299 papers
This study demonstrates that the chloroplast NDH complex is essential for sustaining rice productivity and photosynthetic efficiency under fluctuating and sub-optimal field conditions by mediating cyclic electron transport to stabilize PSI redox balance and prevent PSI-specific photoinhibition.
This study establishes an optimized *Nicotiana benthamiana* transient expression system that significantly boosts strigolactone production through precursor supply engineering and utilizes this platform to identify a novel cytochrome P450 enzyme responsible for converting 5-deoxystrigol to sorgolactone.
Depletion of the essential chloroplast chaperone HSP70B in *Chlamydomonas* triggers a collapse of cellular proteostasis and compromises thylakoid membrane integrity by disrupting VIPP1 oligomer dynamics, ultimately leading to cell division arrest and heightened sensitivity to high-light stress.
This study demonstrates that genome editing to eliminate polyphenol oxidases in *Nicotiana benthamiana* significantly reduces enzymatic browning and protein crosslinking, thereby enhancing the yield, purity, and native-state integrity of recombinant proteins produced via agroinfiltration.
This study reveals that plants achieve robust pathogen containment while minimizing tissue damage by spatially organizing immune responses into a confined, multilayered defense zone at the infection front, where salicylic acid and jasmonic acid pathways are resolved through compartmentalization in adjacent cell layers rather than within individual cells.
By assembling genomes and analyzing transcriptomes of *Xerophyta elegans*, this study reveals that vegetative desiccation tolerance arises from the integration of abiotic stress signaling with the rewiring of the seed maturation network, mediated by specific transcription factors and expanded gene families involved in chlorophyll metabolism and abscisic acid responses.
This study demonstrates that root-hair tip growth in *Arabidopsis* critically depends on specific expansin proteins with a conserved catalytic aspartate, revealing a previously unrecognized functional diversity and subcellular trafficking variation among expansin clades that challenges the traditional view of their distinct roles in cell wall expansion.
This study demonstrates that while the K/H antiporter CrKEA1 in *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii* performs a conserved, essential role in maintaining ion homeostasis for plastid gene expression and rRNA maturation alongside its *Arabidopsis* counterparts, its integration into broader cellular networks regulating cell division and stress responses has diverged between unicellular algae and land plants.
This study demonstrates that the aphid salivary protein MpMIF1 suppresses plant programmed cell death and DNA damage responses by modulating autophagy, apoptosis-like pathways, and DNA repair mechanisms through a physical interaction with the central regulator SOG1, thereby maintaining cellular homeostasis during infection.
By integrating field experiments with functional-structural plant modelling, this study quantifies how plasticity in specific cereal traits (tiller number, angle, SLA, and SIL) influences weed suppression and productivity in cereal-legume intercrops, revealing optimal trait values and demonstrating how legumes can compensate for reduced cereal competitiveness in short-statured phenotypes.
This study reveals that long-term high temperatures accelerate embryo growth and prematurely rigidify the seed coat cell walls in *Brassica napus*, creating mechanical stress that ultimately causes seed coat rupture and compromises seed quality.
This study demonstrates that in the green alga *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*, distinct photosynthetic electron flows possess specific "bandwidths" of light fluctuation periodicity they can support, revealing that cells tune the activity of these pathways to match environmental dynamics for optimal energy balance and photoprotection.
This study establishes a rapid, transgene- and tissue culture-free genome editing system in tomato by combining Tobacco Rattle Virus-mediated delivery of the compact ISYmu1 TnpB endonuclease with in planta shoot regeneration to generate heritable, virus-free mutants across diverse cultivars.
This study identifies 51 SNARE genes in cucumber, characterizes their stress-responsive expression patterns, and demonstrates that overexpression of the salt-induced gene CsSYP121 enhances salt tolerance by improving antioxidant capacity and maintaining K+/Na+ homeostasis.
This study demonstrates that targeted inactivation of specific conserved SCAR susceptibility genes (HvSCAR-B and HvSCAR-C) in barley enhances resistance to root pathogens and improves mycorrhizal symbiosis without compromising seed yield, offering a viable strategy for engineering durable disease resistance in cereals.
This study utilizes meter-scale 2D clinostats to demonstrate that simulated microgravity affects tomato growth in ways that are significantly modulated by environmental factors, particularly revealing that moderate heat stress can enhance plant growth under these conditions.
This study demonstrates that hyperspectral reflectance from grapevine clusters, rather than leaves, combined with trait-specific data partitioning strategies, significantly improves the prediction accuracy of cluster architecture and juice quality traits, offering optimized non-destructive phenotyping approaches for grapevine breeding.
This paper presents the first automated, landmark-based root inoculation system for *Arabidopsis thaliana* that integrates computer vision and robotics to achieve precise, high-throughput delivery of microorganisms to specific root locations, thereby overcoming the limitations of manual methods in plant-microbe interaction studies.
This study reveals that disrupting the DNA demethylation pathway in *Arabidopsis* suppresses epigenetic barriers to pluripotency, thereby dramatically enhancing tissue regeneration and enabling hormone-free vegetative propagation through heritable methylation changes.
By analyzing whole-genome resequencing data from hundreds of wheat landraces and modern cultivars, this study reveals that while natural and breeding selection often target the same haplotypes, they frequently drive them in opposite directions due to trade-offs between environmental adaptation and agronomic productivity.