Qiuying Tian, Carly J Stevens, Hans Lambers, Wen-Hao Zhang
{"title":"Nutrient enrichment and plant diversity loss: belowground multitrophic interactions.","authors":"Qiuying Tian, Carly J Stevens, Hans Lambers, Wen-Hao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human-induced nutrient enrichment impacts negatively on plant diversity in terrestrial ecosystems. The decline in plant diversity under nutrient enrichment primarily results from species-specific responses and their interactions, which subsequently drive their survival or loss within the community. We synthesize the effects of nutrient enrichment on biotic responses and interactions between plants and their neighbors as well as other organisms. We present a framework of multitrophic interactions and their contributions to the structure of plant communities. We focus on the mechanisms underlying belowground interactions and highlight both recent progress and gaps in our knowledge of these processes. The proposed framework for belowground interactions would shed light on our mechanistic understanding of plant diversity loss driven by nutrient enrichment.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144643639","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":"Dosing requirements to untangle hormesis in plant science.","authors":"Evgenios Agathokleous","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hormesis is a trending topic in plant science, and scientific advances in this field may have a far-reaching practical impact to translate into solutions for enhancing phytohygeia under global changes. Here, I discuss strategies to optimize dosing schemes in dose-response studies and propose some fine-tuned dosing criteria in plant hormesis research.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627158","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":"Interview with Eunyoung Chae.","authors":"Eunyoung Chae","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144601703","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}
Jitka Klimešová, Daniel C Laughlin, Frances Siebert, Joana Bergmann, Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila, Karl Andraczek, Aline B Bombo, Helge Bruelheide, Ying Fan, Grégoire T Freschet, Justus Hennecke, Cody Coyotee Howard, Saheed O Jimoh, Liesje Mommer, Tsumbedzo Ramalevha, Alexandra Weigelt, Alessandra Fidelis
{"title":"Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance.","authors":"Jitka Klimešová, Daniel C Laughlin, Frances Siebert, Joana Bergmann, Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila, Karl Andraczek, Aline B Bombo, Helge Bruelheide, Ying Fan, Grégoire T Freschet, Justus Hennecke, Cody Coyotee Howard, Saheed O Jimoh, Liesje Mommer, Tsumbedzo Ramalevha, Alexandra Weigelt, Alessandra Fidelis","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite recent advances in plant trait ecology, we identified a knowledge gap in understanding how plants strategize to cope with severe and recurrent disturbances. Here, we propose a new classification system based on three hierarchical binary attributes: woodiness, reflecting longevity of plant structures; clonality, indicating the ability to regenerate from both above- and belowground organs; and resprouting ability, referring to the ability to replace aboveground organs. This framework results in six Belowground Persistence Types (BPTs): 1, herbaceous seeder; 2, herbaceous non-clonal resprouter; 3, herbaceous clonal resprouter; 4, woody seeder; 5, woody non-clonal resprouter; and 6, woody clonal resprouter. This proposed classification system opens new avenues for research, especially concerning plant distributions in a world experiencing increasingly frequent and severe disturbance events.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592437","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":"Plant invasions under accumulating global change factors.","authors":"Xiong Shi, Mark van Kleunen, Yanjie Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many ecosystems face numerous concurrent global change factors (GCFs), each of which may impact various ecological processes. However, how accumulating GCFs jointly influence plant invasions remains unknown. To fill this gap, we consider the role of phenotypic plasticity, and the direct and indirect pathways of how GCFs impact plant invasions.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592438","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":"Linking vegetation changes to Arctic methane efflux.","authors":"Xiaoqi Zhou, Wensheng Xiao, Josep Peñuelas","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Arctic methane emissions are uncertain, impacting climate models. We propose combining vegetation data with machine learning to improve methane process predictions, offering more reliable insights. This approach can better inform global policies to reduce warming and address climate change effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144567845","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}
Temoor Ahmed, Muhammad Noman, Yetong Qi, Jorge L Gardea-Torresdey, Jason C White, Xingjiang Qi
{"title":"Sunlight-activated T6P precursor: a potent biostimulant for smart agriculture.","authors":"Temoor Ahmed, Muhammad Noman, Yetong Qi, Jorge L Gardea-Torresdey, Jason C White, Xingjiang Qi","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biotic and abiotic environmental stresses significantly jeopardize crop production worldwide. Griffiths et al. recently demonstrated that a sunlight-activated trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P) precursor, DMNB-T6P, improved wheat yield by regulating T6P signaling pathways under both water-sufficient and deficient conditions. This offers a scalable technology to improve crop resilience and productivity alongside chemical fertilizers.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565326","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":"A novel plant tissue that controls seed size.","authors":"Saumya Jaiswal, Samiksha Singh, Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Ravi Gupta, Vijay Pratap Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seed size is important for crop yield. Recently, Liu et al. discovered a fertilization-dependent 'gate' in ovules that opens only upon central cell fertilization and remains closed when fertilization fails. This gate is tasked with regulating seed size, offering valuable insights and promising applications for seed-focused plant breeding strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561267","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 : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.008
Guo Li, Huiqing He, Qiao Zhao
{"title":"A noncanonical scaffold in steroidal metabolism.","authors":"Guo Li, Huiqing He, Qiao Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A recent study by Boccia et al. identified GAME15, a cellulose synthase-like protein that is essential for steroidal saponin and glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in Solanum species. GAME15 functions as a scaffold, interacting with key enzymes involved in the early steps of biosynthesis, enabling metabolic flux from cholesterol to steroidal defense compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"690-692"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781241","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 : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.004
Guy Bar-Oz, Joshua Schmidt
{"title":"Why study the archeo-histories of dryland landraces now?","authors":"Guy Bar-Oz, Joshua Schmidt","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Living landrace fruit trees are preserved in the margins of the Mediterranean countryside. Often found in drought-prone areas and historically selected and bred for resilience to aridity, landrace cultivars have distinctive genetic identities. The study of their longevity, endurance, and intergenerational traits reveals how historical farmers adapted to harsh environments through resource management and the use of prized cultivars. We propose a model to merge archeological and socio-historical methods to contextualize the biological narratives in landrace fruit tree cultivars within their historical origins. Insights from this manner of research can enhance sustainable horticulture practices by offering innovative recourses for reclaiming traditional landrace cultivars. Using ancient landrace varieties to increase plant diversity can have various financial, cultural, and ecological benefits for modern agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"724-735"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473099","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}