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Grain number per panicle (GNP) is a critical yield component trait of rice. Here, the authors clone a MAPKKK encoding gene GNP3 positively regulating grain yield and show its role in rice panicle development by interacting and destabilizing ethylene biosynthesis related enzyme SADENOSYLMETHIONINE SYNTHETASE 1.

How landscapes are arranged affects soil pathogenic fungi worldwide. The authors reveal the global pattern and pronounced scale-dependency of landscape complexity and land-cover quantity on soil pathogenic fungal diversity.

Azoxy products have rarely been synthesized using enzyme catalysts. Herein, the authors report that fungal unspecific peroxygenases are promising catalysts for synthesizing azoxy products from simple aniline starting materials.

Electronic wound bandages have to balance conformability and wound healing properties. Here, the authors develop a smart patch (iSAFE) using biomaterials with bioelectronics to facilitate permeability with waterproofing. This achieves intelligent wound management with real-time wound monitoring and active therapy.

Intramolecular proton relays are proposed to enhance oxygen evolution for heterogeneous (hydro)oxide electrocatalysts, but molecular-level evidence remains limited. Now it has been shown, using an aza-fused microporous polymer with Ni–Fe sites, that adjacent Ni³⁺–OH sites relay protons from Fe⁴⁺=O, accelerating the water nucleophilic attack pathway and achieving high turnover frequencies with pH-tunable kinetics.

Diatoms are marine algae with an important role in global photosynthetic carbon fixation. Here, the authors present the 2.38 Å cryo-EM structure of photosystem I (PSI) in complex with its 24 fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding (FCPI) antenna proteins from the diatom Chaetoceros gracilis, which provides mechanistic insights into light-energy harvesting, transfer and quenching of the PSI-FCPI supercomplex.

Genomic and phenomic screens of 827 wheat landraces from the A. E. Watkins collection provide insight into the wheat population genetic background, unlocking many agronomic traits and revealing haplotypes that could potentially be used to improve modern wheat cultivars.

Hybrid metal halides show sharp or broad emission from free excitons or self-trapped excitons depending on the structural dimensionality. Here, the authors realize control over both emission types through pressure regulation of quasi−1D samples.

Here, Wang et al. show that heat-inactivated Bifidobacterium adolescentis mediates maintenance of host intestinal barrier through intestinal stem cells activation, which can potentially have translational implications for alleviation of colon senescence and related diseases.

High-quality assemblies of 15 diploid and 35 allotetraploid cotton accessions are analyzed in graph-based pan-genomes, providing insights into genome dynamics and regulatory control of fiber transcriptomes under varying ploidy and selection pressures.

Developing electronic skins for sensing the spatial location of objects beyond two-dimensional space is difficult. The authors present a flexible, lightweight, and transparent electronic skin for non-contact accurate 3D motion sensing. This achieves micron-level precision, reducing complexity and power consumption.

Incorporation of a ‘liquid diode’ into a wearable electronic platform enhances comfort and stability by shunting away sweat as it accumulates.

The authors report an in situ investigation of interfacial hydrogen spillover in Pd/ZIF-8 structures with X-ray and Raman techniques. A mechanistic picture of how Pd/ZIF-8 catalyst mediate alkyne semihydrogenation to alkynes is described.

The defect-rich surface of wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells leads to severe interfacial carrier loss and phase segregation. Here, the authors reconstruct the surface through nano-polishing followed by passivation, achieving certified efficiency of 33.1% for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.

TAD hierarchy demonstrates cell-to-cell variability, leading to the development of numerous callers. Here, authors present a comprehensive benchmark of TAD hierarchy callers and introduce the ‘air conditioner’ model to illustrate TAD hierarchy’s role in transcription.

Structural and biochemical studies show PU.1 facilitates C/EBPa binding to the CX3CR1 nucleosome by interacting with histone H2A and shifting the DNA position, leading to unwrapping of nucleosomal DNA and opening of the H1-condensed nucleosome array.

A general process for a room-temperature, homogeneous Suzuki–Miyaura-type polymerization is reported, demonstrating a route for the scalable production of device-quality conjugated polymers.

Structural defects in conjugated copolymers are severely detrimental to the optoelectronic properties. Here the authors show an efficient room temperature polycondensation protocol which implements aryl disulfide C-S activation to produce defect-minimized semiconducting conjugated copolymers.

Here authors use wedge molecules to directionally transmit mechanical force within three-dimensional crystalline frameworks. They fabricate various crystalline framework nanosheets including MOF, COF, and coordination polymer nanosheets.

Peptide aldehydes are an important class of biomolecules, playing essential roles in various living systems, and there is an ongoing demand for the efficient synthesis of peptide aldehydes. Herein, the authors report the electrooxidative ring-opening reaction via C‒N bond cleavage for the synthesis of unnatural peptide aldehydes.

Scorpions have maintained the primary anatomical features of their Paleozoic arthropod ancestors. Here, the authors report the genome sequence of Mesobuthus martensiiand highlight evidence of genetic and morphological evolution that represents a unique adaptation model of arthropods.

Polymer light-emitting diodes promise cheap and flexible lighting and displays, but their fabrication is hindered by high-vacuum methods for creating cathodes. Zheng et al.show an all-solution processing approach to polymer diodes that removes this obstacle, offering roll-to-roll fabrication of devices.

This study maps the single-axon projections of 7,180 hypothalamic peptidergic neurons in male mice and uncovers extensive collateralization, topographic target innervation and modular intra-hypothalamic organization.

The Arabidopsis SWI/SNF complexes regulate chromatin structure and gene expression, and contain many subunits, including BRAHMA. Two homologous BRAHMA-interacting proteins, namely BRIP1 and BRIP2, are identified as new core subunits of the SWI/SNF complex.

Multi-omics profiling of matched normal colon, primary tumor, and liver metastasis from colorectal carcinoma patients based on Hi-C, ATAC-seq and RNA-seq technologies sheds light on the changes and regulatory mechanisms of 3D genomics during the tumorigenesis and metastasis of colorectal carcinoma.

Series of novel PABIs have been obtained by the condensation polymerization of aromatic bifluorides with di(benzimidazolyl)benzenes via a C–N coupling reaction. PABI exhibited zigzag molecular chain structure with a high free volume fraction, and they showed relatively high glass-transition temperatures (T_g>240), good thermal stability with high decomposition temperatures (T_d>450) and excellent solubility in organic solvents. The mechanical behavior of the PABI polymers suggested that they can be considered as a new class of high-performance polymers.