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Equatorial latitudes are often assumed to be regions of high biodiversity from which new species radiate. However, late Silurian–Early Devonian strata show that during their first major diversification, land plants were less diverse in the tropics.
Terrestrial biosphere models use a temperature function for N fixation in trees that may not be accurate. This Letter presents evidence that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, may increase N fixation.
The bound loci and functions of chromatin-associated RNAs remain unclear in rice. This study develops an RNA–DNA mapping method to reveal the identity and interaction patterns around active promoters within hierarchical genome architecture.
Dual recognition specificity of an MLA immune receptor in barley demonstrates that the deployment of mildew-resistant cultivars by plant breeders has unintentionally affected nonhost resistance to wheat stripe rust.
This paper examines the small proportion of trees that vastly outlive the median age for their species, and classify three age classes to analyse how these ‘lottery winners’ impact forests.
Mistakes in the maintenance of CG methylation are a source of heritable epimutations in plants. This study systematically identifies and characterizes epimutation hotspots along the Arabidopsis genome and dissects their molecular properties.
The essential nutrient magnesium is mainly stored in the plant vacuole. Arabidopsis proteins identified by homology to a yeast Mg transporter mediate vacuolar Mg sequestration.
This year the United Nations is unwittingly bringing together seaweed, a pair of nineteenth-century glass sculptors, bovine teeth, photosynthetic efficiency and neurodegenerative diseases. Find out how.
The crucial enzyme for photosynthesis, Rubisco, is deactivated during periods of shade and slowly recovers when illuminated. In fluctuating light conditions crop productivity could be substantially increased by slowing Rubisco deactivation during shade.
Over-expressing TaWOX5 substantially increases the transformation efficiencies of wheat and other cereals, including barley and maize, with reduced genotype dependency, and transformed transgenic plants can readily be screened using a visible phenotype.