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The super-pangenome of Populus unveil genomic facets for its adaptation and diversification in widespread forest trees Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tingting Shi, Xinxin Zhang, Yukang Hou, Changfu Jia, Xuming Dan, Yulin Zhang, Yuanzhong Jiang, Qiang Lai, Jiajun Feng, Jianju Feng, Tao Ma, Jiali Wu, Shuyu Liu, Lei Zhang, Zhiqin Long, Liyang Chen, Nathaniel R. Street, Pär K. Ingvarsson, Jianquan Liu, Tongming Yin, Jing Wang
Understanding the underlying mechanisms and links between genome evolution and adaptive innovations stands as a key goal in evolutionary studies. Poplars, among the world’s most widely distributed and cultivated trees, exhibit extensive phenotypic diversity and environmental adaptability. In this study, we present a genus-level super-pangenome comprising 19 genomes, revealing the likely pivotal role
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Suffocated shoots: hypoxia-induced synthesis of salicylic acid inhibits plant regeneration. Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ximena Chirinos, Francesco Licausi
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Commercial genetically modified corn and soybean are poised following pilot planting in China Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mei Sun, Suzhen Li, Wenzhu Yang, Bowen Zhao, Youhua Wang, Xiaoqing Liu
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A viral movement protein targets host catalases for 26S proteasome-mediated degradation to facilitate viral infection and aphid transmission in wheat Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Shuyuan Tian, Qingting Song, Wenmei Zhou, Jingke Wang, Yanbin Wang, Wei An, Yunfeng Wu, Lei Zhao
The infection of host plants by many different viruses causes reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and yellowing symptoms, but the mechanisms through which plant viruses counteract ROS-mediated immunity to facilitate infection and symptom development has not been fully elucidated. Most plant viruses are also transmitted by insect vectors in the field, but the molecular mechanisms underlying virus‒host–insect
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Distinct phosphorylation optimizes pathogen-induced PA and ROS bursts Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Kaihuai Li, Ruize Zhang, Yong Wang, Fengquan Liu, Zheng Qing Fu
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Smart Breeding Platform: a web-based tool for high-throughput population genetics, phenomics, and genomic selection Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Huihui Li, Xin Li, Peng Zhang, Yingwei Feng, Junri Mi, Shang Gao, Lele Sheng, Mohsin Ali, Zikun Yang, Liang Li, Wei Fang, Wensheng Wang, Qian Qian, Fei Gu, Wenbin Zhou
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Plant RNA-binding proteins: phase-separation dynamics and functional mechanisms underlying plant development and stress responses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sheng Fan, Yu Zhang, Shaobo Zhu, Lisha Shen
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) accompany RNAs from synthesis to decay, mediating every aspect of RNA metabolism and impacting diverse cellular and developmental processes in eukaryotes. Many RBPs undergo phase separation along with their bound RNA to form and function in dynamic membraneless biomolecular condensates for spatiotemporal coordination of RNA metabolism regulation. Increasing evidence suggests
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Pijx confers broad-spectrum seedling and panicle blast resistance by promoting the degradation of ATP β subunit and OsRbohC-mediated ROS burst in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ning Xiao, Yunyu Wu, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Zeyun Hao, Zichun Chen, Zefeng Yang, Yue Cai, Ruyi Wang, Ling Yu, Zhiping Wang, Yue Lu, Wei Shi, Cunhong Pan, Yuhong Li, Changhai Zhou, Jianju Liu, Niansheng Huang, Guangqing Liu, Hongjuan Ji, Shuhao Zhu, Shuai Fang, Yuese Ning, Aihong Li
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Curation, nomenclature, and topological classification of Receptor-like kinases from 528 plant species for novel domain discovery and functional inference Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Qian Liu, Qiong Fu, Yujie Yan, Qian Jiang, Longfei Mao, Long Wang, Feng Yu, Heping Zheng
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RLKdb: A comprehensively curated database of plant receptor-like kinase families Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Zhiyuan Yin, Jinding Liu, Daolong Dou
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Expressing a human RNA demethylase as an assister improves gene-editing efficiency in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Mengyan Bai, Wenxin Lin, Chunyan Peng, Peizhe Song, Huaqin Kuang, Jieni Lin, Jieping Zhang, Jiyao Wang, Bo Chen, Huarong Li, Fanjiang Kong, Guifang Jia, Yuefeng Guan
