Plant Biology

Plant Biology

eLife reviews plant biology research including development, epigenetics, genomics, signalling, metabolism and plant-microbe interactions. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
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Latest articles

    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Plant Biology

    The genetic control of rapid genome content divergence in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Christopher J Fiscus, Daniel Koenig
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Plant Biology

    Fifteenth century CE Bolivian maize reveals genetic affinities with ancient Peruvian maize

    Huan Chen, Amy Baetsen-Young ... Gabriel Wrobel
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Inadequate
    1. Plant Biology

    Life-cycle-related gene expression patterns in the brown algae

    Pélagie Ratchinski, Olivier Godfroy ... J Mark Cock
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Plant Biology

    Structure-guided secretome analysis of gall-forming microbes offers insights into effector diversity and evolution

    Soham Mukhopadhyay, Muhammad Asim Javed ... Edel Perez-Lopez
    Comparative structural genomics identifies unique effector architectures and ankyrin-mediated host targeting, revealing central and conserved strategies that underpin the pathogenicity of diverse gall-forming microbial species across evolutionary lineages.
    1. Plant Biology

    Companion cells with high florigen production express other small proteins and reveal a nitrogen-sensitive FT repressor

    Hiroshi Takagi, Shogo Ito ... Takato Imaizumi
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Ecology
    2. Plant Biology

    Strip cropping shows promising increases in ground beetle community diversity compared to monocultures

    Luuk Croijmans, Fogelina Cuperus ... Erik H Poelman
    Strip cropping is a farm management practice that increases ground beetle diversity without major effects on crop yield and while being practically implementable.
    1. Plant Biology

    Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts

    Wojciech Wietrzynski, Lorenz Lamm ... Benjamin D Engel
    Cryo-electron tomography reveals plant photosynthetic membranes with single-complex precision, supporting a simple two-domain model of membrane organization.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Plant Biology

    Short heat shock factor A2 confers heat sensitivity in Arabidopsis: Insights into heat resistance and growth balance

    Wanxia Chen, Jiaqi Zhao ... Xiaoting Qi
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Plant Biology

    An increase of NPY1 expression leads to inhibitory phosphorylation of PIN-FORMED (PIN) proteins and suppression of pinoid (pid) null mutants

    Michael Mudgett, Zhouxin Shen ... Yunde Zhao
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Plant Biology

    Rice stripe virus utilizes an Laodelphax striatellus salivary carbonic anhydrase to facilitate plant infection by direct molecular interaction

    Jing Zhao, Xiangyi Meng ... Lili Zhang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
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Highlights

    1. Plant Biology

    Making conferences more inclusive

    Marcia Puig-Lluch, Mary Williams ... Patricia Baldrich
    1. Plant Biology

    Pectin and the plant cell wall

    David Biermann, Sebastian Wolf
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Looking below the surface in plants

    Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa

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  1. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  2. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
  3. Detlef Weigel
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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