Plants MDPI

@Plants_MDPI

Plants (ISSN 2223-7747; IF=4.0, CiteScore 6.5) is an international, scientific, #OpenAccess journal of #plant science.

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 24

🌿 New in Plants: Can grass help cabbages manage iron deficiency? Intercropping Brassica oleracea with Poa pratensis improved chlorophyll levels, PSII efficiency, and Zn/Mn uptake under Fe stress. 🧪 Saavedra et al. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUnT6 #Intercropping #IronEfficiency

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌿 New in Plants: Can grass help cabbages manage iron deficiency?

Intercropping Brassica oleracea with Poa pratensis improved chlorophyll levels, PSII efficiency, and Zn/Mn uptake under Fe stress.

🧪 Saavedra et al.
🔗 brnw.ch/21wUnT6

#Intercropping #IronEfficiency

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 25

📢 Call for submissions! 🧬 Explore biotech tools in legume crop improvement From gene editing to omics-driven breeding 🎓 Guest Editor: Dr. Dario Paolo 📅 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUqOz #PlantBiotech #Legumes #SustainableAg #CRISPR #MDPIPlants

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 📢 Call for submissions!

🧬 Explore biotech tools in legume crop improvement
From gene editing to omics-driven breeding

🎓 Guest Editor: Dr. Dario Paolo
📅 Submit by 31 Dec 2025

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUqOz

#PlantBiotech #Legumes #SustainableAg #CRISPR #MDPIPlants

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 25

🌿 Plants study on Japanese plum shoot regeneration shows light spectrum × BA interactions are key. 🔴 Red + 2.5 mg/L BA = best results from seed explants. 📖 brnw.ch/21wUqqV #PlantTissueCulture #LightSpectrum #LEDs #PlantBiotech #PrunusSalicina #PlantsMDPI

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌿 Plants study on Japanese plum shoot regeneration shows light spectrum × BA interactions are key.

🔴 Red + 2.5 mg/L BA = best results from seed explants.

📖 brnw.ch/21wUqqV

#PlantTissueCulture #LightSpectrum #LEDs #PlantBiotech #PrunusSalicina #PlantsMDPI

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 25

🪴 Plants study explores how soil cover thickness affects vine leaf traits via nutrient cycling & enzyme activity. Each vine species showed distinct strategies in mining area restoration. Key: soil ammonium, phosphorus, enzyme C/N & N/P ratios. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUq1F

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🪴 Plants study explores how soil cover thickness affects vine leaf traits via nutrient cycling &amp; enzyme activity.

Each vine species showed distinct strategies in mining area restoration. Key: soil ammonium, phosphorus, enzyme C/N &amp; N/P ratios.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUq1F

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 25

🌱 Apocynum venetum shows strong resilience to salt and alkali stress! New study in Plants highlights structural changes in roots and stems, plus increased flavonoids and sugars under stress. ✍️ Zhang et al. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUpBa #SaltStress #AbioticStress #PlantsMDPI

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌱 Apocynum venetum shows strong resilience to salt and alkali stress!

New study in Plants highlights structural changes in roots and stems, plus increased flavonoids and sugars under stress.

✍️ Zhang et al.
🔗 brnw.ch/21wUpBa

#SaltStress #AbioticStress #PlantsMDPI

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 24

🦠 Can a rare Sicilian plant fight superbugs? 🌿 Daucus nebrodensis EO inhibits B. subtilis, P. aeruginosa, and M. smegmatis biofilms (55%). 🌍 Rich in monoterpenes like sabinene, this EO offers natural defense against resistant bacteria. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUoTD

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🦠 Can a rare Sicilian plant fight superbugs?

🌿 Daucus nebrodensis EO inhibits B. subtilis, P. aeruginosa, and M. smegmatis biofilms (55%).

🌍 Rich in monoterpenes like sabinene, this EO offers natural defense against resistant bacteria.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUoTD

Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 24

🌾 Can we detect #drought tolerance in #wheat with #sensors? New Plants study used NDVI, PRI, and LIFT to phenotype wheat under water stress in Brazil’s Cerrado 🌵 Sensors ≈ yield + physiology data—fast, non-invasive, & scalable! 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUomC #AgTech

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌾 Can we detect #drought tolerance in #wheat with #sensors?

