleased to sponsor Integrating scales in planetary biology, Uppsala, Sweden, 28–30 October: lyyti.events/p/Integratin...

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October 28, 2026 at 7:34 PM
abioticstress.bsky.social
#Engineering #root development with high precision

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience @newphyt.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social @botany.one @rootarchitecture.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @planteditors.bsky.social
Engineering root development with high precision
Conceptual framework for precise engineering of root development.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2026 at 1:20 PM
natplants.nature.com
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
October 25, 2026 at 10:06 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
Comparative genomics of dark septate endophytes: shedding light on the enigmatic lifestyle and biology of DSEs

Sándor Csíkos, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience
Ancestral lifestyle reconstruction across the phylogeny of the 107 analysed fungal genomes.
October 26, 2026 at 9:30 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
A single amino-acid switch reprograms ROP6 signaling to drive functional #evolution in plants

Liuqin Zhang, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FYEBNB...

#PlantScience
A single amino-acid substitution reprograms ROP6 from PIN stabilization to endocytic degradation.
October 26, 2026 at 10:46 PM
plantbiotechj.bsky.social
🌱 RESEARCH 🌱

Gap-Free Cannabis sativa Assemblies Reveal Post-Polyploid Genome Remodelling and Refine the Evolution of Cannabinoid Synthase Genes - Zhang et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

#plantscience
October 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
aberuni.bsky.social
🌱 Our researchers are exploring why distantly related plants struggle to reproduce, with the aim of helping breeders develop more resilient crops for the future.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/57n92sv4

@ibers.bsky.social
@abercompsci.bsky.social
#Research #PlantScience #ResilientCrops
October 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to sponsor the 12th International Symposium on Plant Soil Interactions at Low pH (PSILPH), Gifu, Japan, 27–31 October: psilph2026.com

#PlantScience
Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH (PSILPH) 2026
PSILPH
psilph2026.com
October 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
Functional divergence of TCP4 genes in #turnip

Cheng Li (李程), et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MXMFZK...

Summary available in English and Chinese (simplified).

#PlantScience
Target genes of BrrTCP4, BrrTCP4a and BrrTCP4b.
October 28, 2026 at 10:53 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
5 days to go! New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2027 applications close on 1 November.

Seeking inspiration? Check out our recent webinar with 2025 Tansley Medal winner Camille Delavaux: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4K_...

Apply for the #TansleyMedal: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

#PlantScience
October 27, 2026 at 11:42 AM
wileyecology.bsky.social
The @newphyt.bsky.social #TansleyMedal recognises an outstanding contribution to #PlantScience.

🌱 Open to researchers 3–5 years post-PhD
🌱 Shortlisted applicants submit a #TansleyInsight
🌱 Winner receives £2000 (GBP)

Deadline: 1 November 2026

Apply now!
🔗 https://bit.ly/4xqJ5u6
October 26, 2026 at 1:53 PM
aobp.bsky.social
❄️🌿New article in @AoBP@ecoevo.social examining how resurrection plants recover from freezing-induced dehydration. Integrated physiological analyses reveal shared recovery strategies in Ramonda serbica and R. nathaliae.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/rtpt

#PlantScience
Ramonda nathaliae
October 28, 2026 at 10:03 AM
planteditors.bsky.social
#Nitrogen coming up as a hot topic in our #PlantScience feed today, starting with this nicely titled paper about the relationship between nitrogen metabolism and temperature from Guillaume T. Martin and @annesofio.bsky.social in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social
October 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
plantbiotechj.bsky.social
🌱 RESEARCH 🌱

The Cytosolic Iron–Sulfur Cluster Assembly Targeting Complex Is Hijacked by Magnaporthe Effector AvrPi9 to Suppress Rice Resistance - Shi, Liu et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

#plantscience
October 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
newphyt.bsky.social
An AGC kinase cascade regulates ROP signaling for the correct timing of #pollen germination

Tong Zhao, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience
Model for PDK1-AGC1.5/7 kinase cascade function in controlling pollen germination in Arabidopsis.
October 27, 2026 at 10:17 PM
c-spirit.org
Congratulations to C-SPIRIT member Sean Robertson on earning his PhD from the University of Manitoba! 🎓🎉

His research on gene regulation in rice leaves under environmental stress contributes to our understanding of plant resilience. 🌾🔬

#plantscience
October 27, 2026 at 2:27 PM
plantphys.bsky.social
CYCLING DOF FACTOR 2 functions as a positive regulator integrating gibberellin signaling and biosynthesis to drive bulb germination in Lilium (Xiaoman Zou , Hui Zhou , Shengli Song , Hongmei Sun) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
October 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM
natplants.nature.com
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
October 25, 2026 at 9:56 PM