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Genomes of Meniocus linifolius and Tetracme quadricornis unveil the ancestral karyotype and genomic features of core Brassicaceae Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jie Liu, Shi-Zhao Zhou, Yun-Long Liu, Bin-Yan Zhao, Dongmei Yu, Mi-Cai Zhong, Xiao-Dong Jiang, Wei-Hua Cui, Jiu-Xia Zhao, Juan Qiu, Liang-Min Liu, Zhen-Hua Guo, Hong-Tao Li, Dun-Yan Tan, Jin-Yong Hu, De-Zhu Li
Brassicaceae represents an important family at both scientific and economic levels. However, genomic features coupled to the early diversification of this family have not been fully characterized especially upon the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau followed by increasing aridity in the Asian interior, intensifying monsoons in Eastern Asia, and significantly fluctuating daily temperatures. Here, via analyzing
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Functional mechanism study of the allelochemical myrigalone A identifies a group of ultrapotent inhibitors of ethylene biosynthesis in plants Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 George Heslop-Harrison, Kazumi Nakabayashi, Ana Espinosa-Ruiz, Francesca Robertson, Robert Baines, Christopher R.L. Thompson, Katrin Hermann, David Alabadí, Gerhard Leubner-Metzger, Robin S.B. Williams
Allelochemicals represent a class of natural products released by plants as root, leaf, and fruit exudates that interfere with the growth and survival of neighboring plants. Understanding how allelochemicals function to regulate plant responses may provide valuable new approaches to better control plant function. One such allelochemical, Myrigalone A (MyA) produced by , inhibits seed germination and
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GhCTSF1, a short PPR protein with a conserved role in chloroplast development and photosynthesis, participates in intron splicing of rpoC1 and ycf3-2 transcripts in cotton Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Yuzhu Huo, Mengxue Cheng, Meiju Tang, Meng Zhang, Xiaofan Yang, Yating Zheng, Tong Zhao, Peng He, Jianing Yu
Cotton is one of the most important textile fibers worldwide. As crucial agronomic traits, leaves play an essential role in the growth of cotton plants, disease resistance, fiber quality, and yield. Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are a large family of nuclear-encoded proteins involved in organellar or nuclear RNA metabolism. Using a virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) assay, we found that
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The MYB transcription factor OsMYBxoc1 regulates resistance to Xoc through directly repressing transcription of iron transport gene OsNRAMP5 in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Haimiao Zhang, Baolong Sun, Wei Wu, Yang Li, Ziyi Yin, Chongchong Lu, Haipeng Zhao, Lingguang Kong, Xinhua Ding
The bacterial leaf streak (BLS) caused by pv. () is a continuous threat to rice cultivation leading to substantial yield losses and socio-economic implications. Iron ions are essential mineral nutrients for plant growth, but little information is available on how these ions influence the immune mechanism of rice against . Hence, we investigate the role of the MYB transcriptional repressor, OsMYBxoc1
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Genome assembly of autotetraploid Actinidia arguta highlights adaptive evolution and dissects important economic traits Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Xue-Mei Lu, Xiao-Fen Yu, Guo-Qiang Li, Ming-Hao Qu, Huan Wang, Chuang Liu, Yu-Ping Man, Xiao-Han Jiang, Mu-Zi Li, Jian Wang, Qi-Qi Chen, Rui Lei, Cheng-Cheng Zhao, Yun-Qiu Zhou, Zheng-Wang Jiang, Zuo-Zhou Li, Shang Zheng, Chang Dong, Bai-Lin Wang, Yan-Xiang Sun, Hui-Qin Zhang, Jie-Wei Li, Quan-Hui Mo, Ying Zhang, Xin Lou, Hai-Xu Peng, Ya-Ting Yi, He-Xin Wang, Xiu-Jun Zhang, Yi-Bo Wang, Dan Wang, Li
, the most widely distributed and the second cultivated species within genus, has distinguished difference from current kiwifruit in biological characters like small and smooth fruit, rapid-softening and excellent cold tolerance. Knowledge of adaptive evolution of the tetraploid species and genetic basis of its important agronomic traits is still unclear. A chromosome-scale genome assembly of an autotetraploid
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RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED 1 switches mitosis to meiosis in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Yongjie Miao, Hanli You, Huixin Liu, Yangzi Zhao, Jiangzhe Zhao, Yafei Li, Yi Shen, Ding Tang, Baohui Liu, Kewei Zhang, Zhukuan Cheng
The transition from mitosis to meiosis is a critical event in the reproductive development of all sexually reproducing species. However, the mechanisms regulating this process in plants remain largely unknown. We here found that the rice ( L.) protein RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED 1 (RBR1) was essential to the transition from mitosis to meiosis. Loss of RBR1 function resulted in hyper-proliferative sporogenous
