Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.010
Christian R Werner, Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Teshale Assefa, Jill E Cairns, Gary N Atlin
{"title":"Accelerating genetic gain through early-stage on-farm sparse testing.","authors":"Christian R Werner, Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Teshale Assefa, Jill E Cairns, Gary N Atlin","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most African crop breeding programs conduct early-stage selection at very few research stations, which may not reflect smallholder farm conditions. Early-stage on-farm sparse testing utilizes genomic relationships to shift selection from research stations to hundreds of farms in the target population of environments, facilitating increased genetic gain in farmers' fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"17-20"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142628999","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.002
Zhou Mingjian, Kailu Zhang, Yanjie Xie
{"title":"Revealing how plants utilize H<sub>2</sub>S to relay drought stress signals.","authors":"Zhou Mingjian, Kailu Zhang, Yanjie Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hydrogen sulfide (H<sub>2</sub>S) has been proposed to regulate plant-environment interactions. Here, we compare its distinct pathways in plants with those in animals, summarizing recently uncovered mechanisms that govern plant H<sub>2</sub>S production in subcellular compartments. We underscore the importance of H<sub>2</sub>S and its role in drought stress and guard cell (GC) signaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"13-16"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142354513","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.002
Yuchen Zou, Weiwei Tang, Bin Li
{"title":"Exploring natural product biosynthesis in plants with mass spectrometry imaging.","authors":"Yuchen Zou, Weiwei Tang, Bin Li","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The biosynthesis of natural products (NPs) is a complex dynamic spatial and temporal process that requires the collaboration of multiple disciplines to explore the underlying mechanisms. Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a powerful technique for studying NPs due to its high molecular coverage and sensitivity without the need for labeling. To date, many analysts still use MSI primarily for visualizing the distribution of NPs in heterogeneous tissues, although studies have proved that it can provide crucial insights into the specialized spatial metabolic process of NPs. In this review we strive to bring awareness of the importance of MSI, and we advocate further exploitation of the spatial information obtained from MSI to establish metabolite-gene expression relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"69-84"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142354512","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":"Targeting conserved secreted effectors to control rice blast.","authors":"Chongyang Zhang, Qin Feng, Jue Ruan, Guo-Liang Wang, Xiaoman You, Yuese Ning","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant pathogens usually secrete effectors to suppress the host immune response, resulting in effector-triggered susceptibility (ETS). Plants use nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) to detect specific effectors and elicit effector-triggered immunity (ETI). Two recent papers (Liu et al. and Zhang et al.) have made promising progress in controlling rice blast by modulating ETS and ETI.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142133855","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.004
Ravi Gupta
{"title":"Saponins as double-edged swords in plant-fungal interactions.","authors":"Ravi Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Botrytis cinerea is a destructive pathogen. A recent study by Escaray et al. revealed the unexpected role of triterpenoid saponins as a susceptibility factor in Euphorbia lathyris, which promotes B. cinerea infection. This provides the possibility of developing a broad-spectrum plant protection solution by targeting the inhibition of the saponin biosynthetic pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142155039","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.002
Jin Zhang, Hao Du, Meng-Zhu Lu
{"title":"Illuminating plants: autoluminescence through big data mining and metabolic optimization.","authors":"Jin Zhang, Hao Du, Meng-Zhu Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142755581","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":"H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> sulfenylates CHE to activate systemic acquired resistance.","authors":"Aziz Ul Ikram, Huan Chen, Jian Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Salicylic acid (SA) is an important systemic acquired resistance (SAR) signal in plants. However, the mobile signal that directly regulates systematic SA biosynthesis was previously unknown. Recently, Cao et al. found that hydrogen peroxide acts as a mobile signal by sulfenylating CCA1 HIKING EXPEDITION (CHE) and inducing SA production in systemic tissues.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142915654","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}
Evgenios Agathokleous, Edward J Calabrese, Stavros D Veresoglou
{"title":"The microbiome orchestrates contaminant low-dose phytostimulation.","authors":"Evgenios Agathokleous, Edward J Calabrese, Stavros D Veresoglou","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our understanding of the physiological mechanisms of the plant hormetic response to countless environmental contaminants is rapidly advancing. However, the microbiome is a critical determinant of plant responses to stressors, thus possibly influencing hormetic responses. Here, we review the otherwise neglected role of microbes in shaping plant stimulation by subtoxic concentrations of contaminants and vice versa. Numerous contaminants at subtoxic levels enhance microorganisms and proliferate symbionts, such as mycorrhizae and other plant beneficial microbes, leading to both direct and indirect improvements in plant physiological performance. Microbial symbiosis facilitates nutrient uptake by plants, indicating an important contribution of symbionts to phytostimulation under subtoxic contamination. We also discuss the mechanisms and implications of the stimulation of plant-microbe systems by subtoxic contaminants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142907670","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}
Muhammad Ilyas, Carlos M Duarte, Elvis Genbo Xu, Guorui Xu, Jie Yang
{"title":"Ecological effects of micro/nanoplastics on plant-associated food webs.","authors":"Muhammad Ilyas, Carlos M Duarte, Elvis Genbo Xu, Guorui Xu, Jie Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Micro/nanoplastics (MNPs) contamination is a potential threat to global biodiversity and ecosystem functions, with unclear ecological impacts on aboveground (AG) and belowground (BG) food webs in terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we discuss the uptake, ingestion, bioaccumulation, and ecotoxicological effects of MNPs in plants and associated AG-BG biota at various trophic levels. We propose key pathways for MNPs transfer between the AG-BG food webs and elaborate their impact on terrestrial ecosystem multifunctionality. We conclude that MNPs are bioaccumulated in most studied plants and associated AG-BG biota and can be transferred along AG-BG food webs, which may profoundly impact ecosystem functioning. However, most pathways are still untested. Future research on MNPs should focus on the interactions within AG-BG food webs in terrestrial ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142898454","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}
Lijing Liu, Dev Patel, Olivia Cyburt, Daowen Wang, Zheng Qing Fu
{"title":"Microbiota-dependent and -independent autoimmunity in plants.","authors":"Lijing Liu, Dev Patel, Olivia Cyburt, Daowen Wang, Zheng Qing Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a recent study to identify arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) genes involved in maintaining normal leaf microbiota, Cheng et al. discovered TIP GROWTH DEFECTIVE1 (TIP1) encoding an S-acyltransferase. The tip1 mutant exhibits abnormal microbiota levels and phenotypes resembling autoimmune mutants. Further study revealed the existence of both microbiota-dependent and -independent autoimmunity in plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142898456","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}