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GreenPhos, a universal method for in-depth measurement of plant phosphoproteomes with high quantitative reproducibility Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Xiaoxiao Duan, Yuanya Zhang, Xiahe Huang, Xiao Ma, Hui Gao, Yan Wang, Zhen Xiao, Chengcheng Huang, Zhongshu Wang, Bolong Li, Wenqiang Yang, Yingchun Wang
Protein phosphorylation regulates a variety of important cellular and physiological processes in plants. In-depth profiling of phosphoproteomes of plants has been more technically challenging than that of animals. This is largely due to the necessities to improve protein extraction efficiency from plant cells with dense cell wall, and to minimize sample loss resulting from the stringent sample clean-up
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Going Deep: Roots, Carbon, and Analyzing Subsoil Carbon Dynamics Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Ezhilmathi Angela Joseph Fernando, Michael Selvaraj, Yusaku Uga, Wolfgang Busch, Hunt Bowers, Joe tohme
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Balanced nitrogen–iron sufficiency boosts grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency by promoting tillering Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Ying Song, Guang-Yu Wan, Jing-Xian Wang, Zi-Sheng Zhang, Jin-Qiu Xia, Liang-Qi Sun, Jie Lu, Chuan-Xi Ma, Lin-Hui Yu, Cheng-Bin Xiang, Jie Wu
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Nitrate confers rice adaptation to high ammonium by suppressing its uptake but promoting its assimilation Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Yu Yan, Zhihua Zhang, Huwei Sun, Xiujie Liu, Junpeng Xie, Yahong Qiu, Tuanyao Chai, Chengcai Chu, Bin Hu
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Simultaneous production of high-frequency synthetic apomixis with high fertility and improved agronomic traits in hybrid rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mengqiu Song, Wumei Wang, Chun Ji, Shengnan Li, Wei Liu, Xiaoyu Hu, Anhui Feng, Shuang Ruan, Shiyun Du, Huan Wang, Kui Dai, Longbiao Guo, Qian Qian, Hongqi Si, Xingming Hu
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COG1 – a master transcription factor for regulating photosynthesis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Jan Ferdinand Penzler, Tatjana Kleine, Dario Leister
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Botanical Timekeepers: Deciphering evolutionary relationships in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 M. Arif Ashraf, Arpita Yadav
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Multi-Omics Analyses of Two Leonurus Species Illuminate Leonurine Biosynthesis and Its Evolution Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Peng Li, Meng-Xiao Yan, Pan Liu, Dan-Jie Yang, Ze-Kun He, Yun Gao, Yan Jiang, Yu Kong, Xin Zhong, Sheng Wu, Jun Yang, Hong-Xia Wang, Yan-Bo Huang, Le Wang, Xiao-Ya Chen, Yong-Hong Hu, Qing Zhao, Ping Xu
The Lamiaceae family is renowned for its terpenoid-based medicinal components, but Leonurus stands out for its alkaloid-rich composition. Leonurine, the principal active compound found in Leonurus, has demonstrated promising effects in reducing blood lipids and treating strokes in addition to the traditional medicinal uses of the herb. However, the biosynthetic pathway of leonurine remains largely
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Crop Agriculture – Necessary Traits for Cultivation Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Stuart Kaplan, Kate M. Creasey Krainer
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Regulatory dynamics of higher plant PSI-LHCI supercomplex during state transitions Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Jianghao Wu, Shuaijiabin Chen, Chao Wang, Weijun Lin, Chao Huang, Chengxu Fan, Dexian Han, Dandan Lu, Xiumei Xu, SenFang Sui, Lixin Zhang
State transition is a fundamental light acclimation mechanism of photosynthetic organisms in response to the environmental light conditions. This process rebalances the excitation energy between photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) through regulated reversible binding of the light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) to PSI. However, the structural reorganization of PSI-LHCI, the dynamic binding
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Adenosine monophosphate enhances callus regeneration competence for de novo plant organogenesis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Hong Gil Lee, Seo Young Jang, Eun Yee Jie, Seung Hee Choi, Ok-Sun Park, Soon Hyung Bae, Hyun-Soon Kim, Suk Weon Kim, Geum-Sook Hwang, Pil Joon Seo
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LAZing Around: The Intricate Dance of Amyloplast Sedimentation and Gravity Sensing in Plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ning Zhang, Songtao Gui, Yonghong Wang
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Dienediamine: A Safe Herbicide as Paraquat Surrogate Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Henian Peng, Dake Zhao, Wenjun Tang, Ai Peng
Paraquat (PQ) has been used as an herbicide worldwide because of its potent activity against weeds. However, it is highly toxic to humans. The very high fatality of PQ poisoning is due to its inherent toxicity and the lack of any effective treatment. Consequently, developing a non-toxic herbicide with comparable efficacy to PQ will contribute to global food security and help prevent PQ-related fatalities
