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Single-nucleus transcriptomes uncover cell type-specific gene reprogramming in response to nod factors in Medicago, including a defence response at 30 min, which largely returned to normal at 6 h. The results reveal that MtFER interacts with LYK3 and regulates rhizobial symbiosis.
A deep-learning-based ‘organelle segmentation network’ (OrgSegNet), performing pixel-wise segmentation to identify various organelles, is an innovative tool for plant organelle phenotyping and 3D cell reconstruction.
Two independently evolved lineages of holoparasites — Balanophora (Santalales) and Sapria (Malpighiales) — display massively convergent characteristics of genome modifications, including gene loss in major pathways, reduction of multigene families and generally relaxed selection pressure. These findings provide valuable new insights into the fascinating biology of parasitic plants.
Studying cultivar-specific sensitivities of yield components to environmental variables during developmental subphases provides deep insight into the three-way interactions between phenology, yield formation and environmental fluctuations.
Cheng et al. show that the root-derived long non-coding RNA ELENA1 is systemically mobile under nitrogen deficiency in a root-to-shoot manner to calibrate leaf senescence by dissociating the MED19a–ORE1 transcriptional complex.
The independently evolved extreme holoparasites Balanophora and Sapria display convergent characteristics of genome modifications, including gene loss in particular pathways, reduction of multigene families and relaxed selection pressures.
We identified ZmGLK36, a resistance gene against rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), in maize. ZmGLK36 mediates resistance by regulating jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis and JA-mediated defence response; it also grants resistance to RBSDV to other cereal crops, such as rice and wheat.
To control the movement of water and nutrients, vascular plants seal the paracellular space between adjacent endodermal cells with a tight junction-like complex comprising the Casparian strip and Casparian strip membrane domain. In rice, GAPLESS proteins mediate the attachment of these two components and enable nutrient homeostasis.
Forty years ago, Barbara McClintock — an exceptional plant scientist — was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; only the third woman to win a Nobel prize without collaborators.
Huang et al. develop a potent genome editing toolkit to generate transgene-free genome-edited plants in the T0 generation by co-editing of ALS gene (without obvious fitness costs) and gene(s) of interest via Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression.
FS8.1, a non-canonical GT-2 factor, controls the elongated fruit shape and crush resistance of processing tomatoes. This study provides a potential route to rapidly customize machine-harvestable fresh-market tomatoes without reducing quality values.
Cardenolides such as digoxin from foxglove (Digitalis spp.) have been used to treat congenital heart conditions, cancer and other chronic diseases for decades. Here, authors report CYP87A enzymes that catalyse pregnenolone formation, the key entry point to the cardenolide pathway in plants.
A novel resistance gene against maize rough dwarf disease was identified, which confers broad resistance to the virus pathogen infecting multiple cereal crops by regulating jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthesis and JA-mediated defence response.
This Perspective presents an historical overview and recent advances on adenylate cyclases (ACs) and cAMP signalling in plants, including an exploration of the active AC functions moonlighting within multifunctional protein complexes.
Previous genetic engineering of plant secondary cell walls targeted its core polymers to facilitate their extractability. The ectopic introduction of the polymer callose into poplar wood secondary cell walls modifies the ultrastructure of cellulose microfibril aggregates and suggests new avenues when considering biomass genetic engineering.
We identified the auxin transport-dependent molecular framework that underpins the setting, maintenance and regulation of non-vertical growth patterns in lateral roots of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.