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Efficient scar-free knock-ins of several kilobases in plants by engineered CRISPR-Cas endonucleases Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Tom Schreiber, Anja Prange, Petra Schäfer, Thomas Iwen, Ramona Grützner, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Aurélie Lepage, Marie Javelle, Wyatt Paul, Alain Tissier
In plants and mammals, non-homologous end-joining is the dominant pathway to repair DNA double-strand breaks, making it challenging to generate knock-in events. In this study, we identified two groups of exonucleases from the herpes virus and the bacteriophage T7 families that conferred an up to 38-fold increase in homology-directed repair frequencies when fused to Cas9/Cas12a in a tobacco mosaic virus-based
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Primary carbohydrate metabolism genes participate in heat-stress memory at the shoot apical meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Justyna Jadwiga Olas, Federico Apelt, Maria Grazia Annunziata, Sheeba John, Sarah Isabel Richard, Saurabh Gupta, Friedrich Kragler, Salma Balazadeh, Bernd Mueller-Roeber
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Chloroplast immunity: A cornerstone of plant defense Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jie Liu, Pan Gong, Ruobin Lu, Rosa Lozano-Durán, Xueping Zhou, Fangfang Li
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The super-pangenome of Populus unveils genomic facets for its adaptation and diversification in widespread forest trees Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tingting Shi, Xinxin Zhang, Yukang Hou, Changfu Jia, Xuming Dan, Yulin Zhang, Yuanzhong Jiang, Qiang Lai, Jiajun Feng, Jianju Feng, Tao Ma, Jiali Wu, Shuyu Liu, Lei Zhang, Zhiqin Long, Liyang Chen, Nathaniel R. Street, Pär K. Ingvarsson, Jianquan Liu, Tongming Yin, Jing Wang
Understanding the underlying mechanisms and links between genome evolution and adaptive innovations stands as a key goal in evolutionary studies. Poplars, among the world’s most widely distributed and cultivated trees, exhibit extensive phenotypic diversity and environmental adaptability. In this study, we present a genus-level super-pangenome comprising 19 genomes, revealing the likely pivotal role
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Genomic selection in plant breeding: Key factors shaping two decades of progress Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Admas Alemu, Johanna Åstrand, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Julio Isidro y Sánchez, Javier Fernández-Gónzalez, Wuletaw Tadesse, Ramesh R. Vetukuri, Anders S. Carlsson, Alf Ceplitis, José Crossa, Rodomiro Ortiz, Aakash Chawade
Genomic selection, the application of genomic prediction (GP) models to select candidate individuals, has significantly advanced in the past two decades, effectively accelerating genetic gains in plant breeding. This article provides a holistic overview of key factors that have influenced GP in plant breeding during this period. We delved into the pivotal roles of training population size and genetic
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SMXL5 attenuates strigolactone signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana by inhibiting SMXL7 degradation Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Qingtian Li, Haiyang Yu, Wenwen Chang, Sunhyun Chang, Michael Guzmán, Lionel Faure, Eva-Sophie Wallner, Heqin Yan, Thomas Greb, Lei Wang, Ruifeng Yao, David C. Nelson
Hormone-activated proteolysis is a recurring theme of plant hormone signaling mechanisms. In strigolactone signaling, the enzyme receptor DWARF14 (D14) and an F-box protein, MORE AXILLARY GROWTH2 (MAX2), mark SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1-LIKE (SMXL) family proteins SMXL6, SMXL7, and SMXL8 for rapid degradation. Removal of these transcriptional corepressors initiates downstream growth responses. The homologous
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Suffocated shoots: Hypoxia-induced synthesis of salicylic acid inhibits plant regeneration Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ximena Chirinos, Francesco Licausi
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Commercial genetically modified corn and soybean are poised following pilot planting in China Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mei Sun, Suzhen Li, Wenzhu Yang, Bowen Zhao, Youhua Wang, Xiaoqing Liu