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Peptides: opening the door Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Zongcheng Lin, Ke Jin, Noni Franklin-Tong
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Synthetic biology identifies the minimal gene set required for Paclitaxel biosynthesis in a plant chassis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Youjun Zhang, Lorenz Wiese, Hao Fang, Saleh Alseekh, Leonardo Perez de Souza, Federico Scossa, John Molloy, Mathias Christmann, Alisdair R. Fernie
The diterpenoid paclitaxel (Taxol®) is a chemotherapy medication widely used as a first-line treatment against several types of solid cancers. The supply of paclitaxel from natural sources is limited. However, missing knowledge of the genes involved in several specific metabolic steps of paclitaxel biosynthesis has rendered it difficult to engineer the full pathway. Here, we used a combination of transcriptomics
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Genome resources for the elite bread wheat cultivar Aikang 58 and mining of elite homeologous haplotypes for accelerating wheat improvement Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Jizeng Jia, Guangyao Zhao, Danping Li, Kai Wang, Chuizheng Kong, Pingchuan Deng, Xueqing Yan, Xueyong Zhang, Zefu Lu, Shujuan Xu, Yuannian Jiao, Kang Chong, Xu Liu, Dangqun Cui, Guangwei Li, Yijing Zhang, Chunguang Du, Liang Wu, Tianbao Li, Dong Yan, Lifeng Gao
Despite the progress made recently in crop genomics studies, the genomic changes brought by modern breeding selection are still poorly understood, thus hampering genomics-assisted breeding especially in the polyploid crops with compound genomes such as common wheat (Triticum aestivum). In this work, we constructed genome resources for the modern elite common wheat variety Aikang 58 (AK58). Comparisons
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Roots dOdge streSs Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Stephan Clemens
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Seed’s awakening: Unveiling the MKK3–MPK7–ERF4 module in dormancy-to-germination transition Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Vishal Varshney, Manoj Majee
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Launching, Perceiving, and Diminishing of Airborne Signals Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Mikayla Carty, Ruize Zhang, Ziyue Li, Daowen Wang, Zheng Qing Fu
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Sake or supper? Breeding rice for culinary excellence and optimal brewing Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Changquan Zhang, Qing Liu, Qiaoquan Liu
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Control of rice ratooning ability by a nucleoredoxin that inhibits histidine kinase dimerization to attenuate cytokinin signaling in axillary bud growth Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Yilong Yao, Denghao Xiang, Nai Wu, Yao Wang, Yu Chen, Yang Yuan, Ying Ye, Dan Hu, Chang Zheng, Yu Yan, Qingya Lv, Xiaokai Li, Guoxing Chen, Honghong Hu, Haiyan Xiong, Shaobing Peng, Lizhong Xiong
Rice ratooning, fast outgrowth of dormant buds on stubble, is an important cropping practice to increase rice yield. However, low ratooning ability (RA) for most rice varieties directly restricts the application of this cost-efficient system, and the genetic basis of RA remains unknown. Here, the genetic architecture of RA was first dissected by a genome-wide association study in a natural rice population
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Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals a hierarchical transcriptional regulatory network of terpenoid biosynthesis in cotton secretory glandular cells Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Jia-Ling Lin, Longxian Chen, Wen-Kai Wu, Xiao-Xiang Guo, Cheng-Hui Yu, Min Xu, Gui-Bin Nie, Jun-ling Dun, Yan Li, Baofu Xu, Ling-Jian Wang, Xiao-Ya Chen, Wei Gao, Jin-Quan Huang
Plants can synthesize a wide range of terpenoids in response to various environmental cues. However, the specific regulatory mechanisms governing terpenoid biosynthesis at the cellular level remain largely elusive. Herein, we employed single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to comprehensively characterize the transcriptome profile of cotton leaves and established a hierarchical transcriptional network
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Structural insight into the functions of Raf1 and Bsd2 in hexadecameric Rubisco assembly Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Ran Wang, Hui Song, Wenjuan Zhang, Ning Wang, Shijia Zhang, Ruiqi Shao, Cuimin Liu
Hexadecameric form I Rubisco, consisting of eight large (RbcL) and eight small (RbcS) subunits, is the most abundant enzyme on earth. Extensive efforts to engineer an improved Rubisco to speed up its catalytic efficiency and ultimately to increase agricultural productivity have been undertaken. However, genetic manipulation of hexadecameric Rubisco has been hampered by its difficulty to fold and assemble
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Vacuolar H+-ATPase and BZR1 form a feedback loop to regulate the homeostasis of BR signaling in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Yu-Tong Jiang, Lu-Han Yang, Ji-Xuan Zheng, Xian-Chen Geng, Yu-Xuan Bai, Yu-Chen Wang, Hong-Wei Xue, Wen-Hui Lin
