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Subscription and Copyright Information Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
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Fortifying nematode resistance through susceptibility gene inactivation Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Huan Wang, Ziyue Li, Daowen Wang, Zheng Qing Fu
The predominant genetic defense mechanism against soybean cyst nematode (SCN) in 95% of the North America market is under threat by virulent SCN populations. Usovsky et al. identified GmSNAP02 as an SCN susceptibility gene through fine-mapping of unique bi-parental populations. Loss-of-function of GmSNAP02 confers enhanced resistance to more virulent SCN.
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Bivalent histone modifications: how phytopathogens evade plant immunity Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Guangfei Tang, Wende Liu
Bivalent histone modifications regulate gene expression during development, but little is known about their function in plant–microbe interactions. In a recent report, Zhao et al. showed that expression of bivalent chromatin-marked gene 1 (BCG1), containing a pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) motif, is epigenetically regulated by trimethylation of lysine 4 (H3K4me3) and lysine 27 (H3K27me3)
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The era of panomics-driven gene discovery in plants Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Shefali Mishra, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Aamir W. Khan, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Henry T. Nguyen
Panomics is an approach to integrate multiple ‘omics’ datasets, generated using different individuals or natural variations. Considering their diverse phenotypic spectrum, the phenome is inherently associated with panomics-based science, which is further combined with genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and other omics techniques, either independently or collectively. Panomics has been accelerated
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Dose–response curves: the next frontier in plant ecology Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Stavros D. Veresoglou, Naheeda Begum
A large fraction of experimental work in plant ecology, and thus also on ecosystem functioning and the delivery of ecosystem services, describes experiments that have been carried out under controlled (glasshouse) conditions. Controlled growth settings commonly sacrifice realism through, for example, reducing the densities of plant species in the pots and controlling how environmental settings such
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Partner or perish: tree microbiomes and climate change Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 S.L. Addison, M.A. Rúa, S.J. Smaill, B.K. Singh, S.A. Wakelin
Understanding the complex relationships between plants, their microbiomes, and environmental changes is crucial for improving growth and survival, especially for long-lived tree species. Trees, like other plants, maintain close associations with a multitude of microorganisms on and within their tissues, forming a 'holobiont'. However, a comprehensive framework for detailed tree–microbiome dynamics
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De novo domestication: what about the weeds? Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Pedro M.P. Correia, Javad Najafi, Michael Palmgren
Most high-yielding crops are susceptible to abiotic and biotic stresses, making them particularly vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change. A possible alternative is to accelerate the domestication of wild plants that are already tolerant to harsh conditions and to increase their yields by methods such as gene editing. We foresee that crops’ wild progenitors could potentially compete with
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Extracellular vesicles: a new avenue for mRNA delivery Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Shumei Wang, Paul R.J. Birch, Hailing Jin
Recent research reveals that plant mRNAs, packaged in extracellular vesicles, are delivered into fungal pathogen cells. Remarkably, the transferred mRNAs are translated by fungal ribosomes, generating functional proteins that impede infection. These findings offer new promising avenues to modify cellular performance by rapid delivery of mRNAs in plant-derived vesicles.
