Plant Biology

Plant Biology

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    1. Plant Biology

    The influence of heavy metal stress on the evolutionary transition of teosinte to maize

    Jonathan Acosta-Bayona, Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
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    1. Plant Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Adaptation of an herbivorous arthropod to green tea plants by overcoming catechin defenses

    Naoki Takeda, Brendan Abiskaroon ... Takeshi Suzuki
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Plant Biology

    Herbivorous insects independently evolved salivary effectors to regulate plant immunity by destabilizing the malectin-LRR RLP NtRLP4

    Xin Wang, Jia-Bao Lu ... Hai-Jian Huang
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Plant Biology

    AT-HOOK-MOTIF NUCLEAR LOCALIZED 15 extends plant longevity by binding at poorly accessible, epigenetic mark-depleted chromatin that surrounds transcribed regions

    Thalia Luden, Jihed Chouaref, Remko Offringa
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    1. Plant Biology

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

    Jing Zhao, Xiangyi Meng ... Lili Zhang
    Planthopper salivary carbonic anhydrase enhances a plant β-1,3-glucanase to suppress callose deposition, facilitating early viral establishment of rice stripe virus.
    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
    A cause and impact of PIN-FORMED protein phosphorylation has been revealed.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Plant Biology

    P-body formation is required for yeast proliferation in the phyllosphere

    Fuka Sekioka, Kosuke Shiraishi ... Hiroya Yurimoto
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Plant Biology

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

    Pélagie Ratchinski, Olivier Godfroy ... J Mark Cock
    Life-cycle- and development-related patterns of gene expression are conserved in diverse brown algae.
    1. Plant Biology

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

    Huan Chen, Amy Baetsen-Young ... Gabriel Wrobel
    Genomic evidence from 15th-century Bolivian maize reveals similarity to Central Andean maize from Peru, and pre-Inca and Inca-era breeding that enhanced maize development through selection within Andean agricultural networks.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Plant Biology

    Short heat shock factor A2 regulates heat resistance and growth balance in Arabidopsis

    Wanxia Chen, Jiaqi Zhao ... Xiaoting Qi
    Short heat shock factor variants prevent hyperactivation of thermotolerance through a noncanonical heat shock response, thereby balancing heat stress response and plant growth.
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    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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    University of Freiburg, Germany
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    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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