Brassinosteroid (BR) is a vital plant hormone that regulates plant growth and development. BRASSINAZOLE RESISTANT1 (BZR1) is a key transcription factor of BR signaling, and the nucleocytoplasmic localization of BZR1 is crucial for BR signaling. However, the regulatory mechanisms of BZR1 nucleocytoplasmic distribution and thus the homeostasis of BR signaling remain largely unclear. Vacuole is the largest
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Genome architecture and tetrasomic inheritance of autotetraploid potato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Zhigui Bao, Canhui Li, Guangcun Li, Pei Wang, Zhen Peng, Lin Cheng, Hongbo Li, Zhiyang Zhang, Yuying Li, Wu Huang, Mingwang Ye, Daofeng Dong, Zhukuan Cheng, Peter VanderZaag, Evert Jacobsen, Christian W.B. Bachem, Suomeng Dong, Chunzhi Zhang, Sanwen Huang, Qian Zhou
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Dual roles of the Arabidopsis PEAT complex in histone H2A deubiquitination and H4K5 acetylation Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Si-Yao Zheng, Bin-Bin Guan, Dan-Yang Yuan, Qiang-Qiang Zhao, Weiran Ge, Lian-Mei Tan, Shan-Shan Chen, Lin Li, She Chen, Rui-Ming Xu, Xin-Jian He
Histone H2A monoubiquitination is associated with transcriptional repression and needs to be removed by deubiquitinases to facilitate gene transcription in eukaryotes. However, the deubiquitinase responsible for genome-wide H2A deubiquitination in plants has yet to be identified. In this study, we found that the previously identified PWWP–EPCR–ARID–TRB (PEAT) complex components interact with both the
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Nitrogen–iron interaction as an emerging factor influencing crop productivity and nutrient use efficiency Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Ying Liu, Guohua Xu
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The T2T genome assembly of soybean cultivar ZH13 and its epigenetic landscapes Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Chao Zhang, Liang Xie, Hang Yu, Jinhui Wang, Qingshan Chen, Haifeng Wang
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Pijx confers broad-spectrum seedling and panicle blast resistance by promoting the degradation of ATP β subunit and OsRbohC-mediated ROS burst in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Ning Xiao, Yunyu Wu, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Zeyun Hao, Zichun Chen, Zefeng Yang, Yue Cai, Ruyi Wang, Ling Yu, Zhiping Wang, Yue Lu, Wei Shi, Cunhong Pan, Yuhong Li, Changhai Zhou, Jianju Liu, Niansheng Huang, Guangqing Liu, Hongjuan Ji, Shuhao Zhu, Aihong Li
Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most important diseases of rice. Utilization of blast-resistance genes is the most economical, effective, and environmentally friendly way to control the disease. However, genetic resources with broad-spectrum resistance (BSR) that is effective throughout the rice growth period are rare. In this work, using a genome-wide association
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New insights into the control of symbiotic nitrogen fixation by carbon supply Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Marc Lepetit, Renaud Brouquisse
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Low phosphorus promotes NSP1–NSP2 heterodimerization to enhance strigolactone biosynthesis and regulate shoot and root architecture in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 , Hao Zhang, Chaoji Yu, Nan Luo, Jijun Yan, Shuang Zheng, Qingliang Hu, Dahan Zhang, Liquan Kou, Xiangbing Meng, Yanhui Jing, Mingjiang Chen, Xinwei Ban, Zongyun Yan, Zefu Lu, Jian Wu, Yu Zhao, Yan Liang, Yonghong Wang, Guosheng Xiong, Bing Wang
Phosphorus is an essential macronutrient for plant development and metabolism, and plants have evolved ingenious mechanisms to overcome phosphate (Pi) starvation. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of shoot and root architecture by low phosphorus conditions and the coordinated utilization of Pi and nitrogen remain largely unclear. Here, we show that Nodulation Signaling Pathway
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Plant and animal positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses encode small proteins important for viral infection in their negative-sense strand Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Pan Gong, Qingtang Shen, Mingzhen Zhang, Rui Qiao, Jing Jiang, Lili Su, Siwen Zhao, Shuai Fu, Yu Ma, Linhao Ge, Yaqin Wang, Rosa Lozano-Durán, Aiming Wang, Fangfang Li, Xueping Zhou
Positive-sense single-stranded RNA (+ssRNA) viruses, the most abundant viruses of eukaryotes in nature, require the synthesis of negative-sense RNA (−RNA) using their genomic (positive-sense) RNA (+RNA) as a template for replication. Based on current evidence, viral proteins are translated via viral +RNAs, whereas −RNA is considered to be a viral replication intermediate without coding capacity. Here
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Uncover the mystery of pleiotropic effects of PROG1 during rice domestication Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Wenguang Wang, Songtao Gui, Yonghong Wang
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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 elucidation of their biosynthesis are fundamental to understanding their roles in plants and their benefits for human and animal health. Here, we report a new pathway for polymerization 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 a
