{"title":"10k-level integrated rice database shows power for exploiting rare variants.","authors":"Hong Yu, Liquan Kou, Jiayang Li","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13576","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jipb.13576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Highlight features a recent study by Shang Lianguang and Qian Qian's groups, who re-analyzed published resequencing data covering 10,548 accessions of Asian cultivated rice Oryza sativa and wild rice Oryza rufipogon from 98 countries worldwide to generate a super-large rice genomic variation dataset.</p>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":" ","pages":"2539-2540"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50156644","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":"The m<sup>6</sup> A reader SiYTH1 enhances drought tolerance by affecting the messenger RNA stability of genes related to stomatal closure and reactive oxygen species scavenging in Setaria italica.","authors":"Weiwei Luo, Yuxiang Tang, Shenglan Li, Linlin Zhang, Yuwei Liu, Renliang Zhang, Xianmin Diao, Jingjuan Yu","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13575","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jipb.13575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Foxtail millet (Setaria italica), a vital drought-resistant crop, plays a significant role in ensuring food and nutritional security. However, its drought resistance mechanism is not fully understood. N<sup>6</sup> -methyladenosine (m<sup>6</sup> A) modification of RNA, a prevalent epi-transcriptomic modification in eukaryotes, provides a binding site for m<sup>6</sup> A readers and affects plant growth and stress responses by regulating RNA metabolism. In this study, we unveiled that the YT521-B homology (YTH) family gene SiYTH1 positively regulated the drought tolerance of foxtail millet. Notably, the siyth1 mutant exhibited reduced stomatal closure and augmented accumulation of excessive H<sub>2</sub> O<sub>2</sub> under drought stress. Further investigations demonstrated that SiYTH1 positively regulated the transcripts harboring m<sup>6</sup> A modification related to stomatal closure and reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging under drought stress. SiYTH1 was uniformly distributed in the cytoplasm of SiYTH1-GFP transgenic foxtail millet. It formed dynamic liquid-like SiYTH1 cytosol condensates in response to drought stress. Moreover, the cytoplasmic protein SiYTH1 was identified as a distinct m<sup>6</sup> A reader, facilitating the stabilization of its directly bound SiARDP and ROS scavenging-related transcripts under drought stress. Furthermore, natural variation analysis revealed SiYTH1<sup>AGTG</sup> as the dominant allele responsible for drought tolerance in foxtail millet. Collectively, this study provides novel insights into the intricate mechanism of m<sup>6</sup> A reader-mediated drought tolerance and presents a valuable genetic resource for improving drought tolerance in foxtail millet breeding.</p>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":" ","pages":"2569-2586"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49672048","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":"Identification of natural allelic variation in TTL1 controlling thermotolerance and grain size by a rice super pan-genome.","authors":"Yarong Lin, Yiwang Zhu, Yuchao Cui, Hongge Qian, Qiaoling Yuan, Rui Chen, Yan Lin, Jianmin Chen, Xishi Zhou, Chuanlin Shi, Huiying He, Taijiao Hu, Chenbo Gu, Xiaoman Yu, Xiying Zhu, Yuexing Wang, Qian Qian, Cuijun Zhang, Feng Wang, Lianguang Shang","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13568","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jipb.13568","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Continuously increasing global temperatures present great challenges to food security. Grain size, one of the critical components determining grain yield in rice (Oryza sativa L.), is a prime target for genetic breeding. Thus, there is an immediate need for genetic improvement in rice to maintain grain yield under heat stress. However, quantitative trait loci (QTLs) endowing heat stress tolerance and grain size in rice are extremely rare. Here, we identified a novel negative regulator with pleiotropic effects, Thermo-Tolerance and grain Length 1 (TTL1), from the super pan-genomic and transcriptomic data. Loss-of-function mutations in TTL1 enhanced heat tolerance, and caused an increase in grain size by coordinating cell expansion and proliferation. TTL1 was shown to function as a transcriptional regulator and localized to the nucleus and cell membrane. Furthermore, haplotype analysis showed that hap<sup>L</sup> and hap<sup>S</sup> of TTL1 were obviously correlated with variations of thermotolerance and grain size in a core collection of cultivars. Genome evolution analysis of available rice germplasms suggested that TTL1 was selected during domestication of the indica and japonica rice subspecies, but still had much breeding potential for increasing grain length and thermotolerance. These findings provide insights into TTL1 as a novel potential target for the development of high-yield and thermotolerant rice varieties.</p>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":" ","pages":"2541-2551"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41092930","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":"Cover Image:","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Medicago truncatula</i> is a widely studied legume and its compound leaves provide a sensitive model system to explore the mechanisms regulating leaf complexity. Activation or repression of indeterminacy in developing leaves can change the patterning of compound leaves. In this issue, Wang <i>et al.</i> (pages 2279-2291) report that <i>MtKNOX4</i> plays a major role in the regulation of compound leaf formation by integrating the cytokinin pathway and boundary regulators. This work provides new insight into the roles of Class II KNOX proteins in regulating the elaboration of compound leaves.</p>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"65 10","pages":"C1"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jipb.13304","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68180714","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}
{"title":"Issue information page","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"65 10","pages":"2237-2238"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jipb.13303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68180713","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}