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Immune signaling: receptor-like proteins make the difference Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Wen R.H. Huang, Matthieu H.A.J. Joosten
To resist biotic attacks, plants have evolved a sophisticated, receptor-based immune system. Cell-surface immune receptors, which are either receptor-like kinases (RLKs) or receptor-like proteins (RLPs), form the front line of the plant defense machinery. RLPs lack a cytoplasmic kinase domain for downstream immune signaling, and leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-containing RLPs constitutively associate with
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ABI5 binding proteins: key players in coordinating plant growth and development Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Ylenia Vittozzi, Thorben Krüger, Adity Majee, Guillaume Née, Stephan Wenkel
During the course of terrestrial evolution, plants have developed complex networks that involve the coordination of phytohormone signalling pathways in order to adapt to an ever-changing environment. Transcription factors coordinate these responses by engaging in different protein complexes and exerting both positive and negative effects. ABA INSENSITIVE 5 (ABI5) binding proteins (AFPs), which are
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Hyperspectral approaches for rapid and spatial plant disease monitoring Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Yali Bai, Xiuliang Jin
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Plasma membrane H+-ATPases in mineral nutrition and crop improvement Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Houqing Zeng, Huiying Chen, Maoxing Zhang, Ming Ding, Feiyun Xu, Feng Yan, Toshinori Kinoshita, Yiyong Zhu
Plasma membrane H+-ATPases (PMAs) pump H+ out of the cytoplasm by consuming ATP to generate a membrane potential and proton motive force for the transmembrane transport of nutrients into and out of plant cells. PMAs are involved in nutrient acquisition by regulating root growth, nutrient uptake, and translocation, as well as the establishment of symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizas. Under nutrient
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SnRK1/TOR/T6P: three musketeers guarding energy for root growth Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 S. Morales-Herrera, M.J. Paul, P. Van Dijck, T. Beeckman
Sugars derived from photosynthesis, specifically sucrose, are the primary source of plant energy. Sucrose is produced in leaves and transported to the roots through the phloem, serving as a vital energy source. Environmental conditions can result in higher or lower photosynthesis, promoting anabolism or catabolism, respectively, thereby influencing the sucrose budget available for roots. Plants can
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The plant disease triangle facing climate change: a molecular perspective Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Charles Roussin-Léveillée, Christina A.M. Rossi, Christian Danve Marco Castroverde, Peter Moffett
Variations in climate conditions can dramatically affect plant health and the generation of climate-resilient crops is imperative to food security. In addition to directly affecting plants, it is predicted that more severe climate conditions will also result in greater biotic stresses. Recent studies have identified climate-sensitive molecular pathways that can result in plants being more susceptible
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Growing on calcareous soils and facing climate change Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Thibaut Bontpart, Alizée Weiss, Denis Vile, Frédéric Gérard, Benoît Lacombe, Jean-Philippe Reichheld, Stéphane Mari
Soil calcium carbonate (CaCO3) impacts plant mineral nutrition far beyond Fe metabolism, imposing constraints for crop growth and quality in calcareous agrosystems. Our knowledge on plant strategies to tolerate CaCO3 effects mainly refers to Fe acquisition. This review provides an update on plant cellular and molecular mechanisms recently described to counteract the negative effects of CaCO3 in soils
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Lost in space: what single-cell RNA sequencing cannot tell you Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Kelvin Adema, Michael A. Schon, Michael D. Nodine, Wouter Kohlen
Plant scientists are rapidly integrating single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) into their workflows. Maximizing the potential of scRNA-seq requires a proper understanding of the spatiotemporal context of cells. However, positional information is inherently lost during scRNA-seq, limiting its potential to characterize complex biological systems. In this review we highlight how current single-cell analysis
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DGK5 phosphorylation finetunes PA homeostasis in plant immunity Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Lijun Wang, Yukun Liu, Shuguo Hou
Phosphatidic acid (PA) as a universal second messenger is transiently and rapidly produced upon immune activation in plants. A recent study by Kong et al. elucidated a mechanism for maintaining PA homeostasis via two uncoupled phosphorylation events of DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE 5 (DGK5) at different phosphorylation sites by two distinct kinases.
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Sterols, pleiotropic players in plant–microbe interactions Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Christophe Der, Pierre-Emmanuel Courty, Ghislaine Recorbet, Daniel Wipf, Françoise Simon-Plas, Patricia Gerbeau-Pissot
Plant–microbe interactions (PMIs) are regulated through a wide range of mechanisms in which sterols from plants and microbes are involved in numerous ways, including recognition, transduction, communication, and/or exchanges between partners. Phytosterol equilibrium is regulated by PMIs through expression of genes involved in phytosterol biosynthesis, together with their accumulation. As such, PMI
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IMA peptides are dwarf giants fighting for fitness Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Ruonan Wang, Ping Lan, Wenfeng Li
IRON MAN (IMA) peptides have a critical role in iron uptake and homeostasis, but whether and how they associate with plant immunity signaling remain unclear. Recently, Cao et al. provided intriguing insights into the underlying plant mechanisms that restrict root iron acquisition on perception of microorganism-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) by spatial IMA-1 turnover.
