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ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Jose Julian, Peng Gao, Alessia Del Chiaro, Juan Carlos De La Concepcion, Laia Armengot, Marc Somssich, Heloise Duverge, Marion Clavel, Nenad Grujic, Roksolana Kobylinska, Ingo Polivka, Maarten Besten, Tonni Grube Andersen, Christian Dank, Barbara Korbei, Andreas Bachmair, Nuria S. Coll, Elena A. Minina, Joris Sprakel, Yasin Dagdas
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Cell cycle repressor promotes pollen mitosis Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Raphael Trösch
During male germline development, microspores divide asymmetrically into a larger vegetative cell and a smaller generative cell. This pollen mitosis I is followed by a second, symmetric division of the generative cell to form two sperm nuclei in which the cell cycle is arrested in the G1 phase until fertilization. It is known that the R2R3 MYB transcription factor DUO1 is required for PMII, and that
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Class II kinesin-12 facilitates cell plate formation by transporting cell plate materials in the phragmoplast Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Moé Yamada, Hironori J. Matsuyama, Noriko Takeda-Kamiya, Mayuko Sato, Kiminori Toyooka
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Pseudouridine is the hidden language of plant RNA translation Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Patricia Baldrich
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The BRUTUS iron sensor and E3 ligase facilitates soybean root nodulation by monoubiquitination of NSP1 Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Ziyin Ren, Ling Zhang, Haizhen Li, Mi Yang, Xuesong Wu, Runxu Hu, Jingjing Lu, Hui Wang, Xinying Wu, Zhijuan Wang, Xia Li
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Nucleoporin PNET1 coordinates mitotic nuclear pore complex dynamics for rapid cell division Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Yiling Fang, Yu Tang, Peiqiao Xie, Kendall Hsieh, Heejae Nam, Min Jia, Andres V. Reyes, Yuchen Liu, Shouling Xu, Xiaosa Xu, Yangnan Gu
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Comparative genome analysis unravels adaptive evolution in Dendrobium orchids Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-30
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Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Kang Zhang, Hailong Yu, Lingkui Zhang, Yacong Cao, Xing Li, Yajie Mei, Xiang Wang, Zhenghai Zhang, Tianyao Li, Yuan Jin, Wenyuan Fan, Congcong Guan, Yihan Wang, Daiyuan Zhou, Shumin Chen, Huamao Wu, Lihao Wang, Feng Cheng
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Interventions in conservation Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-24
Climate change and anthropogenic disturbance are accelerating the need for more radical ecological interventions to protect Earth’s dwindling biodiversity. But these conservation measures can be controversial and the human fingerprints they leave behind challenge our perceptions of what ‘natural’ really means in the Anthropocene.
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Hierarchical reduction in plant immune receptor repertoires during adaptation to special lifestyles and habitats Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-24
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Structural mechanism underlying PHO1;H1-mediated phosphate transport in Arabidopsis Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Sunzhenhe Fang, Yang Yang, Xue Zhang, Zhao Yang, Minhua Zhang, Yang Zhao, Chensi Zhang, Fang Yu, Yong-Fei Wang, Peng Zhang
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A new m6A reader complex Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Raphael Trösch
N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is the most widespread modification of mRNA and is required to control mRNA stability and translation efficiency. In plants, its effect is mediated by m6A reader proteins such as EVOLUTIONARILY CONSERVED C-TERMINAL REGION (ECT) proteins. Marlene Reichel from the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues, find that the m6A binding and reader function of ECT2 in Arabidopsis requires
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Convergent reduction of immune receptor repertoires during plant adaptation to diverse special lifestyles and habitats Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Sai-Xi Li, Yang Liu, Yan-Mei Zhang, Jian-Qun Chen, Zhu-Qing Shao
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Molecular regulation and domestication of parthenocarpy in cucumber Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Jing Nie, Hongyu Huang, Sheng Wu, Tao Lin, Lidong Zhang, Lijun Lv, Yuzi Shi, Yicong Guo, Qian Zhang, Yuhe Li, Weiliang Kong, Hujian Li, Zhen Yang, Wenbo Li, Lingjun Xu, Nan Ma, Zhonghua Zhang, Chuanqing Sun, Xiaolei Sui
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Precise deletion, replacement and inversion of large DNA fragments in plants using dual prime editing Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Yidi Zhao, Zhengwei Huang, Ximeng Zhou, Wan Teng, Zehua Liu, Wenping Wang, Shengjia Tang, Ying Liu, Jing Liu, Wenxi Wang, Lingling Chai, Na Zhang, Weilong Guo, Jie Liu, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Yanpeng Wang, Yuan Zong