{"title":"Striking a growth–defense balance: Stress regulators that function in maize development","authors":"Shiyi Xie, Hongbing Luo, Wei Huang, Weiwei Jin, Zhaobin Dong","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13570","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jipb.13570","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Maize (<i>Zea mays</i>) cultivation is strongly affected by both abiotic and biotic stress, leading to reduced growth and productivity. It has recently become clear that regulators of plant stress responses, including the phytohormones abscisic acid (ABA), ethylene (ET), and jasmonic acid (JA), together with reactive oxygen species (ROS), shape plant growth and development. Beyond their well established functions in stress responses, these molecules play crucial roles in balancing growth and defense, which must be finely tuned to achieve high yields in crops while maintaining some level of defense. In this review, we provide an in-depth analysis of recent research on the developmental functions of stress regulators, focusing specifically on maize. By unraveling the contributions of these regulators to maize development, we present new avenues for enhancing maize cultivation and growth while highlighting the potential risks associated with manipulating stress regulators to enhance grain yields in the face of environmental challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"66 3","pages":"424-442"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jipb.13570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41094504","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}
{"title":"Cover Image:","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13302","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Corydalis is an extremely diverse genus of around 530 angiosperm species, mainly distributed in the northern temperate regions, with a diversity center in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains region. Chen et al. (pages 2138-2156) constructed a globally comprehensive and robust phylogenetic framework at the section level of Corydalis based on nuclear and plastid genomic data extracted from genome skimming. This work provides an excellent exemplar case study for tackling the challenges of taxonomic research on hyper-diverse taxa in the era of genomics. The cover shows diverse flowers of Corydalis.</p>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"65 9","pages":"C1"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jipb.13302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6921934","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}
{"title":"Issue information page","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"65 9","pages":"2019-2020"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jipb.13301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"6921937","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}
{"title":"Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis)","authors":"Zhelong Lin, Lei Chen, Shanjie Tang, Mengjie Zhao, Tong Li, Jia You, Changqing You, Boshu Li, Qinghua Zhao, Dongmei Zhang, Jianli Wang, Zhongbao Shen, Xianwei Song, Shuaibin Zhang, Xiaofeng Cao","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13567","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jipb.13567","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The lack of genome editing platforms has hampered efforts to study and improve forage crops that can be grown on lands not suited to other crops. Here, we established efficient <i>Agrobacterium</i>-mediated clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 (Cas9) genome editing in a perennial, stress-tolerant forage grass, sheepgrass (<i>Leymus chinensis</i>). By screening for active single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs), accessions that regenerate well, suitable <i>Agrobacterium</i> strains, and optimal culture media, and co-expressing the morphogenic factor <i>TaWOX5</i>, we achieved 11% transformation and 5.83% editing efficiency in sheepgrass. Knocking out <i>Teosinte Branched1</i> (<i>TB1</i>) significantly increased tiller number and biomass. This study opens avenues for studying gene function and breeding in sheepgrass.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"65 11","pages":"2416-2420"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10214417","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}
Yu-Han He, Song-Yu Chen, Xing-Yan Chen, You-Ping Xu, Yan Liang, Xin-Zhong Cai
{"title":"RALF22 promotes plant immunity and amplifies the Pep3 immune signal","authors":"Yu-Han He, Song-Yu Chen, Xing-Yan Chen, You-Ping Xu, Yan Liang, Xin-Zhong Cai","doi":"10.1111/jipb.13566","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jipb.13566","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) in plants have been reported to dampen pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity via suppressing PAMP-induced complex formation between the pattern recognition receptor (PRR) and its co-receptor BAK1. However, the direct and positive role of RALFs in plant immunity remains largely unknown. Herein, we report the direct and positive roles of a typical RALF, RALF22, in plant immunity. RALF22 alone directly elicited a variety of typical immune responses and triggered resistance against the devastating necrotrophic fungal pathogen <i>Sclerotinia sclerotiorum</i> in a FERONIA (FER)-dependent manner. LORELEI (LRE)-like glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein 1 (LLG1) and NADPH oxidase RBOHD were required for RALF22-elicited reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. The mutation of cysteines conserved in the C terminus of RALFs abolished, while the constitutive formation of two disulfide bridges between these cysteines promoted the RALF22-elicited ROS production and resistance against <i>S. sclerotiorum</i>, demonstrating the requirement of these cysteines in the functions of RALF22 in plant immunity. Furthermore, RALF22 amplified the Pep3-induced immune signal by dramatically increasing the abundance of <i>PROPEP3</i> transcript and protein. Supply with RALF22 induced resistance against <i>S. sclerotiorum</i> in <i>Brassica</i> crop plants. Collectively, our results reveal that RALF22 triggers immune responses and augments the Pep3-induced immune signal in a FER-dependent manner, and exhibits the potential to be exploited as an immune elicitor in crop protection.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Integrative Plant Biology","volume":"65 11","pages":"2519-2534"},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10216603","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}