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OcBSA: an NGS-based Bulk Segregant Analysis Tool for Outcross Populations Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Lingkui Zhang, Yanfeng Duan, Zewei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Shumin Chen, Chengcheng Cai, Shaoguang Duan, Kang Zhang, Guangcun Li, Feng Cheng
Constructing inbred lines for self-incompatible species and species with long generation times is challenging, making the use of F outcross/segregating populations the main strategy for genetic studies of such species. However, there is a lack of dedicated algorithms/tools for rapid QTL mapping using the F populations. To this end, we have designed and developed an algorithm/tool called OcBSA specifically
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Dynamic control of lipid provisioning in plant-fungal symbiosis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Chun-Lin Shi, Yong-Xin Liu
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BFP1: One of the 700 Arabidopsis F-box proteins mediates degradation of JA oxidases to promote plant immunity Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Claus Wasternack, Bettina Hause
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Dt1 inhibits SWEET-mediated sucrose transport to regulate photoperiod-dependent seed weight in soybean Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Xiaoming Li, Zhonghui Chen, Haiyang Li, Lin Yue, Cuirong Tan, Hongjie Liu, Yilong Hu, Yuhua Yang, Xiani Yao, Lingping Kong, Xiang Huang, Bin Yu, Chunyu Zhang, Yuefeng Guan, Baohui Liu, Fanjiang Kong, Xingliang Hou
Soybean is a photoperiod-sensitive short-day crop, whose reproductive period and yield are markedly affected by day length changes. Seed weight is among the key traits determining the soybean yield; however, the prominent genes that control the final seed weight of soybean and the mechanisms underlying the photoperiod effect on it remain poorly understood. Here we identify a major locus, , which confers
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The MYC2-PUB22-JAZ4 module plays a crucial role in jasmonate signaling in tomato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Shaofang Wu, Chaoyi Hu, Changan Zhu, Yanfen Fan, Jie Zhou, Xiaojia Xia, Kai Shi, Yanhong Zhou, Christine H. Foyer, Jingquan Yu
Jasmonates (JAs), a class of lipid-derived stress hormones, play a crucial role across an array of plant physiological processes and stress responses. While JA signaling is generally thought to rely dominantly on the degradation of specific JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN (JAZ) proteins by SCF, it remains unclear whether other pathways are involved in the regulation of JAZ protein stability. Here, we report that
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Structures and ion transport mechanisms of plant high-affinity potassium transporters Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jiangqin Wang, Yanping Luo, Fan Ye, Zhong Jie Ding, Shao Jian Zheng, Shuai Qiao, Yong Wang, Jiangtao Guo, Wei Yang, Nannan Su
Plant high-affinity K transporters (HKTs) mediate Na and K uptake, maintain Na/K homeostasis, and therefore play crucial roles in plant salt tolerance. In this study, we present cryoelectron microscopy structures of HKTs from two classes, class I HKT1;1 from (AtHKT1;1) and class II HKT2;1 from (TaHKT2;1), in both Na- and K-bound states at 2.6- to 3.0-Å resolutions. Both AtHKT1;1 and TaHKT2;1 function
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Tomato CYP94C1 inactivates bioactive JA-Ile to attenuate jasmonate-mediated defense during fruit ripening Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Tianxia Yang, Lei Deng, Qinyang Wang, Chuanlong Sun, Muhammad Ali, Fangming Wu, Huawei Zhai, Qian Xu, Peiyong Xin, Shujing Cheng, Jinfang Chu, Tingting Huang, Chang-Bao Li, Chuanyou Li
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Endomembrane-biased dimerization of ABCG16 and ABCG25 transporters determines their substrate selectivity in ABA-regulated plant growth and stress responses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yeling Zhou, Yuzhu Wang, Dong Zhang, Jiansheng Liang
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are integral membrane proteins that have been evolved with diverse functions via transport of various substrates. In Arabidopsis, the G subfamily of ABC proteins is particularly abundant and participate in multiple signaling pathways during plant development and stress responses. Here, we revealed two Arabidopsis ABCG transporters, ABCG16 and ABCG25, were engaged
