{"title":"The redox-phytohormone nexus, illustrated by the jasmonate paradigm.","authors":"Ru-Feng Song, Christine H Foyer, Wen-Cheng Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Redox-sensitive protein switches and transcriptional networks are integral to phytohormone signaling networks. The jasmonate (JA) signaling pathway, which incorporates the coronatine insensitive 1 (COI1)-Jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) co-receptor and the MYC2 transcription factor, is a relatively recent evolutionary innovation that has emerged only in land plants. Earlier JA signaling systems relied on electrophilic oxylipins, such as 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA) and dinor-12-oxo-10,15(Z)-phytodienoic acid (dn-OPDA), and reactive oxygen species (ROS), particularly H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>. All plant 14-3-3 proteins, such as General regulatory factor 8 (GRF8), contain a conserved redox-sensitive cysteine. Sulfenylation of GRF8 relieves inhibition of MYC2, thereby facilitating JA signaling in arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). This mechanism may represent a primordial oxylipin signaling system, overlain by the more recent COI1-JAZ system, revealing hormone signaling plasticity that can be targeted for engineering stress-resilient crops.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224869","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}
Xiaoyu Liu, Hui Cao, Nathan D Tivendale, A Harvey Millar
{"title":"Tracking newly synthesised proteins in plants.","authors":"Xiaoyu Liu, Hui Cao, Nathan D Tivendale, A Harvey Millar","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protein synthesis rate is distinct from steady-state protein abundance and must be measured independently to understand how cells regulate protein levels and respond to environments. Technologies used to predict or directly quantify protein synthesis include ribosome profiling, radioactive and stable isotope labelling, and bioorthogonal noncanonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT). Here, we emphasise BONCAT's potential in plants, which, when combined with click-chemistry, enables the detection, enrichment, and characterisation of newly synthesised proteins themselves. We summarise lessons from BONCAT applications in cell-free systems, microbes, mammalian cells, and animals and evaluate its potential in plants. Establishing robust BONCAT approaches in plants can advance studies in proteome regulation, stress responses, development, circadian biology, and plant-microbe interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184525","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":"Oxygen and redox regulation of plant thermomorphogenesis.","authors":"Michael J Considine, Christine H Foyer","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant thermomorphogenesis represents the adjustment of growth to warm ambient temperatures. The mechanism has long been organised around the transcription factor PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4 (PIF4) and the thermosensors that act upon it. Internal circadian control and external light intensity and quality have been the primary contexts that gate thermosensor-PIF signal transduction. Here, we argue that cellular oxygen and the reduction/oxidation (redox) state of the cell form additional layers that gate or calibrate thermosensing signal transduction. Current evidence points to discrete mechanisms across spatial or developmental contexts, through which oxygen availability or redox-dependent protein modifications control thermomorphogenic signalling, largely downstream of or independent of PIF4. Logical argument suggests that significant mechanisms and crosstalk between oxygen and redox signalling and thermosensing remain to be revealed.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184535","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}
Bo Shang, Evgenios Agathokleous, Vicent Calatayud, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Zhaozhong Feng
{"title":"Trade-offs determine plant responses to ozone pollution.","authors":"Bo Shang, Evgenios Agathokleous, Vicent Calatayud, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Zhaozhong Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tropospheric ozone (O<sub>3)</sub> triggers interconnected plant responses across physiological, whole-plant, and ecological scales. This review presents trade-offs as a unifying framework for understanding these responses. Stomatal closure limits both O<sub>3</sub> entry and carbon gain, creating an avoidance-photosynthesis trade-off and influencing water relations. Resulting carbon constraints drive allocation trade-offs between growth and defense and between roots and shoots. These shifts cascade to trophic interactions, altering plant-insect and plant-microbe dynamics. In agriculture, differential sensitivity of grain biomass and nutrient accumulation produces an apparent yield-quality trade-off. This framework explains how O<sub>3</sub> interacts with other global changes, with outcomes varying by stress intensity and plant type. Deciphering this hierarchy of interconnected trade-offs is crucial for predicting future impacts and guiding crop breeding and conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149171689","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}
Haoyang Zhang, Jing He, Yizhou Wang, Pan Gao, Bo Han, Yong He, Zhong-Hua Chen, Xuping Feng
