300 papers
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.
This study reveals that a T-DNA insertion in *Arabidopsis* unexpectedly caused a large inversion-duplication that increased gene dosage and altered metabolism, leading to a severe light-dependent phenotype that confounded the interpretation of the intended gene disruption and highlighting the critical need for structural validation in T-DNA and genome-editing workflows.
This study demonstrates that coordinated citrate export and nicotianamine compartmentation are essential for maintaining zinc and iron homeostasis, redox balance, and proper plant development, as their simultaneous disruption in the *frd3 zif1* double mutant leads to severe metal translocation defects, oxidative stress, and impaired growth.
This study demonstrates that CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing of the wheat iron sensor TaHRZ1 disrupts its regulatory function, leading to upregulated iron homeostasis genes and significantly enhanced iron accumulation in wheat grains, thereby validating TaHRZ1 as a promising target for crop biofortification.
This study employs a time-dependent mechanistic hydraulic model to demonstrate that emergent feed-forward control and transitions between anisohydric and isohydric behaviors in plants are driven by the dynamic balance between soil water supply limitations and atmospheric demand, revealing that observed stomatal responses to vapor pressure deficit arise from complex, scale-dependent plant-soil-atmosphere feedbacks rather than fixed biological strategies.
By integrating short- and long-read single-cell RNA sequencing, this study reveals that PFOA uptake in lettuce root tips is driven by a synergistic mechanism involving the up-regulation of aquaporin genes and down-regulation of cell-wall biosynthesis genes in specific cell types, alongside the identification of distinct RNA isoforms that may modulate protein function for pollutant transport.
This study employs a comparative cross-species transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon, and Hordeum vulgare to identify both conserved nitrate-responsive mechanisms and species-specific regulatory adaptations, providing a pipeline for discovering new targets to improve nitrogen use efficiency in cereals.
The study introduces SABER, a novel eight-founder MAGIC tomato population that uniquely incorporates the wild relative *Solanum cheesmaniae* to successfully broaden genetic diversity and enable high-resolution QTL mapping for both known and novel agronomic traits.
This study developed and validated a six-level standard area diagram for assessing potato common scab severity, demonstrating that it significantly improves the accuracy and reliability of visual estimates for both real tubers and digital images, thereby supporting the use of image-based evaluations for training and large-scale surveys.
This study reveals that over 100 species across 27 genera and four subfamilies of the globally distributed Fabaceae family have evolved atypical vascular architectures, establishing the family as a key model for investigating the evolutionary and ecological implications of vascular innovation.
This study demonstrates that secretory carrier membrane proteins (SCAMPs) regulate the abundance of plasma membrane aquaporins (PIPs) in Arabidopsis root cells through conserved trafficking motifs and dimerization, ultimately reducing water uptake capacity to prime the plants for enhanced drought tolerance.
This study reveals that in citrus hybrids, siRNA-mediated de novo methylation in the CHH context correlates with high gene expression rather than silencing, suggesting a unique RdDM-mediated transcriptional activation mechanism that is consistent across citrus species and offers a pipeline for developing disease-resistant varieties.
This study demonstrates that while basal anther dehiscence length (BDL) is a promising morphological marker for heat tolerance in Japanese rice, its effectiveness as a breeding tool is limited by significant genotype-by-environment interactions, as sowing date and cultivar-specific responses strongly influence anther morphology, pollen germination, and ultimately seed fertility under high-temperature stress.
This study presents the genome sequence of *Tacca chantrieri* to elucidate the genetic basis of its unique black floral pigmentation, identifying a specific dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) variant with a threonine residue at a critical substrate preference position as a key factor in this trait.
This study reveals that the successful establishment of polyploid *Capsella bursa-pastoris* in New York City resulted from multiple introductions and panmixia, with pre-introgression from diploid *Capsella rubella* enriching gene content and genetic diversity to buffer against population bottlenecks.
By integrating extensive population-level genetic sampling with phenotypic analysis, this study successfully resolves the taxonomic complexity of the *Heuchera americana* syngameon, identifying five species and three varieties despite significant hybridization and gene tree conflict.
This study reveals that hybrid seed failure in wild tomatoes is driven by trans-allelic epigenetic dominance, where lineage-specific dysregulation of chromatin modifiers and hormone pathways disrupts endosperm development, challenging simple dosage-based models of hybrid incompatibility.
This study reveals that plant roots actively regulate iron bioavailability by dynamically modulating the negative charge of the cell wall, which functions as an electrostatic gate that balances iron retention against its mobility to the cell surface.
This study presents a low-cost, lab-made high-density bead-in-microwell chip coupled with a single-chip NGS-TGS workflow to enable isoform-resolved spatial transcriptomics, successfully identifying thousands of unannotated full-length isoforms and splicing events in both plant grafts and mouse embryos.
This study utilizes longitudinal hyperspectral imaging and genome-wide association studies to characterize the genetic architecture and time-specific quantitative trait loci (QTLs) governing spectral phenotypes, growth, and environmental responses in nearly 200 field-grown lettuce varieties.