Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.017
Karla Gasparini, Patrício Delgado-Santibañez, Agustin Zsögön, Dimas Mendes Ribeiro
{"title":"Moving abscisic acid transport forward.","authors":"Karla Gasparini, Patrício Delgado-Santibañez, Agustin Zsögön, Dimas Mendes Ribeiro","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abscisic acid (ABA) transport in plants is necessary to regulate developmental plasticity and responses to environmental signals. Plants use ABA exporter ATP-binding cassette G25 (ABCG25) to control ABA homeostasis. Three recent papers (Huang et al., Ying et al., and Xin et al.) have revealed the structure and transport mechanism of ABCG25.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"241-244"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855486","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 : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.011
Yuanyuan Zhu, Xiaoping Yu, Jian Wu
{"title":"CRISPR/Cas: a toolkit for plant disease diagnostics.","authors":"Yuanyuan Zhu, Xiaoping Yu, Jian Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Genetic factors and infectious pathogens that cause plant diseases have a major impact on agricultural production. In recent years, the potential of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) system in nucleic acid analysis and plant disease diagnostics has been demonstrated. We highlight progress of CRISPR/Cas technology that is significant for monitoring plant growth and preventing diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"245-248"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855569","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 : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.005
Rui Mou, Ruixia Niu, Ruoying Yang, Guoyong Xu
{"title":"Engineering crop performance with upstream open reading frames.","authors":"Rui Mou, Ruixia Niu, Ruoying Yang, Guoyong Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plants intricately regulate the expression of protein-coding genes at multiple stages - including mRNA transcription, translation, decay, and protein degradation - to control growth, development, and responses to environmental challenges. Recent research highlights the importance of translational reprogramming as a pivotal mechanism in regulating gene expression across diverse physiological scenarios. This regulatory mechanism bears practical implications, particularly in bolstering crop productivity by manipulating RNA regulatory elements (RREs) to modulate heterologous gene expression through transgene and endogenous gene expression through gene editing. Here, we elucidate the potential of upstream open reading frames (uORFs), a prominent and stringent class of RREs, in optimizing crop performance, exemplifying the efficacy of translational control in enhancing agricultural yields.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"311-323"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142547659","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":"Phytobacterial effectors antagonize plant reproduction: new weapons in hand.","authors":"Xinhua Sun, Jane E Parker, Gang Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bacteria secrete proteins into plant cells to reprogram host immunity and development. Yang et al. recently revealed that a nonadapted bacterial pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae (Xoo), suppresses reproduction in arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) via a type VI-secreted effector TleB. Delivery of TleB to flowers disrupts an ovule initiation program controlled by the PUB14-BZR1 transcriptional module.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524526","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}
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":"https://doi.org/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":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","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}
{"title":"Nano-selenium: a novel candidate for plant microbiome engineering.","authors":"Muzammil Hussain, Muhammad Adeel, Jason C White","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The soil microbiome drives plant health and productivity. Recently, Sun and colleagues described a unique plant-microbe signaling cascade that enables selenium nanoparticle (SeNPs) formation by rhizosphere microbiota. These SeNPs boost maize performance by enriching plant-beneficial bacteria in a dose-dependent manner, offering novel paradigm for nano-microbiome engineering to promote sustainable food production.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516913","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":"Why study the archeo-histories of dryland landraces now?","authors":"Guy Bar-Oz, Joshua Schmidt","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/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":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","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}
Alberto González-Delgado, José M Jiménez-Gómez, Krzysztof Wabnik
{"title":"Regulatory principles of photoperiod-driven clock function in plants.","authors":"Alberto González-Delgado, José M Jiménez-Gómez, Krzysztof Wabnik","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The circadian clock provides a fundamental timing mechanism for plant fitting to seasonal changes in the photoperiod. Although photoperiodic regulation of developmental transition has been studied in several species, our understanding of core circadian clock parallelisms across species is sparse. Here we present a comparative analysis of circadian clock networks by identifying common regulatory principles that govern key genes in photoperiodic developmental transition. Using time-course transcriptomic datasets from long-day plants and short-day plants taken in different photoperiods, we propose a model that integrates a minimal set of circadian clock components to predict the necessary conditions governing species-specific clock outputs. This study identifies regulatory patterns associated with circadian clock function across different plants, linking photoperiod interpretation with minimal clock architecture.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473094","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}
Maxime Phalempin, Hannah Schneider, Eusun Han, Lingyun Cheng, Doris Vetterlein
{"title":"Designing future roots with the power of databases.","authors":"Maxime Phalempin, Hannah Schneider, Eusun Han, Lingyun Cheng, Doris Vetterlein","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Databases are vital for participative science, particularly in root research. These platforms centralize diverse data, foster collaboration, and reduce redundancy. However, underuse remains a challenge because of lack of incentives, standardization issues, and low visibility. Increased database use could significantly advance the contribution of root research to crop development.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473006","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}