{"title":"Suppression of miR2871 enhances rice resistance to bacterial blight by modulating cell wall biosynthesis.","authors":"Deping Zhu,Yao Wan,Shengxue Shao,Yaqian Wei,Shanshan Chen,Qiang Liu,Guanjie Zhang,Lili Shi,Dina Wei,Chonghua Wei,Jianxiong Li,Meng Yang,Xuan Zeng,Weiwei Gao","doi":"10.1111/nph.70574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70574","url":null,"abstract":"MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to play critical roles in plant immunity. However, their roles and molecular mechanisms in coordinating plant immunity and growth remain poorly characterized. Here, we report a rice-specific miRNA, osa-miR2871a-3p (miR2871), negatively regulates rice resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) by modulating cell wall biosynthesis. We demonstrated that the transcription factor OsWRKY72 directly binds to the OsMIR2871 promoter and activates its expression. miR2871 suppresses cell wall biosynthesis by directly targeting OsGT43G, which encodes an endoplasmic reticulum-localized glycosyltransferase protein. Genetic and physiological analysis revealed that both miR2871-downregulating (STTM2871) and OsGT43G-overexpressing (GT43G-ox) plants exhibit enhanced resistance to Xoo by maintaining a high level of cellulose and lignin content. Furthermore, we suggested that OsGT43G stabilizes OsMYB63 through physical interactions, co-activating OsCesA4/7/9 expression to confer rice resistance to Xoo. Finally, phenotypic assays showed that STTM2871, GT43G-ox, and OsWRKY72 knockout (wrky72-ko) lines confer broad-spectrum resistance to Xoo without yield penalty. Collectively, our findings uncover a rice-specific miRNA and provide novel insights into the role of the OsWRKY72-miR2871-OsGT43G module in mediating rice's response to Xoo, which offers a new strategy to improve rice resistance to bacterial pathogens.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068335","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":"MLOs downstream of FERONIA help to maintain root hair apical growth by tuning Ca2+ and ROS secondary messengers' oscillations.","authors":"Erwan Michard,José M Estevez","doi":"10.1111/nph.70545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059011","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":"Light signal transduction in plants: insights from phytochrome nuclear translocation and photobody formation.","authors":"Guanxiao Chang,Fuyou Xiang,Yixuan Fan,Jiang Li,Shangwei Zhong","doi":"10.1111/nph.70572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70572","url":null,"abstract":"Phytochromes (phys) are essential photoreceptors in plants that regulate growth and development through nuclear translocation upon light activation. PhyA and phyB, representing distinct evolutionary lineages, utilize different nuclear import mechanisms. PhyA, specialized for far-red light sensing, relies on FAR-RED ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL1 (FHY1) and FHY1-LIKE for nuclear entry, whereas phyB employs light-induced unmasking of its nuclear localization signals. Calcium signaling plays a critical role in phyB phototransduction, with calcium-dependent protein kinases CPK6/12 phosphorylating phyB at Ser80/Ser106 to initiate its nuclear import. Once in the nucleus, phytochromes localize to photobodies - membraneless condensates formed through liquid-liquid phase separation - which serve as hubs integrating light and temperature signals to regulate transcription and protein turnover. Evolutionary studies indicate that FHY1-mediated import mechanisms predate the divergence of land plants, while the phyB-like import mechanisms developed later in seed plants. Early diverged land plants, such as liverworts and mosses, retain ancestral phytochromes with dual red/far-red light responsiveness, likely employing hybrid nuclear import strategies. Gene duplication has driven the functional diversification of phytochromes, enabling adaptive specialization to complex light environments. This review synthesizes molecular and evolutionary perspectives on phytochrome nuclear import, highlighting calcium-dependent phosphorylation as a key regulatory mechanism and emphasizing the conserved yet adaptable nature of light signaling.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035690","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}
Sally V. Grasso, Megan H. Ryan, Felipe E. Albornoz, Michael Renton
{"title":"A simple plant–mycorrhizal fungal resource trade co-evolution model explains mutualism stability, extinction and transitory parasitism via fitness feedback","authors":"Sally V. Grasso, Megan H. Ryan, Felipe E. Albornoz, Michael Renton","doi":"10.1111/nph.70540","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.70540","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"248 3","pages":"1429-1441"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.70540","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035689","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":"The endoplasmic reticulum-localized acyltransferase LPAT2 interacts with ATI1/2 and mediates lipid droplet proliferation.","authors":"Wenyan Li,Wenbao Liu,Siqi Yuan,Qi Liao,Zhuomeng Li,Mingyue Shang,Xindi Tian,Yawen Xiong,Qianru Jia,Jingya Yuan,Wenhua Zhang,Qun Zhang","doi":"10.1111/nph.70568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70568","url":null,"abstract":"Lipid droplet (LD) biogenesis from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is accompanied by the conversion of phospholipids to triacylglycerol and the expansion of the phospholipid monolayer surface. The determinants of this process are largely unknown in plants. We demonstrate that the Arabidopsis thaliana lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase, LPAT2, and its product phosphatidic acid (PA), are critical lipid-based cues for LD proliferation. Suppression of LPAT2 decreases PA accumulation at the monolayer surface of LDs, consequently compromising dark- or stress-induced LD biogenesis, whereas overexpression of LPAT2 exhibits opposite effects. LPAT2 physically interacts with ATG8-interacting protein 1/2 (ATI1/2), which serves as autophagy cargo receptors. Mutations of ATI1/2 drastically reduce LPAT2 translocation from the ER to the forming LDs. Our data suggest that the LPAT2-ATI1/2 complex is an important machinery that facilitates LD biogenesis to mediate plant responses to developmental and environmental stimuli.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035698","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}
