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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    1. Plant Biology

    Symbiosis: How plants pick their friends

    Estelle Grundy, Michael Udvardi
    A protein called RIN4 has a central role in helping legumes such as soybean and the bacteria rhizobia to develop a mutually beneficial relationship.
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    1. Plant Biology

    Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula

    Morgane Batzenschlager, Beatrice Lace ... Thomas Ott
    Imaging deep root tissues with a combination of cell-cycle reporters reveals that a cortical cell file traversed by symbiotic bacteria exhibits reduced proliferative potential and enters a prolonged G2 phase.
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Strip cropping in organic agriculture results in 15% higher ground beetle richness and 30% higher activity density than monocultures

    Luuk Croijmans, Fogelina Cuperus ... Erik H Poelman
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    1. Plant Biology

    Soybean RIN4 represents a mechanistic link between plant immune and symbiotic signaling

    Katalin Tóth, Daewon Kim ... Gary Stacey
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    1. Plant Biology

    Archaeological Bolivian maize genomes suggest Inca cultural expansion augmented maize diversity in South America

    Huan Chen, Amy Baetsen-Young ... Gabriel Wrobel
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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

    Making plant tissue accessible for cryo-electron tomography

    Matthias Pöge, Marcel Dickmanns ... Wolfgang Baumeister
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    1. Plant Biology

    Interdependence of plasma membrane nanoscale dynamics of a kinase and its cognate substrate underlies Arabidopsis response to viral infection

    Marie-Dominique Jolivet, Anne Flore Deroubaix ... Véronique Germain
    Dynamic lateral diffusion of the kinase and its substrate in the plasma membrane are crucial for a proper signaling response.
    1. Plant Biology

    Targeted and random mutagenesis of cassava brown streak disease susceptibility factors reveal molecular determinants of disease severity

    ZJ Daniel Lin, Myia K Stanton ... Rebecca S Bart
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    1. Plant Biology

    The rhizobial effector NopT targets Nod factor receptors to regulate symbiosis in Lotus japonicus

    Hanbin Bao, Yanan Wang ... Yangrong Cao
    The rhizobial effector NopT and two Nod factor receptors of Lotus japonicus, NFR1 and NFR5, mutually interact to precisely regulate rhizobial symbiosis.
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Highlights

    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
    1. Plant Biology

    Hitting pause on the cell cycle

    Thomas Eekhout, Lieven De Veylder

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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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