Plant CellPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf046
Zhichong Huang, Xiao Han, Kunrong He, Jingwen Ye, Chunlan Yu, Tingting Xu, Juping Zhang, Jiancan Du, Qiantang Fu, Yanru Hu
{"title":"Nitrate attenuates abscisic acid signaling via NIN-LIKE PROTEIN8 in Arabidopsis seed germination.","authors":"Zhichong Huang, Xiao Han, Kunrong He, Jingwen Ye, Chunlan Yu, Tingting Xu, Juping Zhang, Jiancan Du, Qiantang Fu, Yanru Hu","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf046","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abscisic acid (ABA) suppresses Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seed germination and post-germinative growth. Nitrate stimulates seed germination, but whether it directly regulates ABA signaling and the associated underlying molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we showed that nitrate alleviates the repressive effects of ABA on seed germination independently of the nitric oxide (NO) pathway. Moreover, nitrate attenuates ABA signaling activated by ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE3 (ABI3) and ABI5, two critical transcriptional regulators of the ABA pathway. Mechanistic analyses demonstrated that ABI3 and ABI5 physically interact with the nitrate signaling-related core transcription factor NIN-LIKE PROTEIN 8 (NLP8). After ABA treatment, NLP8 suppresses ABA responses during seed germination without affecting ABA content. Notably, nitrate represses ABA signaling mainly through NLP8. Genetic analyses showed that NLP8 acts upstream of ABI3 and ABI5. Specifically, NLP8 inhibits the transcriptional functions of ABI3 and ABI5, as well as their ABA-induced accumulation. Additionally, NLP8 overexpression largely suppresses the ABA hypersensitivity of mutant plants exhibiting impaired NO biosynthesis or signaling. Collectively, our study reveals that nitrate counteracts the inhibitory effects of ABA signaling on seed germination and provides mechanistic insights into the NLP8-ABI3/ABI5 interactions and their antagonistic relationships in ABA signaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11952927/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143693047","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf045
Guy Levin
{"title":"With a little help from ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase: Enhancing photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer around PSI.","authors":"Guy Levin","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf045","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11952884/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573667","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf040
Mariana Schuster
{"title":"From the archives: Plasmodesmata-regulation of function, targeting by pathogenic bacteria, and plasmodesmal-associated proteins.","authors":"Mariana Schuster","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf040","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11912147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143557698","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf034
Liang Ma, De-Bin Qin, Liping Sun, Kaina Zhang, Xiang Yu, An-Kai Dang, Shengfan Hou, Xiaoyun Zhao, Yongqing Yang, Yang Wang, Yuhang Chen, Yan Guo
{"title":"SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE2 and AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER1;1 contribute to plant salt tolerance by maintaining ammonium uptake.","authors":"Liang Ma, De-Bin Qin, Liping Sun, Kaina Zhang, Xiang Yu, An-Kai Dang, Shengfan Hou, Xiaoyun Zhao, Yongqing Yang, Yang Wang, Yuhang Chen, Yan Guo","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf034","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soil salinity is a severe threat to agriculture and plant growth. Under high salinity conditions, ammonium (NH4+) is the predominant inorganic nitrogen source used by plants due to limited nitrification. However, how ammonium shapes the plant response to salt stress remains a mystery. Here, we demonstrate that the growth of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings is less sensitive to salt stress when provided with ammonium instead of nitrate (NO3-), a response that is mediated by ammonium transporters (AMTs). We further show that the kinase SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE2 (SOS2) physically interacts with and activates AMT1;1 by directly phosphorylating the nonconserved serine residue Ser-450 in the C-terminal region. In agreement with the involvement of SOS2, ammonium uptake was lower in sos2 mutants grown under salt stress relative to the wild type. Moreover, AMT-mediated ammonium uptake enhanced salt-induced SOS2 kinase activity. Together, our study demonstrates that SOS2 activates AMT1;1 to fine-tune and maintain ammonium uptake and optimize the plant salt stress response.</p>","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11840955/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143441787","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf002
Sonhita Chakraborty
{"title":"Super-califragilisticexpialidocious-resolution microscopy: How expansion microscopy can be applied to plants.","authors":"Sonhita Chakraborty","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf002","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11827608/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143029343","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf024
Jing Liu, Chaoqun Dong, Xiangqing Liu, Jinquan Guo, Lingling Chai, Weilong Guo, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Jie Liu
{"title":"Decoupling the pleiotropic effects of VRT-A2 during reproductive development enhances wheat grain length and weight.","authors":"Jing Liu, Chaoqun Dong, Xiangqing Liu, Jinquan Guo, Lingling Chai, Weilong Guo, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Jie Liu","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf024","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>VEGETATIVE TO REPRODUCTIVE TRANSITION 2 (VRT-A2) is a subspecies-forming gene that confers the long-glume and large-grain traits of tetraploid Polish wheat (Triticum polonicum; AABB) and hexaploid Xinjiang rice wheat (T. petropavlovskyi; AABBDD). Transcriptional activation of VRT-A2 due to a natural sequence variation in its Intron-1 region significantly enhances grain weight but also causes some basal spikelets to fail to completely develop, thus decreasing grain number per spike and yield. This yield penalty has presented a challenge for the use of VRT-A2 in breeding high-yield wheat. Here, we report the characterization of 2 regulatory modules that fine-tune VRT-A2 expression in bread wheat (T. aestivum): (i) the APETALA2/Ethylene Responsive Factor (AP2/ERF)-type transcription factor MULTI-FLORET SPIKELET1 (TaMFS1) represses VRT-A2 expression by recruiting a transcriptional corepressor and a histone deacetylase and (ii) the STRUCTURE-SPECIFIC RECOGNITION PROTEIN 1 (TaSSRP1) facilitates VRT-A2 activation by assembling Mediator and further RNA polymerase II. Deleting TaMFS1 triggered moderate upregulation of VRT-A2 results in significantly increased grain weight without the yield penalty. Our study thus provides a feasible strategy for overcoming the tradeoffs of pleotropic genes by editing their upstream transcriptional regulators.</p>","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11827615/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416963","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf030
Jiajun Wang
{"title":"Decoding maize drought tolerance: The role of the ZmSK1-ZmCPP2-ZmSOD4 module.","authors":"Jiajun Wang","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf030","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11878530/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383245","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}
Plant CellPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koaf025
Meenu Singla-Rastogi
{"title":"A maize architect: An epiallele of a PfkB-type carbohydrate kinase affects plant growth and development.","authors":"Meenu Singla-Rastogi","doi":"10.1093/plcell/koaf025","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plcell/koaf025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20186,"journal":{"name":"Plant Cell","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11840956/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143123242","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}