Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01825-6
Xiao Chen, Dou-Dou Huang, Jing-Shi Xue, Jiang-He Bu, Ming-Qiang Guo, Ming-Qi Zhang, Na Wang, Ji-Rong Huang, Wan-Sheng Chen, Zhong-Nan Yang
{"title":"Polymeric phenylpropanoid derivatives crosslinked by hydroxyl fatty acids form the core structure of rape sporopollenin","authors":"Xiao Chen, Dou-Dou Huang, Jing-Shi Xue, Jiang-He Bu, Ming-Qiang Guo, Ming-Qi Zhang, Na Wang, Ji-Rong Huang, Wan-Sheng Chen, Zhong-Nan Yang","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01825-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01825-6","url":null,"abstract":"Sporopollenin, a critical innovation in the evolution of terrestrial plants, is the core building brick for the outer wall of land-plant spores and pollen. Despite its significance, the basic structure of sporopollenin remains elusive due to its extreme chemical inertness. In this study, we used ethanolamine to completely dissolve rape sporopollenin and successfully identified a total of 22 components, including fatty acids, p-coumaric acid, sterols and polymeric phenylpropanoid derivatives. After that, using NaOH treatment and partial dissolution, alongside Arabidopsis mutants analysis and spectroscopic methods, we determined that polymeric phenylpropanoid derivatives crosslinked by hydroxyl fatty acids serve as the core structure of sporopollenin. The free hydroxyl groups and carboxyl groups of the polymeric phenylpropanoid derivatives can be modified by other fatty acids (C16:0, C18:0 and C18:3) as well as alcohols/phenols (for example, naringenin, β-sitosterol), resulting in a structure that protects pollen from terrestrial stresses. This discovery provides a basis for further exploration of sporopollenin’s role in plant reproduction and evolution. The core structure of rape sporopollenin consists of polymeric phenylpropanoid derivatives crosslinked by hydroxyl fatty acids, while other components ligated to free hydroxyl and carboxyl groups of the core structure to form the peripheral structure.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1790-1800"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405486","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}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01815-8
Changlong Chen, Pierre Buscaill, Nattapong Sanguankiattichai, Jie Huang, Farnusch Kaschani, Markus Kaiser, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn
{"title":"Extracellular plant subtilases dampen cold-shock peptide elicitor levels","authors":"Changlong Chen, Pierre Buscaill, Nattapong Sanguankiattichai, Jie Huang, Farnusch Kaschani, Markus Kaiser, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01815-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01815-8","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing pathogen-associated molecular patterns on the cell surface is crucial for plant immunity. The proteinaceous nature of many of these patterns suggests that secreted proteases play important roles in their formation and stability. Here we demonstrate that the apoplastic subtilase SBT5.2a inactivates the immunogenicity of cold-shock proteins (CSPs) of the bacterial plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae by cleaving within the immunogenic csp22 epitope. Consequently, mutant plants lacking SBT5.2a activity retain higher levels of csp22, leading to enhanced immune responses and reduced pathogen growth. SBT5.2 sensitivity is influenced by sequence variation surrounding the cleavage site and probably extends to CSPs from other bacterial species. These findings suggest that variations in csp22 stability among bacterial pathogens are a crucial factor in plant–bacteria interactions and that pathogens exploit plant proteases to avoid pattern recognition. Secreted plant subtilase SBT5.2 inactivates immunogenic csp22 epitopes in cold-shock proteins of Pseudomonas syringae, suggesting that pathogens exploit plant proteases to evade detection.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1749-1760"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01815-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01820-x
Zhao Zhang, Tuo Yang, Yang Liu, Shan Wu, Honghe Sun, Jie Wu, Yonghong Li, Yi Zheng, Haoran Ren, Yuyong Yang, Shaochuan Shi, Wenyan Wang, Qi Pan, Lijuan Lian, Shaowen Duan, Yingxiong Zhu, Youming Cai, Hougao Zhou, Hao Zhang, Kaixue Tang, Jiaopeng Cui, Dan Gao, Liyang Chen, Yunhe Jiang, Xiaoming Sun, Xiaofeng Zhou, Zhangjun Fei, Nan Ma, Junping Gao
{"title":"Haplotype-resolved genome assembly and resequencing provide insights into the origin and breeding of modern rose","authors":"Zhao Zhang, Tuo Yang, Yang Liu, Shan Wu, Honghe Sun, Jie Wu, Yonghong Li, Yi Zheng, Haoran Ren, Yuyong Yang, Shaochuan Shi, Wenyan Wang, Qi Pan, Lijuan Lian, Shaowen Duan, Yingxiong Zhu, Youming Cai, Hougao Zhou, Hao Zhang, Kaixue Tang, Jiaopeng Cui, Dan Gao, Liyang Chen, Yunhe Jiang, Xiaoming Sun, Xiaofeng Zhou, Zhangjun Fei, Nan Ma, Junping Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01820-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01820-x","url":null,"abstract":"Modern rose (Rosa hybrida) is a recently formed interspecific hybrid and has become one of the most important and widely cultivated ornamentals. Here we report the haplotype-resolved chromosome-scale genome assembly of the tetraploid R. hybrida ‘Samantha’ (‘JACmantha’) and a genome variation map of 233 Rosa accessions involving various wild species, and old and modern cultivars. Homologous chromosomes of ‘Samantha’ exhibit frequent homoeologous exchanges. Population genomic and genomic composition analyses reveal the contributions of wild Rosa species to modern roses and highlight that R. odorata and its derived cultivars are important contributors to modern roses, much like R. chinensis ‘Old Blush’. Furthermore, selective sweeps during modern rose breeding associated with major agronomic traits, including continuous and recurrent flowering, double flower, flower senescence and disease resistance, are identified. This study provides insights into the genetic basis of modern rose origin and breeding history, and offers unprecedented genomic resources for rose improvement. The haplotype-resolved genome of tetraploid modern rose, along with a variation map of 233 wild and cultivated Rosa accessions, reveals the complex genome composition of modern roses and elucidates the genomic bases of their origin and breeding.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1659-1671"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405485","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}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01837-2
Guillaume Tena
{"title":"Translation and cytokinin for robust shapes","authors":"Guillaume Tena","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01837-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01837-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 10","pages":"1440-1440"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397714","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}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01817-6
