Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf159
Pei Qin Ng
{"title":"Emergence and evolution of canonical microRNAs: A case study in Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata.","authors":"Pei Qin Ng","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144310310","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf160
Nitin Uttam Kamble
{"title":"Tiny Seeds, Big Decisions: Jasmonate-mediated regulation of seed size in Arabidopsis via the SOD7- KLU Module.","authors":"Nitin Uttam Kamble","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294800","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf157
Laura Arribas-Hernández
{"title":"Chromatin insulators: Good fences that make good neighbors.","authors":"Laura Arribas-Hernández","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144294799","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf152
Jiajun Wang
{"title":"Auxin meets BR: OsIAA7 teams up with OsGSK2 to destabilize OsBZR1 for rice seed size control.","authors":"Jiajun Wang","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286132","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf156
Min-Yao Jhu, Raphael Ledermann
{"title":"Division of Labour in the Nodule: Plant GluTRs Fuel Heme Biosynthesis for Symbiosis.","authors":"Min-Yao Jhu, Raphael Ledermann","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286133","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf153
Jiajun Wang
{"title":"Histone acetyltransferase GCN5 orchestrates flower development and is required for proper regulation of multiple key meristem and organ identity genes.","authors":"Jiajun Wang","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286134","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf154
Leonard Blaschek
{"title":"Root tip regeneration: Yet another feather in FERONIA's cap.","authors":"Leonard Blaschek","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286155","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 multifunctional ascorbate peroxidase MoApx1 secreted by Magnaporthe oryzae mediates the suppression of rice immunity.","authors":"Muxing Liu, Ziqian Guo, Jiexiong Hu, Yuke Chen, Fang Chen, Weizhong Chen, Wenya Wang, Boyang Ye, Zhixiang Yang, Gang Li, Xinyu Liu, Haifeng Zhang, Ping Wang, Zhengguang Zhang","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fungi secrete effector proteins, including extracellular redox enzymes, to inhibit host immunity. Redox enzymes have been hypothesized to inhibit host reactive oxygen species (ROS); however, how they suppress host immunity remains unknown. We characterized an extracellular ascorbate peroxidase (MoApx1) that is secreted into rice chloroplasts by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. MoApx1 displays multifunctional capabilities that significantly contribute to fungal virulence. Firstly, MoApx1 neutralizes host-derived H2O2 within the chloroplast through its peroxidase activity, thereby inhibiting chloroplast ROS (cROS)-mediated defense responses. Secondly, MoApx1 targets the photosystem I (PSI) subunit OsPsaD, disrupting photosynthetic electron transport to further suppress cROS production. Most importantly, MoApx1 has evolved a fungal-specific starch-binding domain that binds host starch, inhibiting its degradation and disrupting the energy supply required for host resistance. Our findings underscore the importance of a novel multifaceted strategy, potentially widely employed by other fungal pathogens, in suppressing host immunity during host-microbe interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144266960","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf084
Tobias Jores, Nicholas A Mueth, Jackson Tonnies, Si Nian Char, Bo Liu, Valentina Grillo-Alvarado, Shane Abbitt, Ajith Anand, Stéphane Deschamps, Scott Diehn, Bill Gordon-Kamm, Shuping Jiao, Kathy Munkvold, Heather Snowgren, Nagesh Sardesai, Stanley Fields, Bing Yang, Josh T Cuperus, Christine Queitsch
{"title":"Small DNA elements can act as both insulators and silencers in plants.","authors":"Tobias Jores, Nicholas A Mueth, Jackson Tonnies, Si Nian Char, Bo Liu, Valentina Grillo-Alvarado, Shane Abbitt, Ajith Anand, Stéphane Deschamps, Scott Diehn, Bill Gordon-Kamm, Shuping Jiao, Kathy Munkvold, Heather Snowgren, Nagesh Sardesai, Stanley Fields, Bing Yang, Josh T Cuperus, Christine Queitsch","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf084","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Insulators are cis-regulatory elements that separate transcriptional units, whereas silencers are elements that repress transcription regardless of their position. In plants, these elements remain largely uncharacterized. Here, we use the massively parallel reporter assay Plant STARR-seq with short fragments of 8 large insulators to identify more than 100 fragments that block enhancer activity. The short fragments can be combined to generate more powerful insulators that abolish the capacity of the strong viral 35S enhancer to activate the 35S minimal promoter. Unexpectedly, when tested upstream of weak enhancers, these fragments act as silencers and repress transcription. Thus, these elements are capable of insulating or repressing transcription, depending on the regulatory context. We validate our findings in stable transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana, maize (Zea mays), and rice (Oryza sativa) plants. The short elements identified here should be useful building blocks for plant biotechnology.</p>","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12164753/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144249183","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}