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Tomato fruit ripening is modulated by redox modification of RNA demethylase Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-10
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Redox modification of m6A demethylase SlALKBH2 in tomato regulates fruit ripening Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Leilei Zhou, Guangtong Gao, Renkun Tang, Jinying Liu, Yuying Wang, Zhenchang Liang, Shiping Tian, Guozheng Qin
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Pangeneric genome analyses reveal the evolution and diversity of the orchid genus Dendrobium Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Yan Li, Bin Zhang, Songyao Zhang, Chui Eng Wong, Qiqi Liang, Shuai Pang, Yujin Wu, Ming Zhao, Hao Yu
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Quantitative RNA pseudouridine maps reveal multilayered translation control through plant rRNA, tRNA and mRNA pseudouridylation Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Haoxuan Li, Guanqun Wang, Chang Ye, Zhongyu Zou, Bochen Jiang, Fan Yang, Kayla He, Chengwei Ju, Lisheng Zhang, Boyang Gao, Shun Liu, Yanming Chen, Jianhua Zhang, Chuan He
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Small molecules unlock broad-spectrum plant resistance Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-06 Kaihuai Li, Yan Qiao, Huan Chen, Fengquan Liu
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How plants adapt surface lipids to environmental changes Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Quang Ha Dang, Mi Chung Suh
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Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Tanner A. Robison, Zhen Guo Oh, Declan Lafferty, Xia Xu, Juan Carlos A. Villarreal, Laura H. Gunn, Fay-Wei Li
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Deciphering the core shunt mechanism in Arabidopsis cuticular wax biosynthesis and its role in plant environmental adaptation Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Shipeng Li, Xuanhao Zhang, Haodong Huang, Mou Yin, Matthew A. Jenks, Dylan K. Kosma, Pingfang Yang, Xianpeng Yang, Huayan Zhao, Shiyou Lü
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Pan-phylum genomes of hornworts reveal conserved autosomes but dynamic accessory and sex chromosomes Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Peter Schafran, Duncan A. Hauser, Jessica M. Nelson, Xia Xu, Lukas A. Mueller, Samarth Kulshrestha, Isabel Smalley, Sophie de Vries, Iker Irisarri, Jan de Vries, Kevin Davies, Juan Carlos A. Villarreal, Fay-Wei Li
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Lysozyme-coated LDHs boost trait control Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-02 Karl-Heinz Kogel
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Lysozyme-coated nanoparticles for active uptake and delivery of synthetic RNA and plasmid-encoded genes in plants Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-02 Jiaxi Yong, Wang Xu, Miaomiao Wu, Run Zhang, Christopher W. G. Mann, Guoquan Liu, Christopher A. Brosnan, Neena Mitter, Bernard J. Carroll, Zhi Ping Xu
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Author Correction: Near telomere-to-telomere genome of the model plant Physcomitrium patens. Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Guiqi Bi,Shijun Zhao,Jiawei Yao,Huan Wang,Mengkai Zhao,Yuanyuan Sun,Xueren Hou,Fabian B Haas,Deepti Varshney,Michael Prigge,Stefan A Rensing,Yuling Jiao,Yingxin Ma,Jianbin Yan,Junbiao Dai
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How villin subclasses coordinate actin remodelling Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Raphael Trösch
Villins, which were originally named after their occurrence in mammalian microvilli, contain a gelsolin domain and a C-terminal villin headpiece domain. Both domains can bind actin; one villin molecule can therefore bind to two actin filaments, which enables it to function in actin bundling. This is in contrast to the related gelsolin, which has only a calcium-dependent actin-severing function. In
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Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Kathrin Rousk, Juan Carlos Villarreal A
Among the vast diversity of plants, we often focus our admiration, conservation efforts and research on vascular plants: the towering trees, flowering shrubs, and beneficial grasses and herbs. However, this emphasis reveals a bias that leaves the non-vascular plants — the tiny, overlooked, inconspicuous plants — hidden in the shadows, literally. These ‘lower plants’, as the research community likes
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Disclosure of country of origin in patent applications might not help to protect genetic resources and traditional knowledge Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Sruthi Balaji, Allison Fish, Brad Sherman
On 24 May 2024, the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (hereafter, the Treaty). Although it has been hailed as a victory for Indigenous peoples and local communities1,2, its effectiveness will depend on how the Treaty is implemented in national law. The cornerstone of the Treaty is the requirement
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Dry matters Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-17
December is traditionally a time for looking back at the year that has passed. For plant biology, drought has been a frequently raised topic in 2024 — and 2025 is unlikely to be any different.
