300 papers
This study reveals that the maize phytocytokine Zip1 is activated through a spatially separated, two-stage proteolytic pathway involving intracellular arginine-dependent processing by metacaspases to generate the bioactive Ct-PROZIP1 fragment for export, followed by extracellular turnover by cysteine proteases, thereby establishing a multilayered mechanism for precise spatiotemporal control of plant immunity.
This study identifies the rice gene JMJ706 as a novel photoperiod sensitivity regulator that encodes an H3K9me2 demethylase which differentially controls flowering time by activating the floral repressor Ghd7 under long-day conditions and the floral accelerator Ehd1 under short-day conditions, thereby facilitating rice adaptation to diverse geographical environments.
This study demonstrates that *Bacillus subtilis* confers alkaline stress tolerance in garden pea by reprogramming the host transcriptome to enhance symbiotic nodulation and nutrient assimilation while reshaping the rhizosphere microbiome, thereby promoting plant survival through systemic signaling and beneficial microbial interactions.
This study identifies natural variation in the rice gene OsMPK4 as a major determinant of increased photosynthetic rate under field conditions, where the Takanari allele enhances yield potential by upregulating stomatal conductance through down-regulated gene expression.
This study demonstrates that the transcription factor RRTF1 fine-tunes early touch signaling and promotes severe mechanical stress-induced growth inhibition in Arabidopsis shoots through a jasmonic acid-independent mechanism, offering potential insights for breeding high-density crops.
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.
Silencing the negative regulator AIP10 in *Arabidopsis thaliana* enhances root colonization by beneficial bacteria and improves plant performance under nutrient-limited conditions by coordinating cell cycle and metabolic pathways to favor the recruitment of plant growth-promoting microbes.
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.
This study establishes a novel synthetic mirtron platform in plants that utilizes splice-gated, non-canonical small RNA biogenesis to achieve stable, heritable, and virus-resistant gene silencing with regulatory advantages similar to gene-edited products.
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.
Using synchrotron tomography, this study reveals that starch accumulation and degradation in the unique transfusion parenchyma cells of *Pinus pinea* needles drive diurnal osmotic water fluxes that regulate water import and photoassimilate export, particularly during nighttime and post-rehydration recovery.
This study elucidates the evolutionary origin of diatom Lhcx proteins via horizontal gene transfer and demonstrates that Lhcx1 mediates photoprotection by interacting with FCP antenna complexes to enable non-photochemical quenching, while its absence triggers compensatory mechanisms that enhance photosynthetic efficiency under high light.
This study demonstrates that mitochondrial malate metabolism acts as a critical control hub coupling respiratory energy supply and redox homeostasis to photosynthesis, where its impairment in *Arabidopsis* specifically restricts growth and carbon-nitrogen balance under low-light conditions by triggering a dawn-phase bottleneck and protective but growth-constraining proteome reallocation.
This study identifies a major chromosome 4 region in maize containing two brassinosteroid signaling genes (Zm00001d048582 and Zm00001d048612) that regulate early seedling vigor under long-term chilling stress, offering promising targets for improving maize adaptation to early sowing.
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.
This study demonstrates that mechanical stress in *Arabidopsis* enhances seed yield and quality by reshaping vascular architecture to improve source-to-sink carbohydrate partitioning via sucrose transporters, while simultaneously revealing a trade-off where increased xylem area compromises long-term drought tolerance.
This study employs an integrated multi-omics approach on maize near-isogenic lines to reveal that a specific 5.15 Mb region on chromosome 4 drives chilling tolerance primarily through protein-level regulation, benzoxazinoid-mediated signaling, and enhanced photosynthetic efficiency.
This study utilizes a combination of in vitro decapping treatment and transcriptome sequencing of DCP2-deficient Arabidopsis thaliana mutants to generate a high-resolution, genome-wide map of over 13,000 capped transcripts, revealing that DCP2-mediated decapping is a critical mechanism for removing unwanted mRNAs through co-translational, XRN4-dependent, and nonsense-mediated decay pathways.
This study demonstrates that the negative impact of neonicotinoid seed treatment on maize seed quality during storage is highly genotype-dependent, with inbred line L44 exhibiting greater susceptibility due to its thinner pericarp and disorganized aleurone layer compared to more tolerant genotypes.