Plant Biology

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1. 1. Plant Biology

   Tetraose steroidal glycoalkaloids from potato provide resistance against Alternaria solani and Colorado potato beetle

   Pieter J Wolters, Doret Wouters ... Vivianne GAA Vleeshouwers

   Chemical modifications of steroidal glycoalkaloids of potato can cause strong resistance against the necrotrophic early blight fungus as well as the Colorado potato beetle.
2. 1. Plant Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Carotenoid assembly regulates quinone diffusion and the Roseiflexus castenholzii reaction center-light harvesting complex architecture

   Jiyu Xin, Yang Shi ... Xiaoling Xu

   Investigations of the reaction center (RC)-light harvesting (LH) complex from an ancient chlorosome-less anoxygenic phototroph Roseiflexus castenholzii reveal the structural basis by which carotenoids assembly regulates the architecture and quinone exchange of bacterial RC-LH complex.
3. 1. Plant Biology

   Cell type-specific control of secondary cell wall formation by Musashi-type translational regulators in Arabidopsis

   Alicia Kairouani, Dominique Pontier ... Thierry Lagrange
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Interdependence of a kinase and its cognate substrate plasma membrane nanoscale dynamics underlies Arabidopsis response to viral infection

   Marie-Dominique Jolivet, Anne-Flore Deroubaix ... Véronique Germain
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   An ecological network approach for detecting and validating influential organisms for rice growth

   Masayuki Ushio, Hiroki Saito ... Atsushi J Nagano

   By leveraging quantitative environmental DNA metabarcoding and ecological network analysis, influential organisms in rice fields are identified, thereby revealing potential avenues for environmentally friendly agricultural practices.
6. 1. Plant Biology

   H1 restricts euchromatin-associated methylation pathways from heterochromatic encroachment

   C. Jake Harris, Zhenhui Zhong ... Steven E. Jacobsen
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of male-biased genes in a dioecious flowering plant

   Lei Zhao, Wei Zhou ... Hong-Tao Li
8. 1. Plant Biology

   Root Growth: Orchestrating pH levels in plants

   Elke Barbez

   The growth of a plant root relies on careful control of root surface pH.
9. 1. Plant Biology

   High-resolution kinetics of herbivore-induced plant volatile transfer reveal tightly clocked responses in neighboring plants

   Jamie M. Waterman, Lei Wang ... Matthias Erb
10. 1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    ECS1 and ECS2 suppress polyspermy and the formation of haploid plants by promoting double fertilization

    Yanbo Mao, Thomas Nakel ... Rita Groß-Hardt

    The endopeptidases ECS1 and ECS2 regulate double fertilization and their modulation is a powerful tool for the induction of haploids and the formation of triparental plants, which are two agronomically relevant breeding targets.