Arabidopsis thaliana articles from across Nature Portfolio

Zhang et al. identify that a group of PP2C phosphatases is responsible for direct sensing of CO₂ in the environment via phase separation of an intrinsically disordered region, which is a conserved mechanism across various species.

This protocol describes two peat-based plant growth systems for microbiome research in Arabidopsis. While both systems support microbe-free plants and input microbiota control, GnotoPots have advantages for throughput and FlowPots for versatility.

This study developed a user-friendly genome editing system that can efficiently conditionally knock out target genes in a temporally inducible and cell-type-specific manner.

Intrinsically disordered regions are a ubiquitous class of protein domains that lack a fixed 3D structure. Here, an evolutionarily conserved family of disordered CO₂ sensors has been discovered, expanding the growing repertoire of disordered regions that respond to changes in the cellular environment.

New work studying the plant Arabidopsis thaliana shows that patterns of observed sequence variants are primarily influenced by biases in initial mutation occurrences rather than by the subsequent selective pressures.

The conserved chromatin remodeller DECREASED IN DNA METHYLATION 1 (DDM1) has long been an enigma given its powerful but likely indirect effect in maintaining plant DNA methylation. In this issue of Nature Cell Biology, Osakabe et al. show that the direct action of DDM1 is deposition of the H2A.W histone variant to silence transposable elements.