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Single-nucleus transcriptomes reveal spatiotemporal symbiotic perception and early response in Medicago Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Zhijian Liu, Jun Yang, Yanping Long, Chi Zhang, Dapeng Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Wentao Dong, Li Zhao, Chengwu Liu, Jixian Zhai, Ertao Wang
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Dually biofortified cisgenic tomatoes with increased flavonoids and branched-chain amino acids content Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Marta Vazquez-Vilar, Asun Fernandez-del-Carmen, Victor Garcia-Carpintero, Margit Drapal, Silvia Presa, Dorotea Ricci, Gianfranco Diretto, José Luis Rambla, Rafael Fernandez-Muñoz, Ana Espinosa-Ruiz, Paul D. Fraser, Cathie Martin, Antonio Granell, Diego Orzaez
Higher dietary intakes of flavonoids may have a beneficial role in cardiovascular disease prevention. Additionally, supplementation of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) in vegan diets can reduce risks associated to their deficiency, particularly in older adults, which can cause loss of skeletal muscle strength and mass. Most plant-derived foods contain only small amounts of BCAAs, and those plants
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What is in store for the tropical forests of Indo-Australia? New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Timothy M. A. Utteridge
Our understanding of tropical forests, including their distribution, species composition, structure, and function, is still very limited. In a warming world, it is imperative to try and forecast how forests will respond to more pronounced changes in weather extremes, especially drought and fires, particularly when exacerbated by El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events (oscillating between the warming
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The vacuolar Ca2+ transporter CATION EXCHANGER 2 regulates cytosolic calcium homeostasis, hypoxic signaling, and response to flooding in Arabidopsis thaliana New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Arkadipta Bakshi, Won-Gyu Choi, Su-Hwa Kim, Simon Gilroy
Introduction Environmental conditions, including soil compaction, intense microorganism activity, and flooding, can all lead to plants experiencing O2-deficient surroundings, especially around the root system. These kinds of events can have devastating effects on plant productivity with flooding being one of the major factors in global crop losses (Fukao et al., 2019). However, plants have evolved
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Identification and biosynthesis of plant papanridins, a group of novel oligomeric flavonoids Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Yue Zhu, Seyit Yuzuak, Xiaoyan Sun, De-Yu Xie
The discovery of novel flavonoids and a deeper understanding of their biosynthesis are fundamental to understand their roles in plants and their benefits for human and animal health. Herein, we report a new polymerization pathway of a group of novel oligomeric flavonoids in plants. We engineered red cells for discovering genes of interest involved in the flavonoid pathway and identified a gene encoding
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Plantorganelle Hunter is an effective deep-learning-based method for plant organelle phenotyping in electron microscopy Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Xuping Feng, Zeyu Yu, Hui Fang, Hangjin Jiang, Guofeng Yang, Liting Chen, Xinran Zhou, Bing Hu, Chun Qin, Gang Hu, Guipei Xing, Boxi Zhao, Yongqiang Shi, Jiansheng Guo, Feng Liu, Bo Han, Bernd Zechmann, Yong He, Feng Liu
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The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to enhance metallic micronutrient uptake and mitigate food contamination in agriculture: prospects and challenges New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Eduardo Moreno Jiménez, Nuria Ferrol, Nicolas Corradi, Jesús M. Peñalosa, Matthias C. Rillig
Optimizing agroecosystems and crops for micronutrient uptake while reducing issues with inorganic contaminants (metal(loid)s) is a challenging task. One promising approach is to use arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and investigate the physiological, molecular and epigenetic changes that occur in their presence and that lead to changes in plant metal(loid) concentration (biofortification of micronutrients
