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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Plant Biology

    Principles of mRNA targeting via the Arabidopsis m6A-binding protein ECT2

    Laura Arribas-Hernández, Sarah Rennie ... Peter Brodersen
    The Arabidopsis N6-methyladenosine (m6A)-binding protein ECT2 binds to m6A in the canonical RR[m6A]CH motif, not a plant-specific motif as previously thought, and its intrinsically disordered region contributes to mRNA binding via contacts with U-rich motifs.
    1. Ecology
    2. Plant Biology

    Wild cereal grain consumption among Early Holocene foragers of the Balkans predates the arrival of agriculture

    Emanuela Cristiani, Anita Radini ... Dušan Borić
    A consistent pattern of consumption of Triticeae tribe grasses documented in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans since the Early Mesolithic might have facilitated a quick uptake of domesticated cereals due to a developed cultural taste and specific stone tool processing technology.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Plant Biology

    The decrotonylase FoSir5 facilitates mitochondrial metabolic state switching in conidial germination of Fusarium oxysporum

    Ning Zhang, Limin Song ... Wenxing Liang
    The decrotonylase FoSir5 modulates ATP synthesis that supports conidial germination in Fusarium oxysporum through coordinated lysine decrotonylation in different organelles.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    A coupled mechano-biochemical model for cell polarity guided anisotropic root growth

    Marco Marconi, Marcal Gallemi ... Krzysztof Wabnik
    The spatial-temporal computer model of plant root meristem combines biomechanics and biochemical scales to reveal design principles underlying cell polarity and anisotropic growth during root development.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Photosynthesis: Oxygen overload

    Britta Foerster
    A structure that helps algae photosynthesize when carbon dioxide levels are low may also play a role during hyperoxia conditions.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    The induction of pyrenoid synthesis by hyperoxia and its implications for the natural diversity of photosynthetic responses in Chlamydomonas

    Peter Neofotis, Joshua Temple ... David M Kramer
    The algal pyrenoid is formed at high O2 levels, even when CO2 is high, implying that a product of photosynthesis, most likely H2O2 acts as a signal.
    1. Plant Biology

    Expression of a CO2-permeable aquaporin enhances mesophyll conductance in the C4 species Setaria viridis

    Maria Ermakova, Hannah Osborn ... Susanne von Caemmerer
    The SiPIP2;7 aquaporin is a functional CO2 pore that can be used to improve CO2 diffusion at the interface between the airspace and leaf mesophyll which limits C4 photosynthesis.
    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.