Gen-Ichiro Arimura
Gen-Ichiro Arimura
Plants are constantly threatened by herbivore attacks and must devise survival strategies. Some plants sense and respond to elicitors including specific molecules secreted by herbivores and molecules that are innate to plants. Elicitors act...
Yuling Jiao,Fei Du,Jan Traas
Yuling Jiao
The appearance of leaves with flattened laminae about 400 million years (Myr) ago had broad impacts on the Earth's ecosystem. The influential telome theory presents a model for this evolutionary transition, although it lacks plausible molec...
Pedospheric Microbial Nitric Oxide Production Challenges Root Symbioses [0.03%]
根系共生受到土壤微生物一氧化氮产生的挑战
Bin Hu,Emmanouil Flemetakis,Heinz Rennenberg
Bin Hu
Recent studies indicate that a multitude of microbial processes are involved in nitric oxide production and consumptions in the pedosphere. Due to its dual function as a toxic metabolite and signaling compound, we speculate that this pedosp...
Shanti S Sharma,Vijay Kumar,Karl-Josef Dietz
Shanti S Sharma
Metalloids are semiconducting elements that constitute a small group in the periodic table of elements. Their occurrence in nature either poses an environmental threat or benefit to plants. The precise mechanisms or manner of crosstalk of m...
The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health [0.03%]
香豆素：在植物营养和健康中扮演主要角色的次生代谢物
Kevin Robe,Esther Izquierdo,Florence Vignols et al.
Kevin Robe et al.
Although abundant in soils, iron (Fe) is poorly bioavailable for plants. Improving Fe uptake in crops, enabling them to grow in Fe-depleted soils, has become a major focal interest. The secretion of Fe-mobilizing coumarins by plant roots re...
Filip Slavković,Catherine Dogimont,Halima Morin et al.
Filip Slavković et al.
Nectar is the most important reward offered by flowering plants to pollinators for pollination services. Since pollinator decline has emerged as a major threat for agriculture, and the food demand is growing globally, studying the nectar gl...
Plants Show Us the Light [0.03%]
植物照亮我们的世界
Olivier Hamant
Olivier Hamant
In a recent article, Arp et al. (Science 2020, 368, 1490-1495) propose a new theory as to why plants are green: plants prioritize the management of light fluctuations over maximal efficiency. Beyond plant science, this conclusion may inspir...
Rutger A Wilschut,Stefan Geisen
Rutger A Wilschut
Nematodes form an important part of soil biodiversity as the most abundant and functionally diverse animals affecting plant performance. Most studies on plant-nematode interactions are focused on agriculture, while plant-nematode interactio...
Crisanto Gutierrez
Crisanto Gutierrez
Chromatin features are correctly transferred to the daughter strands during genome replication. Recent discoveries demonstrate that replicative DNA polymerases interact physically with histone dimers and tetramers, facilitating histone tran...
Weizhi Ouyang,Qin Xiao,Guoliang Li et al.
Weizhi Ouyang et al.