{"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":"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}
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: 2025-02-20DOI: 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":20.8,"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}
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":20.8,"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: 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.007
Nannan Wang, Wenjia Wang, Qiang Zhu
{"title":"Unlocking the genetic blueprint of bamboo for climate adaption.","authors":"Nannan Wang, Wenjia Wang, Qiang Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a recent study, Hou et al. developed a high-resolution, haplotype-based pangenome for moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), revealing significant genetic diversity and over 1000 climate-associated variants. Their findings highlight adaptive mechanisms for the ecological resilience of bamboo, providing crucial insights for climate-resilient breeding and conservation to ensure the long-term ecological and economic benefits of moso bamboo amid climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"693-695"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558181","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: 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.010
Frederik M Ahrens, Paula F V do Prado, Hauke S Hillen, Thomas Pfannschmidt
{"title":"The plastid-encoded RNA polymerase of plant chloroplasts.","authors":"Frederik M Ahrens, Paula F V do Prado, Hauke S Hillen, Thomas Pfannschmidt","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant chloroplasts possess a dedicated genome (plastome) and a prokaryotic-type plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) that mediates its expression. PEP is composed of five bacteria-like core proteins and 16 nucleus-encoded PEP-associated proteins (PAPs). These are essential for PEP-driven transcription and chloroplast biogenesis, but their functions and structural arrangement in the PEP complex remained largely enigmatic. Recently, four independently determined cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of purified plant PEP complexes reported features of the prokaryotic core and the arrangement of PAPs around it, identified potential functional domains and cofactors, and described the interactions of PEP with DNA. We explore these data and critically discuss the proposed regulatory impact of PAPs on the transcription process. We further address the evolutionary implications and describe fields for future investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"712-723"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516914","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: 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.021
Stefania Vitale, David Turrà
{"title":"NO: from plant immunity to fungal virulence factor.","authors":"Stefania Vitale, David Turrà","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditionally viewed as a plant defense molecule, nitric oxide (NO) has now been shown to play a key role in fungal pathogenesis. A recent study by Zhang et al. reveals that banana pathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum coordinate NO production with host defense responses through an accessory mitochondrial pathway within its genome.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"699-701"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143987955","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: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.018
Yong Pei, Zhiyuan Yin, Tongda Xu, Daolong Dou
{"title":"Relay model: bridging ligands and receptors in networks.","authors":"Yong Pei, Zhiyuan Yin, Tongda Xu, Daolong Dou","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transmembrane-receptor-mediated recognition is fundamental to signaling and nutrient transport in diverse biological systems. While traditional models involve direct ligand-receptor binding, emerging evidence supports a relay model, in which substrate-binding proteins transfer ligands to receptors or form cooperative receptor complexes. This mechanism enhances the specificity and versatility of the ligand-receptor network.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"702-704"},"PeriodicalIF":20.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144000444","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}