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Allelopathy-selected microbiomes mitigate chemical inhibition of plant performance New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Daniel Revillini, Aaron S. David, Alma L. Reyes, Leslie D. Knecht, Carolina Vigo, Preston Allen, Christopher A. Searcy, Michelle E. Afkhami
Introduction Competition via allelopathy is a notable mechanism that structures plant communities (Inderjit et al., 2011; Hierro & Callaway, 2021). Allelopathy has a broad taxonomic distribution, as a recent meta-analysis shows that 72% of all plant families are capable of producing bioactive secondary metabolites (allelochemicals; Kalisz et al., 2021). Allelopathy is also common across ecosystems
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A terpene synthase supergene locus determines chemotype in Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Julia Voelker, Ramil Mauleon, Mervyn Shepherd
Introduction The chemical composition of a plant's essential oil is usually complex involving hundreds of volatile terpenes (synonym for ‘terpenes and terpenoids’), each of which may vary continuously over a large absolute range and constitute from a little to almost all of the extractable oil as a proportion. In many species, the variation in an oil component has a multimodal distribution, and it
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Climate change and food security: Plant science roles Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Lexuan Gao, Xiaofeng Cui
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The winners of Rising Stars in Plant Sciences 2023 Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Xiao Yang, Juanying Ye, Lexuan Gao, Xiaofeng Cui
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The E3 ubiquitin ligase CSIT1 regulates critical sterility-inducing temperature by ribosome-associated quality control to safeguard two-line hybrid breeding in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Guoqing Peng, Minglong Liu, Liya Zhu, Wenlong Luo, Qinghua Wang, Mumei Wang, Huiqiong Chen, Ziliang Luo, Yueping Xiao, Yongjie Zhang, Haona Hong, Zhenlan Liu, Lingyan Zhou, Guoqiang Guo, Yingxiang Wang, Chuxiong Zhuang, Hai Zhou
Two-line hybrid breeding can fully utilize heterosis in crops. In thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) lines, low critical sterility-inducing temperature (CSIT) is vital to safeguard the production of two-line hybrid seeds in rice (Oryza sativa), but the molecular mechanism determining CSIT is unclear. Here, we cloned CRITICAL STERILITY-INDUCING TEMPERATURE 1 (CSIT1) that encodes an E3 ubiquitin
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Plant photosystem II assembly: TROL2 to the rescue Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Sujith Puthiyaveetil, Steven D. McKenzie
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The Dof transcription factor COG1 is a key regulator of plant biomass by promoting photosynthesis and starch accumulation Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Zhuoyun Wei, Haoyong Zhang, Meng Fang, Shuyuan Lin, Mingsong Zhu, Yuxiu Li, Limin Jiang, Tianliang Cui, Yanwei Cui, Hong Kui, Liang Peng, Xiaoping Gou, Jia Li
Photosynthetic efficiency is the primary determinant of crop yield, including either vegetative biomass or grain yield. Manipulation of key transcription factors known to directly control photosynthetic machinery can be an effective strategy to improve photosynthetic traits. Here, we identified an Arabidopsis gain-of-function mutant cogwheel1-3D (cog1-3D) that shows a significantly enlarged rosette
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TBtools-II: A "One for All, All for One" Bioinformatics Platform for Biological Big-data Mining Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Chengjie Chen, Ya Wu, Jiawei Li, Xiao Wang, Zaohai Zeng, Jing Xu, Yuanlong Liu, Junting Feng, Hao Chen, Yehua He, Rui Xia
Since its official release in 2020, TBtools has demonstrated its superior functionality in data analysis as a stand-alone bioinformatics toolkit by the widespread adoption of many thousands of users and references in more than 5,000 academic articles. Now TBtools has become a commonly used tool in biological laboratories. Over the past three years, thanks to invaluable feedback and suggestions from
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Systemic movement of long non-coding RNA ELENA1 attenuates leaf senescence under nitrogen deficiency Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Steven Le Hung Cheng, Haiying Xu, Janelle Hui Ting Ng, Nam-Hai Chua
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Strikingly convergent genome alterations in two independently evolved holoparasites Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-21