New Plants study used NDVI, PRI, and LIFT to phenotype wheat under water stress in Brazil’s Cerrado 🌵

Sensors ≈ yield + physiology data—fast, non-invasive, &amp; scalable!

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUomC

#AgTech

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 24

🧬 How can we safeguard food systems in a changing climate? Explore the new @Plants_MDPI Special Issue: Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Plants 🌾 Explore #biodiversity for breeding, #conservation & #resilience. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUnPz

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🧬 How can we safeguard food systems in a changing climate?

Explore the new @Plants_MDPI Special Issue:
Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Plants

🌾 Explore #biodiversity for breeding, #conservation &amp; #resilience.

🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
🔗 brnw.ch/21wUnPz

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 24

📍 Flowering varies—right down to the meter. Kim & Oh studied Taraxacum officinale across 5 Korean sites, finding that microhabitats (slope, moisture, mowing) significantly impact flowering phenology 🌼 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUnwY #PlantEcology #Microclimate #Phenology

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 📍 Flowering varies—right down to the meter.

Kim &amp; Oh studied Taraxacum officinale across 5 Korean sites, finding that microhabitats (slope, moisture, mowing) significantly impact flowering phenology 🌼

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUnwY

#PlantEcology #Microclimate #Phenology

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 23

🌱 Boost #rosemary propagation with science! Float, mist, or aeroponics? Powder or gel IBA? How much daminozide? This Plants study shows how to optimize rooting & growth in Salvia rosmarinus cuttings. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUn2c #Hydroponics #PlantScience #SoillessSystems

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌱 Boost #rosemary propagation with science!

Float, mist, or aeroponics? Powder or gel IBA? How much daminozide?

This Plants study shows how to optimize rooting &amp; growth in Salvia rosmarinus cuttings.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUn2c

#Hydroponics #PlantScience #SoillessSystems

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 23

🌿 Strengthen crop defenses with genetics! This Plants SI covers CRISPR, GWAS, MAS & resistance breeding. Edited by Dr. Heinz & Prof. Yang 📅 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUmvU #CRISPR #DiseaseResistance #PlantsMDPI #PlantBreeding

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌿 Strengthen crop defenses with genetics!

This Plants SI covers CRISPR, GWAS, MAS &amp; resistance breeding.
Edited by Dr. Heinz &amp; Prof. Yang

📅 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 brnw.ch/21wUmvU

#CRISPR #DiseaseResistance #PlantsMDPI #PlantBreeding

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 23

🌱 Soilless farming = Precision + Sustainability New Plants review covers nutrient dynamics, smart control systems, and microbiome engineering in soilless systems. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUm7e #AgriTech #SoillessFarming #SoillessCultivation #Rhizosphere #SmartAg #FoodTech

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌱 Soilless farming = Precision + Sustainability

New Plants review covers nutrient dynamics, smart control systems, and microbiome engineering in soilless systems.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUm7e

#AgriTech #SoillessFarming #SoillessCultivation #Rhizosphere #SmartAg #FoodTech

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 23

♻️ What if pre-harvest tobacco waste could rejuvenate skin? This Plants study shows that NaDES-extracted compounds from discarded leaves inhibit skin-aging enzymes—without toxicity. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUlLG #TobaccoByproducts #AntiAging #SustainableCosmetics #NaDES

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. ♻️ What if pre-harvest tobacco waste could rejuvenate skin?

This Plants study shows that NaDES-extracted compounds from discarded leaves inhibit skin-aging enzymes—without toxicity.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUlLG

#TobaccoByproducts #AntiAging #SustainableCosmetics #NaDES

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 22

🌸 Colour-changing flowers? This Plants review unpacks how pigment biosynthesis, pH, co-pigmentation & gene regulation drive flower colour transitions in angiosperms. ✍️ Rezende et al. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUli4 #Anthocyanins #PlantPigments #PlantsMDPI #FloralBiology

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌸 Colour-changing flowers?

