311 papers
Using high-resolution long-read sequencing, this study reveals that four closely related Lepanthes orchid species host distinct mycorrhizal fungal communities, suggesting that shifts in fungal partners may drive speciation and rapid diversification in this genus.
This study presents an integrated diagnostic framework for Sub-Saharan Africa that combines a rapid, low-cost LAMP assay for molecular detection of Banana bunchy top virus with a deep learning-based computer vision model deployed via mobile app for field-level phenotypic screening, collectively addressing the limitations of current diagnostic infrastructure to safeguard banana production.
This study identifies TaNF-YC10 as a pivotal transcriptional hub that coordinates starch biosynthesis and increases grain weight in wheat by forming a regulatory module with TaNF-YB1 and TabHLH95, offering a valuable target for genetic improvement.
This study systematically compares Transformer and ConvNet architectures across nine root segmentation datasets, revealing that Transformer-based models, particularly when pre-trained, significantly outperform ConvNets in accuracy and domain transfer, although dataset choice ultimately explains far more performance variance than model architecture.
This study establishes that ARGONAUTE10 (AGO10) functions as a pathogen-responsive hub essential for trans-species RNA interference in plant immunity, utilizing its N-terminal intrinsically disordered region to drive protein accumulation and condensate formation that silences pathogen genes and confers resistance to fungal and oomycete infections.
Using the *Arabidopsis msh1* model, this study demonstrates that environmentally responsive intragenic methylation repatterning directly influences alternative splicing and gene expression, thereby driving unique epigenetic phenotypes and heritable stress memory.
This study reveals that while auxin orchestrates the convergent evolution of moss phyllids and vascular plant leaves by spatially inhibiting cell division and promoting elongation, the underlying transport mechanisms have diverged, with moss PIN transporters regulating intracellular auxin levels rather than facilitating polar transport.
This study reveals that the tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) exploits host-mediated alternative splicing to generate specialized Rep protein isoforms that separately drive viral DNA replication and repress viral transcription, thereby resolving the dual functionality of Rep and optimizing the viral infection cycle.
By applying the Conservatory algorithm to 284 plant species, researchers mapped approximately 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences across 300 million years of evolution, revealing that ancient cis-regulatory elements are crucial for developmental regulation and follow specific principles of retention, loss, and reorganization during genomic rearrangements.
This study establishes an integrated framework combining optimized EdU labeling, electron microscopy, and machine learning to visualize cell division activity and orientation in pre-anthesis ovaries of three *Prunus* species, revealing broad division distribution but region-specific orientation patterns that drive fruit morphogenesis.
This study demonstrates a scalable proof-of-concept for using transgenic galls created by *Agrobacterium tumefaciens* to systemically deliver plant viral vectors, such as citrus yellow vein associated virus-1, into both model and economically important crop plants like citrus.
This study demonstrates that enhancing L-phenylalanine biosynthesis alleviates precursor limitation and amplifies light-stress-driven phenylpropanoid production in Arabidopsis by synergistically activating phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity.
This study demonstrates that the emergence of resistance-breaking root-knot nematodes capable of overcoming the Mi-1 gene in tomato incurs a significant fitness cost on susceptible hosts, characterized by impaired feeding site development, reduced egg production, and a diminished ability to suppress plant defense responses.
This study identifies the wheat resistance gene Lr41 as a tandem kinase that directly recognizes the large, divergent rust effector AvrLr41 via its pseudokinase domain to trigger immunity through a non-canonical pathway involving either minimal coiled-coil or full-length NLR helper proteins, thereby expanding the known functional repertoire of plant disease resistance mechanisms.
This study demonstrates that integrating MGIDI selection with machine learning analysis of sodium azide-induced rice mutants reveals grain and straw yield as key drivers of harvest index, successfully identifying elite genotypes with high genetic diversity for accelerated rice breeding.
This study demonstrates that exogenous melatonin application, particularly at 50–100 µM, significantly alleviates acid-induced stress and enhances peanut growth, photosynthesis, and antioxidant defense in a dose-dependent manner by regulating redox homeostasis and upregulating proton pump genes, with these protective effects validated in both controlled hydroponic and natural acidic soil environments.
This study reveals that the antioxidant ovothiol A, synthesized by the enzyme OVOA1 in *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*, is essential for the alga's resistance to and acclimation with singlet oxygen stress, representing a previously overlooked mechanism for combating oxidative damage in photosynthetic organisms.
This study reveals that aberrant proteolytic truncation of the CsGPX4 protein in citrus, rather than its full-length overexpression, causes dominant-negative effects that disrupt ROS homeostasis and trigger severe oxidative stress phenotypes.
This study characterizes five honey samples from Southern Côte d'Ivoire through pollen analysis, revealing that while most are high-quality polyfloral honeys, one reserve sample is monofloral and dominated by *Bridelia micrantha*, with all samples exhibiting high pollen richness that confirms their natural origin.
By generating a telomere-to-telomere genome assembly and resequencing 100 Osmanthus fragrans cultivars, this study identifies three OfCCD4 alleles that orchestrate a trade-off between petal color and scent, providing a molecular marker to accelerate marker-assisted breeding for this ornamental species.