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A delicate balance: transcriptional control of awn development and yield in barley Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Alisdair R. Fernie, Mustafa Bulut
In a recent study, Zhang et al. identified that MADS1-regulated lemma and awn development can positively regulate barley yield. This finding, alongside the demonstration that the function of MADS1 is conserved in wheat, suggests it is an important target for the improvement of Triticeae crops.
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A neat wheat trick to hide genes from selection Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Koki Hayashi, Alisdair R. Fernie
A recent study by Li et al. demonstrated that the removal of like heterochromatin protein 1 (LHP1) in common wheat causes developmental drawbacks, yet confers resistance to stripe rust infection. Due to its role in regulating diversified defense genes, LHP1 was suggested to be an epigenetic gatekeeper potentially promoting adaptive evolution in allopolyploid wheat.
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Engineering stomata for enhanced carbon capture and water-use efficiency: (Trends in Plant Science, 28:11 p:1290–1309, 2023) Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Thu Binh-Anh Nguyen, Cecile Lefoulon, Thanh-Hao Nguyen, Michael R. Blatt, William Carroll
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Distinguishing the functions of canonical strigolactones as rhizospheric signals Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Jian You Wang, Guan-Ting Erica Chen, Justine Braguy, Salim Al-Babili
Strigolactones (SLs) act as regulators of plant architecture as well as signals in rhizospheric communications. Reduced availability of minerals, particularly phosphorus, leads to an increase in the formation and release of SLs that enable adaptation of root and shoot architecture to nutrient limitation and, simultaneously, attract arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) for establishing beneficial symbiosis
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Evolution of reactive oxygen species cellular targets for plant development Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Vijay Pratap Singh, Saumya Jaiswal, Yuanyuan Wang, Shouli Feng, Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Samiksha Singh, Ravi Gupta, Dawei Xue, Shengchun Xu, Zhong-Hua Chen
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are the key players in regulating developmental processes of plants. Plants have evolved a large array of gene families to facilitate the ROS-regulated developmental process in roots and leaves. However, the cellular targets of ROS during plant evolutionary development are still elusive. Here, we found early evolution and large expansions of protein families such as mitogen-activated
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Two roads diverge for cellulose synthase complex trafficking Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Eskandar Mohammad, Heather E. McFarlane
Cellulose, an abundant and essential component of plant cell walls, is made by cellulose synthase complexes at the plasma membrane (PM). Recently, Liu et al. uncovered molecular mechanisms that suggest the existence of two distinct pathways for cellulose synthase trafficking from the Golgi apparatus to the PM.
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Ménage à trois: light, terpenoids, and quality of plants Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Willy Contreras-Avilés, Ep Heuvelink, Leo F.M. Marcelis, Iris F. Kappers
In controlled environment agriculture (CEA), light is used to impact terpenoid production and improve plant quality. In this review we discuss various aspects of light as important regulators of terpenoid production in different plant organs. Spectral quality primarily modifies terpenoid profiles, while intensity and photoperiod influence abundances. The central regulator of light signal transduction
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Belowground ecological interactions in dioecious plants: why do opposites attract but similar ones repel? Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Zhichao Xia, Bin J.W. Chen, Helena Korpelainen, Ülo Niinemets, Chunyang Li
Dioecious plant species exhibit sexual dimorphism in various aspects, including morphology, physiology, life history, and behavior, potentially influencing sex-specific interactions. While it is generally accepted that intersexual interactions in dioecious species are less intense compared with intrasexual interactions, the mechanisms underlying belowground facilitation in intersexual combinations
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Spatial multi-omics in medicinal plants: from biosynthesis pathways to industrial applications Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Chen Chen, Xiao Zhang, Ming Yue
With the rapid development of molecular sequencing and imaging technology, the multi-omics of medicinal plants enters the single-cell era. We discuss spatial multi-omics applied in medicinal plants, evaluate the special products’ biosynthesis pathways, and highlight the applications, perspectives, and challenges of biomanufacturing natural products (NPs).
