Nature PlantsPub Date : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01721-z
{"title":"Selfish genes and mother trees","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01721-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01721-z","url":null,"abstract":"Metaphors are excellent tools for explaining complicated concepts. But sometimes the concepts can become driven by the metaphors.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01721-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141088086","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 : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01704-0
Sachihiro Matsunaga, Nanami Ito
{"title":"Nuclear pores beyond macromolecule channels","authors":"Sachihiro Matsunaga, Nanami Ito","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01704-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01704-0","url":null,"abstract":"The nuclear pore is known as a large protein complex for the transport of macromolecules between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Comprehensive proteomic analyses revealed a novel role of the nuclear pore complex as a platform for the coordinated regulation of the flow from transcription to translation.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141073856","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 : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01698-9
Yu Tang, Xiangyun Yang, Aobo Huang, Kyungyong Seong, Mao Ye, Mengting Li, Qiao Zhao, Ksenia Krasileva, Yangnan Gu
{"title":"Proxiome assembly of the plant nuclear pore reveals an essential hub for gene expression regulation","authors":"Yu Tang, Xiangyun Yang, Aobo Huang, Kyungyong Seong, Mao Ye, Mengting Li, Qiao Zhao, Ksenia Krasileva, Yangnan Gu","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01698-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01698-9","url":null,"abstract":"The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is vital for nucleocytoplasmic communication. Recent evidence emphasizes its extensive association with proteins of diverse functions, suggesting roles beyond cargo transport. Yet, our understanding of NPC’s composition and functionality at this extended level remains limited. Here, through proximity-labelling proteomics, we uncover both local and global NPC-associated proteome in Arabidopsis, comprising over 500 unique proteins, predominantly associated with NPC’s peripheral extension structures. Compositional analysis of these proteins revealed that the NPC concentrates chromatin remodellers, transcriptional regulators and mRNA processing machineries in the nucleoplasmic region while recruiting translation regulatory machinery on the cytoplasmic side, achieving a remarkable orchestration of the genetic information flow by coupling RNA transcription, maturation, transport and translation regulation. Further biochemical and structural modelling analyses reveal that extensive interactions with nucleoporins, along with phase separation mediated by substantial intrinsically disordered proteins, may drive the formation of the unexpectedly large nuclear pore proteome assembly. Tang et al. utilized proximity labelling to assemble the Arabidopsis nuclear pore-associated proteome and revealed the nuclear pore as an integrated platform coupling multiple steps in gene expression regulation, beyond its conventional transport role.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141073871","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 : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01714-y
Jun Lyu
{"title":"Coffee history under the genomic lens","authors":"Jun Lyu","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01714-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01714-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141069451","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 : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01689-w
Paavo A. Penttilä, Antti Paajanen
{"title":"Critical comment on the assumptions leading to 24-chain microfibrils in wood","authors":"Paavo A. Penttilä, Antti Paajanen","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01689-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01689-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141069473","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 : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01681-4
Sarah M. Venter, Ed T. F. Witkowski
{"title":"Baobabs as symbols of resilience","authors":"Sarah M. Venter, Ed T. F. Witkowski","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01681-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01681-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140953552","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}
{"title":"Plant height as an indicator for alpine carbon sequestration and ecosystem response to warming","authors":"Quan Quan, Nianpeng He, Ruiyang Zhang, Jinsong Wang, Yiqi Luo, Fangfang Ma, Junxiao Pan, Ruomeng Wang, Congcong Liu, Jiahui Zhang, Yiheng Wang, Bing Song, Zhaolei Li, Qingping Zhou, Guirui Yu, Shuli Niu","doi":"10.1038/s41477-024-01705-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-024-01705-z","url":null,"abstract":"Growing evidence indicates that plant community structure and traits have changed under climate warming, especially in cold or high-elevation regions. However, the impact of these warming-induced changes on ecosystem carbon sequestration remains unclear. Using a warming experiment on the high-elevation Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, we found that warming not only increased plant species height but also altered species composition, collectively resulting in a taller plant community associated with increased net ecosystem productivity (NEP). Along a 1,500 km transect on the Plateau, taller plant community promoted NEP and soil carbon through associated chlorophyll content and other photosynthetic traits at the community level. Overall, plant community height as a dominant trait is associated with species composition and regulates ecosystem C sequestration in the high-elevation biome. This trait-based association provides new insights into predicting the direction, magnitude and sensitivity of ecosystem C fluxes in response to climate warming. Quan et al. show that warming-induced changes in plant community height in a cold, high-elevation region enhance ecosystem carbon sequestration, emphasizing the importance of plant traits in shaping the carbon cycle under climate change.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01705-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140949366","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}