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Understanding the genomic basis to empower sweet potato breeding Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-16
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Evolution of a SHOOTMERISTEMLESS transcription factor binding site promotes fruit shape determination Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Zhi-Cheng Hu, Mateusz Majda, Hao-Ran Sun, Yao Zhang, Yi-Ning Ding, Quan Yuan, Tong-Bing Su, Tian-Feng Lü, Feng Gao, Gui-Xia Xu, Richard S. Smith, Lars Østergaard, Yang Dong
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Refining polyploid breeding in sweet potato through allele dosage enhancement Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Xiangbo Zhang, Chaochen Tang, Bingzhi Jiang, Rong Zhang, Ming Li, Yaoyao Wu, Zhufang Yao, Lifei Huang, Zhongxia Luo, Hongda Zou, Yiling Yang, Minyi Wu, Ao Chen, Shan Wu, Xingliang Hou, Xu Liu, Zhangjun Fei, Junjie Fu, Zhangying Wang
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Patterns of forest disturbance Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Catherine Walker
Disturbance is a natural and frequent part of the life cycle of an ecosystem. In forests, discrete events such as fires, flooding and landslides can cause the sudden death of groups of trees, which leads to total stand replacement. These disruptions — and the size, shape and spatial arrangement of the patch left behind — have long-lasting effects on forest structure and composition. In a study published
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Yoda screams again Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Guillaume Tena
Symmetric cell divisions are boring; they only maintain or expand an existing tissue. The more interesting asymmetric divisions give rise to novel cell types with diverging fates. Two examples during Arabidopsis development have attracted the attention of researchers over the years. The first one marks the entry into the stomatal lineage, when the meristemoid mother cell divides to produce, at the
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Exploring the function of plant root diffusion barriers in sealing and shielding for environmental adaptation Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Yi-Qun Gao, Yu Su, Dai-Yin Chao
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A micropeptide decelerator Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-04 Jun Lyu
Using recombinant inbred lines developed by crossing two maize inbred lines with different KDRs, the researchers identified a large-effect quantitative trait locus, qKDR1. A 1,417-bp sequence of this locus is causal because its knockout slows KDR. Different alleles at this locus correspond to different KDRs and differential expression of a nearby RPG (qKDR1 REGULATED PEPTIDE GENE) gene. RPG has a high
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Plant microbiota feedbacks through dose-responsive expression of general non-self response genes Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-03 Andreas Keppler, Michelle Roulier, Sebastian Pfeilmeier, Gabriella C. Petti, Anna Sintsova, Benjamin A. Maier, Miriam Bortfeld-Miller, Shinichi Sunagawa, Cyril Zipfel, Julia A. Vorholt
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The near-complete genome assembly of hexaploid wild oat reveals its genome evolution and divergence with cultivated oats Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-03 Qiang He, Wei Li, Yuqing Miao, Yu Wang, Ningkun Liu, Jianan Liu, Tao Li, Yao Xiao, Hongyu Zhang, Yaru Wang, Hanfei Liang, Yange Yun, Shuhui Wang, Qingbin Sun, Hongru Wang, Zhizhong Gong, Huilong Du
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Regulation and function of a polarly localized lignin barrier in the exodermis Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Concepcion Manzano, Kevin W. Morimoto, Lidor Shaar-Moshe, G. Alex Mason, Alex Cantó-Pastor, Mona Gouran, Damien De Bellis, Robertas Ursache, Kaisa Kajala, Neelima Sinha, Julia Bailey-Serres, Niko Geldner, J. Carlos del Pozo, Siobhan M. Brady
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Walking with giants Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Catherine Walker
Born of Fire and Rain: A Journey into America’s Temperate Rainforest M. L. HerringYALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: 2025. 280 pp. £25.00 When imagining the ancient, slumbering trees of the Pacific Northwest, we could be forgiven for thinking that this temperate rainforest was exactly that: temperate. But its mild climate belies an ecosystem familiar with the extreme.
