Tsubasa Shoji,Ling Yuan
Tsubasa Shoji
Plants produce structurally diverse specialized metabolites, including bioactive alkaloids and terpenoids, in response to biotic and abiotic environmental stresses. The APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (AP2/ERF) family of transcription fac...
How to Grow a Tree: Plant Voltage-Dependent Cation Channels in the Spotlight of Evolution [0.03%]
如何培育一棵树：电压依赖性阳离子通道在进化中的亮点
Ingo Dreyer,Frances C Sussmilch,Kenji Fukushima et al.
Ingo Dreyer et al.
Phylogenetic analysis can be a powerful tool for generating hypotheses regarding the evolution of physiological processes. Here, we provide an updated view of the evolution of the main cation channels in plant electrical signalling: the Sha...
Parsimonious Use of Pesticide-Treated Seeds: An Integrated Pest Management Framework [0.03%]
农药处理种子的节约使用：一个综合虫害管理框架
Jay Ram Lamichhane
Jay Ram Lamichhane
Pesticide-treated seeds are usually supplied in 'default' packages that leave farmers little choice for tailor-made management of soil-borne pests and pathogens. This has led to a socioeconomic impasse thereby questioning the sustainability...
Saleh Alseekh,Federico Scossa,Alisdair R Fernie
Saleh Alseekh
The presence of various types of structural variants, including transposons, make up the major part of the genomic differences among plant species. Two recent papers, Domínguez et al. and Alonge et al. explore specifically the impact that ...
Ruyi Wang,Feng He,Yuese Ning et al.
Ruyi Wang et al.
Activation of plant respiratory burst oxidase homologs (RBOHs) to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a crucial defense signaling event. RBOH activation occurs predominantly through N-terminal phosphorylation and the binding of a smal...
Yimin Chen,Changan Xu
Yimin Chen
Oceans harbor a large diversity of biocommunities that are promising yet undervalued for playing a role in carbon capture and storage (CCS). To counter the increasing global climate change, exploring new oceanic opportunities by the incorpo...
Daniela Boanares,Rafael S Oliveira,Rosy M S Isaias et al.
Daniela Boanares et al.
The soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) describes the continuous water movement from soil via plants to atmosphere. Here, we propose to name the reverse water pathway, driven by foliar water uptake, the atmosphere-plant-soil continuum (A...
Arti Singh,Sarah Jones,Baskar Ganapathysubramanian et al.
Arti Singh et al.
Plant stress phenotyping is essential to select stress-resistant varieties and develop better stress-management strategies. Standardization of visual assessments and deployment of imaging techniques have improved the accuracy and reliabilit...
Xin Wang,William R Whalley,Anthony J Miller et al.
Xin Wang et al.
Root-soil interactions in the rhizosphere are central to resource acquisition and crop production in agricultural systems. However, apart from studies in idealized experimental systems, rhizosphere processes in real agricultural soils in si...
Lichun Huang,Nese Sreenivasulu,Qiaoquan Liu
Lichun Huang
The Waxy (Wx) gene that governs amylose synthesis is an old but widely used target in improving the quality of starchy crops. New genome-editing strategies are being deployed to create beneficial Wx alleles with finely tuned amylose content...