Here's this week’s round up of the most shared items on Bluesky. It's been a frustrating week, this week. Not because it's difficult to track down papers, but the opposite. There's plenty here that I'd want to read properly and write about. But there's also plenty that didn't make the list that was interesting too. Enough things came in on Friday alone, that I could be busy for a week. For some reason I was expecting the summer to be quiet. As usual, papers behind a paywall are marked 💰otherwise they're free to access at time of checking. How this works We scan posts by people on the Botany Auto list and pull out the entries with links to papers. Every time a paper gets a post written about it it gets 4 points. It gets 3 points for a repost and 1 point for a like. We try to add people to the Botany Auto post, if they post about Botany (doesn't have to be links to papers) around 20% of the time or more. The belief is that because the list as a whole shares an interest in plants, it's this material that tends to rise to the top. If you think you should be on the Botany Auto list, but aren't, please drop a message to @botany.one on Bluesky.

  1. A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization Mbadinga Zamar, D. L. et al. · bioRxiv · 2 posts · 61 likes · 37 reposts on Bluesky How the functional innovations that enabled plants to first colonize land 450 million years ago evolved remains puzzling. Here, we show that the gain of a single family of enzymes was pivotal in the evolution of two of these innovations, the cuticle that protect plants from dehydration and UV light, and the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal symbiosis promoting water and nutrient uptake.
  2. Techniques and challenges in studying photosynthetic diversity in freshwater submerged vascular plants Loew‐Mendelson, E. et al. · Applications in Plant Sciences · 2 posts · 29 likes · 16 reposts on Bluesky While the photosynthetic diversity of aquatic plants rivals that of terrestrial species, the...