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The vision for adapted crops and soils: how to prioritize investments to achieve sustainable nutrition for all Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Jeffrey E. Herrick, Cary Fowler, Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Rattan Lal, Anna M. Nelson
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Stomatal opening under high temperatures is controlled by the OST1-regulated TOT3–AHA1 module Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Xiangyu Xu, Hongyan Liu, Myrthe Praat, Gaston A. Pizzio, Zhang Jiang, Steven Michiel Driever, Ren Wang, Brigitte Van De Cotte, Selwyn L. Y. Villers, Kris Gevaert, Nathalie Leonhardt, Hilde Nelissen, Toshinori Kinoshita, Steffen Vanneste, Pedro L. Rodriguez, Martijn van Zanten, Lam Dai Vu, Ive De Smet
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CRY in the dark Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-28 Raphael Trösch
CRYs possess a conserved photolyase-homologous region and a divergent C-terminal domain. The photolyase-homologous region binds flavin adenine dinucleotide, which is responsible for light activation. Blue-light-activated phosphorylation leads to a conformational change that exposes a short motif of 80 residues and enables dimerization. Dimerized light-activated CRYs are known to bind various target
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New weapons explosive exhibits persistent toxicity in plants Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-28 Nicola C. Oates, Edward R. Nay, Timothy J. Cary, Elizabeth L. Rylott, Neil C. Bruce
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ZmICE1a regulates the defence–storage trade-off in maize endosperm Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-27 Qun Wang, Fan Feng, Kechun Zhang, Yonghui He, Weiwei Qi, Zeyang Ma, Rentao Song
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Post-genomic illumination of paclitaxel biosynthesis Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-27 Alisdair R. Fernie, Fang Liu, Youjun Zhang
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Agile nutrient network evolution Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 Jaccoline M. S. Zegers, Jan de Vries
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Co-option of plant gene regulatory network in nutrient responses during terrestrialization Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 Yating Dong, Shalini Krishnamoorthi, Grace Zi Hao Tan, Zheng Yong Poh, Daisuke Urano
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Unlocking Amborella’s ZW sex chromosome system Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-25 Susanne S. Renner
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ZW sex chromosome structure in Amborella trichopoda Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-25 Sarah B. Carey, Laramie Aközbek, John T. Lovell, Jerry Jenkins, Adam L. Healey, Shengqiang Shu, Paul Grabowski, Alan Yocca, Ada Stewart, Teresa Jones, Kerrie Barry, Shanmugam Rajasekar, Jayson Talag, Charlie Scutt, Porter P. Lowry, Jérôme Munzinger, Eric B. Knox, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, James Leebens-Mack, Alex Harkess
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Unravelling the centromere landscape and evolution in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-22
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ABA-activated low-nanomolar Ca2+–CPK signalling controls root cap cycle plasticity and stress adaptation Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-22 Ziwei Lin, Ying Guo, Ruiyuan Zhang, Yiming Li, Yue Wu, Jen Sheen, Kun-hsiang Liu
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Climate warming speeds up species succession in Himalayan treelines Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-21
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Alternate routes to gene functions Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-18
The functions of many genes in model plants are unknown. Traditional methods to infer function are showing their limitations, but other approaches are emerging.
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Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-18 Shalik Ram Sigdel, Xiangyu Zheng, Flurin Babst, J. Julio Camarero, Shan Gao, Xiaoxia Li, Xiaoming Lu, Jayram Pandey, Binod Dawadi, Jian Sun, Haifeng Zhu, Tao Wang, Eryuan Liang, Josep Peñuelas
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New light on pyrenoid membrane tubules Nat. Plants (IF 15.8) Pub Date : 2024-11-15 Jean-David Rochaix