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    1. Plant Biology

    Functional diversification gave rise to allelic specialization in a rice NLR immune receptor pair

    Juan Carlos De la Concepcion, Javier Vega Benjumea ... Mark J Banfield
    Biochemical and in planta studies reveal how a rice immune receptor pair has coevolved to deliver immune responses, an important step towards understanding and engineering bespoke resistance to crop pathogens that threaten food security.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Control of Arabidopsis shoot stem cell homeostasis by two antagonistic CLE peptide signalling pathways

    Jenia Schlegel, Gregoire Denay ... Rüdiger GW Simon
    Plant meristem size and shape is controlled by two intertwined regional feedback signals that are mediated by secreted peptides.
    1. Plant Biology

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

    Kangmei Zhao, Deze Kong ... Seung Yon Rhee
    A previously uncharacterized type of bivalent chromatin plays an important role controlling the timely induction of genes involved in making a potent defense metabolite upon a pathogen signal in Arabidopsis.
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    SUMOylation contributes to proteostasis of the chloroplast protein import receptor TOC159 during early development

    Sonia Accossato, Felix Kessler, Venkatasalam Shanmugabalaji
    SUMOylation contributes to the fine-tuning of the proteostatic equilibrium of essential chloroplast protein import receptor TOC159 at early plant development.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

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

    Samuel James Watson, Na Li ... R Paul Jarvis
    The small ubiquitin-like modifier system directly regulates components of the chloroplast protein import apparatus, that is, TOC proteins, to control chloroplast biogenesis and plant development.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Members of the ELMOD protein family specify formation of distinct aperture domains on the Arabidopsis pollen surface

    Yuan Zhou, Prativa Amom ... Anna A Dobritsa
    Pollen aperture patterning in Arabidopsis is controlled by members of the ELMOD protein family, whose expression levels in developing pollen lineage are tightly regulated.
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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

    Meijing Li, Jianfei Ma ... Sen-Fang Sui
    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.
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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

    Zachary Dobson, Safa Ahad ... Yuval Mazor
    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.
    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, Pratchaya Pramoj Na Ayutthaya ... Detlef Weigel
    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.
    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, Siobhán L Bridson ... Liam Dolan
    The body plan of the 407-million-year-old plant fossil Asteroxylon mackiei comprised three developmentally distinct systems of axes.