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During transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens, sequence composition of T-DNA (that is, DNA repeats) affects T-DNA concatenation in Arabidopsis. In addition, loss of specific DNA repair proteins dramatically decreases T-DNA concatenation levels. This study showcases the potential of T-DNA concatenation as a tool to enhance gene editing.
This study develops a microbe-induced gene silencing technology by constructing an RNAi engineering microbe to prove the existence of interspecies RNAi in rhizospheric fungi and demonstrate its application in crop protection against fungal pathogens.
Cryo-EM structures and quantum calculation reveal LHCII as a controlling switch for the transition between light capture and excess energy dissipation, in response to lateral pressure and acid-induced conformational changes.
This study reports a new family of proteins localized in the Casparian strip that mediate the junction of plasma membrane and Casparian strip for maintaining nutrient homoeostasis in rice.
Dadras et al. exposed Mesotaenium, an alga of the sister lineage to land plants, to a bifactorial gradient of environmental cues and use comparative analyses to pinpoint conserved circuits in plant genetic response networks.
Allelopathy—the chemical competition between neighbouring plants—has been observed for centuries. This study identifies a sensor of phenolic allelochemicals and reveals translational control as a key mechanism.
This study identifies argininesuccinate lyase, a key member of the urea cycle for arginine biosynthesis, as an important molecular component of rice root tolerance to ammonium and so as a potential lead to improve nitrogen use efficiency and yield.
The authors used a long-read nanopore method to study chromatin accessibility and DNA methylation of the highly repetitive centromeres, telomeres, and ribosomal DNA arrays in both wildtype and DNA methylation mutants of Arabidopsis.
This study provides evidence that microbiota has a fundamental role in immune maturation and age-dependent disease resistance in plants. Results also implicate a negative impact of high nitrogen on microbiota colonization and function.
Using a system-level approach in the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, the authors identified a novel pathway coordinated by the ubiquitin E3 ligase PIR1 and the transcription factor ABI5 that tunes life-or-death outcomes in conditions of inefficient signalling responses to proteotoxic stress of the endoplasmic reticulum.
VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE 3-LIKE 1 regulates intercellular communication during the growth transition after bulb dormancy by epigenetic regulation of callose synthase via the NF-YA7 transcription factor.
Genome sequencing and analyses of common buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, reveal the genetic architecture of heterostyly, show that southeast Tibet played a key role in the domestication and provide new genetic materials for buckwheat breeding.
Chromosome-level genome reference sequence assemblies of the model and biofactory Nicotiana benthamiana line, and a wild relative, have been generated and annotated for gene models, tissue-specific transcriptomes, microRNAs and epigenetic landscapes.
Flower formation across thermal environments is critical for efficient reproduction. This study reveals that temperature and the CLAVATA peptide signalling pathway intersect to confer robustness in hormone-dependent reproductive shoot development.
The study presents the structure of photosystem II supercomplex from Picea abies solved by cryo-electron microscopy and describes its unique features—the presence of light-harvesting protein Lhcb8 and an α-tocopherol molecule with potential physiological function.
Using 1,578 resequenced genomes representing the diversity of cultivated and wild rice, this study reveals that the domestication alleles of the 993 selected genes stemmed from both O. rufipogon and O. nivara, demonstrating multiple domestications of rice.
How plants coordinate growth and nutrient supply is a long-standing question in plant biology. This work discovers that transcription factors SOD7 and DPA4 interact with the transcriptional coactivator GIF1 to coordinate organ growth and iron uptake.
Genetic and ChIP–seq analyses of missense DELLA mutants reveal a role of the DELLA PFYRE subdomain in H2A binding, which stabilizes the transcription factor–DELLA–H2A complexes at the target chromatin for global transcription reprogramming.
The perennial weed, Johnsongrass, is a threat to global food security. Its two reproduction modes drive acquisition of herbicide resistance, but a well-strategized blend of tillage and diverse herbicides offers effective countermeasures.
This study reports haplotype-resolved genomes for Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana, the progenitor species of cultivated strawberries. These high-quality genomes reveal the origin and genomic diversifications of octoploid strawberries.