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A viral movement protein targets host catalases for 26S proteasome-mediated degradation to facilitate viral infection and aphid transmission in wheat Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Shuyuan Tian, Qingting Song, Wenmei Zhou, Jingke Wang, Yanbin Wang, Wei An, Yunfeng Wu, Lei Zhao
The infection of host plants by many different viruses causes reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and yellowing symptoms, but the mechanisms through which plant viruses counteract ROS-mediated immunity to facilitate infection and symptom development have not been fully elucidated. Most plant viruses are transmitted by insect vectors in the field, but the molecular mechanisms underlying virus‒host–insect
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Distinct phosphorylation optimizes pathogen-induced PA and ROS bursts Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Kaihuai Li, Ruize Zhang, Yong Wang, Fengquan Liu, Zheng Qing Fu
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Smart Breeding Platform: A web-based tool for high-throughput population genetics, phenomics, and genomic selection Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Huihui Li, Xin Li, Peng Zhang, Yingwei Feng, Junri Mi, Shang Gao, Lele Sheng, Mohsin Ali, Zikun Yang, Liang Li, Wei Fang, Wensheng Wang, Qian Qian, Fei Gu, Wenbin Zhou
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Global wild rice germplasm resources conservation alliance: World Wild-Rice Wiring Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xiaoming Zheng, Disna Ratnasekera, Jiayu Fan, Robert J. Henry, Beng-Kah Song, Kenneth M. Olsen, Bal Krishna Joshi, Maria Celeste N. Banaticla-Hilario, Tonapha Pusadee, Adane Getachew Melaku, Yêyinou Laura Estelle Loko, Koukham Vilayheuang, Gavers K. Oppong, Samuel Aduse Poku, Peterson W. Wambugu, Song Ge, Aldo Merotto Junior, Ohn Mar Aung, Ramaiah Venuprasad, Ajay Kohli, Wenbin Zhou, Qian Qian
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BambooBase: A comprehensive database of bamboo omics and systematics Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Yun-Long Liu, Shu-Yang Gao, Guihua Jin, Meng-Yuan Zhou, Qijuan Gao, Cen Guo, Yi-Zhou Yang, Liang-Zhong Niu, Enhua Xia, Zhen-Hua Guo, Peng-Fei Ma, De-Zhu Li
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Plant RNA-binding proteins: Phase separation dynamics and functional mechanisms underlying plant development and stress responses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sheng Fan, Yu Zhang, Shaobo Zhu, Lisha Shen
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) accompany RNA from synthesis to decay, mediating every aspect of RNA metabolism and impacting diverse cellular and developmental processes in eukaryotes. Many RBPs undergo phase separation along with their bound RNA to form and function in dynamic membraneless biomolecular condensates for spatiotemporal coordination or regulation of RNA metabolism. Increasing evidence suggests
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Pijx confers broad-spectrum seedling and panicle blast resistance by promoting the degradation of ATP β subunit and OsRbohC-mediated ROS burst in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ning Xiao, Yunyu Wu, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Zeyun Hao, Zichun Chen, Zefeng Yang, Yue Cai, Ruyi Wang, Ling Yu, Zhiping Wang, Yue Lu, Wei Shi, Cunhong Pan, Yuhong Li, Changhai Zhou, Jianju Liu, Niansheng Huang, Guangqing Liu, Hongjuan Ji, Shuhao Zhu, Shuai Fang, Yuese Ning, Aihong Li
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Curation, nomenclature, and topological classification of receptor-like kinases from 528 plant species for novel domain discovery and functional inference Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Qian Liu, Qiong Fu, Yujie Yan, Qian Jiang, Longfei Mao, Long Wang, Feng Yu, Heping Zheng
Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are the most numerous signal transduction components in plants and play important roles in determining how different plants adapt to their ecological environments. Research on RLKs has focused mainly on a small number of typical RLK members in a few model plants. There is an urgent need to study the composition, distribution, and evolution of RLKs at the holistic level
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RLKdb: A comprehensively curated database of plant receptor-like kinase families Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Zhiyuan Yin, Jinding Liu, Daolong Dou