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The molecular basis of heat stress responses in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yi Kan, Xiao-Rui Mu, Jin Gao, Hong-Xuan Lin, Youshun Lin
Global warming impacts crop production and threatens food security. Elevated temperatures are sensed by different cell components. Temperature increases are classified as either mild warm temperatures or excessively hot temperatures, and these are perceived by distinct signaling pathways in plants. Warm temperatures induce thermomorphogenesis, while high temperature stress triggers heat acclimation
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Sailing in Complex Nutrient Signaling Networks: Where I Am, Where to Go and How to Go? Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Zhenzhen Zhang, Zhaochen Zhong, Yan Xiong
To ensure survival and promote growth, sessile plants have developed intricate internal signaling networks tailored in diverse cells and organs with both shared and specialized functions that respond to various internal and external cues. A fascinating question arises: how can a plant cell or organ diagnose the spatial and temporal information it is experiencing to know ‘where I am’, and then is able
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Plant-derived foot-and-mouth disease virus antibodies fused to horseradish peroxidase are efficient diagnostic reagents Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Hyun Ji Park, Sukyo Jeong, Kyung-Jin Min, Haemyeong Jung, Seung Hee Jo, Jae-Won Byun, Jihee Yun, Jae-Min Lim, Hyun-Soon Kim, Hyo-Jun Lee, Suk-Yoon Kwon, Sang Jick Kim, Hye Sun Cho
Although, the recombinant HRP was successfully expressed and purified in Nicotiana benthamiana (Huddy et al., 2018) and plant-based antibody fused to HRP protein is being sold commercially (Cape Bio Pharms, Cape town, South Africa), a solid-phase competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (SPCE) based on plant-produced HRP fused to a diagnostic antibody for viral detection has yet to be reported
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Stage-specific genotype-by-environment interactions determine yield components in wheat Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Khadija Sabir, Till Rose, Benjamin Wittkop, Andreas Stahl, Rod J. Snowdon, Agim Ballvora, Wolfgang Friedt, Henning Kage, Jens Léon, Frank Ordon, Hartmut Stützel, Holger Zetzsche, Tsu-Wei Chen
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Balanophora genomes display massively convergent evolution with other extreme holoparasites and provide novel insights into parasite–host interactions Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Xiaoli Chen, Dongming Fang, Yuxing Xu, Kunyu Duan, Satoko Yoshida, Shuai Yang, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Hui Fu, Xuanmin Guang, Min Liu, Chenyu Wu, Yang Liu, Weixue Mu, Yewen Chen, Yannan Fan, Fang Wang, Shufeng Peng, Dishen Shi, Yayu Wang, Runxian Yu, Wen Zhang, Yuqing Bai, Zhong-Jian Liu, Qiaoshun Yan, Xin Liu, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Jianqiang Wu, Sean W. Graham, Huan Liu
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Blueprint for non-transgenic edited plants Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Jean-Luc Gallois, Fabien Nogué
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Promiscuous CYP87A enzyme activity initiates cardenolide biosynthesis in plants Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Maritta Kunert, Chloe Langley, Rosalind Lucier, Kerstin Ploss, Carlos E. Rodríguez López, Delia A. Serna Guerrero, Eva Rothe, Sarah E. O’Connor, Prashant D. Sonawane
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Gibberellin signaling regulates lignin biosynthesis to modulate rice seed shattering Plant Cell (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Hao Wu, Qi He, Bing He, Shuyi He, Longjun Zeng, Longbo Yang, Hong Zhang, Zhaoran Wei, Xingming Hu, Jiang Hu, Yong Zhang, Lianguang Shang, Suikang Wang, Peng Cui, Guosheng Xiong, Qian Qian, Quan Wang
The elimination of seed shattering was a key step in rice (Oryza sativa) domestication. In this paper, we show that increasing the gibberellic acid (GA) content or response in the abscission region enhanced seed shattering in rice. We demonstrate that SLENDER RICE1 (SLR1), the key repressor of GA signaling, could physically interact with the rice seed shattering-related transcription factors QTL of
