2026-08

Plant Physiology & Development

Plants Silence Pathogens with RNA—Turning Defense Signals into a Spray

Plant Physiology & Development

Do Stomata Open or Close in Heat?—How Plants Balance Water and Cooling

Plant Physiology & Development

Plants Slow Down Just Before Flowering—A Critical Transition Found in Arabidopsis

Plant Health & Interactions

Four Wheat Rust-Resistance Names Turned Out to Be One Gene—The Identity of Yr26

Plant Physiology & Development

The Oxygen Plants Release Does Not Come from CO₂—Tracing How Water Becomes O₂

Research

Where Did Cultivated Chrysanthemums Come From? A Hexaploid Genome Traces Their History Across China, Japan and the World

Research

Why Did Grasses Become So Successful? The Evolutionary Origins of Starch and Lignin Metabolic Innovations

Research

Can a One-Base Deletion Make Rice Stronger? A Truncated NLR8 Variant Confers Drought and Blast Resistance

Ecology & Evolution

An Insect Stuck to a Plant Does Not Prove Carnivory: How Saxifraga candelabrum Was Shown to Eat Prey

Ecology & Evolution

The Oldest Chemically Confirmed Amber Is 385 Million Years Old—Resin Chemistry Predates the Rise of Seed Plants