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VAS1-mediated nitrogen reshuffling in aromatic amino acid homeostasis Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hiroshi A. Maeda, Marcos V.V. de Oliveira
Aromatic amino acids (AAAs) are essential for synthesis of proteins and numerous plant natural products, yet how plants maintain AAA homeostasis remains poorly understood. reported that the aminotransferase VAS1 plays a role in AAA homeostasis by transferring nitrogen from AAAs to non-proteinogenic amino acids, 3-carboxytyrosine and 3-carboxyphenylalanine.
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Cyclic nucleotides – the rise of a family Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Mateusz Kwiatkowski, Jinwen Zhang, Wei Zhou, Chris Gehring, Aloysius Wong
Cyclic nucleotides 3′,5′-cAMP and 3′,5′-cGMP are now established signaling components of the plant cell while their 2′,3′ positional isomers are increasingly recognized as such. 3′,5′-cAMP/cGMP is generated by adenylate cyclases (ACs) or guanylate cyclases (GCs) from ATP or GTP, respectively, whereas 2′,3′-cAMP/cGMP is produced through the hydrolysis of double-stranded DNA or RNA by synthetases. Recent
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Unearthing opportunity amid declining plant-beneficial bacteria Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Gordon F. Custer
Plant-associated microbiomes maintain biodiversity and ecosystem productivity amid global change. Under projected climate change scenarios, the abundance of plant-beneficial bacteria is expected to decrease. Altered plant-associated microbiomes may affect plant tolerance to stress and (agro-)ecosystem productivity. Forward-thinking approaches, like microbiome breeding, offer biotechnological opportunities
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Not just signals: RALFs as cell wall-structuring peptides Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jia Chen, Feng Yu, Fan Xu
Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) have long been known to act as signaling molecules in plant cells, but whether they affect cell wall (CW) patterning and expansion remains unclear. Very recent advances in tip-growing cells showed that positively charged RALFs affect key attributes of the structural components of the nascent CW.
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Quantum dots: next shift to combat plant diseases Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Temoor Ahmed, Muhammad Noman, Jason C. White, Chuanxin Ma, Qi Wang, Bin Li
Plant diseases caused by microbial pathogens significantly reduce agriculture productivity and worsen food insecurity. Recently, Qiu et al. revealed that polyethyleneimine (PEI)-coated MXene quantum dots (QDs) improve tolerance in cotton seedlings against Verticillium wilt disease by maintaining oxidative system homeostasis. This finding shows how customized QDs can be used to enhance crop disease
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Orchids acquire fungal carbon for seed germination: pathways and players Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Da-Ke Zhao, Zong-Min Mou, Yong-Ling Ruan
To germinate in nature, orchid seeds strictly rely on seed germination-promoting orchid mycorrhizal fungi (sgOMFs) for provision of carbon nutrients. The underlying delivery pathway, however, remains elusive. We develop here a plausible model for sugar transport from sgOMFs to orchid embryonic cells to fuel germination. Orchids exploit sgOMFs to induce the formation of pelotons, elaborate intracellular
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Harnessing spatial transcriptomics for advancing plant regeneration research Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Bingxu Zhang, Hailei Zhang, Yiji Xia
Song et al. utilized spatial transcriptomics to study the molecular characteristics of various cells – such as shoot primordia and chlorenchyma cells – in tomato callus during shoot regeneration. This research enhances our knowledge of shoot regeneration and demonstrates the potential of spatial transcriptomics in advancing plant biology.
