Tarikul Islam, Matthew S Brown, Albrecht M Koppenhöfer
{"title":"Harnessing plant silicon defenses for biological control of herbivorous insects.","authors":"Tarikul Islam, Matthew S Brown, Albrecht M Koppenhöfer","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Silicon (Si) accumulation in plants strengthens tissues and reduces insect herbivore performance. Supplementing plants with Si can enhance the attraction of predators and parasitoids by altering the emissions of herbivore-induced plant volatiles. Herbivores feeding on Si-supplemented plants can exhibit delayed development and compromised anti-predator defenses, such as weakened immune responses. Thus, Si supplementation could potentially enhance the biological control of pest herbivores by attracting more natural enemies and increasing herbivore exposure and susceptibility to predation and parasitism. We critically examine the current understanding of the effects of plant Si defenses on interactions between herbivores and their natural enemies, highlighting key uncertainties that must be addressed to leverage the benefits of Si for the biological control of herbivorous insects.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143773405","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.015
Ziv Aardening, Hitaishi Khandal, Ori Avraham Erlichman, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein
{"title":"The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids.","authors":"Ziv Aardening, Hitaishi Khandal, Ori Avraham Erlichman, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brassinosteroid (BR) phytohormones operate at both the cellular and organ levels, and impart distinct transcriptional responses in different cell types and developmental zones, with distinct effects on organ size and shape. Here, we review recent advances implementing high-resolution and modeling tools that have provided new insights into the role of BR signaling in growth coordination across cell layers. We discuss recently gained knowledge on BR movement and its relevance for intercellular communication, as well as how local protein environments enable cell- and stage-specific BR regulation. We also explore how tissue-specific alterations in BR signaling enhance crop yield. Together, we offer a comprehensive view of how BR signaling shapes the whole (overall growth dynamics) through its parts (intricate cellular interactions).</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"389-408"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142676835","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.003
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":"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":"344-346"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","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}
Trends in Plant SciencePub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.007
Jin-Dong Wang, Qiao-Quan Liu, Qian-Feng Li
{"title":"DELLA family proteins function beyond the GA pathway.","authors":"Jin-Dong Wang, Qiao-Quan Liu, Qian-Feng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>DELLA degradation is controlled not only by gibberellic acid (GA) but also by various GA/GID1-independent factors such as light, temperature, and shade. New insights on the evolution of DELLA family proteins and the biological role of DELLA-like proteins in seed traits provides valuable directions for future crop breeding programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"352-355"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143450320","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.017
Joerg Fettke, Alisdair R Fernie
{"title":"Do storage reserves contribute to plant phenotypic plasticity?","authors":"Joerg Fettke, Alisdair R Fernie","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The widespread colonization of diverse habitats by plants is attributed to their ability to adapt to changing environments through environmental phenotypic plasticity. This flexibility, particularly in carbon turnover, allows plants to adjust their physiology and development. Plants store carbon reserves as a metabolic strategy to overcome adversity, with a variety of isozymes evolving to enhance metabolic plasticity. Among these isoforms, some with entirely new functions have emerged, involved in novel metabolic pathways for carbon storage. Here, we discuss the role of these carbon stores, their impact on plant plasticity, methods by which such metabolic plasticity can be analyzed, and evolutionary aspects that have led to well-characterized as well as less well-known molecular mechanisms underlying carbon storage.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"364-372"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142676815","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.014
Niaz Ahmad, Peter J Nixon
{"title":"Chloroplast alchemy: rewriting the chloroplast genome with high precision.","authors":"Niaz Ahmad, Peter J Nixon","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past decade, precise genome editing has transitioned from theory to practical application. Yet, plastid genomes have largely remained impervious to these advances. A recent breakthrough by Mok et al. (2024) demonstrated successful plastid genome editing by developing transgene-free atrazine-resistant arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"341-343"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143012272","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.018
