Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-04-29DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.011
Shanshan Dong, Manyuan Long, Yang Liu
{"title":"Bryophytes: natural incubators of new gene evolution.","authors":"Shanshan Dong, Manyuan Long, Yang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>De novo gene origination from noncoding regions is a major source of genetic innovation. Dong et al. [1] (Nat. Genet. 2025; 57:2562-2569) reveal that bryophytes harbor an exceptionally high abundance of such genes, establishing them as a new and key system for studying the mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of new gene emergence in plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"874-877"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147821201","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-04-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.03.006
Mohammad Mukarram, Francisco J Corpas
{"title":"Lemongrass: climate-smart crop for marginal lands.","authors":"Mohammad Mukarram, Francisco J Corpas","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.03.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lemongrass, a robust aromatic grass, offers a climate-smart solution for marginal lands through its stress resilience, bioeconomic value, and its ability to transform degraded soils into productive assets. In this forum, we emphasise the multifunctionality of lemongrass and propose a timely, sustainable model for utilising marginal lands while improving rural livelihoods.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"870-873"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147646600","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.08.014
Alison R Gill, Troy K Miller, Samalka Wijeweera, Eva Herrero, Gioia D Massa, Jenny C Mortimer, Alex A R Webb, A Harvey Millar, Matthew Gilliham
{"title":"Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture.","authors":"Alison R Gill, Troy K Miller, Samalka Wijeweera, Eva Herrero, Gioia D Massa, Jenny C Mortimer, Alex A R Webb, A Harvey Millar, Matthew Gilliham","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.08.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.08.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricultural impact. By precisely controlling growth conditions, CEA enables the reliable and tightly regulated deployment of beneficial optimized traits by integrating emerging breeding, genomic, and synthetic biology tools. In this review we highlight both the progress and the remaining challenges enabled by CEA to reimagine crop design, including enhanced photosynthesis that operates independently of seasonal and circadian limitations, improvements in resource and metabolic efficiency, customized plant architecture, and the reliable, controllable production of high-value compounds. These capabilities position CEA as both a versatile research platform and an efficient, high-yielding production system, bridging fundamental discoveries with real-world crop outcomes to support sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture into the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"911-924"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145207655","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":"Navigating genetic redundancy in plant genomes: insights for research and breeding.","authors":"Amichai Berman, Ido Zylberberg, Itay Mayrose, Eilon Shani","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Duplicated gene sequences are a prominent and widespread feature of plant genomes, often resulting in genetic redundancy that obscures the functions of individual genes and complicates trait dissection. This redundancy limits the effectiveness of traditional genetic approaches and poses challenges for crop improvement. Characterizing redundancy within gene families is essential for advancing both functional genomics and breeding. Recent advances in scalable mutant generation and multiplex genome editing enable systematic dissection of redundant networks and the discovery of masked phenotypes. Coupled with computational and comparative genomic approaches, these strategies provide a framework for more precise functional analysis, supporting the development of crop varieties with enhanced performance, resilience, and adaptability to changing environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"961-973"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147491718","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":"Women in plant science around the world.","authors":"Judit Dobránszki, Yonghua Li-Beisson, Ainhoa Martínez-Medina, Lisha Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"855-860"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147639812","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-03-10DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.01.007
Ji-Hui Qiao, Qiang Gao, Xian-Bing Wang
{"title":"Virus-induced genome editing: toward crop breeding applications.","authors":"Ji-Hui Qiao, Qiang Gao, Xian-Bing Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.01.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.01.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CRISPR-Cas-based genome editing has revolutionized precise genome manipulation in plants, yet its practical application is still constrained by the inefficient delivery of editing reagents across different genotypes. Plant viruses are promising vehicles for delivering genome-editing components, bypassing plant transformation and/or tissue culture. Virus-induced genome editing (VIGE) has provided powerful tools for achieving heritable edits in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana benthamiana. VIGE has now progressed from proof-of-concept to practical applications in agricultural crops. Notably, a recent breakthrough in VIGE in tiller has successfully achieved heritable genome editing in hexaploid wheat. This review outlines the latest advances in VIGE across diverse plant species, highlights its potential for crop improvement, and discusses future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"938-951"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147435692","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-05-09DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.018
Md Mahadi Hasan, Nadiyah M Alabdallah, Md Atikur Rahman, Marc Carriquí
{"title":"Soils set the optimal tension limit for plants.","authors":"Md Mahadi Hasan, Nadiyah M Alabdallah, Md Atikur Rahman, Marc Carriquí","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Land plants extract soil water under negative vascular pressure, yet stomatal regulation begins at a conserved leaf tension (∼1.3 MPa) across diverse species. Carminati et al. demonstrate that soil hydraulic constraints, rather than xylem embolism vulnerability, drive this convergence, with leaf osmotic pressure helping to set the physiological threshold for stomatal regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"864-866"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147869561","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.11.005
Li Chen, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Hui Wang, Shungui Zhou, Yuji Jiang
{"title":"Fungal genomic trait-based ecological strategies mediate plant productivity.","authors":"Li Chen, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Hui Wang, Shungui Zhou, Yuji Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trait-based approaches are increasingly applied to elucidate the microbial mechanisms that drive nutrient cycling and plant productivity in the rhizosphere. Genomic traits constraining trade-offs among functional traits are emerging as critical dimensions of ecological strategies. Although phenotypic traits have been studied extensively, the ecological relevance of genomic traits in shaping ecological strategies remains unclear. Here, we propose that genome size and guanine-cytosine content constitute core axes that integrate genomic architecture with fungal trade-offs in growth yield, resource acquisition, and stress tolerance. We synthesize current evidence on how genomic traits adapt to environmental gradients and how they influence fungal ecological strategies that modulate plant-fungi interactions. Advancing this conceptual framework promises deeper insight into trait-environment dynamics and plant-microbe interactions across environmental gradients.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"878-886"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145696426","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-03-11DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.02.007
Xin Huang, Wenshu He, Ludovic Bassie, Paul Christou, Teresa Capell
{"title":"Genome editing in rice: toward climate-resilient, nutrient-rich yields.","authors":"Xin Huang, Wenshu He, Ludovic Bassie, Paul Christou, Teresa Capell","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rice is the main source of calories for more than half of the world's population, so yields must increase to feed an estimated 5 billion people by 2050, despite the effects of resource depletion and climate change. The urgent demand for resilient, higher-yielding varieties cannot be met by conventional breeding, which is too slow, or transgenesis, which is burdened by regulatory issues. In contrast, genome editing enables precise, efficient, and transgene-free improvements for gene knockouts. This review covers major advances in rice genome editing since 2020, including innovations in base and prime editing, multiplex editing, and delivery. We highlight applications that improve yield, abiotic and biotic stress resilience, and nutritional quality, as well as challenges and future directions affecting precision, delivery, and regulatory policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"925-937"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147445035","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.002
Ghulam Qanmber, Fuguang Li, Zuoren Yang
{"title":"A metabolic hotspot rewires cotton fiber traits.","authors":"Ghulam Qanmber, Fuguang Li, Zuoren Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cotton genetic and metabolic diversity underpins key agronomic traits, yet its regulatory basis remains unclear. Recently, Zhang et al. identified MYB (myeloblastosis) transcription factors as central hubs to coordinate primary and secondary metabolism in ovules, directly linking structural variation to fiber quality and yield, and providing a framework for metabolome-guided breeding.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"867-869"},"PeriodicalIF":21.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147699850","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}