Nature PlantsPub Date : 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01998-8
Teng-Kuei Huang, Erh-Min Lai
{"title":"Cooperation and antagonism in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation","authors":"Teng-Kuei Huang, Erh-Min Lai","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01998-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01998-8","url":null,"abstract":"By integrating theoretical modelling and single-cell analysis of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in Nicotiana plants, a recent study reveals how agrobacterial density governs synergistic and antagonistic effects on transformation outcomes. These insights led to the development of a dual binary vector system that mitigates immune-triggered antagonism, enabling more efficient engineering of complex metabolic pathways in plants.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143933499","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01987-x
Lingfei Hu, Kaidi Zhang, Yachun Xu, Xiaoxuan Zheng, Jamie M. Waterman, Xiao Ouyang, Zhenwei Wu, Zhicheng Shen, Yan He, Bin Ma, Christelle A. M. Robert, Jos M. Raaijmakers, Meng Ye, Matthias Erb, Jianming Xu
{"title":"Herbivory-induced green leaf volatiles increase plant performance through jasmonate-dependent plant–soil feedbacks","authors":"Lingfei Hu, Kaidi Zhang, Yachun Xu, Xiaoxuan Zheng, Jamie M. Waterman, Xiao Ouyang, Zhenwei Wu, Zhicheng Shen, Yan He, Bin Ma, Christelle A. M. Robert, Jos M. Raaijmakers, Meng Ye, Matthias Erb, Jianming Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01987-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01987-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Plants influence each other chemically by releasing leaf volatiles and root exudates, but whether and how these two phenomena interact remains unknown. Here we demonstrate that volatiles that are released by herbivore-attacked leaves trigger plant–soil feedbacks, resulting in increased performance of different plant species. We show that this phenomenon is due to green leaf volatiles that induce jasmonate-dependent systemic defence signalling in receiver plants, which results in the accumulation of beneficial soil bacteria in the rhizosphere. These soil bacteria then increase plant growth and enhance plant defences. In maize, a cysteine-rich receptor-like protein kinase, ZmCRK25, is required for this effect. In four successive year-field experiments, we demonstrate that this phenomenon can suppress leaf herbivore abundance and enhance maize growth and yield. Thus, volatile-mediated plant–plant interactions trigger plant–soil feedbacks that shape plant performance across different plant species through broadly conserved defence signalling mechanisms and changes in soil microbiota. This phenomenon expands the repertoire of biologically relevant plant–plant interactions in space and time and holds promise for the sustainable intensification of agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893444","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01988-w
Christopher J. Frost, Sophia L. Shomper
{"title":"Airborne cues shape soil legacies","authors":"Christopher J. Frost, Sophia L. Shomper","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01988-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01988-w","url":null,"abstract":"Plants are known to respond to odour cues emitted by other plants that may indicate impending environmental stress. These responses are now understood to extend belowground, where root exudates condition rhizosphere soil bacteria communities in ways that enhance future plant growth and defence.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143893443","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 : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02006-9
Jia Li, Lei Cao, Yaqian Zhao, Jinghan Shen, Lei Wang, Mingfeng Feng, Min Zhu, Yonghao Ye, Richard Kormelink, Xiaorong Tao, Xiangxi Wang
{"title":"Author Correction: Structural basis for the activation of plant bunyavirus replication machinery and its dual-targeted inhibition by ribavirin.","authors":"Jia Li, Lei Cao, Yaqian Zhao, Jinghan Shen, Lei Wang, Mingfeng Feng, Min Zhu, Yonghao Ye, Richard Kormelink, Xiaorong Tao, Xiangxi Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-02006-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41477-025-02006-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":" ","pages":"1089"},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12095079/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143971704","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 : 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02000-1
Anna Maria Wójcik
{"title":"Root regeneration under miRNA control","authors":"Anna Maria Wójcik","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-02000-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02000-1","url":null,"abstract":"The mechanisms underlying stem cells and regeneration are key to understanding plant renewal and adaptation to a changing environment. WUSCHEL RELATED HOMEOBOX 5 is a master regulator of stem cell maintenance, and a recent study reveals that miR160 molecules move within the root apical meristem to regulate its activity.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143872862","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 : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01978-y
Zahin Ali, Qiao Wen Tan, Peng Ken Lim, Hengchi Chen, Lukas Pfeifer, Irene Julca, Jia Min Lee, Birgit Classen, Sophie de Vries, Jan de Vries, Fanny Vinter, Camille Alvarado, Amandine Layens, Eshchar Mizrachi, Mohammed Saddik Motawie, Bodil Joergensen, Peter Ulvskov, Yves Van de Peer, Boon Chuan Ho, Richard Sibout, Marek Mutwil
{"title":"Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls","authors":"Zahin Ali, Qiao Wen Tan, Peng Ken Lim, Hengchi Chen, Lukas Pfeifer, Irene Julca, Jia Min Lee, Birgit Classen, Sophie de Vries, Jan de Vries, Fanny Vinter, Camille Alvarado, Amandine Layens, Eshchar Mizrachi, Mohammed Saddik Motawie, Bodil Joergensen, Peter Ulvskov, Yves Van de Peer, Boon Chuan Ho, Richard Sibout, Marek Mutwil","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01978-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01978-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ferns are essential for understanding plant evolution; however, their large and intricate genomes have kept their genetic landscape largely unexplored, with only a few genomes sequenced and limited transcriptomic data available. To bridge this gap, we generated extensive RNA-sequencing data across various organs from 22 representative fern species, resulting in high-quality transcriptome assemblies. These data enabled us to construct a time-calibrated phylogeny for ferns, encompassing all major clades, which revealed numerous instances of whole-genome duplication. We highlighted the distinctiveness of fern genetics, discovering that half of the identified gene families are unique to ferns. Our exploration of fern cell walls through biochemical and immunological analyses uncovered the presence of the lignin syringyl unit, along with evidence of its independent evolution in ferns. Additionally, the identification of an unusual sugar in fern cell walls suggests a divergent evolutionary trajectory in cell wall biochemistry, probably influenced by gene duplication and sub-functionalization. To facilitate further research, we have developed an online database that includes preloaded genomic and transcriptomic data for ferns and other land plants. We used this database to demonstrate the independent evolution of lignocellulosic gene modules in ferns. Our findings provide a comprehensive framework illustrating the unique evolutionary journey ferns have undertaken since diverging from the last common ancestor of euphyllophytes more than 360 million years ago.