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Expressing a human RNA demethylase as an assister improves gene-editing efficiency in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Mengyan Bai, Wenxin Lin, Chunyan Peng, Peizhe Song, Huaqin Kuang, Jieni Lin, Jieping Zhang, Jiyao Wang, Bo Chen, Huarong Li, Fanjiang Kong, Guifang Jia, Yuefeng Guan
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OcBSA: An NGS-based bulk segregant analysis tool for outcross populations Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Lingkui Zhang, Yanfeng Duan, Zewei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Shumin Chen, Chengcheng Cai, Shaoguang Duan, Kang Zhang, Guangcun Li, Feng Cheng
Constructing inbred lines for self-incompatible species and species with long generation times is challenging, making the use of F outcross/segregating populations the main strategy for genetic studies of such species. However, there is a lack of dedicated algorithms/tools for rapid quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping using the F populations. To this end, we have designed and developed an algorithm/tool
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Making connections with cell surface auxin signaling Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Angus S. Murphy
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Dynamic control of lipid provisioning in plant–fungal symbiosis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Chun-Lin Shi, Yong-Xin Liu
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BFP1: One of 700 Arabidopsis F-box proteins mediates degradation of JA oxidases to promote plant immunity Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Claus Wasternack, Bettina Hause
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Dt1 inhibits SWEET-mediated sucrose transport to regulate photoperiod-dependent seed weight in soybean Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Xiaoming Li, Zhonghui Chen, Haiyang Li, Lin Yue, Cuirong Tan, Hongjie Liu, Yilong Hu, Yuhua Yang, Xiani Yao, Lingping Kong, Xiang Huang, Bin Yu, Chunyu Zhang, Yuefeng Guan, Baohui Liu, Fanjiang Kong, Xingliang Hou
Soybean is a photoperiod-sensitive short-day crop whose reproductive period and yield are markedly affected by day-length changes. Seed weight is one of the key traits determining the soybean yield; however, the prominent genes that control the final seed weight of soybean and the mechanisms underlying the photoperiod’s effect on this trait remain poorly understood. In this study, we identify as a
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The MYC2–PUB22–JAZ4 module plays a crucial role in jasmonate signaling in tomato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Shaofang Wu, Chaoyi Hu, Changan Zhu, Yanfen Fan, Jie Zhou, Xiaojia Xia, Kai Shi, Yanhong Zhou, Christine H. Foyer, Jingquan Yu
Jasmonates (JAs), a class of lipid-derived stress hormones, play a crucial role across an array of plant physiological processes and stress responses. Although JA signaling is thought to rely predominantly on the degradation of specific JAZ proteins by SCF, it remains unclear whether other pathways are involved in the regulation of JAZ protein stability. Here, we report that PUB22, a plant U-box type
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Structures and ion transport mechanisms of plant high-affinity potassium transporters Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jiangqin Wang, Yanping Luo, Fan Ye, Zhong Jie Ding, Shao Jian Zheng, Shuai Qiao, Yong Wang, Jiangtao Guo, Wei Yang, Nannan Su
Plant high-affinity K transporters (HKTs) mediate Na and K uptake, maintain Na/K homeostasis, and therefore play crucial roles in plant salt tolerance. In this study, we present cryoelectron microscopy structures of HKTs from two classes, class I HKT1;1 from (AtHKT1;1) and class II HKT2;1 from (TaHKT2;1), in both Na- and K-bound states at 2.6- to 3.0-Å resolutions. Both AtHKT1;1 and TaHKT2;1 function
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Tomato CYP94C1 inactivates bioactive JA-Ile to attenuate jasmonate-mediated defense during fruit ripening Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Tianxia Yang, Lei Deng, Qinyang Wang, Chuanlong Sun, Muhammad Ali, Fangming Wu, Huawei Zhai, Qian Xu, Peiyong Xin, Shujing Cheng, Jinfang Chu, Tingting Huang, Chang-Bao Li, Chuanyou Li
As the master regulators of the ET signaling pathway, EIL transcription factors directly activate the expression of to inactivate bioactive JA-Ile, thereby attenuating JA-mediated defense during fruit ripening. Knockout of improves tomato fruit resistance to necrotrophs without compromising fruit quality.
