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 reveals that inherited genetic programs, specifically a conserved proliferation transcriptional state regulated by discrete loci, are the primary organizers of global plant transcriptome variation across species, outweighing the influence of environmental adaptation.
This study establishes a high-throughput pipeline for phenotyping 14 stomatal traits in winter wheat, revealing their high heritability and environmental plasticity to identify robust selection targets for enhancing water use efficiency and stress resilience in modern breeding programs.
Despite genetic differences and nutrient-induced plasticity in leaf hydraulic thresholds among *Populus nigra* genotypes, the study reveals that these traits remain tightly coordinated to maintain virtually null stomatal safety margins, ensuring stomatal closure consistently precedes xylem embolism.
This study reveals that the transcription factor MYC2 nucleates the formation of large, evolutionarily conserved chromatin domains called SIENAs, which are characterized by dynamic, multi-mark histone hyperacetylation and serve as a central mechanism for coordinating environmentally responsive gene activation.
This study constructs an integrative single-cell and spatial transcriptomics atlas of the developing Gerbera capitulum, revealing dynamic gene expression patterns and identifying the MADS-box gene GAGL12 as a key candidate regulator in capitulum vasculature development.
Exposure of the diatom *Thalassiosira rotula* to tailored iminosugar monomers unexpectedly elongates extracellular chitin fibers while triggering a global metabolic shift that represses carbohydrate synthesis and photosynthesis in favor of ribosome biogenesis, indicative of a cellular stress response.
This study reveals that auxin triggers a rapid calcium influx and growth inhibition in plants by inducing the direct interaction and plasma membrane relocalization of the AFB1 receptor with the CNGC14 calcium channel, establishing a novel non-transcriptional signaling pathway.
This study identifies *Arabidopsis thaliana* ENT1 as a tonoplast-localized cytokinin riboside transporter that gates intracellular hormone availability to regulate cytokinin homeostasis and enable beneficial microbe-induced plant defense against pathogens.
This study identifies RBMP2 as the essential factor that drives the biogenesis of the specialized reticulated membrane network within the algal pyrenoid condensate, a structure critical for efficient CO2 delivery to Rubisco and enhanced algal growth.
This paper introduces LeafMD, a comprehensive multimodal resource comprising the LeafNet 2.0 dataset of over 255,000 image-text pairs across diverse global crop systems and the LeafBench 2.0 benchmark, designed to advance vision-language modeling for fine-grained plant disease detection and reasoning under realistic field conditions.