{"title":"Shining a new light on the classical concepts of carbon-isotope dendrochronology","authors":"Thomas Wieloch","doi":"10.1111/nph.20258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20258","url":null,"abstract":"Retrospective information about plant ecophysiology and the climate system are key inputs in Earth system and vegetation models. Dendrochronology provides such information with large spatiotemporal coverage, and carbon-isotope analysis across tree-ring series is among the most advanced dendrochronological tools. For the past 70 years, this analysis was performed on whole molecules and, to this day, <sup>13</sup>C discrimination during carbon assimilation is invoked to explain isotope variation and associated climate signals. However, recently it was reported that tree-ring glucose exhibits multiple isotope signals at the intramolecular level (see Wieloch <i>et al</i>., 2024). Here, I estimated the signals' contribution to whole-molecule isotope variation and found that downstream processes in leaf and stem metabolism each introduce more variation than carbon assimilation. Moreover, downstream processes introduce most of the climate information. These findings are inconsistent with the classical concepts/practices of carbon-isotope dendrochronology. More importantly, intramolecular tree-ring isotope analysis promises novel insights into forest metabolism and the climate of the past.","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142672923","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}
Thomas Prévitali, Mathilde Rouault, Carole Pichereaux, Benjamin Gourion
{"title":"Lotus resistance against Ralstonia is enhanced by Mesorhizobium and does not impair mutualism","authors":"Thomas Prévitali, Mathilde Rouault, Carole Pichereaux, Benjamin Gourion","doi":"10.1111/nph.20276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20276","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000</p><ul>\u0000<li>Legumes establish nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobia. On the contrary, they can be attacked concomitantly by pathogens, raising the question of potential trade-offs between mutualism and immunity.</li>\u0000<li>In order to study such trade-offs, we used a tripartite system involving the model legume <i>Lotus japonicus</i>, its rhizobial symbiont <i>Mesorhizobium loti</i> and the soilborne pathogen <i>Ralstonia solanacearum.</i> We investigated the impact of mutualism on plant defense and the reciprocal influence of plant defense on mutualism.</li>\u0000<li>We found that <i>Lotus</i> age-related resistance against <i>Ralstonia</i> was improved by the interaction with rhizobia especially when nodulation is triggered. Conversely, age-related resistance did not compromise nodule organogenesis or functioning under pathogen attack. Proteomic characterization indicates that this resistance is associated with distinct proteome modifications in roots and nodules.</li>\u0000<li>This resistance questions the concept of interference between efficient defense reactions and mutualistic interactions and is of great interest for agricultural purposes as it not only restricts pathogen colonization, but would also preserve nitrogen fixation and yield.</li>\u0000</ul><p></p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142672919","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}
Hua Jing, Wei Liu, Gao-Ping Qu, De Niu, Jing Bo Jin
{"title":"SUMOylation of AL6 regulates seed dormancy and thermoinhibition in Arabidopsis","authors":"Hua Jing, Wei Liu, Gao-Ping Qu, De Niu, Jing Bo Jin","doi":"10.1111/nph.20270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20270","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000</p><ul>\u0000<li><i>DELAY OF GERMINATION1</i> (<i>DOG1</i>) is a critical regulator of seed dormancy and seed thermoinhibition. However, how <i>DOG1</i> expression is regulated by post-translational modifications and how seeds transmit the high-temperature signal to <i>DOG1</i> remain largely unknown.</li>\u0000<li>ALFIN1-like 6/7 (AL6/7) was previously found to repress <i>DOG1</i> expression during seed imbibition. Here, we found that AL6/7 represses seed dormancy partly by downregulating <i>DOG1</i> expression. AtSIZ1, a SUMO E3 ligase, interacts with AL6 and mediates its SUMOylation mainly at the lysine 181 residue. SIZ1-mediated SUMOylation of AL6 is required for repression of <i>DOG1</i> transcription and seed dormancy. SUMOylation of AL6 is required for its association with the <i>DOG1</i> locus and protects it from ubiquitination and subsequent 26S proteasome-mediated protein degradation.</li>\u0000<li>High temperatures decrease SUMOylation levels of AL6, resulting in downregulation of AL6 protein levels and an increase in <i>DOG1</i> transcription, which consequently causes reduced seed germination.</li>\u0000<li>Taken together, these results demonstrate that reversible SUMOylation of AL6 fine-tunes <i>DOG1</i> expression, which is required for precise establishment of seed dormancy and inhibition of seed germination under high-temperature conditions in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>.</li>\u0000</ul><p></p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142672918","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":"Abscisic acid enhances SmAPK1-mediated phosphorylation of SmbZIP4 to positively regulate tanshinone biosynthesis in Salvia miltiorrhiza","authors":"Ruiyan Zhu, Lulu Peng, Ying Xu, Changle Liu, Lili Shao, Tingyao Liu, Minyu Shou, Qinzhe Lin, Biao Wang, Min Shi, Guoyin Kai","doi":"10.1111/nph.20274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20274","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000</p><ul>\u0000<li>Tanshinones, isolated from <i>Salvia miltiorrhiza</i>, is efficient to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Abscisic acid (ABA) treatment is found to promote tanshinone biosynthesis; however, the underlying mechanism has not been fully elucidated.