</p>","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862870","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 : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01990-2
{"title":"Virus-induced genome editing using a miniature CRISPR system","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01990-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01990-2","url":null,"abstract":"The tobacco rattle virus was engineered to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA. This miniature CRISPR system enabled transgene-free germline genome editing in Arabidopsis thaliana without the need for tissue culture or plant transformation.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"482 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866978","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 : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01980-4
{"title":"Current RNA-seq evidence of mRNA mobility is largely due to noise in the data","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01980-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01980-4","url":null,"abstract":"A substantial number of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) annotated as graft-mobile on the basis of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data lack statistical support. Known technical issues, such as RNA sequencing noise, mapping errors, biological variation and contamination, have been inadvertently mistaken as evidence of transportation.","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862868","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 : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01984-0
Lukas Schulz, Kien Lam Ung, Lorena Zuzic, Sarah Koutnik-Abele, Birgit Schiøtt, David L. Stokes, Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, Ulrich Z. Hammes
{"title":"Transport of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides by PIN-FORMED auxin transporters","authors":"Lukas Schulz, Kien Lam Ung, Lorena Zuzic, Sarah Koutnik-Abele, Birgit Schiøtt, David L. Stokes, Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, Ulrich Z. Hammes","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01984-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01984-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Auxins are a group of phytohormones that control plant growth and development. Their crucial role in plant physiology has inspired development of potent synthetic auxins that can be used as herbicides. Phenoxyacetic acid derivatives are a widely used group of auxin herbicides in agriculture and research. Despite their prevalence, the identity of the transporters required for distribution of these herbicides in plants is both poorly understood and the subject of controversial debate. Here we show that PIN-FORMED auxin transporters transport a range of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides across the membrane. We go on to characterize the molecular determinants of substrate specificity using a variety of different substrates as well as protein mutagenesis to probe the binding site. Finally, we present cryogenic electron microscopy structures of <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> PIN8 bound to either 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or 4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid. These structures represent five key states from the transport cycle, allowing us to describe conformational changes associated with the transport cycle. Overall, our results reveal that phenoxyacetic acid herbicides use the same export machinery as endogenous auxins and exemplify how transporter binding sites undergo transformations that dictate substrate specificity. These results provide a foundation for future development of novel synthetic auxins and for precision breeding of herbicide-resistant crop plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143857714","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 : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-01989-9
Trevor Weiss, Maris Kamalu, Honglue Shi, Zheng Li, Jasmine Amerasekera, Zhenhui Zhong, Benjamin A. Adler, Michelle M. Song, Kamakshi Vohra, Gabriel Wirnowski, Sidharth Chitkara, Charlie Ambrose, Noah Steinmetz, Ananya Sridharan, Diego Sahagun, Jillian F. Banfield, Jennifer A. Doudna, Steven E. Jacobsen
{"title":"Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis","authors":"Trevor Weiss, Maris Kamalu, Honglue Shi, Zheng Li, Jasmine Amerasekera, Zhenhui Zhong, Benjamin A. Adler, Michelle M. Song, Kamakshi Vohra, Gabriel Wirnowski, Sidharth Chitkara, Charlie Ambrose, Noah Steinmetz, Ananya Sridharan, Diego Sahagun, Jillian F. Banfield, Jennifer A. Doudna, Steven E. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1038/s41477-025-01989-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01989-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Genome editing is transforming plant biology by enabling precise DNA modifications. However, delivery of editing systems into plants remains challenging, often requiring slow, genotype-specific methods such as tissue culture or transformation<sup>1</sup>. Plant viruses, which naturally infect and spread to most tissues, present a promising delivery system for editing reagents. However, many viruses have limited cargo capacities, restricting their ability to carry large CRISPR-Cas systems. Here we engineered tobacco rattle virus (TRV) to carry the compact RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and its guide RNA. This innovation allowed transgene-free editing of <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> in a single step, with edits inherited in the subsequent generation. By overcoming traditional reagent delivery barriers, this approach offers a novel platform for genome editing, which can greatly accelerate plant biotechnology and basic research.</p>","PeriodicalId":18904,"journal":{"name":"Nature Plants","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143857715","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}