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Two gene clusters and their positive regulator SlMYB13 that have undergone domestication-associated negative selection control phenolamide accumulation and drought tolerance in tomato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Peng Cao, Jun Yang, Linghao Xia, Zhonghui Zhang, Zeyong Wu, Yingchen Hao, Penghui Liu, Chao Wang, Chun Li, Jie Yang, Jun Lai, Xianggui Li, Meng Deng, Shouchuang Wang
Tomato is an ideal model for studying how plants effectively coordinate specialized metabolites to adapt to environmental change. Among plant metabolites, phenolamides, which are conjugates of hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives and polyamines, play important roles in plant adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying phenolamides metabolism and regulation in
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Phase separation of GRP7 that is facilitated by FERONIA-mediated phosphorylation inhibits mRNA translation to modulate plant temperature resilience Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fan Xu, Long Wang, Yingbin Li, Junfeng Shi, Dorothee Staiger, Feng Yu
Changes in ambient temperature profoundly affect plant growth and performance. Therefore, the molecular basis of plant acclimation to temperature fluctuation is of great interest. In this study, we demonstrate that GLYCINE-RICH RNA-BINDING PROTEIN 7 (GRP7) contributes to cold and heat tolerance mechanisms in Arabidopsis (). We show that exposure to a warm temperature can rapidly induce GRP7 condensates
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Plant gene co-expression defines the biosynthetic pathway of neuroactive alkaloids Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fang Liu, Alisdair R. Fernie, Youjun Zhang
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Callus proliferation-induced hypoxic microenvironment decreases shoot regeneration competence in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Dohee Koo, Hong Gil Lee, Soon Hyung Bae, Kyounghee Lee, Pil Joon Seo
Plants are aerobic organisms that rely on molecular oxygen for respiratory energy production. Hypoxic conditions, with oxygen levels ranging between 1% and 5%, usually limit aerobic respiration and affect plant growth and development. Here, we demonstrate that hypoxic microenvironment induced by active cell proliferation during the two-step plant regeneration process intrinsically represses the regeneration
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Systemic identification of wheat spike development regulators by integrated multi-omics, transcriptional network, GWAS and genetic analyses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xuelei Lin, Yongxin Xu, Dongzhi Wang, Yiman Yang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaomin Bie, Lixuan Gui, Zhongxu Chen, Yiliang Ding, Long Mao, Xueyong Zhang, Fei Lu, Xiansheng Zhang, Cristobal Uauy, Xiangdong Fu, Jun Xiao
The spike architecture of wheat plays a crucial role in determining grain number, making it a key trait to optimize in wheat breeding programs. In this study, through a multi-omic approach, we analyzed the transcriptome and epigenome profiles of the young spike at eight developmental stages, revealing coordinated changes in chromatin accessibility and H3K27me3 abundance during the flowering transition
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High-quality assembled and annotated genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana reveal chromosome evolution and changes in defense arsenals Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jubin Wang, Qingling Zhang, Jeffrey Tung, Xi Zhang, Dan Liu, Yingtian Deng, Zhendong Tian, Huilan Chen, Taotao Wang, Weixiao Yin, Bo Li, Zhibing Lai, Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, Barbara Baker, Feng Li
Nicotiana tabacum and N. benthamiana are widely used models in plant biology research. However, genomic studies of these species have lagged. Here we report construction of chromosome-level reference genomes of N. benthamiana and N. tabacum with an estimated 99.5% and 99.8% completeness respectively. Sensitive transcription start and termination site sequencing methods were developed and used for accurate
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A new era for paclitaxel biosynthesis is coming Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Xiaonan Liu, Xiaoxi Zhu, Jian Cheng, Huifeng Jiang
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Spatiotemporal oxygen dynamics in young leaves reveal cyclic hypoxia in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Paolo M. Triozzi, Luca Brunello, Giacomo Novi, Gianmarco Ferri, Francesco Cardarelli, Elena Loreti, Mariano Perales, Pierdomenico Perata
Oxygen is essential for plant growth and development. Hypoxia occurs in plants due to limited oxygen availability following adverse environmental conditions as well in hypoxic niches in otherwise normoxic environments. However, the existence and functional integration of spatiotemporal oxygen dynamics with plant development remains unknown. In animal systems dynamic fluctuations in oxygen availability