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Hydrogen peroxide sulfenylates and inhibits the photorespiratory enzyme PGLP1 to modulate plant thermotolerance Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Zheng-Wei Fu, Feng Ding, Bing-Lei Zhang, Wen-Cheng Liu, Zi-Hong Huang, Shi-Hang Fan, Yu-Rui Feng, Ying-Tang Lu, Wei Hua
Climate change is resulting in more frequent and rapidly changing temperatures at both extremes that severely affect the growth and production of plants, particularly crops. Oxidative stress caused by high temperatures is one of the most damaging factors for plants. However, how HO modulates plant thermotolerance is largely unknown. In addition, how photorespiration essential for C3 species is regulated
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Plant Cuticles Repress Organ Initiation and Development during Skotomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Yuru Ma, Wenwen Chang, Yongpeng Li, Jiahui Xu, Yongli Song, Xinmiao Yao, Lei Wang, Yu Sun, Lin Guo, Hao Zhang, Xigang Liu
After germination in dark, plants produce a shoot apical hook and closing cotyledons to protect the quiescent shoot apical meristem (SAM), which is critical for seedling survival during skotomorphogenesis. The factors that coordinate these processes, particularly SAM repression, remain enigmatic. Meanwhile, plant cuticles, a multi-layered structure of lipid components at the outermost surface of the
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Nuclear phylogenomics of Asteraceae with increased sampling provides new insights into convergent morphological and molecular evolution Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Guojin Zhang, Junbo Yang, Caifei Zhang, Bohan Jiao, Jose L. Panero, Jie Cai, Zhi-Rong Zhang, Lian-Ming Gao, Tiangang Gao, Hong Ma
Convergent morphological evolution is widespread in flowering plants, and understanding this phenomenon relies on well-resolved phylogenies. Nuclear phylogenetic reconstruction using transcriptome datasets has been successful in various angiosperm groups, but it is limited to taxa with available fresh materials. Asteraceae are one of the two largest angiosperm families and important for both ecosystems
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The protein phosphatase qGL3/OsPPKL1 self-regulates its degradation to orchestrate brassinosteroid signaling in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Xiuying Gao, Jianbo Li, Jing Yin, Yiheng Zhao, Zhongsheng Wu, Lijuan Ma, Baoyi Zhang, Hongsheng Zhang, Ji Huang
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Cytochrome P450 CitCYP97B modulates carotenoid accumulation diversity by hydroxylating β-cryptoxanthin in Citrus Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Yingzi Zhang, Jiajing Jin, Nan Wang, Quan Sun, Di Feng, Shenchao Zhu, Zexin Wang, Shunxin Li, Junli Ye, Lijun Chai, Zongzhou Xie, Xiuxin Deng
Carotenoids in plant foods function as provitamin A for health benefits. One of the vital provitamin A carotenoids, -cryptoxanthin, is typically plentiful in citrus fruits. However, the genetic basis underlying the accumulation of -cryptoxanthin in citrus remains largely elusive. Here, we performed a widely targeted metabolomic analysis of 65 major carotenoids and carotenoid derivatives to characterize
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Differential leaf flooding resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is controlled by ethylene signaling-activated and age-dependent phosphorylation of ORESARA1 activity Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Tom Rankenberg, Hans van Veen, Mastoureh Sedaghatmehr, Che-Yang Liao, Muthanna Biddanda Devaiah, Evelien A. Stouten, Salma Balazadeh, Rashmi Sasidharan
The phytohormone ethylene is a major regulator of plant adaptive responses to flooding. In flooded plant tissues, it increases quickly to high concentrations due to its low solubility and diffusion rates in water. Ethylene accumulation in submerged plant tissues makes it a reliable cue triggering flood-acclimative responses, including metabolic adjustments to cope with flood-induced hypoxia. However
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Classification, biosynthesis and biological function of triterpene esters in plants Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jia Liu, Xue Yin, Chengxi Kou, Ramesha Thimmappa, Xin Hua, Zheyong Xue
Triterpene esters comprise a class of secondary metabolites that are synthesised by decorating triterpene skeletons with a series of oxidation, glycosylation and acylation modifications. Many triterpene esters have been isolated and identified with important bioactivities, including applications in the pesticide, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. They also play essential roles in plant defense
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Structural changes in the conversion of an Arabidopsis outward-rectifying K+ channel into an inward-rectifying one Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Xudong Gao, Xia Xu, Tengfei Sun, Yuhan Lu, Yutian Jia, Jiaqi Zhou, Peng Fu, Yanming Zhang, Guanghui Yang
