Plant Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Environment as a limiting factor of the historical global spread of mungbean

   Pei-Wen Ong, Ya-Ping Lin ... Cheng-Ruei Lee
2. 1. Plant Biology

   Effector target-guided engineering of an integrated domain expands the disease resistance profile of a rice NLR immune receptor

   Josephine HR Maidment, Motoki Shimizu ... Mark J Banfield

   Effector target-guided engineering has developed plant NLR immune receptors that bind and recognize stealthy pathogen effector proteins, demonstrating new disease resistance profiles in planta, and offering a promising approach to protect crops against plant pathogens.
3. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   The autophagy receptor NBR1 directs the clearance of photodamaged chloroplasts

   Han Nim Lee, Jenu Varghese Chacko ... Marisa S Otegui

   Photodamaged chloroplasts are targeted for vacuolar degradation through microautophagy by the NBR1 autophagy receptor without the participation of the canonical autophagy machinery.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Tetraose steroidal glycoalkaloids from potato can provide complete protection against fungi and insects

   Pieter J. Wolters, Doret Wouters ... Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers
5. 1. Plant Biology

   Domestication and lowland adaptation of coastal preceramic maize from Paredones, Peru

   Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, Guillermo G Hernández-Robles ... Rafael Montiel

   Ancient maize (~6700-5000 BP) from Paredones, Peru, originated in Mesoamerica, suffered a rapid domestication process, and fast coastal migration to Peru, involving adaptation to both Mesoamerican and South American lowlands with no relevant introgression from teosinte mexicana.
6. 1. Plant Biology
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   The photosystem I supercomplex from a primordial green alga Ostreococcus tauri harbors three light-harvesting complex trimers

   Asako Ishii, Jianyu Shan ... Jun Minagawa

   The structure of the photosystem I (PSI) supercomplex in Ostreococcus tauri has revealed a unique hybrid of both plant-type and green algal-type PSI supercomplexes with three Lhcp trimers located at the ‘state 2’ position.
7. 1. Plant Biology

   Computational modeling of cambium activity provides a regulatory framework for simulating radial plant growth

   Ivan Lebovka, Bruno Hay Mele ... Thomas Greb

   Radial plant growth produces large parts of terrestrial biomass and can be computationally simulated with the help of an instructive framework of intercellular communication loops.
8. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   Vernalization-triggered expression of the antisense transcript COOLAIR is mediated by CBF genes

   Myeongjune Jeon, Goowon Jeong ... Ilha Lee

   CBFs, the central regulators of low-temperature signaling, have a function to directly activate the expression of COOLAIR, an antisense RNA of FLC, during vernalization process, but COOLAIR is not required for the vernalization response.
9. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   Flowering: Keeping it cool

   Vy Nguyen, Iain Searle

   A well-established model for how plants start the process of flowering in periods of cold weather may need revisiting.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    RPG acts as a central determinant for infectosome formation and cellular polarization during intracellular rhizobial infections

    Beatrice Lace, Chao Su ... Thomas Ott

    Infectosomes enabling polar progression of infection threads in legume roots require the symbioisis-related RPG protein that functions as an organizer of these structures.