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A step forward in breeding for ratooning ability in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Amelia Henry
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Lipid phosphorylation by a diacylglycerol kinase suppresses ABA biosynthesis to regulate plant stress responses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jianwu Li, Shuaibing Yao, Sang-Chul Kim, Xuemin Wang
Lipid phosphorylation by diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) that produces phosphatidic acid (PA) plays important roles in various biological processes, including stress responses, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we show that DGK5 and its lipid product PA suppress ABA biosynthesis by interacting with ABA-DEFICIENT 2 (ABA2), a key ABA biosynthesis enzyme, to negatively modulate plant response
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Pathogen-induced methylglyoxal negatively regulates rice bacterial blight resistance by inhibiting OsCDR1 protease activity Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Zheng-Wei Fu, Jian-Hui Li, Xiang Gao, Shi-Jia Wang, Ting-Ting Yuan, Ying-Tang Lu
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) causes bacterial blight (BB), a globally devastating disease of rice (Oryza sativa) that is responsible for significant crop loss. Sugars and sugar metabolites are important for pathogen infection, providing energy and regulating events associated with defense responses; however, the mechanisms by which they regulate such events in BB are unclear. As an inevitable
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Eat at the right time: Regulation of ER-phagy receptors in plant response to environmental stresses Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Yang Shao, Jiaqi Sun, Huanquan Zheng
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Origin and diversification of maize: Two teosintes but different contributions Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Jonathan Acosta-Bayona, Gloria León-Martínez, Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
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Botrytis cinerea-induced F-box protein 1 enhances disease resistance by inhibiting JAO/JOX-mediated jasmonic acid catabolism in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Min Zhang, Weiwei Li, Tingyu Zhang, Yueyan Liu, Lijing Liu
Jasmonic acid (JA) is a crucial phytohormone that regulates plant immunity. The endogenous JA level is determined by the rates of its biosynthesis and catabolism in plants. To date, the activation of JA biosynthesis has been well documented; however, how plants repress JA catabolism upon pathogen infection remains elusive. Here, we identified Botrytis cinerea-induced F-box protein 1 (BFP1) in Arabidopsis
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Finding my way: The role of dirigent proteins in lignin assembly Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Dyoni M. Oliveira, Igor Cesarino
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An endophytic fungus interacts with the defensin-like protein OsCAL1 to regulate cadmium allocation in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Tianyu Gu, Ziai Qi, Yating Wang, Siying Chen, Jing Yan, Huapeng Qiu, Yanxuan Yu, Zijun Fang, Junmin Wang, Jiming Gong
Defensin-like proteins are conserved in multicellular organisms and contribute to innate immune responses against fungal pathogens. In rice, defensins play a novel role in regulating cadmium (Cd) efflux from the cytosol. However, whether the antifungal activity of defensins correlates with Cd-efflux function remains unknown. In this study, we isolated an endophytic Fusarium, designed Fo10, by a comparative
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Ironing out biofortification in maize: NAC78 regulates iron concentrations in kernels Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 M. Arif Ashraf, Ahmet Bakirbas
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A complete reference genome assembly for foxtail millet and Setaria-db, a comprehensive database for Setaria Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Qiang He, Chunchao Wang, Qiang He, Jun Zhang, Hongkai Liang, Zefu Lu, Kun Xie, Sha Tang, Yuhan Zhou, Bin Liu, Hui Zhi, Guanqing Jia, Ganggang Guo, Huilong Du, Xianmin Diao
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On breakthroughs and limits: Resolving structural fine-tuning of photosynthetic supercomplexes Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Eunchul Kim, Marcel Dann
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Unveiling a new regulator: Vacuolar V-ATPase mediates brassinosteroid signaling in Arabidopsis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Shikha Malik, Justin W. Walley
