abstract：:Ecological, signaling, metabolic, and chemical processes in plant-microorganism systems and in plant-derived material may link the use of chlorinated pesticides in the environment with plant chloromethane emission. This neglected factor should be taken into account to assess global planetary budgets of chloromethane a...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Bringel F,Couée I

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of soil biodiversity in agriculture in general is currently increasing rapidly. However, almost all studies have stopped with the quantification of soil biodiversity effects on crops at harvest time, ignoring subsequent processes along the agrifood chain until food arrives on our plates. Here we develop ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Rillig MC,Lehmann A,Lehmann J,Camenzind T,Rauh C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The INDETERMINATE DOMAIN (IDD) family of transcriptional regulators controls a diversity of processes in a variety of plant tissues and organs and at different stages of plant development. Several recent reports describe the genetic characterization of IDD family members, including those that are likely to regulate C4...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Coelho CP,Huang P,Lee DY,Brutnell TP

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crop selection process has created a genetic bottleneck ultimately restricting breeding output. Wild relatives of major crops as well as the so-called 'neglected plant' species represent a reservoir of genetic diversity that remains underutilized. These species could be used as a tool to discover new alleles of ag...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Jacob P,Avni A,Bendahmane A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimensionless numbers are ubiquitous in the physical sciences because they provide insight into physical processes, organize large quantities of data, facilitate 'scale analysis' and establish 'similarity'. Here I explore the use of dimensionless numbers in plant biology, focusing on the expansive growth rate of plant...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ortega JKE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemp has been an important crop throughout human history for food, fiber, and medicine. Despite significant progress made by the international research community, the basic biology of hemp plants remains insufficiently understood. Clear objectives are needed to guide future research. As a semi-domesticated plant, hemp...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Schluttenhofer C,Yuan L

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has shown that changing the photoperiod induces stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. It has particularly dramatic consequences in cytokinin-deficient plants and clock mutants. Here, we argue that studying the impact of an altered photoperiod will provide novel insights into the circadian clock, factors regulati...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Nitschke S,Cortleven A,Schmülling T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the pathogenesis-related protein 1 (PR-1) family are among the most abundantly produced proteins in plants on pathogen attack, and PR-1 gene expression has long been used as a marker for salicylic acid-mediated disease resistance. However, despite considerable interest over several decades, their requir...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Breen S,Williams SJ,Outram M,Kobe B,Solomon PS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both plants and animals, defense against pathogens relies on a complex surveillance system for signs of danger. Danger signals may originate from the infectious agent or from the host itself. Immunogenic plant host factors can be roughly divided into two categories: molecules which are passively released upon cell ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gust AA,Pruitt R,Nürnberger T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins often act in complexes assembled via protein-protein interaction domains. The sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain is one of the most prominent interaction domains in animals and is present in proteins of diverse functions. This domain allows head-to-tail closed oligomerisation or polymer formation resulting in h...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Denay G,Vachon G,Dumas R,Zubieta C,Parcy F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algae are (mostly) photosynthetic eukaryotes that occupy multiple branches of the tree of life, and are vital for planet function and health. In this review, we highlight a transformative period in studies of the evolution and functioning of this extraordinary group of organisms and their potential for novel applicati...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Brodie J,Chan CX,De Clerck O,Cock JM,Coelho SM,Gachon C,Grossman AR,Mock T,Raven JA,Smith AG,Yoon HS,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image analysis has become a powerful technique for most plant scientists. In recent years dozens of image analysis tools have been published in plant science journals. These tools cover the full spectrum of plant scales, from single cells to organs and canopies. However, the field of plant image analysis remains in it...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lobet G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plastid originated 1.5 billion years ago through a primary endosymbiosis involving a heterotrophic eukaryote and an ancient cyanobacterium. Phylogenetic and biochemical evidence suggests that the incipient endosymbiont interacted with an obligate intracellular chlamydial pathogen that housed it in an inclusion. Th...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Cenci U,Bhattacharya D,Weber APM,Colleoni C,Subtil A,Ball SG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants downregulate their defences against insect herbivores upon impending competition for light. This has long been considered a resource trade-off, but recent advances in plant physiology and ecology suggest this mechanism is more complex. Here we propose that to understand why plants regulate and balance growth an...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： de Vries J,Evers JB,Poelman EH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although aluminum (Al) toxicity represents a global agricultural problem, the biochemical targets for Al remain elusive. Recently identified Arabidopsis mutants with increased Al tolerance provide evidence of DNA as one of the main targets of Al. This insight could lead the way for novel strategies to generate Al-tole...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Eekhout T,Larsen P,De Veylder L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved a large number of cell surface-resident receptor-like kinases (RLKs) and receptor-like proteins (RLPs), many of which are implicated in sensing extrinsic and intrinsic signals, and govern diverse cellular responses. The signaling pathways mediated by RLKs and RLPs converge at a small group of RLKs,...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ma X,Xu G,He P,Shan L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the molecular and cellular basis of self-incompatibility leading to self-pollen rejection in the Brassicaceae has been extensively studied, relatively little attention has been paid to compatible pollen recognition and the corresponding cellular responses in the stigmatic papillae. This is now changing because r...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Doucet J,Lee HK,Goring DR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in host-pathogen interactions. Small RNAs such as microRNAs are implicated in regulating plant transcripts involved in immunity and defence. Surprisingly, RNAs with silencing properties can be translocated from plant hosts to various invading pathogens and pests. ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Chaloner T,van Kan JAL,Grant-Downton RT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, mitochondrial function is associated with hundreds of metabolic reactions. To facilitate these reactions, charged substrates and cofactors move across the charge-impermeable inner mitochondrial membrane via specialized transporters and must work cooperatively with the electrochemical gradient which is essen...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lee CP,Millar AH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent methodological advances have uncovered tremendous microbial diversity cohabiting in the same host plant, and many of these microbes cause disease. In this review we highlight how the presence of other pathogen species, or other pathogen genotypes, within a plant can affect key components of host-pathogen intera...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Tollenaere C,Susi H,Laine AL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is challenging to understand how plants adapt flowering time to novel environmental conditions, such as global warming, while maintaining plasticity in response to daily fluctuating temperatures. A recent study shows a role for transposons and highlights the need to investigate how these different responses evolved...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Pajoro A,Verhage L,Immink RGH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a son of an engineer who traveled widely during his career, Heribert Hirt began his life in the exotic country of Iran, before receiving his high-school education in Germany and then studying biochemistry at the University of Cape Town and then later at the University of Vienna, from where he received his PhD in 19...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Hirt H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between source organs (exporters of photoassimilates) and sink organs (importers of fixed carbon) has a pivotal role in carbohydrate assimilation and partitioning during plant growth and development. Plant productivity is enhanced by sink strength and source activity, which are regulated by a complex sig...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Yu SM,Lo SF,Ho TD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (PCD) is crucial in plant organogenesis and survival. In this review the involvement of mitochondria and chloroplasts in PCD execution is critically assessed. Recent findings support a central role for mitochondria in PCD, with newly identified components of the mitochondrial electron transport c...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Van Aken O,Van Breusegem F