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A CYP78As–SMG4–COPⅡ pathway promotes grain size in rice Plant Cell (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Chunlei Zhou, Qibing Lin, Yulong Ren, Jie Lan, Rong Miao, Miao Feng, Xin Wang, Xi Liu, Shengzhong Zhang, Tian Pan, Jiachang Wang, Sheng Luo, Jinsheng Qian, Wenfan Luo, Changling Mou, Thanhliem Nguyen, Zhijun Cheng, Xin Zhang, Cailin Lei, Shanshan Zhu, Xiuping Guo, Jie Wang, Zhichao Zhao, Shijia Liu, Ling Jiang, Jianmin Wan
CYP78A, a cytochrome P450 subfamily that includes rice (Oryza sativa L.) BIG GRAIN2 (BG2, CYP78A13) and Arabidopsis thaliana KLUH (KLU, CYP78A5), generates an unknown mobile growth signal (referred to as a CYP78A-derived signal) that increases grain (seed) size. However, the mechanism by which the CYP78A pathway increases grain size remains elusive. Here, we characterized a rice small grain mutant
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Evolutionarily conserved protein motifs drive interactions between the plant nucleoskeleton and nuclear pores Plant Cell (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sarah Mermet, Maxime Voisin, Joris Mordier, Tristan Dubos, Sylvie Tutois, Pierre Tuffery, Célia Baroux, Kentaro Tamura, Aline V Probst, Emmanuel Vanrobays, Christophe Tatout
The nucleoskeleton forms a filamentous meshwork under the nuclear envelope and contributes to the regulation of nuclear shape and gene expression. To understand how the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) nucleoskeleton physically connects to the nuclear periphery in plants, we investigated the Arabidopsis nucleoskeleton protein KAKU4 and sought for functional regions responsible for its localisation
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MADS8 is indispensable for female reproductive development at high ambient temperatures in cereal crops Plant Cell (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Chaoqun Shen, Yueya Zhang, Gang Li, Jin Shi, Duoxiang Wang, Wanwan Zhu, Xiujuan Yang, Ludovico Dreni, Matthew R Tucker, Dabing Zhang
Temperature is a major factor that regulates plant growth and phenotypic diversity. To ensure reproductive success at a range of temperatures, plants must maintain developmental stability of their sexual organs when exposed to temperature fluctuations. However, the mechanisms integrating plant floral organ development and temperature responses are largely unknown. Here, we generated barley and rice
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Glucose Status within Dark-Grown Etiolated Cotyledons Determines Seedling De-etiolation upon Light Irradiation Plant Physiol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Xin-rong Mu, Yi-Bo Wang, Qin-xin Bao, Yu-ting Wei, Sheng-ting Zhao, Wen-zhe Tao, Yu-xin Liu, Wan-Ni Wang, Fu-huan Yu, Chen Tong, Jing-wen Wang, Cheng-yue Gu, Qi-meng Wang, Xin-ran Liu, Na Sai, Jin-Lei Zhu, Jian Zhang, Gary J Loake, Lai-sheng Meng
Exposure of dark-grown etiolated seedlings to light triggers the transition from skotomorphogenesis/etiolation to photomorphogenesis/de-etiolation. In the life cycle of plants, de-etiolation is essential for seedling development and plant survival. The mobilization of soluble sugars (glucose, sucrose and fructose) derived from stored carbohydrates and lipids to target organs, including cotyledons,
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Reprogramming of hormone-mediated antiviral responses in plants by viruses: a molecular tug of war on the salicylic acid-mediated immunity Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Faisal Islam, Shan Liu, Huan Chen, Jian Chen
Plants are consistently exposed to pathogens throughout their life cycle and have developed sophisticated and effective regulatory mechanisms to protect themselves against infections. Viruses, as obligate pathogens, can trigger numerous pathological changes and cause systemic damages that impact all aspects of plant life through encoded viral proteins, conceptually considered as "effectors". Phytohormones
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New resistance gene against maize rough dwarf disease identified in cereal crops Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-19
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How to establish a GAPLESS Casparian strip Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Milica Nenadić, Joop E. M. Vermeer
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Data before dogma Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-18
Forty years ago, Barbara McClintock — an exceptional plant scientist — was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; only the third woman to win a Nobel prize without collaborators.
