{"title":"At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations","authors":"Lebreton A , Keller J","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mutualistic interactions between plants and microorganisms shape the continuous evolution and adaptation of plants such as to the terrestrial environment that was a founding event of subsequent life on land. Such interactions also play a central role in the natural and agricultural ecosystems and are of primary importance for a sustainable future. To boost plant's productivity and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, new approaches involving associated symbiotic organisms have recently been explored. New discoveries on mutualistic symbioses evolution and the interaction between partners will be key steps to enhance plant potential.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41127398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules","authors":"Rene Geurts, Rik Huisman","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The root nodule symbiosis between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria is a fascinating trait limited to several plant species. Given the agronomic potential of transferring this symbiosis to nonleguminous crops, the symbiosis has attracted researchers’ attention for over a century. The origins of this symbiosis can be traced back to a single ancestor, around 110 million years ago. Recent findings have uncovered that adaptations in a receptor complex and the recruitment of the transcription factor Nodule Inception (NIN) are among the first genetic adaptations that allowed this ancestor to respond to its microsymbiont. Understanding the consequences of recruiting these genes provides insights into the start of this complex genetic trait.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526623001115/pdfft?md5=3f3c1d373db9624112b236268c6660e3&pid=1-s2.0-S1369526623001115-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10564259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions","authors":"Kaori Yoneyama , Tom Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102456","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102456","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Plants are able to actively detect and respond to the presence in neighboring plants, in order to optimize their physiology to promote survival and reproduction despite the presence of competing organisms. A key but still poorly understood mechanism for neighbor detection is through the perception of root exudates. In this review, we explore recent findings on the role of root exudates in plant–plant interactions, focusing both on general interactions and also the highly specialized example of root parasite–host plant interactions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41101597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems","authors":"Jian Zeng , Xin Geng , Zhong Zhao , Wenkun Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2024.102510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2024.102510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Plant meristems contain pools of dividing </span>stem cells<span><span> that produce new organs for plant growth and development. Environmental factors, including biotic and </span>abiotic stresses and nutrient availability, affect meristem activity and thus the architecture of roots and shoots; understanding how meristems react to changing environmental conditions will shed light on how plants optimize nutrient acquisition and acclimate to different environmental conditions. This review highlights recent exciting advances in this field, mainly in </span></span><span><em>Arabidopsis</em></span><span>. We discuss the signaling pathways<span><span>, genetic regulators, and molecular mechanisms involved in the response of plant meristems to environmental and nutrient cues, and compare the similarities and differences of stress responses between the shoot and root </span>apical meristems.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139545810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example","authors":"Avinash Kamble , Santiago Michavila , Selena Gimenez-Ibanez , Amey Redkar","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Plants engage with a wide variety of microorganisms either in parasitic or mutualistic relationships, which have helped them to adapt to terrestrial ecosystems<span>. Microbial interactions have driven plant evolution and led to the emergence of complex interaction outcomes via suppression of host defenses by evolving pathogens. The evolution of plant-microbe interactions is shaped by conserved host and pathogen gene modules and fast-paced lineage-specific adaptability which determines the interaction outcome. Recent findings from different microbes ranging from bacteria, </span></span>oomycetes<span>, and fungi suggest recurrent concepts in establishing interactions with evolutionarily distant plant hosts, but also clade-specific adaptation that ultimately contributes to pathogenicity. Here, we revisit some of the latest features that illustrate shared colonization strategies of the fungal pathogen </span></span><span><em>Fusarium oxysporum</em></span><span> on distant plant lineages and lineage-specific adaptability of mini-chromosomal units encoding effectors, for shaping host-specific pathogenicity in angiosperms.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139030542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ferroptosis landscape of biotic interactions in plants","authors":"Qing Shen , Naweed I. Naqvi","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102499","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Ferroptosis<span> is a cell death pathway that relies on iron- and reactive oxygen species-dependent lethal accumulation of lipid peroxides in the cytosol and/or </span></span>plasma membrane. Interestingly, Ferroptosis is widely involved in modulating such regulated fatality in the host plant as well as the pathogen albeit with different outcome, dynamics, and interesting metabolic adaptations. Although the basic mechanism of Ferroptosis has been established recently in plants and associated microbes, the conservation, acclimatization, and application of such regulated cell death modality are now beginning to be explored further. Efforts towards this will certainly help better understand the origin, molecular mechanisms, and function of Ferroptosis-associated developmental