Potassium transport mechanisms are pivotal for plant development and stress responses. Here, we elucidate the structural and functional dynamics of the plant K outward rectifier channel SKOR and a double-mutations variant (SKDM) that changes the channel into an inward rectifier one. This study provides clues for understanding the K distribution control and efficient utilization of K nutrients in plants
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A warm temperature-released negative feedback loop fine-tunes PIF4-mediated thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Hui Li, Mande Xue, Huairen Zhang, Fengyue Zhao, Xiaoyi Li, Shuancang Yu, Danhua Jiang
Plants can sense temperature changes and adjust their growth accordingly. In , high ambient temperatures stimulate stem elongation by activating a key thermoresponsive regulator, PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 4 (PIF4). Here, we show that warmth promotes the nighttime transcription of , which is necessary for the high temperature-induced transcription of . Genetic analyses suggest that GI prevents
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High-quality genomes of Bombax ceiba and Ceiba pentandra provide insights into the evolution of Malvaceae species and differences in their natural fiber development Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Lei Shao, Shangkun Jin, Jinwen Chen, Guangsui Yang, Rui Fan, Zhiyuan Zhang, Qian Deng, Jin Han, Xiaowei Ma, Zeyu Dong, Hejun Lu, Wanying Hu, Kai Wang, Lisong Hu, Zhen Shen, Surong Huang, Ting Zhao, Xueying Guan, Yan Hu, Tianzhen Zhang, Lei Fang
Members of the Malvaceae family, including spp., spp., spp., and spp., are important sources of natural fibers. In the past decade, the genomes of several Malvaceae species have been assembled; however, the evolutionary history of Malvaceae species and the differences in their fiber development remain to be clarified. Here, we report the genome assembly and annotation of two natural fiber plants from
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Metal nutrition and transport in the process of symbiotic nitrogen fixation Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Yuan Li, Qian Liu, Dan-Xun Zhang, Zhuo-Yan Zhang, Ao Xu, Yuan-Long Jiang, Zhi-Chang Chen
The symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) facilitated by the interaction between legumes and rhizobia is a well-documented and eco-friendly alternative to chemical nitrogen fertilizers. Host plants obtain fixed nitrogen from rhizobia by providing carbon and mineral nutrients. These mineral nutrients, which are mostly in the form of metal ions, are implicated in various stages of SNF process. This review
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Efficient heterologous biosynthesis of verazine, a metabolic precursor of the anti-cancer drug cyclopamine, in Nicotiana benthamiana Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Chengxi Kou, Jingling Liu, Xue Yin, Di He, Jia Liu, Xin Hua, Rui Ma, Wei Sun, Zheyong Xue, Pengda Ma
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Gene complementation analysis indicates that parasitic dodder plants do not depend on the host FT protein for flowering Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Sina Mäckelmann, Andrea Känel, Lara M. Kösters, Peter Lyko, Dirk Prüfer, Gundula A. Noll, Susann Wicke
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Most Tibetan weedy barleys originated via recombination between Btr1 and Btr2 in domesticated barley Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Guangqi Gao, Luxi Yan, Yu Cai, Yu Guo, Congcong Jiang, Qiang He, Sarah Tasnim, Zongyun Feng, Jun Liu, Jing Zhang, Takao Komatsuda, Martin Mascher, Ping Yang
Tibetan weedy barleys reside at the edges of qingke (hulless barley) fields in Tibet (Xizang). The spikes of these weedy barleys contain or lack a brittle rachis, with either two- or six-rowed spikes and either hulled or hulless grains at maturity. Although the brittle rachis trait of Tibetan weedy barleys is similar to that of wild barley ( ssp. Thell.), these plants share genetic similarity with
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An integrative database and its application for plant synthetic biology research Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Chenfei Tian, Jianhua Li, Yuhan Wu, Guangyi Wang, Yixin Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Yuwei Sun, Yong Wang
Plant synthetic biology research requires diverse bioparts that facilitate the redesign and construction of new-to-nature biological devices or systems in plants. Limited by few well-characterized bioparts for plant chassis, the development of plant synthetic biology lags behind that of its microbial counterpart. Here, we constructed a web-based Plant Synthetic BioDatabase (PSBD), which currently categorizes
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Two aquaporins, PIP1;1 and PIP2;1, mediate the uptake of neonicotinoid pesticides in plants Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Qun Wan, Yixin Li, Jinjin Cheng, Ya Wang, Jing Ge, Tingli Liu, Liya Ma, Yong Li, Jianan Liu, Chunli Zhou, Haocong Li, Xing Sun, Xiaolong Chen, Qing X. Li, Xiangyang Yu
