Siwen Yu, Shaoqi Zhang, Xinhang Zheng, Xiaoai Li, Jiyang Wang, Guohua Duan, Shanshan Qiu, Dan Zhao, Nan Nan, Qianheng Yu, Chunquan Jiang, Zhao Peng, Dayong Li, Wenxian Sun
{"title":"Ustilaginoidea virens suppresses floral immunity through promoting GA biosynthesis by the effector SCRE9.","authors":"Siwen Yu, Shaoqi Zhang, Xinhang Zheng, Xiaoai Li, Jiyang Wang, Guohua Duan, Shanshan Qiu, Dan Zhao, Nan Nan, Qianheng Yu, Chunquan Jiang, Zhao Peng, Dayong Li, Wenxian Sun","doi":"10.1111/nph.70414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70414","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rice false smut caused by Ustilaginoidea virens has become one of the most important rice diseases. Ustilaginoidea virens specifically infects rice florets through stamen filaments. However, it is mysterious how U. virens inhibits floral immunity for successful colonization. Here, we show that a small cysteine-rich effector SCRE9 is a key virulence factor in U. virens. Expression of SCRE9 in rice not only suppresses immune responses and false smut resistance but also significantly increases expression of expansin and gibberellin (GA) biosynthetic genes and GA content in young rice panicles. OsSIP1 (SCRE9-interacting protein 1) in rice is targeted by small cysteine-rich effector 9 (SCRE9) and interacts with the OsMADS63 and OsMADS68 transcription factors that transcriptionally regulate the GA synthesis gene GA3ox1. Interestingly, the chloroplast-localized OsSIP1 recruits OsMADS63/68 into the chloroplast. SCRE9 causes OsSIP1 to be translocated into the nucleus, thereby releasing OsMADS63/68 from the chloroplast into the nucleus to promote GA3ox1 transcription. Therefore, SCRE9 promotes GA biosynthesis and expression of expansins in rice florets, thus loosening cell walls and overcoming the physical barrier during U. virens infection. The finding uncovers an unidentified floret infection strategy that offsets the deficiency in cell wall-degrading ability in the unique floret-colonizing fungus.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734507","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":"Differing metabolic responses of guard cells to blue light.","authors":"Alisdair R Fernie, Stefan Timm","doi":"10.1111/nph.70375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561605","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}
Humaira Bahadar, Eva Gomes Morais, Francisco Bruno S Freire, Valéria F Lima, Marina Ellen Giacomelli, Leticia Dos Anjos, Werner Camargos Antunes, Danilo M Daloso
{"title":"Blue light-induced stomatal opening is associated with species-specific changes in primary metabolism but not with starch breakdown in guard cells.","authors":"Humaira Bahadar, Eva Gomes Morais, Francisco Bruno S Freire, Valéria F Lima, Marina Ellen Giacomelli, Leticia Dos Anjos, Werner Camargos Antunes, Danilo M Daloso","doi":"10.1111/nph.70257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Blue light (BL)-induced stomatal opening has been associated with starch breakdown within Arabidopsis guard cells (GCs). However, whether this mechanism is conserved in angiosperms and which metabolic pathways are activated downstream of BL perception and/or starch degradation, remains unknown. Here, we performed stomatal and metabolomics analyses to investigate how BL stomatal responses are associated with GC starch and primary metabolisms in Arabidopsis, cowpea, and tobacco. The stomatal aperture increased, but no starch degradation was observed in all species under BL. Guard cell primary metabolism was altered by BL exposition in a species-specific and time-dependent manner. Sucrose was negatively correlated with stomatal aperture in both Arabidopsis and cowpea, resembling previous results during white light (WL)-induced stomatal opening. However, contrasting metabolic changes were observed in tobacco under BL and WL. For instance, malate and fumarate accumulated preferentially in tobacco GCs under BL and WL, respectively. Despite the species-specific BL metabolic responses, sugars were positively correlated with tricarboxylic acid cycle-related metabolites in all species under BL, similar to those previously observed under WL-induced stomatal opening. Our study highlights that both starch breakdown and the changes in primary metabolism within GCs triggered by light depend on the species, environmental condition, and/or light quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144276391","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}
Lizbeth G Amador, Tadeo H Ramirez-Parada, Isaac W Park, Susan J Mazer, Aaron M Ellison, Margaret O'Brien, Eric R Sokol, Colin A Smith, Charles C Davis, Sydne Record
{"title":"Bridging data silos to holistically model plant macrophenology.","authors":"Lizbeth G Amador, Tadeo H Ramirez-Parada, Isaac W Park, Susan J Mazer, Aaron M Ellison, Margaret O'Brien, Eric R Sokol, Colin A Smith, Charles C Davis, Sydne Record","doi":"10.1111/nph.70249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phenological response to global climate change can impact ecosystem functions. There are various data sources from which spatiotemporal and taxonomic phenological data may be obtained: mobilized herbaria, community science initiatives, observatory networks, and remote sensing. However, analyses conducted to date have generally relied on single sources of these data. Siloed treatment of data in analyses may be due to the lack of harmonization across different data sources that offer partially nonoverlapping information and are often complementary. Such treatment precludes a deeper understanding of phenological responses at varying macroecological scales. Here, we describe a detailed vision for the harmonization of phenological data, including the direct integration of disparate sources of phenological data using a common schema. Specifically, we highlight existing methods for data harmonization that can be applied to phenological data: data design patterns, metadata standards, and ontologies. We describe how harmonized data from multiple sources can be integrated into analyses using existing methods and discuss the use of automated extraction techniques. Data harmonization is not a new concept in ecology, but the harmonization of phenological data is overdue. We aim to highlight the need for better data harmonization, providing a roadmap for how harmonized phenological data may fill gaps while