Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.010
Xiaolong Ke, Xuelu Wang
{"title":"Energy sensors: emerging regulators of symbiotic nitrogen fixation.","authors":"Xiaolong Ke, Xuelu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Legume-rhizobium symbiotic nitrogen fixation is a highly energy-consuming process. Recent studies demonstrate that nodule-specific energy sensors play important roles in modulating nodule nitrogen fixation capacity. This opens a new field in the energy regulation of symbiotic nitrogen fixation that can provide insights into designing leguminous crops with efficient nitrogen fixation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"730-732"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139944503","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.004
Bingxu Zhang, Hailei Zhang, Yiji Xia
{"title":"Harnessing spatial transcriptomics for advancing plant regeneration research.","authors":"Bingxu Zhang, Hailei Zhang, Yiji Xia","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Song et al. utilized spatial transcriptomics to study the molecular characteristics of various cells - such as shoot primordia and chlorenchyma cells - in tomato callus during shoot regeneration. This research enhances our knowledge of shoot regeneration and demonstrates the potential of spatial transcriptomics in advancing plant biology.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"718-720"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139991213","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.009
Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, Shahid Mansoor
{"title":"Salicylic acid-driven innate antiviral immunity in plants.","authors":"Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, Shahid Mansoor","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pathogenic viruses are a constant threat to all organisms, including plants. However, in plants, a small group of cells (stem cells) protect themselves from viral invasion. Recently, Incarbone et al. uncovered a novel salicylic acid (SA) and RNAi mechanism of stem cell resistance, broadening our understanding of RNAi-mediated antiviral plant immunity.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"715-717"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139707991","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.006
Gwendolyn V Davis, Tatiana de Souza Moraes, Swanand Khanapurkar, Hannah Dromiack, Zaki Ahmad, Emmanuelle M Bayer, Rishikesh P Bhalerao, Sara I Walker, George W Bassel
{"title":"Toward uncovering an operating system in plant organs.","authors":"Gwendolyn V Davis, Tatiana de Souza Moraes, Swanand Khanapurkar, Hannah Dromiack, Zaki Ahmad, Emmanuelle M Bayer, Rishikesh P Bhalerao, Sara I Walker, George W Bassel","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Molecular motifs can explain information processing within single cells, while how assemblies of cells collectively achieve this remains less well understood. Plant fitness and survival depend upon robust and accurate decision-making in their decentralised multicellular organ systems. Mobile agents, including hormones, metabolites, and RNAs, have a central role in coordinating multicellular collective decision-making, yet mechanisms describing how cell-cell communication scales to organ-level transitions is poorly understood. Here, we explore how unified outputs may emerge in plant organs by distributed information processing across different scales and using different modalities. Mathematical and computational representations of these events are also explored toward understanding how these events take place and are leveraged to manipulate plant development in response to the environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"742-753"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138462859","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.005
Jia Chen, Feng Yu, Fan Xu
{"title":"Not just signals: RALFs as cell wall-structuring peptides.","authors":"Jia Chen, Feng Yu, Fan Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) have long been known to act as signaling molecules in plant cells, but whether they affect cell wall (CW) patterning and expansion remains unclear. Very recent advances in tip-growing cells showed that positively charged RALFs affect key attributes of the structural components of the nascent CW.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"727-729"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140065962","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.001
Da-Ke Zhao, Zong-Min Mou, Yong-Ling Ruan
{"title":"Orchids acquire fungal carbon for seed germination: pathways and players.","authors":"Da-Ke Zhao, Zong-Min Mou, Yong-Ling Ruan","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To germinate in nature, orchid seeds strictly rely on seed germination-promoting orchid mycorrhizal fungi (sgOMFs) for provision of carbon nutrients. The underlying delivery pathway, however, remains elusive. We develop here a plausible model for sugar transport from sgOMFs to orchid embryonic cells to fuel germination. Orchids exploit sgOMFs to induce the formation of pelotons, elaborate intracellular hyphal coils in orchid embryos. The colonized orchid cells then obtain carbon nutrients by uptake from living hyphae and peloton lysis, primarily as glucose derived from fungal trehalose hydrolyzed by orchid-specific trehalases. The uptake of massive fungally derived glucose is likely to be mediated by two classes of membrane proteins, namely, sugars will eventually be exported transporters (SWEETs) and H<sup>+</sup>-hexose symporters. The proposed model serves as a launch pad for further research to better understand and improve orchid seed germination and conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"733-741"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139997493","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.006
Temoor Ahmed, Muhammad Noman, Jason C White, Chuanxin Ma, Qi Wang, Bin Li
{"title":"Quantum dots: next shift to combat plant diseases.","authors":"Temoor Ahmed, Muhammad Noman, Jason C White, Chuanxin Ma, Qi Wang, Bin Li","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant diseases caused by microbial pathogens significantly reduce agriculture productivity and worsen food insecurity. Recently, Qiu et al. revealed that polyethyleneimine (PEI)-coated MXene quantum dots (QDs) improve tolerance in cotton seedlings against Verticillium wilt disease by maintaining oxidative system homeostasis. This finding shows how customized QDs can be used to enhance crop disease resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"724-726"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140022663","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.12.007
Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Julian R Greenwood
{"title":"ZmGLK36 transcription factor bestows viral resistance in rice and wheat.","authors":"Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Julian R Greenwood","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2023.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2023.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maize rough dwarf disease (MRDD) threatens the sustainable production of major cereal crops. Recently, Xu et al. reported a new resistance gene, ZmGLK36, which promotes MRDD resistance in maize by increasing jasmonic acid (JA)-mediated defence. This discovery provides opportunities to develop resistance to rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV) in other cereal crops such as rice and wheat.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"613-615"},"PeriodicalIF":20.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138807646","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.022
Fei Gao, Christian Dubos
{"title":"The arabidopsis bHLH transcription factor family.","authors":"Fei Gao, Christian Dubos","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2023.11.022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Basic helix-loop-helices (bHLHs) are present in all eukaryotes and form one of the largest families of transcription factors (TFs) found in plants. bHLHs function as transcriptional activators and/or repressors of genes involved in key processes involved in plant growth and development in interaction with the environment (e.g., stomata and root hair development, iron homeostasis, and response to heat and shade). Recent studies have improved our understanding of the functioning of bHLH TFs in complex regulatory networks where a series of post-translational modifications (PTMs) have critical roles in regulating their subcellular localization, DNA-binding capacity, transcriptional activity, and/or stability (e.g., protein-protein interactions, phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and sumoylation). Further elucidating the function and regulation of bHLHs will help further understanding of the biology of plants in general and for the development of new tools for crop improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"668-680"},"PeriodicalIF":20.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032588","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}