Plant Biology

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1. 1. Plant Biology

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

   Pélagie Ratchinski, Olivier Godfroy ... J Mark Cock
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 1. Plant Biology

   Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations

   Marcia Puig-Lluch, Mary Williams ... Patricia Baldrich

   The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attendees.
10. 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.