Plant Biology

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1. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   ATG6 interacting with NPR1 increases Arabidopsis thaliana resistance to Pst DC3000/avrRps4 by increasing its nuclear accumulation and stability

   Baihong Zhang, Shuqin Huang ... Wenli Chen
2. 1. Plant Biology

   Pectin methylesterase activity is required for RALF1 peptide signalling output

   Ann-Kathrin Rößling, Kai Dünser ... Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

   The methylation status of pectin acts as a critical signalling scaffold for RALF peptides, linking extracellular matrix dynamics to peptide hormone-mediated regulation of plant root growth.
3. 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
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Root-specific secondary metabolism at the single-cell level: a case study of theanine metabolism and regulation in the roots of tea plants (Camellia sinensis)

   Shijia Lin, Yiwen Zhang ... Zhaoliang Zhang
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Root cap cell corpse clearance limits microbial colonization in Arabidopsis thaliana

   Nyasha M Charura, Ernesto Llamas ... Alga Zuccaro
6. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Structure and evolution of alanine/serine decarboxylases and the engineering of theanine production

   Hao Wang, Biying Zhu ... Zhaoliang Zhang

   Comparative structural analysis and biochemical characterization unraveled the mechanisms behind enzymatic substrate selectivity, leading to an amplified theanine yield through active mutant protein screening, thus refining strategies for theanine production.
7. 1. Plant Biology

   OsNF-YB7 inactivates OsGLK1 to inhibit chlorophyll biosynthesis in rice embryo

   Zongju Yang, Tianqi Bai ... Chen Chen

   OsNF-YB7, an ortholog of Arabidopsis LEC1, is a negative regulator of Chl biosynthesis in rice embryos by interacting with OsGLK1 to inhibit the transactivity of OsGLK1.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Autophagosome development and chloroplast segmentation occur synchronously for piecemeal degradation of chloroplasts

   Masanori Izumi, Sakuya Nakamura ... Shinya Hagihara
9. 1. Plant Biology

   Arabidopsis SDG proteins mediate Polycomb removal and transcription-coupled H3K36 methylation for gene activation

   Yicong Wang, Masato Abe ... Nobutoshi Yamaguchi
10. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Plant Biology

    Structure of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase from the model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Théo Le Moigne, Martina Santoni ... Julien Henri