299 papers
This study reveals that powdery mildew fungi rely on the host's endogenous RALF peptides, rather than producing their own mimics, to modulate apoplastic pH and cell wall remodeling via FER, LLG, and LRX components, thereby facilitating successful host colonization.
This study demonstrates that phyllosphere bacteria isolated from grapevines effectively control *Botrytis cinerea* and *Plasmopara viticola* by inhibiting pathogen development and stimulating plant defenses, with bacterial consortia showing superior protective efficacy compared to individual strains.
This study demonstrates that host DNA removal is unnecessary for analyzing historical microbiome samples and proposes an optimized two-step k-mer classification strategy that effectively recovers microbial signals from fragmented DNA, thereby enabling the integration of natural history collections into long-term ecological research.
This study demonstrates that the rice KAI2 ligand analog dMGer directly binds to D14L to promote its interaction with D3 and OsSMAX1 in vitro, thereby elucidating the biochemical mechanism of KAI2 signaling and identifying the specific domain that distinguishes OsSMAX1 from its strigolactone-signaling paralog D53.
This study demonstrates that the C-terminal proline-alanine-alanine (PAA) motif in the Arabidopsis transcription factor bHLH104 is essential for its interaction with the E3 ligase BTS and subsequent ubiquitination-mediated degradation, as its removal leads to protein stabilization, constitutive upregulation of iron acquisition genes, and increased iron accumulation.
This study demonstrates that while larval antibiosis against the cabbage stem flea beetle is absent in oilseed rape (*Brassica napus*), likely due to domestication bottlenecks, it is present in *Sinapis alba* and model species like *Brassica rapa* and *Arabidopsis thaliana*, offering new avenues for resistance breeding.
This study presents a high-quality, near-complete reference genome assembly of a tetraploid *Tropaeolum tuberosum* accession generated via PacBio HiFi sequencing, which was validated for accuracy and broad applicability to diverse germplasm, thereby establishing a foundational resource for future breeding, conservation, and functional genomic research on this underutilized Andean tuber crop.
This paper introduces PSNet, a low-cost multimodal framework combining a 3D-printed hyperspectral camera with RGB imaging and deep learning to achieve 90% accuracy in detecting *Albugo candida* infections in *Arabidopsis thaliana* before visible symptoms appear, offering a scalable solution for early plant disease management.
This study demonstrates that incorporating raw rapeseed press cake into snack bars creates dose-dependent sensory attributes, particularly bitterness and astringency, which are primarily driven by specific metabolites like KSS, KSS-hexose, and goitrin rather than total protein content or dehulling treatment.
This study establishes effector-centred proximity-dependent labelling using TurboID as a versatile and scalable method for identifying plant cell-surface immune receptors and their guarded targets, successfully validating known interactions and discovering new ones such as SlEix1 as the functional receptor for the effector XEG1.
This study reveals that transposable elements drove the dynamic pre-domestication evolution and amplification of the barley MKK3 gene, leading to multiple independent origins of seed dormancy loss and offering insights for breeding preharvest sprouting-tolerant varieties.
This study introduces a differential experimental approach to distinguish between osmolytes and osmoprotectants in drought-stressed Scots pine, revealing that tryptophan, valine, and lysine act as specific osmoprotectants while organic acids like shikimic acid drive osmotic adjustment, whereas sucrose and inorganic cations do not serve as primary osmolytes.
This study demonstrates that integrating scattered trees into enset homegardens in South Ethiopia significantly improves microclimate conditions and enhances most enset morphophysiological traits under canopy shade, supporting the potential of agroforestry systems to bolster climate resilience for this staple crop.
This study reveals that the diversification of the EXO70 subfamily in streptophytes, which originated during early plant terrestrialization, drove an evolutionary shift where EXO70 increasingly replaced SEC3 as the primary membrane-targeting component of the exocyst complex, thereby enabling specialized secretion pathways essential for land plant adaptation.
This study demonstrates that the protein PIFI stabilizes the NDH-PSI supercomplex to maintain plastoquinone redox balance and prevent the deregulation of NDH activity from impairing Photosystem II efficiency.
This study demonstrates that in the liverwort *Marchantia polymorpha*, the photoreceptor PHOTOTROPIN perceives blue light to direct NCH1-dependent signaling, which orients the asymmetric cell division of spores and thereby establishes the plant's primary developmental axis.
This meta-analysis of 124 experiments reveals that while multiple anthropogenic stressors generally cause negative physiological responses in submerged freshwater macrophytes, additive effects dominate over synergistic ones, highlighting the need for more complex, long-term studies and the use of *Stuckenia pectinata* as a model organism to improve global change predictions.
This study reveals that cytosolic MAPK signaling regulates chloroplast protein import and photosynthetic capacity by modulating the phosphorylation of the Rubisco small subunit transit peptide through the MPK3-mediated inhibition of the Raf-like kinase ACTPK1.
This study reports the 1.5 Å crystal structure of the Arabidopsis SRF6 ectodomain, determined using a specialized LRR crystallization screen, and reveals that despite its structural similarity to brassinosteroid pathway receptors, it lacks canonical features and does not interact with previously proposed partners, suggesting a distinct signaling role.
This study demonstrates that integrating metabolomics-derived biomarkers, such as proline, with satellite-based remote sensing can overcome the limitations of current irrigation advisories in heterogeneous landscapes by providing sensitive, ground-truth indicators of drought stress in potato crops for improved smart irrigation management.