bHLH duo regulates nodule vascular strands
Srivastava et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/RCF5U4...
New Phytologist
🌱 The 2026 Journal Citation Reports are out.
Trends:
📈 India's author representation increased by 12%
🌍 Global South participation continues to rise
🔓 Gold Open Access journals reached 6,703
🧬 Plant science journals showed strong growth
Remember: Impact Factors measure journals, not scientists.
What if the “non-coding” genome isn’t actually non-coding? 🧬
A Nature study analyzing 95,520 proteomics experiments found thousands of hidden microproteins encoded in supposedly “silent” regions of our genome.
The human proteome may be far larger than we thought.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Most cited ≠ most reliable.
A Science Advances study shows:
❗ Nonreplicable papers get MORE citations
❗ Even after failing replication
Only ~12% of citations acknowledge failure.
Science rewards novelty—but at what cost?
#AcademicTwitter #OpenScience #PhDLife #Research
This paper basically asked:
“What if mammalian cells could borrow photosynthesis?”
And somehow… it worked!!
Genuinely one of the most unexpected cross-kingdom biology papers I’ve read recently.
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@cellpress.bsky.social
@nuspress.bsky.social
What happens when pollinators disappear? 🐝
Not just fewer flowers.
Less nutrition. Less income. Less food security.
A new Nature study shows pollinator-dependent crops provide >40% of household income in vulnerable communities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glad to see our work featured among the most viewed articles in New Phytologist. Grateful for the interest from the plant science community and for the discussions the study has generated. 🌱 @wiley.com @newphyt.bsky.social
Read the Article: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Plant genetics just got a major upgrade 🌱
A new Nature Biotechnology study introduces PIVOT, a single-cell screening platform for plants.
High-throughput. Functional. Scalable.
Finally, a way to tackle redundancy in plant signaling.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