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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 report the cloning of CSIT1, which encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase, and show that CSIT1
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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 acts as 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 vegetative biomass and grain yield. Manipulation of key transcription factors known to directly control photosynthetic machinery can be an effective strategy to improve photosynthetic traits. In this study, we identified an Arabidopsis gain-of-function mutant, cogwheel1-3D, that shows a significantly enlarged rosette and
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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 the official release of the stand-alone bioinformatics toolkit TBtools in 2020, its superior functionality in data analysis has been demonstrated by its widespread adoption by many thousands of users and references in more than 5000 academic articles. Now, TBtools is a commonly used tool in biological laboratories. Over the past 3 years, thanks to invaluable feedback and suggestions from numerous
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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, which are perceived by distinct signaling pathways in plants. Warm temperatures induce thermomorphogenesis, while high-temperature stress triggers heat acclimation and
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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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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
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Rice roots avoid asymmetric heavy metal and salinity stress via an 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 a 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 (cadmium, copper, or lead) and salt, rice roots rapidly proliferate lateral roots
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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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The MKK3–MPK7 cascade phosphorylates ERF4 and promotes its rapid degradation to release 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 growing season. In this study, we identify a fate switch comprised of the MKK3–MPK7 kinase cascade and the ethylene response factor ERF4 that is responsible for the seed state transition from dormancy to germination. We show that dormancy-breaking factors activate the MKK3–MPK7 module, which affects the expression of some
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Wheat adaptation to environmental stresses under climate change: Molecular basis and genetic improvement Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Hude Mao, Cong Jiang, Chunlei Tang, Xiaojun Nie, Linying Du, Yuling Liu, Peng Cheng, Yunfeng Wu, Huiquan Liu, Zhensheng Kang, Xiaojie Wang
Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a staple food for about 40% of the world’s population. As the global population has grown and living standards improved, high yield and improved nutritional quality have become the main targets for wheat breeding. However, wheat production has been compromised by global warming through the more frequent occurrence of extreme temperature events, which have increased water
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Integrated genome-wide differentiation and association analyses identify causal genes underlying breeding-selected grain quality traits in japonica rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Hideki Yoshida, Satoshi Okada, Fanmiao Wang, Shohei Shiota, Masaki Mori, Mayuko Kawamura, Xue Zhao, Yiqiao Wang, Naho Nishigaki, Asako Kobayashi, Kotaro Miura, Shinya Yoshida, Masaru Ikegami, Akitoshi Ito, Lin-Tzu Huang, Yue-Ie Caroline Hsing, Yoshiyuki Yamagata, Yoichi Morinaka, Masanori Yamasaki, Toshihisa Kotake, Makoto Matsuoka
Improving grain quality is a primary objective in contemporary rice breeding. Japanese modern rice breeding has developed two different types of rice, eating and sake-brewing rice, with different grain characteristics, indicating the selection of variant gene alleles during the breeding process. Given the critical importance of promptly and efficiently identifying genes selected in past breeding for
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Balanced nitrogen–iron sufficiency boosts grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency by promoting tillering Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Ying Song, Guang-Yu Wan, Jing-Xian Wang, Zi-Sheng Zhang, Jin-Qiu Xia, Liang-Qi Sun, Jie Lu, Chuan-Xi Ma, Lin-Hui Yu, Cheng-Bin Xiang, Jie Wu
Crop yield plays a critical role in global food security. For optimal plant growth and maximal crop yields, nutrients must be balanced. However, the potential significance of balanced nitrogen–iron (N–Fe) for improving crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has not previously been addressed. Here, we show that balanced N–Fe sufficiency significantly increases tiller number and boosts yield and
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Coordinating plant pigment production: A green role for ORANGE family proteins Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Andrew Hitchcock, Matthew S. Proctor, Roman Sobotka