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Transgene-free genome editing of vegetatively propagated and perennial plant species in the T0 generation via a co-editing strategy Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Xiaoen Huang, Hongge Jia, Jin Xu, Yuanchun Wang, Jiawen Wen, Nian Wang
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Redesigning the tomato fruit shape for mechanized production Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Qiang Zhu, Lei Deng, Jie Chen, Gustavo R. Rodríguez, Chuanlong Sun, Zeqian Chang, Tianxia Yang, Huawei Zhai, Hongling Jiang, Yasin Topcu, David Francis, Samuel Hutton, Liang Sun, Chang-Bao Li, Esther van der Knaap, Chuanyou Li
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Rice roots avoid asymmetric heavy metal and salinity stress via a RBOH-ROS-auxin signaling cascade Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Han-Qing Wang, Xing-Yu Zhao, Wei Xuan, Peng Wang, Fang-Jie Zhao
Root developmental plasticity is crucial for plants to adapt to changing soil environment, where nutrients and abiotic stress factors are distributed heterogeneously. How plant roots sense and avoid heterogeneous abiotic stress in soil remains unclear. Here, we show that, in response to asymmetric stress of heavy metals (Cd, Cu or Pb) and salt (NaCl), rice roots rapidly proliferate lateral roots (LR)
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Poplar wood - inside out: High-resolution spatial, cellular, and pseudotime projections from cambial transcriptomes Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Shruti Choudhary, Hannele Tuominen
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Establishment of high-efficiency genome editing in white birch (Betula platyphylla Suk.) Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Dawei Cheng, Yueying Liu, Yi Wang, Lesheng Cao, Siyao Wu, Song Yu, Li-nan Xie, Huiyu Li, Jing Jiang, Guifeng Liu, Qingzhu Zhang, Zhimin Zheng
To cope with increasing climate change, growing demands of society, the long breeding cycles and various stresses, that is necessary to establish molecular breeding system, through transgene and genome editing technology, for natural forest tree species. White birch (Betula platyphylla Suk.), belonging to the Betulaceae family, is distributed in the Northeast China forest with ecological and economic
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Ustilaginoidea virens-secreted effector Uv1809 suppresses rice immunity by enhancing OsSRT2-mediated histone deacetylation Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Xiaoyang Chen, Chen Liu, Hailin Wang, Qi Liu, Yaping Yue, Yuhang Duan, Zhaoyun Wang, Lu Zheng, Xiaolin Chen, Yaohui Wang, Junbin Huang, Qiutao Xu, Yuemin Pan
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Tackling redundancy: genetic mechanisms underlying paralog compensation in plants New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Sessen Daniel Iohannes, David Jackson
Gene duplication is a powerful source of biological innovation giving rise to paralogous genes that undergo diverse fates. Redundancy between paralogous genes is an intriguing outcome of duplicate gene evolution, and its maintenance over evolutionary time has long been considered a paradox. Redundancy can also be dubbed ‘a geneticist's nightmare’: It hinders the predictability of genome editing outcomes
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Mutation of PUB17 in tomato leads to reduced susceptibility to necrotrophic fungi Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Miguel Ramirez Gaona, Ageeth van Tuinen, Danny Schipper, Akihito Kano, Pieter J. Wolters, Richard G. F. Visser, Jan A. L. van Kan, Anne-Marie A. Wolters, Yuling Bai
Necrotrophic fungi, such as Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria solani, cause severe damage in tomato production. There is no report of any single resistance (R) gene that can provide dominant resistance against necrotrophic fungi (Davis et al., 2009; Finkers et al., 2007). In this study, we demonstrate that breeding tomato for broad-spectrum resistance towards necrotrophic fungi can be achieved by editing
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Daylength variation affects growth, photosynthesis, leaf metabolism, partitioning, and metabolic fluxes Plant Physiol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Yuan Xu, Abubakarr A Koroma, Sean E Weise, Xinyu Fu, Thomas D Sharkey, Yair Shachar-Hill
Daylength, a seasonal and latitudinal variable, exerts a substantial impact on plant growth. However, the relationship between daylength and growth is non-proportional, suggesting the existence of adaptive mechanisms. Thus, our study aimed to comprehensively investigate the adaptive strategies employed by plants in response to daylength variation. We grew false flax (Camelina sativa) plants, a model
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Rose long non-coding RNA lncWD83 promotes flowering by modulating ubiquitination of the floral repressor RcMYC2L Plant Physiol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Chen Yeqing, Lu Jun, Wang Weinan, Fan Chunguo, Yuan Guozhen, Sun Jingjing, Liu Jinyi, Wang Changquan