regulation of biotic interactions in plants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139030708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants","authors":"Renjie Chen , Karthick Gajendiran , Brande B.H. Wulff","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102489","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102489","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the past three decades, significant progress has been made in the field of resistance (<em>R</em>) gene cloning. Advances in recombinant DNA technology, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, plant transformation and plant husbandry have facilitated the transition from cloning <em>R</em> genes in model species to crop plants and their wild relatives. To date, researchers have isolated more than 450 <em>R</em> genes that play important roles in plant immunity. The molecular and biochemical mechanisms by which intracellular immune receptors are activated and initiate defense responses are now well understood. These advances present exciting opportunities for engineering disease-resistant crop plants that are protected by genetics rather than pesticides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526623001541/pdfft?md5=597d972e2de596b9c02853b0e120da12&pid=1-s2.0-S1369526623001541-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138825063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The core microbiota across the green lineage","authors":"Paloma Durán","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102487","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study of plant–microbe interactions and the characterization of plant-associated microbiota has been the focus of plant researchers in the last decades due to its importance for plant health in natural conditions. Here, I explore the persistent core microbiota associated with different plant species and across different environments by performing a meta-analysis of publicly available datasets. Intra-specific analyses revealed that diverse plant genotypes growing in similar habitats interact with a common set of microbial groups but that some of these core groups are species- or environment-specific. Furthermore, interspecific meta-analysis demonstrates the conservation of seven bacterial orders across diverse photosynthetic organisms, including microalgae, suggesting a conserved capacity for interaction with these core microbes throughout evolutionary history. However, the specific functions of these core members and whether these functions are conserved across hosts remain largely unexplored. I therefore discuss the importance of understanding the roles of the core microbiota and propose future research directions, including the exploration of microbial interactions across different kingdoms. By investigating the core microbiota and its functions, it will be possible to leverage this knowledge for sustainable agricultural management and conservation goals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526623001528/pdfft?md5=509b8cb71221700c574b88497674ea67&pid=1-s2.0-S1369526623001528-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138498056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Flores-Sandoval , Ryuichi Nishihama , John L. Bowman
{"title":"Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems","authors":"Eduardo Flores-Sandoval , Ryuichi Nishihama , John L. Bowman","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102486","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Land plant meristems are reservoirs of pluripotent stem cells where new tissues emerge, grow and eventually differentiate into specific cell identities. Compared to algae, where cells are produced in two-dimensional tissues via tip or marginal growth, land plants have meristems that allow three-dimensional growth for successful exploration of the terrestrial environment. In land plants, meristem maintenance leads to indeterminate growth and the production of new meristems leads to branching or regeneration via reprogramming of wounded somatic cells. Emerging model systems in the haploid dominant and monophyletic bryophytes are allowing comparative analyses of meristem gene regulatory networks to address whether all plants use common or diverse programs to organise, maintain, and regenerate meristems. In this piece we aim to discuss recent advances in genetic and hormonal control of bryophyte meristems and possible convergence or discrepancies in an exciting and emerging field in plant biology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526623001516/pdfft?md5=2f21df63add364c2d7dc0b5316e415b7&pid=1-s2.0-S1369526623001516-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138471922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calcium homeostasis and signaling in plant immunity","authors":"Chao Wang, Sheng Luan","doi":"10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102485","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Calcium (Ca<sup>2+</sup>) signaling consists of three steps: (1) initiation of a change in cellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> concentration in response to a stimulus, (2) recognition of the change through direct binding of Ca<sup>2+</sup> by its sensors, (3) transduction of the signal to elicit downstream responses. Recent studies have uncovered a central role for Ca<sup>2+</sup> signaling in both layers of immune responses initiated by plasma membrane (PM) and intracellular receptors, respectively. These advances in our understanding are attributed to several lines of research, including invention of genetically-encoded Ca<sup>2+</sup> reporters for the recording of intracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> signals, identification of Ca<sup>2+</sup> channels and their gating mechanisms, and functional analysis of Ca<sup>2+</sup> binding proteins (Ca<sup>2+</sup> sensors). This review analyzes the recent literature that illustrates the importance of Ca<sup>2+</sup> homeostasis and signaling in plant innate immunity, featuring intricate Ca<sup>2+</sup>dependent positive and negative regulations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11003,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in plant biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526623001504/pdfft?md5=118656611882006d46e23fb49cba8c0b&pid=1-s2.0-S1369526623001504-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138475220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}