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This Review summarizes the growth of plant pan-genome studies, explore the origins of gene presence and absence variation, and introduces the impacts of pan-genomes on plant biology, breeding and evolutionary studies.
This Review presents recent advances in our understanding of calcium signalling mechanisms, and how calcium channels work together to encode stimulus-specific calcium patterns, to finally elicit changes in cellular responses.
Many adaptive responses to changing environmental and developmental conditions can limit crop plant growth. Crop yield increases could result from coupling current metabolic concepts and the molecular processes determining sink development.
This short Review summarizes recent findings on plasma membrane and cell wall integrity signalling, particularly during development and stress responses. It also introduces several technological advances to analyse mechanical properties of cell walls.
A Review presents current understanding of the developmental mechanisms underlying flower diversification by summarizing up-to-date knowledge on the initiation, identity determination, morphogenesis and maturation of floral organs.
A Review informatively summaries the recent development and breakthroughs of CRISPR technology, with a focus on progresses, challenges and potential utility in plant science.
This Review uses Golden Rice and omega-3 fish oil crops as examples to evaluate the progresses, problems and challenges associated with the development of nutritionally enhanced crops by genetic modification.
A Review summarizes our current understandings of vernalization mechanisms by comparing the vernalization genetic framework between Arabidopsis and grasses, and highlights the potential evolutionary origins of vernalization in various species.
This Review summarizes the current knowledge about local intercellular and systemic RNA trafficking, discussing the potential regulatory mechanisms and biological significance of these processes in plants.
Light microscopy has been experiencing explosive innovation and development. In this Review, the biological applications of light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) are synthesized to provide a reference for perspective users in plant research.
A Review summarizes up-to-date understandings of the duration and demographic history of crop domestication and its effects on extant genomic variations, including structural variations about which we currently lack sufficient knowledge.
This Review summarizes our understanding of plant chromatin organization and positioning beyond the nucleosomal level, advanced by up-to-date chromatin conformation capture methods and visualization techniques, as well as discusses future directions.
This Review highlights current understanding of how polyploidization affects plant genome evolution by focusing on the post-polyploidization events, including gene retention, fractionation and subgenome dominance, and their implications on future research.
Archaeological evidence reveals the impacts of ancient hunter-gatherers and settlers on tropical forests over the last 45,000 years. Archaeology can thus play an important role in promoting heritage and informing conservation and policy-making.
A Review Article describes recent progress in plant genome editing by introducing newly developed editing tools and methods and their application. The associated challenges and future prospects are also discussed.
A Review Article highlights knowledge of miRNA function in orchestrating distinct agronomic traits by summarizing recent functional analyses of 65 miRNAs in 9 major crops and discusses the potential application of miRNAs as a tool in crop improvement.
Invasive plants pose a particular environmental management issue given rapid environmental change and an unpredictable future. Productive connections have recently been established between social and natural science approaches to the problem.
Fifty per cent of the nitrogen fertilizer used globally is lost as ammonia, nitrate or nitrous oxide. Nitrification inhibitors, exuded by plant roots, play a role in reducing those losses both naturally and in the service of sustainable agriculture.
The role of nodule cysteine-rich (NCR) peptides during the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis is complex. They are more than just antimicrobial compounds used by the host to control bacterial growth, as previously thought.