This Plants review unpacks how pigment biosynthesis, pH, co-pigmentation &amp; gene regulation drive flower colour transitions in angiosperms.

✍️ Rezende et al.
🔗 brnw.ch/21wUli4

#Anthocyanins #PlantPigments #PlantsMDPI #FloralBiology

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 22

💧 What grows in Sardinia’s vanishing ponds? Brullo et al. catalog 35 plant communities (18 new!) in the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea class—ephemeral flora on submerged soils. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUkKQ #Syntaxonomy #WetlandEcology #MediterraneanFlora #PlantsMDPI #Phytosociology

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 💧 What grows in Sardinia’s vanishing ponds?

Brullo et al. catalog 35 plant communities (18 new!) in the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea class—ephemeral flora on submerged soils.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUkKQ

#Syntaxonomy #WetlandEcology #MediterraneanFlora #PlantsMDPI #Phytosociology

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 22

🧬 Can we save Malania oleifera? This endangered tree from Yunnan now has a working in vitro protocol! Somatic embryogenesis + phenolic control = new hope for conservation & bioindustry use. ✍️ Liang et al. 📖 brnw.ch/21wUklw #PlantBiotech #EndangeredSpecies

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🧬 Can we save Malania oleifera?

This endangered tree from Yunnan now has a working in vitro protocol! Somatic embryogenesis + phenolic control = new hope for conservation &amp; bioindustry use.

✍️ Liang et al.
📖 brnw.ch/21wUklw

#PlantBiotech #EndangeredSpecies

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 22

🧬 Pectins = photosynthetic brakes? This Plants study suggests pectins may help plants resist gm declines under drought & salt stress—supporting internal CO₂ flow and WUE. A novel take on cell wall function! 📖 brnw.ch/21wUjXY #PlantStress #Photosynthesis #Pectins

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🧬 Pectins = photosynthetic brakes?

This Plants study suggests pectins may help plants resist gm declines under drought &amp; salt stress—supporting internal CO₂ flow and WUE.

A novel take on cell wall function!

📖 brnw.ch/21wUjXY

#PlantStress #Photosynthesis #Pectins

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 21

🌿 What makes Arundo donax so invasive? Kato-Noguchi et al. review how this fast-growing species survives drought, flooding, herbivory & fire—with toxic alkaloids, allelopathy & resilience. A must-read on plant #invasionbiology! 🔗 mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/1… #PlantEcology

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌿 What makes Arundo donax so invasive?

Kato-Noguchi et al. review how this fast-growing species survives drought, flooding, herbivory &amp; fire—with toxic alkaloids, allelopathy &amp; resilience.

A must-read on plant #invasionbiology!

🔗 mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/1…

#PlantEcology

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Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 21

🌱 Can hydroponic wheat sprouts become next-gen livestock feed? Grigas et al. show that nutrient balance—especially NPK—boosts both yield & nutritional value in hydro systems. A win for precision agriculture & feed sustainability! 🔗 mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/1… #ForageInnovation

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🌱 Can hydroponic wheat sprouts become next-gen livestock feed?

Grigas et al. show that nutrient balance—especially NPK—boosts both yield &amp; nutritional value in hydro systems.

A win for precision agriculture &amp; feed sustainability!

🔗 mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/1…

#ForageInnovation

Plants MDPI@Plants_MDPI · Jul 21

🔥 Drought threatens crops—but plants fight back! This Top Cited Plants MDPI review by Qiao et al. reveals how drought impairs photosynthesis and how crops adapt via NPQ, ABA signaling & structural changes. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wUiB4 #DroughtStress #FoodSecurity #EditorChoice

Plants_MDPI's tweet image. 🔥 Drought threatens crops—but plants fight back!

This Top Cited Plants MDPI review by Qiao et al. reveals how drought impairs photosynthesis and how crops adapt via NPQ, ABA signaling &amp; structural changes.

🔗 brnw.ch/21wUiB4

#DroughtStress #FoodSecurity #EditorChoice

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