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Endomembrane-biased dimerization of ABCG16 and ABCG25 transporters determines their substrate selectivity in ABA-regulated plant growth and stress responses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yeling Zhou, Yuzhu Wang, Dong Zhang, Jiansheng Liang
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are integral membrane proteins that have evolved diverse functions fulfilled via the transport of various substrates. In , the G subfamily of ABC proteins is particularly abundant and participates in multiple signaling pathways during plant development and stress responses. In this study, we revealed that two ABCG transporters, ABCG16 and ABCG25, engage in ABA-mediated
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Two gene clusters and their positive regulator SlMYB13 that have undergone domestication-associated negative selection control phenolamide accumulation and drought tolerance in tomato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Peng Cao, Jun Yang, Linghao Xia, Zhonghui Zhang, Zeyong Wu, Yingchen Hao, Penghui Liu, Chao Wang, Chun Li, Jie Yang, Jun Lai, Xianggui Li, Meng Deng, Shouchuang Wang
Among plant metabolites, phenolamides, which are conjugates of hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives and polyamines, play important roles in plant adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying phenolamide metabolism and regulation as well as the effects of domestication and breeding on phenolamide diversity in tomato remain largely unclear. In this study, we performed
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Phase separation of GRP7 facilitated by FERONIA-mediated phosphorylation inhibits mRNA translation to modulate plant temperature resilience Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fan Xu, Long Wang, Yingbin Li, Junfeng Shi, Dorothee Staiger, Feng Yu
Changes in ambient temperature profoundly affect plant growth and performance. Therefore, the molecular basis of plant acclimation to temperature fluctuation is of great interest. In this study, we discovered that GLYCINE-RICH RNA-BINDING PROTEIN 7 (GRP7) contributes to cold and heat tolerance in . We found that exposure to a warm temperature rapidly induces GRP7 condensates , which can be reversed
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Plant gene co-expression defines the biosynthetic pathway of neuroactive alkaloids Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fang Liu, Alisdair R. Fernie, Youjun Zhang
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Systematic identification of wheat spike developmental regulators by integrated multi-omics, transcriptional network, GWAS, and genetic analyses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xuelei Lin, Yongxin Xu, Dongzhi Wang, Yiman Yang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaomin Bie, Lixuan Gui, Zhongxu Chen, Yiliang Ding, Long Mao, Xueyong Zhang, Fei Lu, Xiansheng Zhang, Cristobal Uauy, Xiangdong Fu, Jun Xiao
The spike architecture of wheat plays a crucial role in determining grain number, making it a key trait for optimization in wheat breeding programs. In this study, we used a multi-omic approach to analyze the transcriptome and epigenome profiles of the young spike at eight developmental stages, revealing coordinated changes in chromatin accessibility and H3K27me3 abundance during the flowering transition
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Callus proliferation-induced hypoxic microenvironment decreases shoot regeneration competence in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Dohee Koo, Hong Gil Lee, Soon Hyung Bae, Kyounghee Lee, Pil Joon Seo
Plants are aerobic organisms that rely on molecular oxygen for respiratory energy production. Hypoxic conditions, with oxygen levels ranging between 1% and 5%, usually limit aerobic respiration and affect plant growth and development. Here, we demonstrate that the hypoxic microenvironment induced by active cell proliferation during the two-step plant regeneration process intrinsically represses the
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High-quality assembled and annotated genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana reveal chromosome evolution and changes in defense arsenals Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jubin Wang, Qingling Zhang, Jeffrey Tung, Xi Zhang, Dan Liu, Yingtian Deng, Zhendong Tian, Huilan Chen, Taotao Wang, Weixiao Yin, Bo Li, Zhibing Lai, Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, Barbara Baker, Feng Li
and are widely used models in plant biology research. However, genomic studies of these species have lagged. Here we report the chromosome-level reference genome assemblies for and with an estimated 99.5% and 99.8% completeness, respectively. Sensitive transcription start and termination site sequencing methods were developed and used for accurate gene annotation in . Comparative analyses revealed
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Lipid phosphorylation by a diacylglycerol kinase suppresses ABA biosynthesis to regulate plant stress responses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jianwu Li, Shuaibing Yao, Sang-Chul Kim, Xuemin Wang
Lipid phosphorylation by diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) that produces phosphatidic acid (PA) plays important roles in various biological processes, including stress responses, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we show that DGK5 and its lipid product PA suppress ABA biosynthesis by interacting with ABA-DEFICIENT 2 (ABA2), a key ABA biosynthesis enzyme, to negatively modulate plant response
