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Living plant collections hold an immense wealth of plant diversity and have critical educational, scientific and conservation roles. This Perspective examines current data management practices of living collections and advocates for higher data standards and a robust and inclusive global data ecosystem.
The concept of plant iron nutrition has been largely based on two strategies involving iron reduction in the rhizosphere or the secretion of phytosiderophores. Here the authors highlight the importance of microbial siderophores for plant iron nutrition.
This Perspective highlights N4-acetylcytidine as an emerging RNA modification in plants that regulates development and stress responses by modulating mRNA stability, translation and splicing. Manipulation of N4-acetylcytidine offers promising strategies for crop improvement.
Recent advances have brought virus-induced gene editing closer to achieving its promise to simplify and democratize plant gene editing by weaning it from its dependence on tissue-culture-based transformation.
Future genome editing in plants will mimic the natural evolutionary processes that shape genomes. It will be used to reshape plant genomes in a manner that could have happened naturally, but more precisely and more rapidly.
A growing body of evidence suggests that plant interactions with Streptomyces species confer resilience to drought. In this Perspective, Liu et al. discuss this potential co-evolutionary relationship and how it can be exploited to achieve sustainable agriculture in a hotter and drier world.
The authors present the design principles of a synthetic earthmoss (Physcomitrium patens) genome. To aid future genome design projects, they also develop GenoDesigner, a software package that provides users with an intuitive graphical interface to efficiently manipulate genomic sequences.
In this Perspective, Vincent Merckx and colleagues discuss an important but overlooked aspect of mycorrhizal interactions, mycoheterotrophy, in the context of recent arguments about the importance of these interactions to forest functioning.
In this Perspective, Mascher et al. look back on 30 years of genetic and genomic research in cereal crops. Genome sequences have revealed common evolutionary patterns as well as differences between species and will support applications in breeding.
In this Perspective, Finger and Möhring discuss the emergence of pesticide-free crop production systems in Europe in the context of real-world examples and highlight the barriers to adoption of this cropping strategy.
This Perspective discusses six regulatory options following the proposition of the European Commission to amend European Union’s legislation for plants obtained with new genomic techniques.
This Perspective presents an historical overview and recent advances on adenylate cyclases (ACs) and cAMP signalling in plants, including an exploration of the active AC functions moonlighting within multifunctional protein complexes.
The authors hypothesize that effector-triggered immunity in plants is a quarantining mechanism that prevents disease by inducing localized acquired resistance, a strong defence response that occurs around the cells containing the pathogen.
The authors revisit the array of phenotypes linked to FERONIA in an attempt to identify a unifying feature behind its many biological and biochemical functions. They propose that the contribution of FERONIA to monitoring turgor-dependent cell wall tension may explain its pleiotropy.
Plants often need to bend their organs during their growth and development. It is a complex process, and the different mechanisms involved are discussed in the light of recent findings about genes, signalling, modelling and biomechanics.
This Perspective reviews recent advances in crop transformation technologies that promise to lead to the widespread adoption of genome editing in crop species.
CLE peptides control stem-cell activity in meristems. Recent studies in Marchantia and Arabidopsis support the idea that an ancestral function of CLE peptides was to promote stem cells. After gene duplication in angiosperms, a subset of CLE peptides became stem-cell suppressors.
This Perspective analyses how biological and economic factors determine whether a commercial plant breeder will opt for a hybrid breeding system, and finds that the cost of seed production is a key factor.
Plant malectin-like receptor kinases (also known as CrRLK1Ls) have functions in plant development such as pollen tube growth and cell wall integrity sensing. This Perspective reviews recent evidence suggesting a critical role of these receptors in plant immunity.
Remote sensing methods enable detection of solar-induced chlorophyll a fluorescence. However, to unleash the full potential of this signal, intensive cross-disciplinary work is required to harmonize biophysical and ecophysiological studies.