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Redesigning crop varieties to win the race between climate change and food security Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Kevin V. Pixley, Jill E. Cairns, Santiago Lopez-Ridaura, Chris O. Ojiewo, Maryam Abba Dawud, Inoussa Drabo, Taye Mindaye, Baloua Nebie, Godfrey Asea, Biswanath Das, Happy Daudi, Haile Desmae, Benoit Joseph Batieno, Ousmane Boukar, Clare T.M. Mukankusi, Stanley T. Nkalubo, Sarah J. Hearne, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Harish Gandhi, Sieglinde Snapp, Ernesto Adair Zepeda-Villarreal
Climate change poses daunting challenges to agricultural production and food security. Rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and more frequent extreme events have already demonstrated their effects on local, regional, and global agricultural systems. Crop varieties that withstand climate-related stresses and are suitable for cultivation in innovative cropping systems will be crucial to maximize
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Condensation of STM is critical for shoot meristem maintenance and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Xiuwei Cao, Qingwei Du, Yahe Guo, Ying Wang, Yuling Jiao
The shoot meristem generates the entire shoot system and is precisely maintained throughout the life cycle under various environmental challenges. In this study, we identified a prion-like domain (PrD) in the key shoot meristem regulator SHOOT MERISTEMLESS (STM), which distinguishes STM from other related KNOX1 proteins. We demonstrated that PrD stimulates STM to form nuclear condensates, which are
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Mitophagy: From the dark into the spotlight Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Vivian Schmitt, Olivier Van Aken
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Improving photosynthetic efficiency toward food security: Strategies, advances, and perspectives Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Edward N. Smith, Marvin van Aalst, Tiina Tosens, Ülo Niinemets, Benjamin Stich, Tomas Morosinotto, Alessandro Alboresi, Tobias J. Erb, Paul A. Gómez-Coronado, Dimitri Tolleter, Giovanni Finazzi, Gilles Curien, Matthias Heinemann, Oliver Ebenhöh, Julian M. Hibberd, Urte Schlüter, Tianshu Sun, Andreas P.M. Weber
Photosynthesis in crops and natural vegetation allows light energy to be converted into chemical energy and thus forms the foundation for almost all terrestrial trophic networks on Earth. The efficiency of photosynthetic energy conversion plays a crucial role in determining the portion of incident solar radiation that can be used to generate plant biomass throughout a growth season. Consequently, alongside
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Loss of OsARF18 function confers glufosinate resistance in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jin-Qiu Xia, Da-Yu He, Qin-Yu Liang, Zheng-Yi Zhang, Jie Wu, Zi-Sheng Zhang, Jing Zhang, Lin Wang, Cong-He Zhang, Ping-Xia Zhao, Cheng-Bin Xiang
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Maize defense against insect herbivory: A novel role for 9-LOX-derived oxylipins Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Guillermo H. Jimenez-Aleman, Georg Jander
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Comparative and population genomics of buckwheat species reveal key determinants of flavor and fertility Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Kaixuan Zhang, Yuqi He, Xiang Lu, Yaliang Shi, Hui Zhao, Xiaobo Li, Jinlong Li, Yang Liu, Yinan Ouyang, Yu Tang, Xue Ren, Xuemei Zhang, Weifei Yang, Zhaoxia Sun, Chunhua Zhang, Muriel Quinet, Zlata Luthar, Mateja Germ, Ivan Kreft, Dagmar Janovská, Meiliang Zhou
Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is an ancient crop with a world-wide distribution. Due to its excellent nutritional quality and high economic and ecological value, common buckwheat is becoming increasingly important throughout the world. The availability of a high-quality reference genome sequence and population genomic data will accelerate the breeding of common buckwheat, but the high heterozygosity
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A telomere-to-telomere gap-free assembly of soybean genome Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Longfei Wang, Mengzhu Zhang, Mengna Li, Xinyu Jiang, Wu Jiao, Qingxin Song
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Rice domestication-associated transcription factor PROSTRATE GROWTH 1 controls plant and panicle architecture by regulating the expression of LAZY 1 and OsGIGANTEA, respectively Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Jun Wang, Jing Huang, Jinlin Bao, Xizhi Li, Liang Zhu, Jian Jin
Plant architecture and panicle architecture are two critical agronomic traits that greatly affect the yield of rice (Oryza sativa). PROSTRATE GROWTH 1 (PROG1) encodes a key C2H2-type zinc-finger transcription factor and has pleiotropic effects on the regulation of both plant and panicle architecture, thereby influencing the grain yield. However, the molecular mechanisms through which PROG1 controls
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Putting the brakes on pollen wall development: A conserved negative feedback loop regulates pollen exine formation in flowering plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Yuan Zhou, Anna A. Dobritsa
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