</li>\u0000<li>A protein kinase namely SmAPK1 was identified as an important positive regulator of ABA-induced tanshinone accumulation in <i>S. miltiorrhiza</i>. Using SmAPK1 as bait, a basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) family transcription factor SmbZIP4 was screened from the cDNA library. Functional identification reveals that SmbZIP4 negatively regulates tanshinone biosynthesis in hairy roots and transgenic plants through directly targeting <i>SmGGPPS</i> and <i>SmCYP76AK1</i>.</li>\u0000<li>SmAPK1 phosphorylates the Ser97 and Thr99 site of SmbZIP4, leading to its degradation via the 26S proteasome pathway, which is promoted by ABA-induced enhancement of SmAPK1 kinase activity. Degradation of SmbZIP4 upregulates the expression levels of <i>SmGGPPS</i> and <i>SmCYP76AK1</i>, resulting in increased tanshinone content.</li>\u0000<li>Taken together, our results reveal new molecular mechanism by which SmAPK1-SmbZIP4 module plays a crucial role in ABA-induced tanshinone accumulation. This study sheds new insights in the biosynthesis of bioactive compounds in medicinal plants.</li>\u0000</ul><p></p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142672922","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}
Anaïs Gibert, Bertrand Schatz, Roselyne Buscail, Dominique Nguyen, Michel Baguette, Nicolas Barthes, Joris A. M. Bertrand
{"title":"Floral phenotypic divergence and genomic insights in an Ophrys orchid: unraveling early speciation processes","authors":"Anaïs Gibert, Bertrand Schatz, Roselyne Buscail, Dominique Nguyen, Michel Baguette, Nicolas Barthes, Joris A. M. Bertrand","doi":"10.1111/nph.20190","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.20190","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Adaptive radiation in <i>Ophrys</i> orchids leads to complex floral phenotypes that vary in scent, color and shape.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Using a novel pipeline to quantify these phenotypes, we investigated trait divergence at early stages of speciation in six populations of <i>Ophrys aveyronensis</i> experiencing recent allopatry. By integrating different genetic/genomic techniques, we investigated: variation and integration of floral components (scent, color and shape); phenotypes and genomic regions under divergent selection; and the genomic bases of trait variation.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>We identified a large genomic island of divergence, likely associated with phenotypic variation in particular in floral odor. We detected potential divergent selection on macular color, while stabilizing selection was suspected on floral morphology and for several volatile olfactive compounds. We also identified candidate genes involved in anthocyanin and in steroid biosynthesis pathways associated with standing genetic variation in color and odor.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>This study sheds light on early differentiation in <i>Ophrys</i>, revealing patterns that often become invisible over time, that is the geographic mosaic of traits under selection and the early appearance of strong genomic divergence. It also supports a crucial genomic region for future investigation and highlights the value of a multifaceted approach in unraveling speciation within taxa with large genomes.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"245 2","pages":"849-868"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142666378","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}
Alexis Shakas, Roman Hediger, Arthur Gessler, Kamini Singha, Giulia de Pasquale, Petra D'Odorico, Florian M. Wagner, Marcus Schaub, Hansruedi Maurer, Holger Griess, Jonas Gisler, Katrin Meusburger
{"title":"Does optimality partitioning theory fail for belowground traits? Insights from geophysical imaging of a drought-release experiment in a Scots Pine forest","authors":"Alexis Shakas, Roman Hediger, Arthur Gessler, Kamini Singha, Giulia de Pasquale, Petra D'Odorico, Florian M. Wagner, Marcus Schaub, Hansruedi Maurer, Holger Griess, Jonas Gisler, Katrin Meusburger","doi":"10.1111/nph.20245","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.20245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"245 2","pages":"546-558"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.20245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669541","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}
Erin Patterson, Dana R. MacGregor, Michelle M. Heeney, Joseph Gallagher, Devin O'Connor, Benedikt Nuesslein, Madelaine Elisabeth Bartlett
{"title":"Developmental constraint underlies the replicated evolution of grass awns","authors":"Erin Patterson, Dana R. MacGregor, Michelle M. Heeney, Joseph Gallagher, Devin O'Connor, Benedikt Nuesslein, Madelaine Elisabeth Bartlett","doi":"10.1111/nph.20268","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.20268","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"245 2","pages":"835-848"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.20268","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142648938","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}
Yu Wang, Tania L. Zhang, Emma M. Barnett, Sridevi Sureshkumar, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Alexandre Fournier-Level