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Spatiotemporal oxygen dynamics in young leaves reveal cyclic hypoxia in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Paolo M. Triozzi, Luca Brunello, Giacomo Novi, Gianmarco Ferri, Francesco Cardarelli, Elena Loreti, Mariano Perales, Pierdomenico Perata
Oxygen is essential for plant growth and development. Hypoxia occurs in plants due to limited oxygen availability following adverse environmental conditions as well in hypoxic niches in otherwise normoxic environments. However, the existence and functional integration of spatiotemporal oxygen dynamics with plant development remains unknown. In animal systems dynamic fluctuations in oxygen availability
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A new era for paclitaxel biosynthesis is coming Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Xiaonan Liu, Xiaoxi Zhu, Jian Cheng, Huifeng Jiang
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A step forward in breeding for ratooning ability in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Amelia Henry
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Pathogen-induced methylglyoxal negatively regulates rice bacterial blight resistance by inhibiting OsCDR1 protease activity Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Zheng-Wei Fu, Jian-Hui Li, Xiang Gao, Shi-Jia Wang, Ting-Ting Yuan, Ying-Tang Lu
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) causes bacterial blight (BB), a globally devastating disease of rice (Oryza sativa) that is responsible for significant crop loss. Sugars and sugar metabolites are important for pathogen infection, providing energy and regulating events associated with defense responses; however, the mechanisms by which they regulate such events in BB are unclear. As an inevitable
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Eat at the right time: Regulation of ER-phagy receptors in plant response to environmental stresses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Yang Shao, Jiaqi Sun, Huanquan Zheng
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Origin and diversification of maize: Two teosintes but different contributions Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Jonathan Acosta-Bayona, Gloria León-Martínez, Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
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Botrytis cinerea-induced F-box protein 1 enhances disease resistance by inhibiting JAO/JOX-mediated jasmonic acid catabolism in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Min Zhang, Weiwei Li, Tingyu Zhang, Yueyan Liu, Lijing Liu
Jasmonic acid (JA) is a crucial phytohormone that regulates plant immunity. The endogenous JA level is determined by the rates of its biosynthesis and catabolism in plants. To date, the activation of JA biosynthesis has been well documented; however, how plants repress JA catabolism upon pathogen infection remains elusive. Here, we identified Botrytis cinerea-induced F-box protein 1 (BFP1) in Arabidopsis
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Finding my way: The role of dirigent proteins in lignin assembly Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Dyoni M. Oliveira, Igor Cesarino
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An endophytic fungus interacts with the defensin-like protein OsCAL1 to regulate cadmium allocation in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Tianyu Gu, Ziai Qi, Yating Wang, Siying Chen, Jing Yan, Huapeng Qiu, Yanxuan Yu, Zijun Fang, Junmin Wang, Jiming Gong
Defensin-like proteins are conserved in multicellular organisms and contribute to innate immune responses against fungal pathogens. In rice, defensins play a novel role in regulating cadmium (Cd) efflux from the cytosol. However, whether the antifungal activity of defensins correlates with Cd-efflux function remains unknown. In this study, we isolated an endophytic Fusarium, designed Fo10, by a comparative
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Ironing out biofortification in maize: NAC78 regulates iron concentrations in kernels Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 M. Arif Ashraf, Ahmet Bakirbas
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A complete reference genome assembly for foxtail millet and Setaria-db, a comprehensive database for Setaria Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Qiang He, Chunchao Wang, Qiang He, Jun Zhang, Hongkai Liang, Zefu Lu, Kun Xie, Sha Tang, Yuhan Zhou, Bin Liu, Hui Zhi, Guanqing Jia, Ganggang Guo, Huilong Du, Xianmin Diao
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On breakthroughs and limits: Resolving structural fine-tuning of photosynthetic supercomplexes Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Eunchul Kim, Marcel Dann
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Unveiling a new regulator: Vacuolar V-ATPase mediates brassinosteroid signaling in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Shikha Malik, Justin W. Walley
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Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Mengxiao Yan, Ming Li, Yunze Wang, Xinyi Wang, M-Hossein Moeinzadeh, Dora G. Quispe-Huamanquispe, Weijuan Fan, Yijie Fang, Yuqin Wang, Haozhen Nie, Zhangying Wang, Aiko Tanaka, Bettina Heider, Jan F. Kreuze, Godelieve Gheysen, Hongxia Wang, Martin Vingron, Ralph Bock, Jun Yang
The hexaploid sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is one of the most important root crops worldwide. However, its genetic origin remains controversial, and its domestication history remains unknown. In this study, we used a range of genetic evidence and a newly developed haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis to identify two probable progenitors of sweetpotato. The diploid progenitor was likely closely related