{"title":"Stomatal biology meets multimodal foundation model-driven AI.","authors":"Haoyang Zhang, Jing He, Yizhou Wang, Pan Gao, Bo Han, Yong He, Zhong-Hua Chen, Xuping Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stomata regulate plant growth and environmental responses through their control of gas exchange and transpiration. However, high-throughput stomatal phenotyping and the integration of phenotypic, genetic, and multiomics data remain major challenges for biological discovery and for understanding stomatal function in plants. Here, we review emerging imaging technologies and foundation models for stomatal biology and discuss how advances in AI could transform plant stomatal research. The rapid accumulation of large-scale phenotypic, genetic, and omics datasets requires systematic integration of heterogeneous data and their interpretation to uncover mechanisms of stomatal regulation within a unified reasoning framework. Therefore, we propose a stomatal phenotyping and analysis agent framework that connects these pipelines to accelerate hypothesis generation, phenotype-genotype analysis, discovery of biological function, and crop improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149169611","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}
Jindi Fan, Xiaoxue Sun, Yan Li, Mei Gu, Robin Allaby, Yiguo Hong
{"title":"Pangenomic evolutionary possibilities for Darwin's abominable mystery.","authors":"Jindi Fan, Xiaoxue Sun, Yan Li, Mei Gu, Robin Allaby, Yiguo Hong","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Telomere-to-telomere pangenomes reveal a previously undersampled layer of genome evolution that may help explain rapid plant diversification vis-à-vis Darwin's abominable mystery.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149138521","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":"From fungal detection to crop disease intelligence.","authors":"Pierre Hohmann","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As developed by Shen et al., multiple fungal pathogen detection (MFPD) enables screening of partial and full-length ITS (Internal Transcribed Spacer) datasets for reported fungal pathogens. Linking pathogen detection with crop-context interpretation can help plant science move beyond community profiling towards decision support for biovigilance, disease phenotyping, and resistance breeding.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149115083","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}
Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2026-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.017
Jin-Peng Gao
{"title":"Plant formins pave the way for endosymbiosis.","authors":"Jin-Peng Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intracellular infection by beneficial microorganisms enables endosymbiosis and remains a challenge in synthetic biology. A new study by Qiao et al. reveals that a formin orchestrates both rhizobial infection in legumes and mycorrhization in diverse plants. Harnessing this mechanism could enable the engineering of microbial entry into crops for sustainable nutrient acquisition.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1251-1253"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147864506","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}
Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2026-05-12DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.021
Farah Kanwal, Asad Riaz, Shouchuang Wang, Ke Zhou, Alisdair R Fernie, Jun Yang
{"title":"Metabolic hijacking: how Xanthomonas feeds on plant sugars.","authors":"Farah Kanwal, Asad Riaz, Shouchuang Wang, Ke Zhou, Alisdair R Fernie, Jun Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Xanthomonas pathogens threaten hundreds of crops by manipulating host metabolism for nutrient supply. Phan et al. and Wang et al. reveal two distinct effector strategies: hijacking fruit-ripening to release cell-wall sugars, and synthesizing xanthosan as a dedicated bacterial nutrient. These discoveries point to new resistance strategies for crop protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1248-1250"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147875823","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":"Trehalose 6-phosphate: A master regulator of plant development.","authors":"Malleshaiah SharathKumar, Vasiliki Zacharaki, Sarah Muniz Nardeli, Tanja Seibert, Vanessa Wahl","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P), a trehalose synthesis intermediate and sugar phosphate, serves as a signaling molecule coordinating sucrose status with plant growth and development. Beyond its metabolic role, the T6P pathway integrates exogenous and other endogenous cues to regulate key developmental transitions, including embryogenesis, seed maturation and filling, shoot branching, vegetative and reproductive phase transitions, and tuber and lateral root formation. Dynamic spatiotemporal expression patterns of T6P-pathway genes correlate with developmental stages, though their specific contributions to the initiation and progression of these transitions remain under investigation. Here, we provide recent insights and future perspectives on the T6P pathway, emphasizing its role in orchestrating diverse plant developmental programs across model and crop species and highlighting emerging mechanistic insights into its functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1269-1281"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148228468","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}