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in various signaling pathways in vascular plants. However, the crosstalk between lncRNAs and E3 ubiquitin ligases has been barely reported. In this study, we demonstrate that the lncRNA lncWD83 from rose (Rosa chinensis) ‘Old blush’ activates flowering by modulating the ubiquitination of the floral repressor MYC2 LIKE (RcMYC2L). Flowering was substantially
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Maize MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 20 mediates high-temperature–regulated stomatal movement Plant Physiol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Chuang Cheng, Qiqi Wu, Mei Wang, Donghua Chen, Jie Li, Jianlin Shen, Shuguo Hou, Pengcheng Zhang, Li Qin, Biswa R Acharya, Xiaoduo Lu, Wei Zhang
High temperature induces stomatal opening; however, uncontrolled stomatal opening is dangerous for plants in response to high temperature. We identified a high-temperature sensitive (hts) mutant from the ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS)-induced maize (Zea mays) mutant library that is linked to a single base change in MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 20 (ZmMPK20). Our data demonstrated that hts mutants
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The rice NUCLEAR FACTOR-YA5 and MICRORNA169a module promotes nitrogen utilization during nitrogen deficiency Plant Physiol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Jun Sung Seo, Sung Hwan Kim, Jae Sung Shim, Taeyoung Um, Nuri Oh, Taehyeon Park, Youn Shic Kim, Se-Jun Oh, Ju-Kon Kim
Nitrogen (N) is essential for plant growth and development. Therefore, understanding its utilization is essential for improving crop productivity. However, much remains to be learned about plant N sensing and signaling. Here, rice (Oryza sativa) NUCLEAR FACTOR-YA5 (OsNF-YA5) expression was tightly regulated by N status and induced under N-deficient conditions. Over-expression (OE) of OsNF-YA5 in rice
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PHOTOLYASE/BLUE LIGHT RECEPTOR2 regulates chrysanthemum flowering by compensating for gibberellin perception Plant Physiol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Xin Zhao, Wenwen Liu, Palinuer Aiwaili, Han Zhang, Yanjie Xu, Zhaoyu Gu, Junping Gao, Bo Hong
The gibberellins (GA) receptor GA INSENSITIVE DWARF1 (GID1) plays a central role in GA signal perception and transduction. The typical photoperiodic plant chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) only flowers when grown in short-day photoperiods. In addition, chrysanthemum flowering is also controlled by the aging pathway, but whether and how GAs participate in photoperiod- and age-dependent regulation
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Microbe-dependent and independent nitrogen and phosphate acquisition and regulation in plants New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Boyu Zhao, Xianqing Jia, Nan Yu, Jeremy D. Murray, Keke Yi, Ertao Wang
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are the most important macronutrients required for plant growth and development. To cope with the limited and uneven distribution of N and P in complicated soil environments, plants have evolved intricate molecular strategies to improve nutrient acquisition that involve adaptive root development, production of root exudates, and the assistance of microbes. Recently,
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Light and temperature regulation of leaf morphogenesis in Arabidopsis New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Martina Legris
Leaves are the main photosynthetic organs in plants, and their anatomy is optimized for light interception and gas exchange. Although each species has a characteristic leaf anatomy, which depends on the genotype, leaves also show a large degree of developmental plasticity. Light and temperature regulate leaf development from primordia differentiation to late stages of blade expansion. While the molecular
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The MKK3-MPK7 cascade phosphorylates ERF4 and promotes its rapid degradation for releasing seed dormancy in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Xi Chen, Qiujia Li, Ling Ding, Shengnan Zhang, Siyao Shan, Xiong Xiong, Wenhui Jiang, Bo Zhao, Liying Zhang, Ying Luo, Yiming Lian, Xiuqin Kong, Xiali Ding, Jun Zhang, Chunli Li, Wim J.J. Soppe, Yong Xiang
Seeds establish dormancy to delay germination until the arrival of a favorable growth season. Here, we identify a fate switch constituted by the MKK3-MPK7 kinase cascade and the ethylene response factor ERF4 responsible for the seed state transition from dormancy to germination. We show that dormancy-breaking factors activate the MKK3-MPK7 module, which affects and relies on the expression of some
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Biodiversity buffers against invasion severity Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Catherine Walker