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Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Mengxiao Yan, Ming Li, Yunze Wang, Xinyi Wang, M-Hossein Moeinzadeh, Dora G. Quispe-Huamanquispe, Weijuan Fan, Yijie Fang, Yuqin Wang, Haozhen Nie, Zhangying Wang, Aiko Tanaka, Bettina Heider, Jan F. Kreuze, Godelieve Gheysen, Hongxia Wang, Martin Vingron, Ralph Bock, Jun Yang
The hexaploid sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is one of the most important root crops worldwide. However, its genetic origin remains controversial, and its domestication history remains unknown. In this study, we used a range of genetic evidence and a newly developed haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis to identify two probable progenitors of sweetpotato. The diploid progenitor was likely closely related
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The CropGPT project: A call for a global, coordinated effort in precision design breeding driven by AI using biological big-data Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Wanchao Zhu, Rui Han, Xiaoyang Shang, Tao Zhou, Chengyong Liang, Xiaomeng Qin, Hong Chen, Zaiwen Feng, Hongwei Zhang, Xingming Fan, Weifu Li, Lin Li
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Cellulose synthesis in land plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Gustav B. Pedersen, Leonard Blaschek, Kristian E.H. Frandsen, Lise C. Noack, Staffan Persson
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Cultivating potential: Harnessing plant stem cells for agricultural crop improvement Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Penelope Lindsay, Kyle W. Swentowsky, David Jackson
Meristems are stem cell-containing structures that produce all plant organs and are therefore important targets for crop improvement. Developmental regulators control the balance and rate of cell divisions within the meristem. Altering these regulators impacts meristem architecture and, as a consequence, plant form. In this review, we discuss genes involved in regulating the shoot apical meristem,
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The challenge of defining rare genetic programs by single-cell RNA sequencing: Insights from phloem studies Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Xiaomin Liu, Pawel Roszak, Ykä Helariutta
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Perenniality: From model plants to applications in agriculture Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Bo Zhao, Jia-Wei Wang
To compensate for their sessile nature, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms enabling them to adapt to ever-changing environments. One such prominent feature is the evolution of diverse life history strategies, particularly such that annuals reproduce once followed by seasonal death, while perennials live longer by cycling growth seasonally. This intrinsic phenology is primarily genetic and
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Creating one-line hybrid crops by synthetic apomixis Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Ronghong Liang, Caixia Gao
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Immunobiodiversity: Conserved and specific immunity across land plants and beyond Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Baptiste Castel, Karima El Mahboubi, Christophe Jacquet, Pierre-Marc Delaux
Angiosperms represent most plants that humans cultivate, grow, and eat. However, angiosperms are only one of five major land plant lineages. As a whole lineage, plants also include algal groups. All these clades represent a tremendous genetic diversity that can be investigated to reveal the evolutionary history of any given mechanism. In this review, we describe the current model of the plant immune
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A new oxidative pathway of nitric oxide production from oximes in plants Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Pedro López-Gómez, Javier Buezo, Marina Urra, Alfonso Cornejo, Raquel Esteban, Jorge Fernández de los Reyes, Estibaliz Urarte, Estefanía Rodríguez-Dobreva, Alejandro Chamizo-Ampudia, Alejandro Eguaras, Sebastian Wolf, Daniel Marino, Victor Martínez-Merino, Jose F. Moran
Nitric oxide (NO) is an essential reactive oxygen species and a signal molecule in plants. Although several studies have proposed the occurrence of oxidative NO production, only reductive routes for NO production, such as the nitrate (NO-3) -upper-reductase pathway, have been evidenced to date in land plants. However, plants grown axenically with ammonium as the sole source of nitrogen exhibit contents
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Plant grafting: Molecular mechanisms and applications Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ming Feng, Frauke Augstein, Abdul Kareem, Charles W. Melnyk
