The structure of intact and active Photosystem II from Arabidopsis thaliana at 2.44 Å resolution [0.03%]
Jack Forsman,André T Graça,Abuzer Orkun Aydin et al.
Jack Forsman et al.
Photosystem II (PS II) is a large membrane-bound protein complex that catalyses light-driven water oxidation in plants and cyanobacteria. The structure of PS II is well studied in cyanobacteria; however, there are very few PS II structures ...
Valerio Cirillo,Ilaria Di Lelio,Paola Punzo et al.
Valerio Cirillo et al.
Sodium is an essential element for animal growth and survival. Here we test the hypothesis that plants exposed to insect feeding can translocate sodium from the feeding site to other plant organs as a defense strategy against phytophagous i...
Weaponizing nutrition: plants use a double strategy to fight herbivory, converting nutritionally essential fatty acids into defensive oxylipin signals [0.03%]
Guillermo H Jimenez-Aleman,Santiago Michavila,Francisco Medina Paz et al.
Guillermo H Jimenez-Aleman et al.
Jasmonates, key plant immune hormones, derive almost exclusively from omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n3-PUFAs), yet the evolutionary rationale for this substrate specificity remains unresolved. This study employed the liverwort Marcha...
Phosphate starvation induces root cell-type-specific transcriptional responses and alternative splicing [0.03%]
Mary-Paz González-García,Mónica Lanza,Victoria Baca-González et al.
Mary-Paz González-García et al.
Phosphate (Pi) is an essential nutrient for plant growth, and understanding how Arabidopsis thaliana root cells respond to Pi deficiency is crucial to decipher whole plant responses. We perform high-resolution transcriptomic profiling acros...
Anton Lokshin,Daniel Palchan,Marcelo Sternberg et al.
Anton Lokshin et al.
Atmospheric mineral dust is a critical nutrient supplier to marine ecosystems, but its role in terrestrial plant nutrition remains underexplored due to the assumption that nutrients are acquired solely from soils via roots. Here, we demonst...
PPT1-mediated plastidic phosphoenolpyruvate import enhances fatty acid biosynthesis in sugar-rich tissues [0.03%]
Jiang Wang,Yi-Hsuan Lin,Xueyi Xue et al.
Jiang Wang et al.
Metabolic engineering of vegetative tissues for lipid production holds transformative potential for sustainable biofuels, yet achieving sufficient yields remains challenging. Here, we present a strategy to enhance fatty acid synthesis by re...
Jing You,Jianyan Mu,Bingyu Ning et al.
Jing You et al.
As the outermost floral organ of the rice spikelet, the normal morphological development of the glume (lemma and palea) is fundamental to grain morphology, quality, and yield formation. However, the regulatory mechanisms governing rice lemm...
The phylogenetic structure of plant communities drives the belowground transmission of fungal pathogens [0.03%]
Jose G Maciá-Vicente,Sofia I F Gomes,Eline A Ampt et al.
Jose G Maciá-Vicente et al.
Biodiversity is known to influence disease risk, yet the pathways of pathogen transmission within plant communities remain poorly understood, especially belowground. In particular, how soil-borne pathogens move from resident vegetation and ...
Sophie Karrenberg,Václav Bačovský,Andrea E Berardi et al.
Sophie Karrenberg et al.
Fundamental and applied research in evolutionary biology benefits from the use of model systems in which approaches from disparate disciplines can be integrated. Here, we review recent progress in evolutionary research on the long-standing ...