Xinya Du, Pengyue Li, Changqiu Fan, Jingjing Tian, Yang Lin, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Meng Yuan, Xiao Yu, Kenichi Tsuda, Bo Li
{"title":"Holliday junction resolvase RuvC targets biofilm eDNA and confers plant resistance to vascular pathogens","authors":"Xinya Du, Pengyue Li, Changqiu Fan, Jingjing Tian, Yang Lin, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Meng Yuan, Xiao Yu, Kenichi Tsuda, Bo Li","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01817-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01817-6","url":null,"abstract":"A biofilm lifestyle is critical for bacterial pathogens to colonize and protect themselves from host immunity and antimicrobial chemicals in plants and animals. The formation and regulation mechanisms of phytobacterial biofilm are still obscure. Here we found that the protein Ralstonia solanacearum resistance to ultraviolet C (RuvC) is highly abundant in biofilm and positively regulates pathogenicity by controlling systemic movement in tomato xylem. RuvC protein accumulates at the later stage of biofilm development and specifically targets Holliday junction (HJ)-like structures to disrupt the biofilm extracellular DNA (eDNA) lattice, thus facilitating biofilm dispersal. Recombinant RuvC protein can resolve extracellular HJ to prevent bacterial biofilm formation. Heterologous expression of R. solanacearum or Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae RuvC with plant secretion signal in tomato or rice confers resistance to bacterial wilt or bacterial blight disease, respectively. Plant chloroplast-localized HJ resolvase monokaryotic chloroplast 1 (MOC1), which shares structural similarity with bacterial RuvC, shows a strong inhibitory effect on bacterial biofilm formation. Relocalization of SlMOC1 to apoplast in tomato roots leads to increased resistance to bacterial wilt. Our novel finding reveals a critical pathogenesis mechanism of R. solanacearum and provides an efficient biotechnology strategy to improve plant resistance to bacterial vascular disease. The bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum secretes endonuclease RuvC, which degrades mature biofilm by targeting the lattice formed by cruciform extracellular DNA. This helps bacterial dispersal, pathogen spread in plant xylem and virulence.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1710-1723"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385432","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}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01816-7
{"title":"Wildfire smoke exposure reduces tree carbon reserves and yield","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01816-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01816-7","url":null,"abstract":"Our extensive, multi-year regional study reveals that prolonged exposure to heavy wildfire smoke results in significant and persistent reductions in non-structural carbohydrates in trees, and that these effects continue for months following the fires (including into the dormancy period and next season’s bloom). Furthermore, trees that are subjected to high levels of smoke exhibit substantial yield reductions in the following year.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1623-1624"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385373","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}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01812-x
James Barrett, Mihris I. S. Naduthodi, Yuwei Mao, Clément Dégut, Sabina Musiał, Aidan Salter, Mark C. Leake, Michael J. Plevin, Alistair J. McCormick, James N. Blaza, Luke C. M. Mackinder
{"title":"A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation in the green lineage","authors":"James Barrett, Mihris I. S. Naduthodi, Yuwei Mao, Clément Dégut, Sabina Musiał, Aidan Salter, Mark C. Leake, Michael J. Plevin, Alistair J. McCormick, James N. Blaza, Luke C. M. Mackinder","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01812-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01812-x","url":null,"abstract":"CO2 fixation is commonly limited by inefficiency of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco. Eukaryotic algae concentrate and fix CO2 in phase-separated condensates called pyrenoids, which complete up to one-third of global CO2 fixation. Condensation of Rubisco in pyrenoids is dependent on interaction with disordered linker proteins that show little conservation between species. We developed a sequence-independent bioinformatic pipeline to identify linker proteins in green algae. We report the linker from Chlorella and demonstrate that it binds a conserved site on the Rubisco large subunit. We show that the Chlorella linker phase separates Chlamydomonas Rubisco and that despite their separation by ~800 million years of evolution, the Chlorella linker can support the formation of a functional pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas. This cross-species reactivity extends to plants, with the Chlorella linker able to drive condensation of some native plant Rubiscos in vitro and in planta. Our results represent an exciting frontier for pyrenoid engineering in plants, which is modelled to increase crop yields. Barrett et al. identify a key Rubisco phase-separating protein in the CO2-fixing pyrenoid of Chlorella algae. This protein’s broad promiscuity for green lineage Rubiscos may aid in engineering CO2-supercharging pyrenoids in plants to boost yields.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1801-1813"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01812-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01813-w
{"title":"Algal pyrenoid protein can condense plant Rubiscos: a step towards boosting carbon fixation in crops","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01813-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01813-w","url":null,"abstract":"By studying the structure and function of a protein from the green alga Chlorella that drives phase separation of Rubisco, we revealed the protein’s ability to interact with Rubiscos from plants. This overcomes a major challenge in adding pyrenoids, which are carbon-fixing superchargers, to crops.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 11","pages":"1625-1626"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385429","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}
Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01835-4
Catherine Walker
{"title":"Global impacts of the European Green Deal","authors":"Catherine Walker","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01835-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01835-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"10 10","pages":"1439-1439"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385433","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}