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Identification and functional characterization of i-motifs in plants Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Pengtao Zhao, Yilong Feng, Peng Jiang, Wenli Zhang
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Fruit quality in organic and conventional farming: advantages and limitations Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sergi Munné-Bosch, Núria F. Bermejo
Fruit quality is essential for nutrition and human health and needs urgent attention in current agricultural practices. Organic farming is not as productive as conventional agriculture, but it can provide higher quality in some fruit crops, thanks to the absence of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, enhanced pollination, and the reduction of protection treatments, hence boosting antioxidant compound
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Energy sensors: emerging regulators of symbiotic nitrogen fixation Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Xiaolong Ke, Xuelu Wang
Legume–rhizobium symbiotic nitrogen fixation is a highly energy-consuming process. Recent studies demonstrate that nodule-specific energy sensors play important roles in modulating nodule nitrogen fixation capacity. This opens a new field in the energy regulation of symbiotic nitrogen fixation that can provide insights into designing leguminous crops with efficient nitrogen fixation.
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Genetic regulation of the root angle in cereals Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Gwendolyn K. Kirschner, Frank Hochholdinger, Silvio Salvi, Malcolm J. Bennett, Guoqiang Huang, Rahul A. Bhosale
The root angle plays a critical role in efficiently capturing nutrients and water from different soil layers. Steeper root angles enable access to mobile water and nitrogen from deeper soil layers, whereas shallow root angles facilitate the capture of immobile phosphorus from the topsoil. Thus, understanding the genetic regulation of the root angle is crucial for breeding crop varieties that can efficiently
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LncRNAs: the art of being influential without protein Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Lorena Ramírez Gonzales, Suze Blom, Rossana Henriques, Christian W.B. Bachem, Richard G.H. Immink
The plant long noncoding (lnc)RNA field is on the brink of transitioning from large-scale identification of lncRNAs to their functional characterization. Due to the cross-kingdom conservation of interaction types and molecular functions, there is much to be learned from mammalian lncRNA research. Here, we discuss the different molecular processes involving lncRNAs from the regulation of chromatin to
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Pervasive transcription of plant organelle genomes: functional noncoding transcriptomes? Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Matheus Sanita Lima, Alexandre Rossi Paschoal, Douglas Silva Domingues, David Roy Smith
Plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes typically show pervasive, genome-wide transcription. Little is known, however, about the utility of organelle noncoding RNAs, which often make up most of the transcriptome. Here, we suggest that long-read sequencing data combined with dedicated RNA databases could help identify putative functional organelle noncoding transcripts.
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Root plasticity versus elasticity – when are responses acclimative? Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tino Colombi, Bipin K. Pandey, Aakash Chawade, Malcolm J. Bennett, Sacha J. Mooney, Thomas Keller
Spatiotemporal soil heterogeneity and the resulting edaphic stress cycles can be decisive for crop growth. However, our understanding of the acclimative value of root responses to heterogeneous soil conditions remains limited. We outline a framework to evaluate the acclimative value of root responses that distinguishes between stress responses that are persistent and reversible upon stress release
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Ameliorating microalgal OMEGA production using omics platforms Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Iqra Mariam, Maurizio Bettiga, Ulrika Rova, Paul Christakopoulos, Leonidas Matsakas, Alok Patel
Over the past decade, the focus on omega (ω)-3 fatty acids from microalgae has intensified due to their diverse health benefits. Bioprocess optimization has notably increased ω-3 fatty acid yields, yet understanding of the genetic architecture and metabolic pathways of high-yielding strains remains limited. Leveraging genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics tools can provide vital system-level
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Redox regulation of the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle during cold acclimation Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Przemysław Kopeć, Marcin Rapacz, Rajeev Arora
NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) redox interaction with protein CP12 plays a role in cold acclimation. A recent study by Teh et al. describes the underlying molecular mechanisms that leads to dissociation of the autoinhibitory PRK/CP12/GAPDH (phosphoribulokinase/CP12/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase) supracomplex. We propose that chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling precedes
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Rise of the machines: artificial intelligence in plant science and publishing Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Susanne C. Brink
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Salicylic acid-driven innate antiviral immunity in plants Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, Shahid Mansoor
Pathogenic viruses are a constant threat to all organisms, including plants. However, in plants, a small group of cells (stem cells) protect themselves from viral invasion. Recently, Incarbone et al. uncovered a novel salicylic acid (SA) and RNAi mechanism of stem cell resistance, broadening our understanding of RNAi-mediated antiviral plant immunity.
