Plant Biology

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1. 1. Plant Biology

   A novel form of bivalent chromatin associates with rapid induction of camalexin biosynthesis genes in response to a pathogen signal in Arabidopsis

   Kangmei Zhao et al.
2. 1. Plant Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   In situ cryo-ET structure of phycobilisome–photosystem II supercomplex from red alga

   Meijing Li et al.

   The nature of the phycobilisome–photosystem II supercomplex on the native thylakoid determined with cryo-electron tomography at an unprecedented resolution reveals that one phycobilisome interconnects with six photosystem monomers.
3. 1. Plant Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   The structure of photosystem I from a high-light-tolerant cyanobacteria

   Zachary Dobson et al.

   The necessity of studying extremophile organisms is exemplified by the structure of photosystem I from a high-light tolerant cyanobacteria, demonstrating the relationship between the structure and function in photosystem I.
4. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Crosstalk between the chloroplast protein import and SUMO systems revealed through genetic and molecular investigation in Arabidopsis

   Samuel Watson et al.
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Host-associated microbe PCR (hamPCR) enables convenient measurement of both microbial load and community composition

   Derek S Lundberg et al.

   hamPCR is a cost-effective and transformative amplicon sequencing strategy to describe microbiota composition and measure its overall abundance, applicable to all samples in which host and microbial DNA are co-extracted.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   An evidence-based 3D reconstruction of Asteroxylon mackiei, the most complex plant preserved from the Rhynie chert

   Alexander J Hetherington et al.

   The body plan of the 407-million-year-old plant fossil Asteroxylon mackiei comprised three developmentally distinct systems of axes.
7. 1. Plant Biology

   An oomycete effector subverts host vesicle trafficking to channel starvation-induced autophagy to the pathogen interface

   Pooja Pandey et al.

   A pathogen effector mimics starvation-induced autophagy by subverting host endomembrane trafficking to stimulate biogenesis of autophagosomes around pathogen feeding sites, revealing how pathogens interlock distinct host compartments to facilitate infection.
8. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Plant Biology

   Repression of CHROMOMETHYLASE 3 prevents epigenetic collateral damage in Arabidopsis

   Ranjith K Papareddy et al.

   MicroRNA-mediated repression of a DNA methyltransferase prevents the ectopic methylation of thousands of genes based on distinct chromatin features during embryogenesis, which can reduce expression and persist for weeks afterwards.
9. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Towards novel herbicide modes of action by inhibiting lysine biosynthesis in plants

   Tatiana P Soares da Costa et al.

   Proof-of-principle for a new herbicide mode of action through the identification of novel inhibitors of lysine biosynthesis with in planta efficacy.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    Two NLR immune receptors acquired high-affinity binding to a fungal effector through convergent evolution of their integrated domain

    Aleksandra Białas et al.

    The HMA domains of Pikp-1 and Pikm-1 NLR receptors have convergently evolved to bind AVR-PikD with high affinity through distinct evolutionary and biochemical paths.