simultaneously being integrated into analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235696","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":"Complex consequences of disturbance on canopy plant communities of world forests: a review and synthesis","authors":"Nalini M. Nadkarni","doi":"10.1111/nph.19245","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.19245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Epiphytes and their associated biota are increasingly recognized as contributing to biodiversity and to filling critical ecosystem functions in world forests. However, the attributes that have made them successful in canopy environments also make them vulnerable to natural and human-induced disturbances. Drawing upon ecological frameworks to understand disturbance, I categorized and synthesized the drivers and the consequences of disturbances on epiphytic materials. Across all impacts, disturbance agents were significantly more likely to lead to negative, rather than positive, effects in both tropical and temperate locales. Significantly more studies reported negative effects on abundance, diversity, community composition and connectivity, but some studies showed that disturbances enhanced these attributes. Although particular disturbance agents did not differently influence individual consequences, they explained a significant portion of variation in aggregated totals. Surprisingly, relative to human disturbances, natural disturbances were more likely to lead to negative effects. Many studies provided recommendations for effective societal responses to mitigate negative impacts, such as retaining large, old trees in forestry operations, patch-clearing for epiphyte harvest, maximizing forest fragment size, using epiphytes as bioindicators of disturbance, and applying principles of community forestry to land management. Future actions should also include communication of these results to policymakers and land managers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 4","pages":"1366-1380"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41216833","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}
{"title":"Tackling redundancy: genetic mechanisms underlying paralog compensation in plants","authors":"Sessen Daniel Iohannes, David Jackson","doi":"10.1111/nph.19267","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nph.19267","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Gene duplication is a powerful source of biological innovation giving rise to paralogous genes that undergo diverse fates. Redundancy between paralogous genes is an intriguing outcome of duplicate gene evolution, and its maintenance over evolutionary time has long been considered a paradox. Redundancy can also be dubbed ‘a geneticist's nightmare’: It hinders the predictability of genome editing outcomes and limits our ability to link genotypes to phenotypes. Genetic studies in yeast and plants have suggested that the ability of ancient redundant duplicates to compensate for dosage perturbations resulting from a loss of function depends on the reprogramming of gene expression, a phenomenon known as active compensation. Starting from considerations on the stoichiometric constraints that drive the evolutionary stability of redundancy, this review aims to provide insights into the mechanisms of active compensation between duplicates that could be targeted for breaking paralog dependencies – the next frontier in plant functional studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 4","pages":"1381-1389"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41148514","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}
Claire M. Barnes, Ann L. Power, Daniel G. Barber, Richard K. Tennant, Richard T. Jones, G. Rob Lee, Jackie Hatton, Angela Elliott, Joana Zaragoza-Castells, Stephen M. Haley, Huw D. Summers, Minh Doan, Anne E. Carpenter, Paul Rees, John Love
{"title":"Deductive automated pollen classification in environmental samples via exploratory deep learning and imaging flow cytometry","authors":"Claire M. Barnes, Ann L. Power, Daniel G. Barber, Richard K. Tennant, Richard T. Jones, G. Rob Lee, Jackie Hatton, Angela Elliott, Joana Zaragoza-Castells, Stephen M. Haley, Huw D. Summers, Minh Doan, Anne E. Carpenter, Paul Rees, John Love","doi":"10.1111/nph.19186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"1305-1326"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087479","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}
Qing Zheng, Yuntao Hu, Suzanne M. Kosina, Marc W. Van Goethem, Susannah G. Tringe, Benjamin P. Bowen, Trent R. Northen
{"title":"Conservation of beneficial microbes between the rhizosphere and the cyanosphere","authors":"Qing Zheng, Yuntao Hu, Suzanne M. Kosina, Marc W. Van Goethem, Susannah G. Tringe, Benjamin P. Bowen, Trent R. Northen","doi":"10.1111/nph.19225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19225","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"1246-1258"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19225","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087687","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}
Philippe Rieu, Mo?ra Arnoux-Courseaux, Gabrielle Tichtinsky, Fran?ois Parcy
{"title":"Thinking outside the F-box: how UFO controls angiosperm development","authors":"Philippe Rieu, Mo?ra Arnoux-Courseaux, Gabrielle Tichtinsky, Fran?ois Parcy","doi":"10.1111/nph.19234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The formation of inflorescences and flowers is essential for the successful reproduction of angiosperms. In the past few decades, genetic studies have identified the LEAFY transcription factor and the UNUSUAL FLORAL ORGANS (UFO) F-box protein as two major regulators of flower development in a broad range of angiosperm species. Recent research has revealed that UFO acts as a transcriptional cofactor, redirecting the LEAFY floral regulator to novel <i>cis</i>-elements. In this review, we summarize the various roles of UFO across species, analyze past results in light of new discoveries and highlight the key questions that remain to be solved.</p>","PeriodicalId":48887,"journal":{"name":"New Phytologist","volume":"240 3","pages":"945-959"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.19234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41087646","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}