Exodermal suberin contributes to ion homeostasis and growth in potato

In potato roots, the endodermis and exodermis define anatomical compartments for mineral nutrients. Exodermal suberin accumulates early, and its reduction

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Complete biosynthesis of the anticancer cephalotaxinone and homoerythratine

Complete biosynthetic pathways for cephalotaxinone and homoerythratine were elucidated from the endangered plant Cephalotaxus fortunei. Thirteen key enzymes were identified, including two homologous c...

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Engineered genomic attachment sites for site-specific recombinases enable high-efficiency integration in plants and human cells - Nature Biotechnology

DNA recombination in rice is optimized by engineering genomic attachment sites.

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Enviromics and Abiotic Enviromics: Enhancing Stress Biology and Plant Resilience Breeding

Environmental stressors are captured through high-throughput envirotyping and integrated into an enviromic framework with genomic, transcriptomic, phenomic, and environmental data. AI/ML models enabl...

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Resilience: Mechanisms of Drought and Salinity Stress Tolerance

Terrestrial plants are frequently exposed to fluctuating abiotic stresses throughout their life cycle, and mycorrhizae can markedly enhance host plant resistance to such challenges. This review summa....

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Harnessing genomics approaches for heat stress resilience in wheat: from discovery to deployment

This review integrates recent advances in genomics, multi-omics, and biotechnology with a critical assessment of key challenges, providing a roadmap for ac

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Engineered genomic attachment sites for site-specific recombinases enable high-efficiency integration in plants and human cells - Nature Biotechnology

DNA recombination in rice is optimized by engineering genomic attachment sites.

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Regulation of m6A RNA reader protein OsECT3 activity by lysine acetylation in the cold stress response in rice - Nature Plants

Ma et al. report a regulatory mechanism by which lysine acetylation of the m6A reader protein OsECT3 modulates its m6A-binding activity under cold stress. The reduced acetylation level stabilizes cold...

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Breeding drought-tolerant crops for sustainable agriculture - Agriculture & Food Security

With the escalating impacts of climate change, drought stress (DS) is significantly decreasing water accessibility and availability, causing substantial direct and indirect economic repercussions with...

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TOPlus: An algorithm integrating prior genetic and environmental information for multi-trait synergic selection in maize hybrid breeding

Short summary: TOPlus combines phenotype prediction based on environmental information with multi-trait synergic selection incorporating functional gene priors for maize hybrid breeding. Across divers...

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Networks in plant nitrate foraging: From model plants to crop improvement

Plants forage for nitrate by integrating local root signals with systemic shoot responses. This review synthesizes current understanding of these long-distance pathways and discusses how this knowled...

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The <fc>GUN1</fc>‐<fc>NAC103</fc> axis‐mediated plastid signaling sustains root growth under plastid translation stress

A proposed model for GUN1-NAC103-mediated plastid signaling in roots.

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StNF-YC9 and StWRKY75 synergistically regulate StPAP10b-mediated root phosphatase activity to drive soil organic phosphorus mobilization in potato

Abstract. Phosphate limitation represents a major constraint for crop production worldwide. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), a globally essential staple crop

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A conserved hexapeptide switch controls autoinhibition of plant cytosolic invertases - Nature Plants

The study reveals an evolved molecular switch that controls plant sucrose-cleaving enzymes. Altering this switch increases enzyme activity and stimulates plant growth, offering a potential strategy fo...

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Dehydration-induced condensation of AGO1 modulates miRNA functionality

Dehydration induces reversible ARGONAUTE 1 phase separation in Arabidopsis thaliana, modulating microRNA regulatory activity.

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Streamlining the isolation of fungal hyphae: a semi-automated approach for soil substrates

We introduce the sieving and sucrose centrifugation (SSC) technique, which combines, optimizes, and semi-automates existing methods to efficiently extract

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Design Principles of Plant Thermotolerance: Integrating Photosynthesis, Reproduction, and Field Resilience in a Warming Climate

This paper reframes plant thermotolerance as a temporally stratified, interconnected system of physiological responses centered on preserving photosynthetic carbon gain under heat stress. Consequentl...

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The <fc>PtoERF1</fc>‐<fc>PtomiR393a</fc>‐<fc>PtoFBL4</fc> module confers drought tolerance via <fc>ABA</fc>–auxin crosstalk in <fi>Populus</fi>

PtomiR393 regulates xylem morphology in Populus.

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Understanding the effects of heat stress on yield and grain quality component traits in rice

The relationships between rice yield, grain quality, and exposure to high daytime and nighttime temperatures are still not well understood. Using season lo

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A domestication-selected CIPK–MYB–HAK module improves salt tolerance in modern maize - Nature Plants

Modern maize has evolved enhanced salt tolerance via a CIPK20–MYB28–HAK4 regulatory module, absent in its wild progenitor teosinte. These findings highlight the evolutionary trajectory underlying maiz...

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Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase - Nature Plants

Whether growth-promoting hormones boost sugar synthesis has remained unclear. Brassinosteroids were found to do so by relieving BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and ph...

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Climate Change Threatens Alpine Plants Before They Ever Get the Chance to Grow

New experiments in the Australian Alps reveal how warming, drought and fire quietly undermine plant survival.

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Brassinosteroids promote sugar synthesis by inhibiting BIN2 phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase - Nature Plants

Whether growth-promoting hormones boost sugar synthesis has remained unclear. Brassinosteroids were found to do so by relieving BIN2-mediated inhibition of PCK1, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and ph...

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A domestication-selected CIPK–MYB–HAK module improves salt tolerance in modern maize - Nature Plants

Modern maize has evolved enhanced salt tolerance via a CIPK20–MYB28–HAK4 regulatory module, absent in its wild progenitor teosinte. These findings highlight the evolutionary trajectory underlying maiz...

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