{"title":"Keystone Fungal Endophytes of <i>Panax</i> Plants Drive the Conversion of Ginsenoside Rb1 to Rd","authors":"Ruikang Ma, Guangfei Wei, Songzi Li, Tongle Li, Fugang Wei, Yong Wang, Guozhuang Zhang, Linlin Dong","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2026.075657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2026.075657","url":null,"abstract":"Keystone taxa are critical for microbial community homeostasis and ecological niche interactions. However, the functions and genomic traits of endophytic keystone fungi in plant tissues remain unclear. Via network analysis, this study identified keystone fungi Plectosphaerella (Plec) and Cladosporium (Clad) in roots/leaves of medicinal Panax plants (P. ginseng, P. quinquefolius, P. notoginseng). Both correlated strongly positively with ginsenoside Rd content in respective tissues (ρ > 0.6, p < 0.001). Co-cultivation confirmed their ability to convert ginsenoside Rb1 to Rd, linked to β-glucosidase activity. Whole-genome sequencing/assembly/evolutionary analysis of the two strains elucidated genomic features for their keystone roles and saponin biotransformation. Genome mining found multiple GH3 genes (potential saponin transformers) in both; 11 (Plec) and 5 (Clad) were upregulated by cellobiose. Gene family phylogenetic analysis showed expanded transmembrane transport and environmental response functions. Both also had abundant secondary metabolic gene clusters and secretome genes, linking biotic interaction functions to their keystone roles. In summary, this study shows Panax endophytic keystone fungi can participate in ginsenoside biotransformation and clarifies their genomic traits, offering insights for functional endophytic fungal resource development.","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"95 2","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147381999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Shahzaib, Shanwen Wang, Rundong Yao, Sezai Erċışlı, Rongxiang Wang, Xiaona Fu, Hanqing Cong, Pingyin Guan, Xuefei Jiang, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Yuandi Zhu, Muhammad Mubashar Zafar, Fei Qiao
{"title":"Sandalwood Essential Oil (SEO) Readily Inhibits <i>Colletotrichum gloeosporioides</i>-Mediated Anthracnose in Post-Harvest Stored Mango (<i>Mangifera indica</i> L. cv. ‘Keitt’)","authors":"Muhammad Shahzaib, Shanwen Wang, Rundong Yao, Sezai Erċışlı, Rongxiang Wang, Xiaona Fu, Hanqing Cong, Pingyin Guan, Xuefei Jiang, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Yuandi Zhu, Muhammad Mubashar Zafar, Fei Qiao","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2025.065068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2025.065068","url":null,"abstract":"Mango (Mangifera indica L. cv. ‘Keitt’) is one of the core fruit delicacies produced by China. During the post-harvest storage span, the fungal pathogen colletotrichum gloeosporioides readily invades the fruits and leads ... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Tech Science Press","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"94 7","pages":"2167-2181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147334252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xianrong Fu, A. Song, Bo Peng, Song Li, Weixin Liu, Lingling Zhang, Jiafu Jiang, Sumei Chen, Fadi Chen
{"title":"Brassinosteroid Biosynthetic Gene CmDWF4 Regulates Bud Outgrowth in Chrysanthemum morifolium","authors":"Xianrong Fu, A. Song, Bo Peng, Song Li, Weixin Liu, Lingling Zhang, Jiafu Jiang, Sumei Chen, Fadi Chen","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2023.027870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2023.027870","url":null,"abstract":"Brassinosteroids (BRs), a class of steroid phytohormones, play a critical role in plant growth and development. The DWF4 gene encodes a cytochrome P450 enzyme (CYP90B1), which is considered a rate-limiting enzyme in BR biosynthesis. Here, we identi fi ed a homologous gene of DWF4 in chrysanthemum, CmDWF4 . This gene was predicted to encode 491 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 56.2 kDa and an isoelectric point (pI) of 9.10. Overexpression of CmDWF4 in chrysanthemum was found to signi fi cantly increase growth rate, number, and length of lateral buds. Transcriptome analysis showed that multiple xyloglucan endotransglycosy-lase/hydrolase (XTH) family encoding genes associated with cell wall modi fi cation were up-regulated in CmDWF4 -overexpressing lines. qRT-PCR assay con fi rmed the up-regulation of CmXTH6 , CmXTH23 , and CmXTH28 in CmDWF4 -overexpression line. Overall, this work establishes a mechanism by which BR biosynthetic gene CmDWF4 promotes lateral bud outgrowth in chrysanthemum, possibly through regulating cell elongation and expansion","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69897472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yeyao Du, Ye Zhang, Yang Song, Zhuo Zhang, Sujie Fan, Hanzhu Zhang, Piwu Wang
{"title":"Identification of Resistance to Pathogenesis Related Protein GmPR1L in Tobacco Botrytis cinerea Infection","authors":"Yeyao Du, Ye Zhang, Yang Song, Zhuo Zhang, Sujie Fan, Hanzhu Zhang, Piwu Wang","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2023.027607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2023.027607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69897888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ibrahim Hmmam, A. Raza, Ivica G. Djalović, Nagwa Khedr, A. Abdellatif
{"title":"An in Vitro Approach to Investigate the Role of Abscisic Acid in Alleviating the Negative Effects of Chilling Stress on Banana Shoots","authors":"Ibrahim Hmmam, A. Raza, Ivica G. Djalović, Nagwa Khedr, A. Abdellatif","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2023.028317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2023.028317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69898427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Physiological Mechanisms Underlying N2-Fixing Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Tolerance to Iron Deficiency","authors":"A. Krouma","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2023.029048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2023.029048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69898914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Aktar-Uz-Zaman, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Md. Shahin Iqbal, M. Jahangir Alam, D. Sarkar, B. Albogami, A. Gaber, A. Hossain
{"title":"Improvement of Early Maturing and Climate Resilient Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Cultivars Suitable for Multiple Environments in Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Aktar-Uz-Zaman, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Md. Shahin Iqbal, M. Jahangir Alam, D. Sarkar, B. Albogami, A. Gaber, A. Hossain","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2023.025022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2023.025022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69891554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanhua Li, Hualei Huang, Youming Shi, Shuqin Huang, Tao Liu, Changming Xiao, Xiaoqing Tian, P. Zhao, Xiaoyan Dai, Taocui Huang, Yan Zhou
{"title":"Genome-Wide Identification, Evolution and Expression Analyses of GA2ox Gene Family in Brassica napus L.","authors":"Yanhua Li, Hualei Huang, Youming Shi, Shuqin Huang, Tao Liu, Changming Xiao, Xiaoqing Tian, P. Zhao, Xiaoyan Dai, Taocui Huang, Yan Zhou","doi":"10.32604/phyton.2022.023928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2022.023928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54605,"journal":{"name":"Phyton-Annales Rei Botanicae","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69890038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}