People have grafted plants since antiquity for propagation, to increase yields, and to improve stress tolerance. This cutting and joining of tissues activates an incredible regenerative ability as different plants fuse and grow as one. For over a hundred years, people have studied the scientific basis for how plants graft. Today, new techniques and a deepening knowledge of the molecular basis for graft
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Multi-omics: Powerful accelerator for uncovering plant specialized metabolic pathways: The case of leonurine Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Priyanka Gupta, Anuj Sharma, Dinesh A. Nagegowda
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Woody plant cell walls: Fundamentals and utilization Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Wei Li, Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin, Ying-Lan Chen, Chenguang Zhou, Shuang Li, Nette De Ridder, Dyoni M. Oliveira, Lanjun Zhang, Baocai Zhang, Jack P. Wang, Changzheng Xu, Xiaokang Fu, Keming Luo, Ai-Min Wu, Taku Demura, Meng-Zhu Lu, Yihua Zhou, Laigeng Li, Toshiaki Umezawa, Wout Boerjan, Vincent L. Chiang
Cell walls in plants, particularly forest trees, are the major carbon sink of the terrestrial ecosystem. Chemical and biosynthetic features of plant cell walls were revealed early on, focusing mostly on herbaceous model species. Recent developments in genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, transgenesis, and associated analytical techniques are enabling novel insights into formation of woody cell walls
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New mechanistic insights into phosphate-starvation-regulated plant architecture change and nutrient uptake Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Hong Lu, Rongbin Lin, Meiju Deng, Kangming Jin, Chuanzao Mao
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The OsBZR1–OsSPX1/2 module fine-tunes the growth–immunity trade-off in adaptation to phosphate availability in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Yuqing He, Yao Zhao, Jitao Hu, Lanlan Wang, Linying Li, Xueying Zhang, Zhongjing Zhou, Lili Chen, Hua Wang, Jiaoyu Wang, Gaojie Hong
The growth-promoting hormones brassinosteroids (BRs) and their key signaling component BZR1 play a vital role in balancing normal growth and defense reactions. Here, we discovered that BRs and OsBZR1 upregulated sakuranetin accumulation and conferred basal defense against Magnaporthe oryzae infection under normal conditions. Resource shortages, including phosphate (Pi) deficiency, potentially disrupt
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Mitigating growth-stress tradeoffs via elevated TOR signaling in rice Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Wei Li, Jiaqi Liu, Zeqi Li, Ruiqiang Ye, Wenzhen Chen, Yuqing Huang, Yue Yuan, Yi Zhang, Huayi Hu, Peng Zheng, Zhongming Fang, Zeng Tao, Shiyong Song, Ronghui Pan, Jian Zhang, Jumim Tu, Jen Sheen, Hao Du
Rice production accounts for approximately half of the freshwater resources utilized in agriculture, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions such as methane (CH4) from flooded paddy fields. To address this challenge, environmentally friendly and cost-effective water-saving techniques have become widely adopted in rice cultivation. However, the implementation of water-saving treatments (WSTs) in paddy-field
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The innovative safe herbicide dienediamine saves paraquat Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Jin-Qiu Xia, Ping Xu, Cheng-Bin Xiang
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Small holes, big impact: Stomata in plant–pathogen–climate epic trifecta Mol. Plant (IF 27.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Shuguo Hou, Olivier Rodrigues, Zunyong Liu, Libo Shan, Ping He
The regulation of stomatal aperture opening and closure represents an evolutionary battle between plants and pathogens, characterized by adaptive strategies that influence both plant resistance and pathogen virulence. The ongoing climate change introduces further complexity, affecting pathogen invasion and host immunity. This review delves into recent advances on our understanding of the mechanisms
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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 plant phosphoproteomes has been more technically challenging than that of animal phosphoproteomes. This is largely due to the need to improve protein extraction efficiency from plant cells, which have a dense cell wall, and to minimize sample loss resulting from the stringent
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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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