246 papers
Plant biology explores the intricate lives of the green world, from the microscopic machinery inside a leaf to how entire forests adapt to a changing climate. This field investigates everything from how roots drink water to the complex chemical signals plants use to communicate, offering vital insights into food security and environmental resilience.
On Gist.Science, we make these discoveries accessible by processing every new preprint in this category directly from bioRxiv. For each study, we provide both a plain-language overview for curious minds and a detailed technical summary for researchers, ensuring that the latest findings in plant science are clear and actionable. Below are the most recent papers in plant biology, freshly summarized for you to explore.
This study demonstrates that the ribosome processing factor RPF2 interacts with RPL10A to regulate distinct sets of protein translation, thereby independently modulating plant growth, disease resistance, and drought tolerance through specific mechanisms involving gibberellic acid levels and stomatal regulation.
This study reveals that Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings undergo rapid, reversible switching of RNA isoforms in response to water deficit, a mechanism that generates diverse protein products and significantly expands the detection of stress-responsive genes beyond what conventional transcript analysis can identify.
This study demonstrates that the synergistic co-inoculation of *Funneliformis mosseae* and *Pseudomonas putida* significantly enhances drought resilience in *Citrus reticulata* by improving physiological parameters, antioxidant defenses, and nutrient uptake, while upregulating key stress-adaptation genes identified through transcriptomic analysis.
This study identifies the WOX1 gene as the genetic basis for pricklelessness in blackberries and raspberries and demonstrates that CRISPR-mediated knockout of WOX1 in elite prickled varieties successfully produces prickleless cultivars without compromising other agronomic traits.
This study reveals that under phosphate starvation, plants prioritize immune vigilance by selectively amplifying damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) receptor signaling through an iron-dependent redox mechanism, thereby coordinating nutrient stress adaptation with the maintenance of innate immunity.
Using X-ray computed tomography, this study demonstrates that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and potato cyst nematodes independently and additively reshape the root system architecture of tomato and potato plants, with the beneficial fungus increasing root volume and surface area while the pathogenic nematode significantly reduces these traits.
This study demonstrates that *Serratia ureilytica*, the causative agent of cucurbit yellow vine disease, predominantly colonizes phloem-associated cells within vascular bundles and spreads systemically in both acropetal and basipetal directions throughout *Cucurbita pepo* plants.
By integrating the protein language model ESM-2 with evolutionary analyses, this study identifies a conserved N-terminal functional fingerprint in *Sophora tonkinensis* cytochrome P450s and proposes a functional-adaptive decoupling model where a stable targeting core coexists with diversifying interfaces driven by alternating phases of positive selection and neutral drift.
This meta-analysis of 89 studies reveals that while spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS) is slightly more effective than host-induced gene silencing (HIGS), particularly against biotrophic fungi, neither dsRNA formulations nor specific design parameters consistently improve efficacy, highlighting the need for further research into the underlying biological mechanisms of RNAi uptake and processing.
This study reveals that in petunia, a conserved regulatory module comprising antagonistic interactions between FUL-like, SHP-like, and AP2-like transcription factors governs early pericarp patterning and fruit dehiscence, likely through the modulation of auxin and brassinosteroid signaling pathways.