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Chloroplast gene control: unlocking RNA thermometer mechanisms in photosynthetic systems Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Ali Raza, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Zhangli Hu
RNA thermometers offer straightforward, protein-independent methods to regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. In this context, have discovered a revolutionary RNA thermometer in the chloroplast genome of . This will facilitate temperature-driven control of inducible transgene expression for biotechnology applications in plant and algal systems.
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Next generation chemical priming: with a little help from our nanocarrier friends Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Gholamreza Gohari, Meng Jiang, George A. Manganaris, Jie Zhou, Vasileios Fotopoulos
Plants are exposed to multiple threats linked to climate change which can cause critical yield losses. Therefore, designing novel crop management tools is crucial. Chemical priming has recently emerged as an effective technology for improving tolerance to stress factors. Several compounds such as phytohormones, reactive species, and synthetic chimeras have been identified as promising priming agents
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Plant organellar genomes: much done, much more to do Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Jie Wang, Shenglong Kan, Xuezhu Liao, Jiawei Zhou, Luke R. Tembrock, Henry Daniell, Shuangxia Jin, Zhiqiang Wu
Plastids and mitochondria are the only organelles that possess genomes of endosymbiotic origin. In recent decades, advances in sequencing technologies have contributed to a meteoric rise in the number of published organellar genomes, and have revealed greatly divergent evolutionary trajectories. In this review, we quantify the abundance and distribution of sequenced plant organellar genomes across
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Talk is cheap: rediscovering sounds made by plants Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Andrea Nardini, Hervé Cochard, Stefan Mayr
A recent study and related commentaries have raised new interest in the phenomenon of ultrasonic sound production by plants exposed to stress, especially drought. While recent technological advancements have allowed the demonstration that these sounds can propagate in the air surrounding plants, we remind readers here that research on sound production by plants is more than 100 years old. The mechanisms
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CDC48 in plants and its emerging function in plant immunity Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Damien Inès, Pierre-Emmanuel Courty, David Wendehenne, Claire Rosnoblet
Protein homeostasis, namely the balance between protein synthesis and degradation, must be finely controlled to ensure cell survival, notably through the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). In all species, including plants, homeostasis is disrupted by biotic and abiotic stresses. A key player in the maintenance of protein balance, the protein CDC48, shows emerging functions in plants, particularly in
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AI ethics on the road to responsible AI plant science and societal welfare Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Antoine L. Harfouche, Vasiliki Petousi, Wonsup Jung
The swiftness of artificial intelligence (AI) progress in plant science begets relevant ethical questions with significant scientific and societal implications. Embracing a principled approach to regulation, ethics review and monitoring, and human-centric interpretable informed AI (HIAI), we can begin to navigate our voyage towards ethical and socially responsible AI.
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Aquaporins: a vital nexus in H2O2-gasotransmitter signaling Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Soumya Mukherjee, Suchismita Roy, Francisco J. Corpas
Land plants have evolved with a complex mechanism of water uptake facilitated by the activity of aquaporins under normal and challenging environments. However, we lack a clear understanding of its interactions with reactive oxygen species, particularly hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the gasotransmitters nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), under oxidative stress. Here, we assess the crosstalk
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Fluorescence-activated protoplast sorting for crop improvement Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Sareena Sahab, Josquin Tibbits, German Spangenberg, John Mason, Matthew Hayden
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Advisory Board and Contents Trends Plant Sci. (IF 20.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03
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