Neonicotinoids (NEOs), a large class of organic compounds, are a type of commonly used pesticide for crop protection. Their uptake and accumulation in plants are prerequisites for their intra- and intercellular movements, transformation, and function. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underpin NEO uptake by plants is crucial for effective application, which remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that
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Duality of Jacalin-related Lectin: Master Regulator and Chaperone Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ganesh Alagarasan
Lectins have chaperone-like activity with carbohydrate-binding sites, key in cellular homeostasis. However, the specific interactions of lectin with endoplasmic-reticulum (ER) proteins during stress are unclear. Recently, Das et al. (2023) study reveals lectins' critical role in root cap stress response, through regulating ER stress-responsive proteins, suggesting pathways for enhancing plant resilience
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Two adjacent NLR genes conferring quantitative resistance to clubroot disease in Arabidopsis are regulated by a stably inherited epiallelic variation Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Antoine Gravot, Benjamin Liégard, Leandro Quadrana, Florian Veillet, Yoann Aigu, Tristan Bargain, Juliette Bénéjam, Christine Lariagon, Jocelyne Lemoine, Vincent Colot, Maria J. Manzanares-Dauleux, Mélanie Jubault
Clubroot caused by the protist Plasmodiophora brassicae is a major disease affecting cultivated Brassicaceae. Using a combination of QTL fine mapping, CRISPR/Cas9 validation and extensive analyses of DNA sequence and methylation patterns, we uncovered that the two adjacent neighboring NLR (nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat) genes AT5G47260 and AT5G47280 cooperate in controlling broad-spectrum
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An Inducible CRISPR-activation tool for accelerated plant regeneration Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Cuimei Zhang, Yajun Tang, Shanjie Tang, Lei Chen, Haidi Yuan, Yujun Xu, Yangyan Zhou, Shuaibin Zhang, Jianli Wang, Hongyu Wen, Wenbo Jiang, Yongzhen Pang, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao, Junhui Zhou, Xianwei Song, Qikun Liu
The inducible CRISPR-activation (CRISPR-a) system offers unparalleled precision and versatility for regulating endogenous genes, making it highly sought after in plant research. In this study, we developed a plant chemically inducible CRISPR-a tool called ER-Tag by combining the XVE inducible system with the SunTag CRISPR-a system. We systematically compared different induction strategies and achieved
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A simple and efficient in planta transformation method based on the active regeneration capacity of plants Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Guoguo Mei, Ao Chen, Yaru Wang, Shuquan Li, Minyi Wu, Yilong Hu, Xu Liu, Xingliang Hou
Plant genetic transformation strategies serve as essential tools for the genetic engineering and advanced molecular breeding of plants. However, the complicated operational protocol and low efficiency of the current transformation strategies restrict the genetic modification of most plant species. This paper describes the development of a Regenerative Activity-dependent in Planta Injection Delivery
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WRKY33 negatively regulates anthocyanins biosynthesis and cooperates with PHR1 to mediate the acclimation to phosphate starvation Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Han Tao, Fei Gao, Linying Li, Yuqing He, Xueying Zhang, Mengyu Wang, Jia Wei, Yao Zhao, Chi Zhang, Qiaomei Wang, Gaojie Hong
Anthocyanin accumulation is acknowledged as a phenotypic indicator under phosphate (Pi) starvation. However, the negative regulator of this process and the molecular mechanisms remain largely unexplored. In this study, our results revealed WRKY33 acts as a negative regulator of phosphorus-status-dependent anthocyanin biosynthesis. WRKY33 regulates the expression of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR)
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The trxG protein ULT1 regulates Arabidopsis organ size by interacting with TCP14/15 to antagonize the LIM-peptidase DA1 for H3K4 trimethylation on target genes Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Fan Xu, Huixue Dong, Weijun Guo, Liang Le, Yexing Jing, Jennifer C. Fletcher, Jiaqiang Sun, Li Pu
Plant organ size is an important agronomic trait that greatly determines plant yield. However, despite its central importance, the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying organ size control remain elusive. Here, we report the trithorax group protein ULTRAPETALA1 (ULT1) interacts with TCP14/15 transcription factors (TFs) by antagonizing the LIM-peptidase DA1 to regulate organ size in Arabidopsis