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The CropGPT project: A call for a global, coordinated effort in precision design breeding driven by AI using biological big-data Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Wanchao Zhu, Rui Han, Xiaoyang Shang, Tao Zhou, Chengyong Liang, Xiaomeng Qin, Hong Chen, Zaiwen Feng, Hongwei Zhang, Xingming Fan, Weifu Li, Lin Li
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Cellulose synthesis in land plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Gustav B. Pedersen, Leonard Blaschek, Kristian E.H. Frandsen, Lise C. Noack, Staffan Persson
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Cultivating potential: Harnessing plant stem cells for agricultural crop improvement Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Penelope Lindsay, Kyle W. Swentowsky, David Jackson
Meristems are stem cell-containing structures that produce all plant organs and are therefore important targets for crop improvement. Developmental regulators control the balance and rate of cell divisions within the meristem. Altering these regulators impacts meristem architecture and, as a consequence, plant form. In this review, we discuss genes involved in regulating the shoot apical meristem,
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The challenge of defining rare genetic programs by single-cell RNA sequencing: Insights from phloem studies Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Xiaomin Liu, Pawel Roszak, Ykä Helariutta
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Perenniality: From model plants to applications in agriculture Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Bo Zhao, Jia-Wei Wang
To compensate for their sessile nature, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms enabling them to adapt to ever-changing environments. One such prominent feature is the evolution of diverse life history strategies, particularly such that annuals reproduce once followed by seasonal death, while perennials live longer by cycling growth seasonally. This intrinsic phenology is primarily genetic and
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Creating one-line hybrid crops by synthetic apomixis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Ronghong Liang, Caixia Gao
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Immunobiodiversity: Conserved and specific immunity across land plants and beyond Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Baptiste Castel, Karima El Mahboubi, Christophe Jacquet, Pierre-Marc Delaux
Angiosperms represent most plants that humans cultivate, grow, and eat. However, angiosperms are only one of five major land plant lineages. As a whole lineage, plants also include algal groups. All these clades represent a tremendous genetic diversity that can be investigated to reveal the evolutionary history of any given mechanism. In this review, we describe the current model of the plant immune
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A new oxidative pathway of nitric oxide production from oximes in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Pedro López-Gómez, Javier Buezo, Marina Urra, Alfonso Cornejo, Raquel Esteban, Jorge Fernández de los Reyes, Estibaliz Urarte, Estefanía Rodríguez-Dobreva, Alejandro Chamizo-Ampudia, Alejandro Eguaras, Sebastian Wolf, Daniel Marino, Victor Martínez-Merino, Jose F. Moran
Nitric oxide (NO) is an essential reactive oxygen species and a signal molecule in plants. Although several studies have proposed the occurrence of oxidative NO production, only reductive routes for NO production, such as the nitrate (NO-3) -upper-reductase pathway, have been evidenced to date in land plants. However, plants grown axenically with ammonium as the sole source of nitrogen exhibit contents
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Plant grafting: Molecular mechanisms and applications Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ming Feng, Frauke Augstein, Abdul Kareem, Charles W. Melnyk
People have grafted plants since antiquity for propagation, to increase yields, and to improve stress tolerance. This cutting and joining of tissues activates an incredible regenerative ability as different plants fuse and grow as one. For over a hundred years, people have studied the scientific basis for how plants graft. Today, new techniques and a deepening knowledge of the molecular basis for graft
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Multi-omics: Powerful accelerator for uncovering plant specialized metabolic pathways: The case of leonurine Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Priyanka Gupta, Anuj Sharma, Dinesh A. Nagegowda
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Woody plant cell walls: Fundamentals and utilization Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Wei Li, Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin, Ying-Lan Chen, Chenguang Zhou, Shuang Li, Nette De Ridder, Dyoni M. Oliveira, Lanjun Zhang, Baocai Zhang, Jack P. Wang, Changzheng Xu, Xiaokang Fu, Keming Luo, Ai-Min Wu, Taku Demura, Meng-Zhu Lu, Yihua Zhou, Laigeng Li, Toshiaki Umezawa, Wout Boerjan, Vincent L. Chiang
Cell walls in plants, particularly forest trees, are the major carbon sink of the terrestrial ecosystem. Chemical and biosynthetic features of plant cell walls were revealed early on, focusing mostly on herbaceous model species. Recent developments in genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, transgenesis, and associated analytical techniques are enabling novel insights into formation of woody cell walls
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New mechanistic insights into phosphate-starvation-regulated plant architecture change and nutrient uptake Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Hong Lu, Rongbin Lin, Meiju Deng, Kangming Jin, Chuanzao Mao
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