Pushan Bag, Alexander G Ivanov, Norman P Huner, Stefan Jansson
{"title":"Photosynthetic advantages of conifers in the boreal forest.","authors":"Pushan Bag, Alexander G Ivanov, Norman P Huner, Stefan Jansson","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Boreal conifers - the 'Christmas trees' - maintain their green needles over the winter by retaining their chlorophyll. These conifers face the toughest challenge in February and March, when subzero temperatures coincide with high solar radiation. To balance the light energy they harvest with the light energy they utilise, conifers deploy various mechanisms in parallel. These include, thylakoid destacking, which facilitates direct energy transfer from Photosystem II (PSII) to Photosystem I (PSI), and excess energy dissipation through sustained nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). Additionally, they upregulate alternative electron transport pathways to safely reroute excess electrons while maintaining ATP production. From an evolutionary and ecological perspective, we consider these mechanisms as part of a comprehensive photosynthetic alteration, which enhances our understanding of winter acclimation in conifers and their dominance in the boreal forests.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"409-423"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142695851","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.001
Seung Y Rhee, Daniel N Anstett, Edgar B Cahoon, Alejandra A Covarrubias-Robles, Eric Danquah, Natalia Dudareva, Hiroshi Ezura, Kadeem J Gilbert, Rodrigo A Gutiérrez, Michelle Heck, David B Lowry, Ron Mittler, Gloria Muday, Clare Mukankusi, Andrew D L Nelson, Silvia Restrepo, Hatem Rouached, Motoaki Seki, Berkley Walker, Danielle Way, Andreas P M Weber
{"title":"Resilient plants, sustainable future.","authors":"Seung Y Rhee, Daniel N Anstett, Edgar B Cahoon, Alejandra A Covarrubias-Robles, Eric Danquah, Natalia Dudareva, Hiroshi Ezura, Kadeem J Gilbert, Rodrigo A Gutiérrez, Michelle Heck, David B Lowry, Ron Mittler, Gloria Muday, Clare Mukankusi, Andrew D L Nelson, Silvia Restrepo, Hatem Rouached, Motoaki Seki, Berkley Walker, Danielle Way, Andreas P M Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The accelerated pace of climate change over the past several years should serve as a wake-up call for all scientists, farmers, and decision makers, as it severely threatens our food supply and could result in famine, migration, war, and an overall destabilization of our society. Rapid and significant changes are therefore needed in the way we conduct research on plant resilience, develop new crop varieties, and cultivate those crops in our agricultural systems. Here, we describe the main bottlenecks for these processes and outline a set of key recommendations on how to accelerate research in this critical area for our society.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"382-388"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792483","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.015
Alisdair R Fernie, Felix Martinez-Rivas
{"title":"Br(e)aking the tomato fruit size-sweetness trade-off.","authors":"Alisdair R Fernie, Felix Martinez-Rivas","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study by Zhang et al. demonstrated that two kinases (SlCDPK27 and SlCDPK26) regulate the sugar content in tomato fruits with little impact on morphology. They act as sugar breaks by phosphorylating a sucrose synthase, promoting its degradation and unveiling the mechanism by which sugar content can be increased without yield penalty.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":"350-351"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142984894","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":"The plant proteome delivers from discovery to innovation.","authors":"Jennifer Geddes-McAlister, R Glen Uhrig","doi":"10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is rapidly advancing with technological and computational improvements, including leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive innovation. Such innovation has been particularly apparent in human disease research, where the intersection of these disciplines has pioneered a new age of disease diagnostics and pharmaceutical discovery. However, applications within plant sciences remains woefully under-represented and yet provides exceptional promise and potential to support new, interdisciplinary areas of research. Timely and novel examples of proteomics advancing plant science encompass biotechnology, climatic resiliency, agricultural production systems, and disease management. Herein, we propose new scientific avenues that leverage the power of proteomics and AI within plant science research to drive new discoveries and innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23264,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Plant Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143773165","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}