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Genomic and phenotypic signatures provide insights into the wide adaptation of a global plant invader Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Yan Hao, Xin-Feng Wang, Yaolin Guo, Tian-Yang Li, Ji Yang, Malika L. Ainouche, Armel Salmon, Rui-Ting Ju, Ji-Hua Wu, Lin-Feng Li, Bo Li
Invasive alien species are a primary driver of biodiversity loss and species extinction. Smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) is one of the most aggressive invasive plants in coastal ecosystems around the world. However, genomic bases and evolutionary mechanisms underlying the invasion success of this species remained largely unknown. Here we assembled a chromosome-level reference genome and performed
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Weed Biology and Management in the Multi-omics Era: Progress and Perspectives Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Ke Chen, Haona Yang, Di Wu, Yajun Peng, Lei Lian, Lianyang Bai, Lifeng Wang
Weeds pose a significant threat to crop production, resulting in substantial yield reduction. Additionally, they possess robust weedy traits that enable them to survive in extreme environments and evade human control. In recent years, the application of mult-omics biotechnologies has helped reveal the molecular mechanisms underlying these weedy traits. In this review, we systematically describe the
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Suppression of host plant defense by bacterial small RNAs packaged in outer membrane vesicles Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Yan Wu, Sai Wang, Peihong Wang, Wenhan Nie, Iftikhar Ahmad, Panagiotis F. Sarris, Gongyou Chen, Bo Zhu
The delivery of noncoding small RNAs (sRNAs) packaged in bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) can function as novel mediators of interspecies communication. Although the role of bacteria sRNAs in enhancing virulence is well established, the potential role of molecules in the interaction between phytopathogenic bacteria OMVs and their host plants remains unclear. In this study, we employed RNA-Seq
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Plant Stem Cell Informatics Database (PSCIdb): a comprehensive computational platform for identifying and analyzing genes related to plant stem cells Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Xiao Wu, Yubo Yuan, Siyuan Zhou, Zewen Wang, Hongxiang Li, Wanping Wu, Zhijie Lei, Siyao Liu, Kaijie Qi, Hao Yin, Yun Zhou, Shaoling Zhang
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The CUL3A–LFH1–UBC15 ubiquitin ligase complex mediates SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE degradation to accelerate flowering at high ambient temperature Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Suhyun Jin, Geummin Youn, Sun Young Kim, Taewook Kang, Hyun-young Shin, Ji-Yul Jung, Pil Joon Seo, Ji Hoon Ahn
Ambient temperature affects flowering time in plants and the MADS-box transcription factor SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) plays a crucial role in the response to changes in ambient temperature. SVP protein stability is regulated by the 26S proteasome pathway and decreases at high ambient temperature, but the details of SVP degradation are unclear. Here, we show that SVP degradation at high ambient temperature
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A weak allele of TGW5 confers higher seed propagations and efficient size-based seed sorting for hybrid rice production Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Jiezheng Ying, Yaobing Qin, Fengyong Zhang, Liu Duan, Peng Cheng, Man Yin, Yifeng Wang, Xiaohong Tong, Jie Huang, Zhiyong Li, Xianjun Song, Jian Zhang
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Rational Management of the Plant Microbiome for the Second Green Revolution Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Xiaofang Li, Xin Zheng, Nikita Yadav, Shouvik Saha, El-Sayed Salama, Xiangkai Li, Likun Wang, Byong-Hun Jeon
The Green Revolution of the mid-20th century transformed agriculture worldwide and has resulted in environmental challenges. A new approach, the Second Green Revolution, seeks to enhance agricultural productivity while minimizing negative environmental impacts. Plant microbiomes play critical roles in plant growth and stress responses, and understanding plant-microbiome interactions is essential for
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LbCas12a nuclease-mediated tiling deletion for large-scale targeted editing of non-coding regions in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Guigen Ma, Fang Yan, Bin Ren, Zhenwan Lu, Hao Xu, Fangxi Wu, Shaofang Li, Daowen Wang, Xueping Zhou, Huanbin Zhou
NTD method is the application of LbCas12a in the engineering of rice endogenous gene. Guided by libraries of crRNAs tiling on NCRs of SD1, 6 mutants with quantitative variations of rice height were generated and analyzed for the association between genotype and phenotype. Totally, NTD is a promising tool for molecular rice breeding.
