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Front cover: It has been demonstrated that in Arabidopsis thaliana, the accumulation of the plant hormone jasmonic acid at the base of fl owering petals turns on a gene expression cascade there, resulting in the activation of autophagy and vacuolar development, which in turn causes petal shedding (Furuta et al. (2024) Nat. Commun. 15: 1098, DOI: 10.1038/s41467–024–45371–3). Perhaps in the future, we will be able to control the timing of the fall of the petals in other fl owering plants, such as cherry blossoms, as we wish. Designed by TRAIS Co., Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).image