A global team of researchers, led by Daniel Maynard at ETH Zurich, published a study in Nature exploring the human and ecological drivers that underlie the establishment of non-native tree species and their subsequent invasion severity. Using forest inventory data from across the world to map non-native tree species, they found that the likelihood of invasion was predominantly determined by human factors
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Simplification of soil biota communities impairs nutrient recycling and enhances above- and belowground nitrogen losses New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 S. Franz Bender, Stefanie Schulz, Rubén Martínez-Cuesta, Ronald J. Laughlin, Susanne Kublik, Kristina Pfeiffer-Zakharova, Gisle Vestergaard, Kyle Hartman, Eloi Parladé, Jörg Römbke, Catherine J. Watson, Michael Schloter, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden
Introduction Nitrogen (N) is a fundamental nutrient for all living organisms and can limit plant productivity and impact food security around the globe (Elser et al., 2007; Gruber & Galloway, 2008). At the same time, excess N inputs into the biosphere through anthropogenic activities lead to environmental problems including the eutrophication of drinking water and the emission of greenhouse gases (Schlesinger
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A transcription factor ZmGLK36 confers broad resistance to maize rough dwarf disease in cereal crops Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Zhennan Xu, Zhiqiang Zhou, Zixiang Cheng, Yu Zhou, Feifei Wang, Mingshun Li, Gongjian Li, Wenxue Li, Qingguo Du, Ke Wang, Xin Lu, Yuxin Tai, Runyi Chen, Zhuanfang Hao, Jienan Han, Yanping Chen, Qingchang Meng, Xiaomin Kong, Shuanggui Tie, Chunhua Mu, Weibin Song, Zhenhua Wang, Hongjun Yong, Degui Zhang, Haiyang Wang, Jianfeng Weng, Xinhai Li
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Plant adenylate cyclases have come full circle Nat. Plants (IF 18.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Aloysius Wong, Wei Chi, Jia Yu, Chuyun Bi, Xuechen Tian, Yixin Yang, Chris Gehring
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BpGRP1 acts downstream of BpmiR396c/BpGRF3 to confer salt tolerance in Betula platyphylla Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Zhongyuan Liu, Tengqian Zhang, Ruiting Xu, Baichao Liu, Yating Han, Wenfang Dong, Qingjun Xie, Zihao Tang, Xiaojin Lei, Chao Wang, Yujie Fu, Caiqiu Gao
Glycine-rich RNA-binding proteins (GRPs) have been implicated in the responses of plants to environmental stresses, but the function of GRP genes involved in salt stress and the underlying mechanism remain unclear. In this study, we identified BpGRP1 (glycine-rich RNA-binding protein), a Betula platyphylla gene that is induced under salt stress. The physiological and molecular responses to salt tolerance
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Long noncoding RNA from Betula platyphylla, BplncSIR1, confers salt tolerance by regulating BpNAC2 to mediate reactive oxygen species scavenging and stomatal movement Plant Biotech. J. (IF 13.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Yaqi Jia, Huimin Zhao, Yani Niu, Yucheng Wang
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in abiotic stress tolerance. However, their function in conferring abiotic stress tolerance is still unclear. Herein, we characterized the function of a salt-responsive nuclear lncRNA (BplncSIR1) from Betula platyphylla (birch). Birch plants overexpressing and knocking out for BplncSIR1 were generated. BplncSIR1 was found to improve salt tolerance
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Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Oliver Binks, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael Liddell, Matt Bradford, Ingrid Coughlin, Callum Bryant, Ana C. Palma, Luke Hoffmann, Iftakharul Alam, Hannah J. Carle, Lucy Rowland, Rafael S. Oliveira, Susan G. W. Laurance, Maurizio Mencuccini, Patrick Meir
Introduction The flux of water from the terrestrial landscape to the atmosphere fundamentally influences the Earth's energy budget and hydrological cycle and is mediated by its pathway through vegetation. Over short timescales, vegetation controls water vapour fluxes by varying stomatal conductance, but over greater temporal and spatial scales, fluxes are determined by vegetation community composition
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Within-individual leaf trait variation increases with phenotypic integration in a subtropical tree diversity experiment New Phytol. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo, Andréa Davrinche, Silvia Matesanz, W. Stanley Harpole, Sylvia Haider
Introduction Trait-based plant ecology assumes that plant attributes, that is, functional traits, mediate community assembly and ecosystem processes (Violle et al., 2007; Shipley et al., 2016). Traditionally, this discipline focused on mean differences between species' traits (i.e. interspecific trait variation) to address ecological questions related, for example, to plant coexistence or niche differentiation