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Oryza CLIMtools: A genome–environment association resource reveals adaptive roles for heterotrimeric G proteins in the regulation of rice agronomic traits Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ángel Ferrero-Serrano, David Chakravorty, Kobie J. Kirven, Sarah M. Assmann
Modern crop varieties display a degree of mismatch between their current distributions and the suitability of the local climate for their productivity. To address this issue, we present Oryza CLIMtools (), the first resource for pan-genome prediction of climate-associated genetic variants in a crop species. Oryza CLIMtools consists of interactive web-based databases that enable the user to (1) explore
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Dynamic metabolic-QTL analyses provide novel biochemical insights into the kernel development and nutritional quality improvement in common wheat Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Bo Yin, Jingqi Jia, Xu Sun, Xin Hu, Min Ao, Wei Liu, Zhitao Tian, Hongbo Liu, Dongqin Li, Wenfei Tian, Yuanfeng Hao, Xianchun Xia, Nir Sade, Yariv Brotman, Alisdair R. Fernie, Jie Chen, Zhonghu He, Wei Chen
Despite recent advances in crop metabolomics, the genetic control and molecular basis of wheat kernel metabolomes at different developmental stages remain largely unknown. Here, we performed a widely-targeted metabolic profiling in kernels at three developmental stages, namely grain filling kernels (FK), mature kernels (MK) and germinating kernels (GK), using a population of 159 recombinant inbred
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Heat stress impairs floral meristem termination and fruit development via affecting BR-SlCRCa cascade in tomato Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Junqing Wu, Pengxue Li, Meng Li, Danyang Zhu, Haochuan Ma, Huimin Xu, Shuang Li, Jinbo Wei, Xinxin Bian, Mengyao Wang, Yixuan Lai, Yuxin Peng, Haixiao Li, Abidur Rahman, Shuang Wu
Floral meristem termination is a key step leading to carpel initiation and fruit development. The frequent occurrence of heat stress due to global warming often disrupts floral determinacy, resulting in defective fruit formation. However, the detailed mechanism behind this phenomenon is largely unknown. Here, we identify CRABS CLAW a (SlCRCa) as a key regulator of floral meristem termination in tomato
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Graph-based Pan-genome of Brassica oleracea Provides New Insights into Its Domestication and Morphotype Diversification Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Ning Guo, Shenyun Wang, Tianyi Wang, Mengmeng Duan, Mei Zong, Liming Miao, Shuo Han, Guixiang Wang, Xin Liu, Deshuang Zhang, Chengzhi Jiao, Hongwei Xu, Liyang Chen, Zhangjun Fei, Jianbin Li, Fan Liu
The domestication of Brassica oleracea has resulted in diverse morphological types with distinct patterns of organ development. Here we report a graph-based pan-genome of B. oleracea constructed with high-quality genome assemblies of different morphotypes. The pan-genome harbors over 200 structural variant (SV) hotspot regions enriched with auxin and flowering-related genes. Population genomic analyses
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Two viral proteins translated from one open reading frame target different layers of plant defence Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Yuzhen Mei, Tao Hu, Yaqin Wang, Rosa Lozano-Durán, Xiuling Yang, Xueping Zhou
Multi-layered defence responses are activated upon pathogen attack. Viruses utilize a number of strategies to maximize the coding capacity of their small-sized genomes and produce viral proteins for infection, including suppression of host defence. Here, we uncover translation leakage as one of these strategies: two viral effectors, cC4 and mC4, encoded by tomato golden mosaic virus (TGMV) are translated
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The MRE11-ATM-SOG1 DNA damage signaling pathway confers rice immunity to Xanthomonas oryzae Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Zhan Xu, Mingnan Qu, Chuanlin Shi, Hong Zhang, Wu Chen, Hongge Qian, Zhipeng Zhang, Jiehua Qiu, Qian Qian, Lianguang Shang
Plants are constantly exposed to microbial pathogens in the environment. One branch of innate plant immunity is mediated by cell-membrane-localized receptors, but associations between DNA damage and plant immune responses are less identified. Herein, mesophyll cells (MCs) in rice (Oryza sativa) plants are prone to DNA double strand break (DSB) in response to ZJ173, an Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae
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HEMU: an integrated comparative genomics database and analysis platform for Andropogoneae grasses Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Yuzhi Zhu, Zijie Wang, Zanchen Zhou, Yuting Liu, Xiang Gao, Weilong Guo, Junpeng Shi
