311 papers
This study demonstrates that inhibiting sterol biosynthesis with lovastatin disrupts plasma membrane organization and PIN protein dynamics in *Arabidopsis thaliana*, leading to auxin-cytokinin imbalance, ectopic lateral root formation, and inhibited primary root growth.
This study presents high-quality genome sequences of purple and white-flowered *Aquilegia vulgaris* to elucidate the genetic basis of flower color variation, specifically identifying structural variants in the anthocyanidin synthase gene responsible for the white phenotype and confirming the presence of key flavonoid biosynthesis genes.
This study establishes a practical phenotyping framework for root system architecture and demonstrates that the *Aegilops tauschii*-derived wheat line MSD417 exhibits enhanced early root vigor and horizontal soil exploration compared to its recurrent parent, although these advantages are constrained under high-temperature stress.
This study reveals that the loss of the mitochondria-associated protein FMT suppresses chloroplast proteostasis defects in *clpc1* mutants by derepressing the paralog CLPC2, thereby triggering a specific inter-organelle compensatory mechanism that restores chloroplast function independently of GUN1-mediated retrograde signaling.
This study presents the development and validation of a cost-effective, mid-density 2,421-SNP array using the PlexSeq NGS platform that effectively supports diverse sorghum breeding applications, including genomic prediction and germplasm management, with performance comparable to high-density genotyping methods.
By integrating qualitative interviews with agent-based modeling, this study reveals that farmers' adaptive strategies—specifically plasticity for gradual change and bet-hedging for volatility—closely mirror plant biological mechanisms, offering a framework to co-design climate-resilient agricultural systems that align human decision-making with plant traits.
Using three-dimensional ptychographic X-ray computed tomography, this study reveals that CAD deficiency in sorghum induces subtle, localized changes in xylem lumen geometry that reduce simulated hydraulic conductivity, despite no significant alterations in cell wall thickness.
By integrating QTL mapping, transcriptomics, and genomic analysis, this study identifies an ancient X chromosomal region in *Cannabis sativa* containing three genes (CsREM16, lncREM16, and CsKAN4) that likely govern both male-female and monoecious-dioecious sex determination through their combinatorial interaction.
By integrating hyperspectral reflectance, inverse modeling, and network analysis in a common garden experiment, this study demonstrates that *Streptanthus tortuosus* populations exhibit distinct, heritable spectral signatures and coordinated trait networks that shift in response to historical and recent climate variations, offering a high-throughput framework for detecting population-level adaptation.
This study demonstrates that the neofunctionalization of a florigen paralog into a flowering antagonist (SP5G) created an evolutionary contingency that channeled adaptive flowering time evolution across diverse Solanaceae lineages through repeated selection of specific coding and cis-regulatory mutations during both wild adaptation and crop domestication.
This study reveals that the helper NLR NRG1 triggers plant immunity by forming a resistosome at the chloroplast envelope to channel stromal calcium into the cytosol, representing an evolutionarily conserved, organelle-centered defense mechanism distinct from plasma membrane-targeting NLRs.
This study demonstrates that maize landraces from Northern Argentina exhibit substantial phenotypic and biochemical diversity within and among accessions, with variation linked to collection-site altitude, highlighting their value as genetic resources for broadening the genetic base of modern maize breeding.
This study demonstrates that sugar availability acts as a central regulator of rose branching plasticity, where continuous low light inhibits bud outgrowth by limiting sugar production, while transient low light followed by high light promotes over-branching by reducing apical carbon demand and causing subsequent sugar over-accumulation.
This study characterizes the cloned *Basella alba* L-DOPA/dopamine-4,5-dioxygenase 1 (BrDOD1), demonstrating that while ascorbic acid acts as a molecular crowding agent to enhance its kinetics, L-DOPA is its preferred physiological substrate over dopamine, leading to a proposed three-group classification of betalainic plant LigB homologs based on functional and evolutionary traits.
This study reveals that in *Arabidopsis* zygotes, oscillatory Ca²⁺ waves drive tip growth not by aligning actin filaments as in other cells, but by promoting the turnover of a subapical microtubule band through a bidirectional feedback loop with cell elongation.
Despite significant reductions in nucleotide diversity due to maize breeding bottlenecks, transcriptomic diversity remains largely preserved through polygenic cis-regulation driven by multiple small-effect variants and diverse haplotypes that are constrained by purifying selection.
This study utilizes GC-MS metabolomics and UV-Vis analysis to demonstrate that the guts of diverse herbivorous insects function as dynamic biochemical reactors that selectively restructure plant metabolomes through flavonoid reduction, phenolic enrichment, and lipid assimilation, revealing conserved adaptive mechanisms for nutrient acquisition and detoxification that could inform pest control strategies.
TimeTraits is an R package available on CRAN that utilizes Functional Data Analysis methods to extract functional traits from biological time-series data, demonstrated through its application in analyzing circadian clock bioluminescence changes in Arabidopsis following photoperiod shifts.
The authors developed PIVOT, a single-cell screening platform using *Nicotiana benthamiana* and viral superinfection exclusion to enable high-throughput, pooled functional genetic screens in planta, successfully identifying both known and novel regulators of cytokinin signaling.