Muhammad Ali,Francisco Dini-Andreote,Izhar Ali et al.
Muhammad Ali et al.
Cruz-Zaragoza et al. recently introduced a groundbreaking method to silence targeted mitochondrial gene expression in human cells. The approach uses peptide-morpholino chimeras delivered into the mitochondria to block specific mRNA translat...
Wentao Yang,Qi Wang,Yanjing Lu et al.
Wentao Yang et al.
Plants rely on pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to detect pathogens, yet PRRs differ across species. Ngou et al. show that convergent evolution yields a shared recognition logic in the selective cold shock protein receptor (SCORE) for b...
Yonghang Run,Xinyan Chen,Lin Dai et al.
Yonghang Run et al.
Ariel Novoplansky,Hezi Yizhaq
Ariel Novoplansky
Advancing plant behavior research requires robust experimental design, falsifiable hypotheses, sufficient replication, and stringent controls. A recent study claims that Picea abies trees collectively anticipate solar eclipses via electrica...
Juliette Teyssendier de la Serve,Pierre Gautrat,Florian Frugier
Juliette Teyssendier de la Serve
In the heterogeneous and fluctuating environments in which plants grow, they must efficiently acquire essential nutrients to sustain growth and development. Root endosymbioses, including dinitrogen (N2)-fixing nodulation and arbuscular myco...
Luqman B Safdar,Ian D Fisk,Rahul A Bhosale et al.
Luqman B Safdar et al.
Uniformity among seeds within a cultivar impacts seed quality and milling efficiency. Advances in hyperspectral imaging enable quantification of variability among individual seeds, facilitating treatment of seed heterogeneity as a heritable...
Xiangtan Chen,Rui Deng,Youjun Zhang
Xiangtan Chen
A recent breakthrough study by Zhu et al. introduced the platform GRAPE (geminivirus replicon-assisted in planta directed evolution). GRAPE remediates plant-directed evolutionary bottlenecks by linking rolling-circle replication (RCR) to pr...
Rohini Garg,Mukesh Jain
Rohini Garg
Understanding cell type-specific gene regulatory programs is crucial to decipher the regulation of important traits. Recent multiome studies by Zhang et al. and Wang et al. generated single cell-resolution atlases integrating gene expressio...
Ruoxin Mei,Xiaorong Tao,Yi Xu
Ruoxin Mei
Despite growing evidence that viruses exploit liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), the significance of LLPS during infection remains elusive. Two recently published papers reveal that plant viruses use LLPS to reprogram host systems, prom...
Esther Kuper,Mudassir Iqbal,Åsa Lankinen et al.
Esther Kuper et al.
Herd immunity describes indirect disease protection in heterogeneous, partly immune populations. This concept is rarely discussed for agricultural crops, although crop heterogeneity can reduce pathogen transmission. We discuss disease suppr...