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Expanding flg22 recognition in plants 扩大flg22在植物中的识别

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02032-7

Victoria J. Armer, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn

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Reverse engineering of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 reveals key design principles of broader recognition spectra against evading flg22 epitopes 模式识别受体FLS2的逆向工程揭示了针对flg22表位的更广泛识别谱的关键设计原则

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02050-5

Songyuan Zhang, Songyuan Liu, Hung-Fei Lai, Kyle W. Bender, Gijeong Kim, Amedeo Caflisch, Cyril Zipfel

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Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering 通过理性受体工程解锁扩展的鞭毛蛋白感知

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02049-y

Tianrun Li, Esteban Jarquin Bolaños, Danielle M. Stevens, Hanxu Sha, Daniil M. Prigozhin, Gitta Coaker

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Identification of the cytoplasmic motor–LINC complex involved in rapid chromosome movements during meiotic prophase in Arabidopsis thaliana 拟南芥减数分裂前期参与染色体快速运动的细胞质马达- linc复合体的鉴定

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02043-4

Bowei Cai, Mariana Tiscareno-Andrade, Yanru Luo, Sandrine Lefranc, Fei Cao, Aurélie Chambon, Xinjie Yuan, Marion Peuch, Yashi Zhang, Aurélie Hurel, Julie Guérin, Nathalie Vrielynck, Christine Mézard, Philippe Andrey, Laurence Cromer, Chao Yang, Mathilde Grelon

{"title":"Identification of the cytoplasmic motor–LINC complex involved in rapid chromosome movements during meiotic prophase in Arabidopsis thaliana","authors":"Bowei Cai, Mariana Tiscareno-Andrade, Yanru Luo, Sandrine Lefranc, Fei Cao, Aurélie Chambon, Xinjie Yuan, Marion Peuch, Yashi Zhang, Aurélie Hurel, Julie Guérin, Nathalie Vrielynck, Christine Mézard, Philippe Andrey, Laurence Cromer, Chao Yang, Mathilde Grelon","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-02043-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02043-4","url":null,"abstract":"Homologous pairing and recombination during meiosis are facilitated by rapid prophase movements (RPMs), which depend on chromosome attachment to the nuclear envelope (NE) and on cytoplasmic forces transmitted to the chromosomes through the NE, mediated by Linker of Nucleoskeleton and Cytoskeleton (LINC) complexes. In plants, only the NE-associated SUN-domain proteins SUN1 and SUN2 have been identified as components of the RPM process. Here we show that, during meiosis, SUN1 and SUN2 form a LINC complex with the KASH-domain protein SINE3, which recruits the meiosis-specific kinesin PSS1 to the NE. These proteins accumulate at telomere-binding sites in the NE, and their loss disrupts telomere attachment and bouquet formation and abolishes RPMs. These defects lead to defective synapsis and clustered crossovers, resulting in chromosome mis-segregation. Our results establish that the mechanism underlying RPMs is conserved in Arabidopsis thaliana, with RPMs primarily facilitating homologous recognition rather than preventing non-homologous interactions.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A root-based N-hydroxypipecolic acid standby circuit to direct immunity and growth of Arabidopsis shoots 基于根的n -羟基果酸备用回路对拟南芥幼苗免疫和生长的指导作用

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02053-2

Ping Xu, Sophia Fundneider, Birgit Lange, Rafał Maksym, Johannes Stuttmann, Anton R. Schäffner

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The human factor 人为因素

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02075-w

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Creating resilience through agroforestry 通过农林业增强韧性

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Nature Plants Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02063-0

Catherine Walker

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Beyond the identification of Mendel’s genes 超越了孟德尔基因的鉴定

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