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A chromosome-scale genome assembly of Rauvolfia tetraphylla facilitates the identification of the complete ajmaline biosynthetic pathway Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Enzo Lezin, Inês Carqueijeiro, Clément Cuello, Mickael Durand, Hans J. Jansen, Valentin Vergès, Caroline Birer Williams, Audrey Oudin, Thomas Duge De Bernonville, Julien Petrignet, Noémie Celton, Benoit St-Pierre, Nicolas Papon, Chao Sun, Ron P. Dirks, Sarah Ellen O'Connor, Michael Krogh Jensen, Sébastien Besseau, Vincent Courdavault
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Actin-depolymerizing factors 8 and 11 promote root hair elongation at high pH Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Dong Qian, Tian Li, Chen Zheng, Yue Niu, Yingzhi Niu, Chengying Li, Muxuan Wang, Yang Yang, Lizhe An, Yun Xiang
A root hair is a polarly elongated single-celled structure that derives from a root epidermal cell and functions in uptake of water and nutrients from the surrounding environment. Previous reports have demonstrated that short periods of high pH inhibit root hair extension; but the effects of long-term high-pH treatment on root hair growth are still unclear. Here, we report that the duration of root
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Structural and biochemical basis of FLS2-mediated signal activation and transduction in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Qiaoqiao Zhao, Jinlin Bao, Huailong Li, Wei Hu, Yanqiong Kong, Yifeng Zhong, Qiang Fu, Guolyu Xu, Fenmei Liu, Xi Jiao, Jian Jin, Zhenhua Ming
The receptor-like kinase FLAGELLIN-SENSITIVE 2 (FLS2) functions as a bacterial flagellin receptor localized on the cell membrane of plants. In , the co-receptor BRI1-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR KINASE 1 (BAK1) cooperates with FLS2 to detect the flagellin epitope flg22, resulting in formation of a signaling complex that triggers plant defense responses. However, the co-receptor responsible for recognizing and
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OsNAC120 balances plant growth and drought tolerance by integrating GA and ABA signaling in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Zizhao Xie, Liang Jin, Ying Sun, Chenghang Zhan, Siqi Tang, Tian Qin, Nian Liu, Junli Huang
The crosstalk between gibberellin (GA) and abscisic acid (ABA) signaling is crucial for balancing plant growth and adaption to environmental stress. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanism of their mutual antagonism still remains to be fully clarified. In this study, we found that knockout of the rice NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, CUC2) transcription factor gene inhibits plant growth but enhances drought tolerance
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reduced internode 1: shorten internode length while increasing soybean yield Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Xiujie Liu, Kai Huang, Chengcai Chu
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CrisprStitch: Fast evaluation of the efficiency of CRISPR editing systems Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Yangshuo Han, Guanqing Liu, Yuechao Wu, Yu Bao, Yong Zhang, Tao Zhang
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OsCPK12 phosphorylates OsCATA and OsCATC to regulate H2O2 homeostasis and improve oxidative stress tolerance in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Beifang Wang, Pao Xue, Yingxin Zhang, Xiaodeng Zhan, Weixun Wu, Ping Yu, Daibo Chen, Junlin Fu, Yongbo Hong, Xihong Shen, Lianping Sun, Shihua Cheng, Qunen Liu, Liyong Cao
Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CPKs), the best-characterized calcium sensors in plants, regulate many aspects of plant growth and development as well as plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, how CPKs regulate the antioxidant defense system remains largely unknown. We previously found that impaired function of OsCPK12 leads to oxidative stress in rice, with more HO, lower catalase
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A dephosphorylation-dependent molecular switch for FT repression mediates flowering in Arabidopsis Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Yu Zhang, Changmei Hua, Jian Xuan Kiang, Lisha Shen
The reproductive success of flowering plants relies greatly on precise timing of the floral transition, which is finely modulated by a complex network of floral regulators. As a main floral integrator, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) is also an essential constituent of the florigen that is transported from leaves to shoot apices to induce flowering. is specifically transcribed in leaf vascular tissues, where
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Population genomic analysis unravels the evolutionary roadmap of pericarp color in rice Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Lingjuan Xie, Dongya Wu, Yu Fang, Chuyu Ye, Qian-Hao Zhu, Xinghua Wei, Longjiang Fan
Pigmented rice stands out for its nutritional value and is gaining more and more attention. Wild rice, domesticated red rice, and weedy rice all have a red pericarp and a comprehensive genetic background in terms of the red-pericarp phenotype. We performed population genetic analyses using 5104 worldwide rice accessions, including 2794 accessions with red or black pericarps, 85 of which were newly