{"title":"Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana","authors":"Yu Wang, Tania L. Zhang, Emma M. Barnett, Sridevi Sureshkumar, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Alexandre Fournier-Level","doi":"10.1111/nph.20241","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.20241","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Temperatures perceived early in the life cycle of mother plants can affect the germination of the offspring seeds. In <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>, vernalisation-insensitive mutants showed altered germination response to elevated maternal temperature, hence revealing a strong genetic determinism. However, the genetic control of this maternal effect and its prevalence across natural populations remain unclear.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Here, we exposed a collection of European accessions of <i>A. thaliana</i> to increased temperature during the vegetative phase and assessed germination in their progeny to identify the genetic basis of transgenerational germination response. We found that genotypes with rapidly germinating progeny after early maternal exposure to elevated temperature originated from regions with low-light radiation.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Combining genome-wide association, expression analysis and functional assays across multiple genetic backgrounds, we show a central role for <i>PHYB</i> in mediating the response to maternally perceived temperature at the vegetative stage. Differential gene expression analysis in leaves identified a similar genetic network as previously found in seed endosperm under elevated temperature, supporting the pleiotropic involvement of <i>PHYB</i> signalling across different tissues and stages.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>This provides evidence that complex environmental responses modulated by the maternal genotype can rely on a consistent set of genes yet produce different effects at the different stages of exposure.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"245 2","pages":"668-683"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142644660","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":"Origins of xyloglucan-degrading enzymes in fungi","authors":"Emily D. Trudeau, Harry Brumer, Mary L. Berbee","doi":"10.1111/nph.20251","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.20251","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The origin story of land plants – the pivotal evolutionary event that paved the way for terrestrial ecosystems of today to flourish – lies within their closest living relatives: the streptophyte algae. Streptophyte cell wall composition has evolved such that profiles of cell wall polysaccharides can be used as taxonomic markers. Since xyloglucan is restricted to the streptophyte lineage, we hypothesized that fungal enzymes evolved in response to xyloglucan availability in streptophyte algal or land plant cell walls. The record of the origins of these enzymes is embedded in fungal genomes, and comparing genomes of fungi that share an ancient common ancestor can provide insights into fungal interactions with early plants. This Viewpoint contributes a review of evidence underlying current assumptions about the distribution of xyloglucan in plant and algal cell walls. We evaluate evolutionary scenarios that may have given rise to the observed distribution of putative xyloglucanases in fungi and discuss possible biological contexts in which these enzymes could have evolved. Our findings suggest that fungal xyloglucanase evolution was more likely driven by land plant diversification and biomass accumulation than by the first origins of xyloglucan in streptophyte algal cell walls.</p>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"245 2","pages":"458-464"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.20251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142644657","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":"Identification of cell-type specificity, trans- and cis-acting functions of plant lincRNAs from single-cell transcriptomes","authors":"Jiwei Xu, Enhui Shen, Fu Guo, Kaiqiang Wang, Yurong Hu, Leti Shen, Hongyu Chen, Xiaohan Li, Qian-Hao Zhu, Longjiang Fan, Qinjie Chu","doi":"10.1111/nph.20269","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.20269","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Long noncoding RNAs, including intergenic lncRNAs (lincRNAs), play a key role in various biological processes throughout the plant life cycle, and the advent of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology has opened up a valuable avenue for scrutinizing the intricate roles of lincRNAs in cellular processes.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Here, we identified a new batch of lincRNAs using scRNA-seq data from diverse tissues of plants (rice, <i>Arabidopsis</i>, tomato, and maize). Based on well-annotated single-cell transcriptome atlases, plant lincRNAs were found to possess the same level of cell-type specificity as mRNAs and to be involved in the differentiation of certain cell types based on pseudo-time analysis.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Many lincRNAs were predicted to play a hub role in the cell-type-specific co-expression networks of lincRNAs and mRNAs, suggesting their <i>trans</i>-acting abilities. Besides, plant lincRNAs were revealed to have potential <i>cis</i>-acting properties based on their genomic distances and expression correlations with the neighboring mRNAs.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Furthermore, an online platform, PscLncRNA (http://ibi.zju.edu.cn/psclncrna/), was constructed for searching and visualizing all identified plant lincRNAs with annotated potential functions. Our work provides new insights into plant lincRNAs at single-cell resolution and an important resource for understanding and further investigation of plant lincRNAs.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":214,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"245 2","pages":"698-710"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142644655","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}