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This review explores recent advances in research on the regulatory and evolutionary mechanisms of plant specialized metabolism and extrapolates these findings to medicinal plants that synthesize rare molecules.
This Review summarizes our current knowledge from genomics and fossil records about the evolutionary transition from charophycean algae to embryophytes, with a focus on the progressive assembly of the embryophyte genetic innovations during terrestrialization.
This Review summarizes current technologies for organellar genome editing in plants and their applications, and highlights opportunities brought by emerging techniques such as RNA editing, prime editing and new transformation methods.
Homogalacturonans are the most abundant pectin subtype in plant cell walls and also function as signalling molecules. Homogalacturonans thus connect the cell wall and plasma membrane to regulate plant growth and development.