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The APETALA2–MYBL2 module represses proanthocyanidin biosynthesis by affecting formation of the MBW complex in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Wenbo Jiang, Qinggang Yin, Jinyue Liu, Xiaojia Su, Xiaoyan Han, Qian Li, Jin Zhang, Yongzhen Pang
Proanthocyanidins (PAs) are the second most abundant plant phenolic natural products. PA biosynthesis is regulated by the well-documented MYB/bHLH/WD40 (MBW) complex, but how this complex itself is regulated remains ill defined. Here, hybridization and β-glucuronidase staining show that (), a well-defined regulator of flower and seed development, is strongly expressed in the seed coat endothelium,
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Alternaria TeA toxin activates a chloroplast retrograde signaling pathway to facilitate JA-dependent pathogenicity Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Jiale Shi, He Wang, Mengping Li, Liru Mi, Yazhi Gao, Sheng Qiang, Yu Zhang, Dan Chen, Xinbin Dai, Hongyu Ma, Huan Lu, Chanhong Kim, Shiguo Chen
The chloroplast is a critical battleground in the arms race between plants and pathogens. Among microbe-secreted mycotoxins, tenuazonic acid (TeA), produced by the genus and other phytopathogenic fungi, inhibits photosynthesis, leading to a burst of photosynthetic singlet oxygen (O) that is implicated in damage and chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling. Despite the significant crop damage caused
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Structural insights into AtABCG25, an angiosperm-specific abscisic acid exporter Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Jian Xin, Yeling Zhou, Yichun Qiu, He Geng, Yuzhu Wang, Yi Song, Jiansheng Liang, Kaige Yan
Cellular hormone homeostasis is essential for precise spatial and temporal signaling responses and plant fitness. Abscisic acid (ABA) plays pivotal roles in orchestrating various developmental and stress responses and confers fitness benefits over ecological and evolutionary timescales in terrestrial plants. Cellular ABA level is regulated by complex processes, including biosynthesis, catabolism, and
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A single-nucleotide substitution in the leucine-rich-repeat-only gene CsLRR1 confers powdery mildew resistance in cucumber Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Xuewen Xu, Wei Wang, Yujiao Du, Ziyi Wang, Xueli Liu, Ming Tan, Xiaojian Lin, Jun Xu, Congxi Cai, Xiaohua Qi, Qiang Xu, Aimin Wei, Haipeng Fu, Shengli Du, Sally A. Mackenzie, Yuhui Wang, Xuehao Chen, Xiaodong Yang
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Genome-wide adenine N6-methylation map reveals epigenomic regulation of lipid accumulation in Nannochloropsis Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Yanhai Gong, Qintao Wang, Li Wei, Wensi Liang, Lianhong Wang, Nana Lv, Xuefeng Du, Jiashun Zhang, Chen Shen, Yi Xin, Luyang Sun, Jian Xu
Epigenetic marks on histones and DNA, such as DNA methylation at N6-adenine (6mA), play crucial roles in gene expression and genome maintenance, but their deposition and function in microalgae remain largely uncharacterized. Here, we report a genome-wide 6mA map for the model industrial oleaginous microalga produced by single-molecule real-time sequencing. Found in 0.1% of adenines, 6mA sites are mostly
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OsEIL1 and OsEIL2, two master regulators of rice ethylene signaling, promote the expression of ROS scavenging genes to facilitate coleoptile elongation and seedling emergence from soil Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jinzhu Qiao, Ruidang Quan, Juan Wang, Yuxiang Li, Dinglin Xiao, Zihan Zhao, Rongfeng Huang, Hua Qin
Successful emergence from the soil is a prerequisite for survival of germinating seeds in their natural environment. In rice, coleoptile elongation facilitates seedling emergence and establishment, and ethylene plays an important role in this process. However, the underlying regulatory mechanism remains largely unclear. Here, we report that ethylene promotes cell elongation and inhibits cell expansion
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Bringing CAM photosynthesis to the table: Paving the way for resilient and productive agricultural systems in a changing climate Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Noé Perron, Matias Kirst, Sixue Chen
Modern agricultural systems are directly threatened by global climate change and the resulting freshwater crisis. A considerable challenge in the coming years will be to develop crops that can cope with the consequences of declining freshwater resources and changing temperatures. One approach to meeting this challenge may lie in our understanding of plant photosynthetic adaptations and water use efficiency
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Heat-induced leaf epidermal cell damage triggers autophagy-mediated mesophyll cell expansion in Arabidopsis Plant Commun. (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Yunji Namgung, Hong Gil Lee, Hongwoo Lee, Pil Joon Seo
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