Plant Biology

Plant Biology

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    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
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Strip cropping designed for maintaining productivity increases ground beetle biodiversity

    Luuk Croijmans, Fogelina Cuperus ... Erik H Poelman
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Plant Biology

    The phytoplasma SAP54 effector acts as a molecular matchmaker for leafhopper vectors by targeting plant MADS-box factor SVP

    Zigmunds Orlovskis, Archana Singh ... Saskia A Hogenhout
    Phytoplasma effector SAP54 hijacks previously unknown MADS-box protein roles in plant-insect interactions by modulating plant biotic stress responses to male leafhoppers and facilitating female attraction and reproduction on male-exposed leaves.
    1. Plant Biology

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

    Hanbin Bao, Yanan Wang ... Yangrong Cao
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Plant Biology

    A florigen-expressing subpopulation of companion cells expresses other small proteins and reveals a nitrogen-sensitive FT repressor

    Hiroshi Takagi, Shogo Ito ... Takato Imaizumi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Plant Biology

    Natural variation in salt-induced changes in root:shoot ratio reveals SR3G as a negative regulator of root suberization and salt resilience in Arabidopsis

    Maryam Rahmati Ishka, Hayley Sussman ... Magdalena M Julkowska
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Plant Biology

    Molecular dynamics simulations illuminate the role of sequence context in the ELF3-PrD-based temperature sensing mechanism in plants

    Richard J Lindsay, Rafael Giordano Viegas ... Sonya M Hanson
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Plant Biology

    Root cap cell corpse clearance limits microbial colonization in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Nyasha Charura, Ernesto Llamas ... Alga Zuccaro
    Programmed cell death during plant development (dPCD) is crucial for Arabidopsis thaliana root defense, limiting microbial invasion and maintaining a balanced relationship with beneficial microbes.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

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

    Masanori Izumi, Sakuya Nakamura ... Shinya Hagihara
    A plant autophagy pathway transports chloroplast stroma and envelope components into the vacuole through the division and encapsulation of the site of chloroplasts that is associated with developing autophagosome.
    1. Plant Biology

    Structural basis for molecular assembly of fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins in a diatom photosystem I supercomplex

    Koji Kato, Yoshiki Nakajima ... Ryo Nagao
    The molecular mechanisms of FCPI assembly and selective binding are revealed through comparison of PSI-FCPI structures in two diatom species.
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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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