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Cereal protein biofortification can improve nutrition while maintaining yield and lowering environmental impact. This Review shows how genetics and breeding can enhance protein quality in staple cereals to support healthier and more sustainable diets.
Engineering genome structural variations can improve plant traits and support sustainable agriculture. This Review summarizes recent advances in large DNA fragment editing and discusses their applications and future prospects in precise breeding.
Plants face constant microbial threats and have evolved highly effective inducible immune systems, culminating in systemic acquired resistance. Plant systemic acquired resistance and mammalian trained immunity share striking similarities, which are explored in this Review.
This Review highlights recent advances in polyploid genome analysis and breeding, emphasizing methodological innovations and the importance of deciphering genome complexity to accelerate genetic improvement in polyploid crops.
Vacuolar sugar transporters have a key role in plant sugar homeostasis. This Review discusses recent advances concerning the interconnected roles of vacuolar sugar transporters from different protein families in plant development and stress responses.
This Review discusses the uses of grafting in basic and applied research and summarizes our current understanding of the mechanisms involved in the exchange of genes, genomes, RNA molecules and proteins between grafted plants.
This Review discusses the occurrence of non-canonical pathways in plant metabolic networks identified by modelling predictions and recent experimental evidence. It highlights how such non-canonical pathways can and should be considered for metabolic engineering to obtain valuable compounds.
Hormonal control of plant physiology involves widespread m6A RNA modification. This Review discusses the crosstalk and reciprocal regulation between m6A and plant hormones, and their contributions to development and stress responses.
This Review summarizes recent progress in the understanding of plant apoplastic diffusion barriers, their formation and their function in an environmental context. Open questions and promising research directions in this field are addressed.
The production of the anticancer drug paclitaxel depends on the extraction of the intermediate baccatin III from Taxus species. This Review highlights recent progress in genome-level analysis of paclitaxel and baccatin III biosynthesis based on sequenced Taxus genomes to guide the future discovery of biosynthesis genes.
Thermogenesis, which is present in a small but diverse range of extant plant lineages, increases the odds of pollination by providing heat rewards for insect pollinators and enhancing the transmission of attractants. In this Review, exploration of the fossil record uncovers the evolutionary history of thermogenic plants, revealing a close relationship with insect pollinators since the Palaeozoic era.
This Review aims to define an updated nomenclature for plasma membrane domains in plants. The authors are experts in this field who unite here in an effort to eliminate the ambiguities and confusion that have persisted until now.
In this Review, Bergis-Ser and colleagues discuss how chromatin dynamics and nucleic acid metabolism impinge on genome integrity, both as sources of spontaneous lesions and as key contributors to the DNA damage response in plants.
This study collected and analysed 3,517 de novo assemblies from 1,575 plant species sequenced since 2000, including 793 newly sequenced species in the past three years. A database named N3: plants, genomes, technologies was developed to accommodate the metadata associated with the sequenced genomes.
The plant DNA damage response ensures genomic stability by controlling interconnected networks of DNA repair and cell division proteins. Decoding these networks offers potential solutions to the challenges of climate-related stress and food security.
Brassinosteroids are perceived by the plasma membrane receptor BRI1. This Review summarizes what is known about the multi-layered interaction network that fine-tunes the activity and dynamics of BRI1 at the cell surface.
This Review summarizes recent knowledge and offers new insight about the role of strigolactone signalling in the integration of nutritional and metabolic status, as well as its consequences for plant development and architecture.
Pollen coat is important in protecting plant male gametes. The authors review genes and proteins involved in its biosynthesis, transport and regulation processes in rice and Arabidopsis, and highlight the usage of pollen coat-deficient mutants in plant breeding.
This review explores recent advances in research on the regulatory and evolutionary mechanisms of plant specialized metabolism and extrapolates these findings to medicinal plants that synthesize rare molecules.
This Review summarizes our current knowledge from genomics and fossil records about the evolutionary transition from charophycean algae to embryophytes, with a focus on the progressive assembly of the embryophyte genetic innovations during terrestrialization.
