Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.04.006
Sara Hailemariam, Chao-Jan Liao, Tesfaye Mengiste
{"title":"Receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases: orchestrating plant cellular communication.","authors":"Sara Hailemariam, Chao-Jan Liao, Tesfaye Mengiste","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The receptor-like kinase (RLK) family of receptors and the associated receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCKs) have expanded in plants because of selective pressure from environmental stress and evolving pathogens. RLCKs link pathogen perception to activation of coping mechanisms. RLK-RLCK modules regulate hormone synthesis and responses, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, Ca<sup>2+</sup> signaling, activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and immune gene expression, all of which contribute to immunity. Some RLCKs integrate responses from multiple receptors recognizing distinct ligands. RLKs/RLCKs and nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeats (NLRs) were found to synergize, demonstrating the intertwined genetic network in plant immunity. Studies in arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) have provided paradigms about RLCK functions, but a lack of understanding of crop RLCKs undermines their application. In this review, we summarize current understanding of the diverse functions of RLCKs, based on model systems and observations in crop species, and the emerging role of RLCKs in pathogen and abiotic stress response signaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1113-1130"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141180780","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}
Marcelle Ferreira-Silva, Lázara A S Silva, Welder A Silva, Wagner L Araújo
{"title":"The power of small: microRNAs modulating stomatal movement.","authors":"Marcelle Ferreira-Silva, Lázara A S Silva, Welder A Silva, Wagner L Araújo","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regulation of stomatal aperture is paramount in drought-stress responses. Recently, Yang et al. demonstrated how microRNA-plantacyanin (PCY) regulates stomata movement by revealing a novel mechanism responsive to abscisic acid (ABA) that controls reactive oxygen species (ROS) in guard cells. This sets a precedent for using miRNAs as a new target for stress-resistance genetic engineering.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366583","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.011
Preeti Patel, Kyle Benzle, Dehua Pei, Guo-Liang Wang
{"title":"Cell-penetrating peptides for sustainable agriculture.","authors":"Preeti Patel, Kyle Benzle, Dehua Pei, Guo-Liang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short (typically 5-30 amino acids), cationic, amphipathic, or hydrophobic peptides that facilitate the cellular uptake of diverse cargo molecules by eukaryotic cells via direct translocation or endocytosis across the plasma membrane. CPPs can deliver a variety of bioactive cargos, including proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, and small molecules into the cell. Once inside, the delivered cargo may function in the cytosol, nucleus, or other subcellular compartments. Numerous CPPs have been used for studies and drug delivery in mammalian systems. Although CPPs have many potential uses in plant research and agriculture, the application of CPPs in plants remains limited. Here we review the structures and mechanisms of CPPs and highlight their potential applications for sustainable agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1131-1144"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11449662/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-06-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.04.008
Lily D Peck, Victoria L Sork
{"title":"Can DNA methylation shape climate response in trees?","authors":"Lily D Peck, Victoria L Sork","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Woody plants create the ecosystems they occupy and shape their biodiversity. Today's rapidly warming climate threatens these long-lived species by creating new environments in which existing populations become maladapted. Plants show enormous phenotypic diversity in response to environmental change, which can be caused by genotype or epigenetic mechanisms that influence the expression of the underlying DNA sequence. Whether epigenetics can affect ecologically important traits in trees is an important and controversial question. We explore the evidence that DNA methylation can affect gene expression, both directly and indirectly via its interaction with transposable elements (TEs), and subsequently shapes phenotypic variation in natural tree populations. Furthermore, we consider the potential of epigenetic approaches to assist in their conservation management strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1089-1102"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141296764","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.004
Peng Sun, Xinyu Han, Ricky J Milne, Guotian Li
{"title":"Trans-crop applications of atypical R genes for multipathogen resistance.","authors":"Peng Sun, Xinyu Han, Ricky J Milne, Guotian Li","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Genetic resistance to plant diseases is essential for global food security. Significant progress has been achieved for plant disease-resistance (R) genes comprising nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat-containing receptors (NLRs), and membrane-localized receptor-like kinases or proteins (RLKs/RLPs), which we refer to as typical R genes. However, there is a knowledge gap in how non-receptor-type or atypical R genes contribute to plant immunity. Here, we summarize resources and technologies facilitating the study of atypical R genes, examine diverse atypical R proteins for broad-spectrum resistance, and outline potential approaches for trans-crop applications of atypical R genes. Studies of atypical R genes are important for a holistic understanding of plant immunity and the development of novel strategies in disease control and crop improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1103-1112"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141176464","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.06.005
Saquib Mahmood, Indrakant K Singh, Archana Singh
{"title":"ABCB19 transporter: fostering brassinosteroid transport through membrane flexibility.","authors":"Saquib Mahmood, Indrakant K Singh, Archana Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brassinosteroids (BRs) play a vital role in plant growth and stress response, operating through a well-defined signaling pathway. Yet, the export of BRs through plasma membranes poses significant challenges. Ying et al. recently identified the essential role of the ATPase activity of ABCB19 (Arabidopsis thaliana ATP-binding cassette transporter) in BR transport.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"1046-1048"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141474673","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":"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":"https://doi.org/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":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","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":"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":"https://doi.org/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":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","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}
April H Hastwell, Xitong Chu, Yuhan Liu, Brett J Ferguson
{"title":"The parallel narrative of RGF/GLV/CLEL peptide signalling.","authors":"April H Hastwell, Xitong Chu, Yuhan Liu, Brett J Ferguson","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.07.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.07.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant peptide families share distinct characteristics, and many members are in homologous signalling pathways controlling development and responses to external signals. The root meristem growth factor (RGF) peptides/GOLVEN (GLV)/CLAVATA3-ESR-related like (CLEL) are a family of short signalling peptides that are derived from a precursor protein and undergo post-translational modifications. Their role in root meristem development is well established and recent efforts have identified subtilase processing pathways and several downstream signalling components. This discovery has enabled the convergence of previously distinct pathways and enhanced our understanding of plant developmental processes. Here, we review the structure-function relationship of RGF peptides, the post-translational modification pathways, and the downstream signalling mechanisms and highlight components of these pathways that are known in non-RGF-mediated pathways.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142354514","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}
Sara Shakir, Sylvaine Boissinot, Thierry Michon, Stéphane Lafarge, Syed S. Zaidi
{"title":"Beyond movement: expanding functional landscape of luteovirus movement proteins","authors":"Sara Shakir, Sylvaine Boissinot, Thierry Michon, Stéphane Lafarge, Syed S. Zaidi","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Viruses explore the potential multifunctional capacity of the proteins encoded in their compact genome to establish infection. P4 of luteoviruses has emerged as one such multifunctional protein. Expressed from an open reading frame (ORF) nested within coat protein ORF, it displays diverse subcellular localizations and interactions, reflecting its complex role in virus infection. In this review we explore how P4, constrained by overlapping ORFs, has evolved multiple functional motifs. We analyze these motifs’ conservation across different barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) species and related poleroviruses. We also discuss how viral proteins cooperate to facilitate movement and localization of the virus throughout infection. We provide insights into potential future research directions and suggest strategies for developing potential antiviral-resistant approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255427","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}