Vladislav A. Dubrovskiy, Vadim G. Sosin, Alena A. Starodubtseva, Mirgul Zh. Turmukhanova
{"title":"Natural and Synthetic Decahydroquinolines: Synthesis Strategies and Biological Activity","authors":"Vladislav A. Dubrovskiy, Vadim G. Sosin, Alena A. Starodubtseva, Mirgul Zh. Turmukhanova","doi":"10.1002/jhet.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhet.70076","url":null,"abstract":"Among saturated fused bicyclic nitrogen heterocycles, decahydroquinolines (DHQs) represent a unique structural moiety for the development of novel therapeutic agents, primarily owing to the rich stereochemical diversity inherent in these frameworks. The therapeutic activities of DHQ derivatives are influenced by the bicycle system's fusion mode and substituent spatial orientation. The development of different synthetic routes to DHQs and their analogues has been done to investigate the influence of their three-dimensional structure on physiological effects and to uncover the conformational and configurational intricacies of these compounds. This review covers the majority of the methods that have been used to synthesize a wide variety of synthetic DHQs and natural DHQ-containing alkaloids. Furthermore, it presents a review of their reported biological functions, which include local anesthetic, analgesic, antiarrhythmic, anti-inflammatory, anticholinergic, spasmolytic, antifungal, and antiviral properties, as well as other properties.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"2015 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145084006","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":"P3IPs activate autophagy by disrupting the GAPC2-ATG3 interaction and target TuMV 6K2 for degradation.","authors":"Ying Chen,Yi Chen,Anqi Hu,Lin Lin,Hongying Zheng,Jiejun Peng,Guanwei Wu,Jianping Chen,Yuwen Lu,Fei Yan","doi":"10.1111/nph.70564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70564","url":null,"abstract":"Our previous work identified p3-interacting protein (P3IP) as a novel plant factor that interacts with rice stripe virus p3 protein and activates autophagy to mediate its degradation, thereby restricting infection. However, the mechanism of P3IP-mediated autophagy and the evolutionary conservation of its antiviral function remain unknown. This study demonstrates that two Arabidopsis thaliana homologs, AtP3IP and AtP3IPH (Arabidopsis P3IP homologs, AtP3IPs), similarly activate autophagy and confer resistance to turnip mosaic virus (TuMV). We show that AtP3IPs activate autophagy by competitively disrupting the interaction between glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases (GAPCs), known negative regulators of autophagy, and the autophagy-related protein ATG3. This represents the first identification of an endogenous host factor that modulates autophagy through targeting the GAPC-ATG3 regulatory axis. Functional analyses revealed that AtP3IP-overexpressing plants exhibit enhanced TuMV resistance, whereas loss-of-function mutants are more susceptible. Notably, AtP3IPs directly interacted with TuMV 6K2 protein and facilitated its autophagic degradation. Collectively, our findings demonstrate the conserved role of P3IPs in autophagy activation and reveal a novel mechanism through which P3IPs stimulate autophagy by disrupting the inhibitory GAPC-ATG3 regulatory module. Additionally, TuMV 6K2 is identified as a new target of host autophagy. These expand our understanding of plant antiviral defenses and provide potential targets for engineering broad-spectrum resistance against viral pathogens.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025492","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}
Ruotong Zhao,Guang He,Dapu Zhou,Xia Li,Thomas W Kuyper,Fusuo Zhang,Junling Zhang
{"title":"Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance nitrate ammonification in hyphosphere soil.","authors":"Ruotong Zhao,Guang He,Dapu Zhou,Xia Li,Thomas W Kuyper,Fusuo Zhang,Junling Zhang","doi":"10.1111/nph.70561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70561","url":null,"abstract":"Microbial nitrate ammonification is a crucial process to retain nitrogen (N) in soils, thereby reducing N loss. Nitrate ammonification has been studied in enrichment and axenic bacterial cultures but so far has been merely ignored in environmental studies. In particular, the capability of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to regulate nitrate ammonification has not yet been explored. Here, nitrate ion (15NO3 -) was used to trace N transformations in hyphosphere and bulk soils. Metagenomic analysis was conducted, and cross-kingdom interactions between AMF and an isolated nirBD-carrying Paenibacillus sp. strain DP01 from hyphosphere soil were investigated. AMF hyphae significantly increased ammonium ion (NH4 +) concentration and 15NH4 + derived from 15NO3 - in hyphosphere soil, which were 1.42 and 5.01 times as high as those in bulk soil. Metagenomic analysis showed that the nirB gene involved in nitrite reduction to ammonium was prevalent in hyphosphere and bulk soils. Hyphal exudates enhanced ammonification efficiency and biofilm formation of the nitrite-ammonifying strain DP01. Additionally, accelerated oxygen depletion was detected on hyphal surface. This study demonstrates a novel interaction in which AMF significantly enhanced nitrate ammonification in the hyphosphere. Given the widespread presence of nitrate-ammonifying microbes in soils, this newly described interkingdom interaction offers guidance for agricultural practices aimed at increasing N efficiency and environmental sustainability.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025493","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}