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faced with an accelerating rate of environmental change and the associated need for a more sustainable, low-input agriculture, the urgent new challenge for crop science is to find ways to introduce greater diversity to cropping systems. However, there is a dearth of generic formalism in programs seeking to diversify c...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Litrico I,Violle C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study reports partner manipulation for an interaction that was considered a reward-for-defence mutualism. Secretions of lycaenid caterpillars altered ant locomotion and aggressiveness, likely by manipulating dopaminergic signalling. This study opens the question whether such manipulation is common and whether...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Heil M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES (SERKs) are coreceptors for diverse extracellular signals. SERKs are involved in a wide array of developmental and immune related processes first discovered in Arabidopsis. Recent work demonstrates the evolutionary conservation of SERKs in all multicellular plants, and highl...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Schwessinger B,Rathjen JP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroProteins (miPs) are short, usually single-domain proteins that, in analogy to miRNAs, heterodimerize with their targets and exert a dominant-negative effect. Recent bioinformatic attempts to identify miPs have resulted in a list of potential miPs, many of which lack the defining characteristics of a miP. In this ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Eguen T,Straub D,Graeff M,Wenkel S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds from various angiosperm species produce polysaccharide mucilage facilitating germination and, therefore, conferring major evolutionary advantages. The seed epidermal mucilage secretory cells (MSCs) undergo numerous tightly controlled changes of their extracellular matrixes (ECMs) throughout seed development. Rec...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Francoz E,Ranocha P,Burlat V,Dunand C

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently established links between the tomato cyclophilin A-type protein DIAGEOTROPICA and the regulation of polar auxin transport provide first mechanistic insights into the function of this enigmatic locus. ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Retzer K,Luschnig C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial amounts of nutrients are lost from soils via leaching and as gaseous emissions. These losses can be environmentally damaging and expensive in terms of lost agricultural production. Plants have evolved many traits to optimize nutrient acquisition, including the formation of arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM), asso...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Cavagnaro TR,Bender SF,Asghari HR,Heijden MGAV

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current agricultural practice depends on a wide use of pesticides, bactericides, and fungicides. Increased demand for organic products indicates consumer preference for reduced chemical use. Therefore, there is a need to develop novel sustainable strategies for crop protection and enhancement that do not rely on genet...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Kanchiswamy CN,Malnoy M,Maffei ME

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TCP gene family encodes plant-specific transcription factors involved in growth and development. Equally important are the interactions between TCP factors and other pathways extending far beyond development, as they have been found to regulate a variety of hormonal pathways and signaling cascades. Recent advances...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lopez JA,Sun Y,Blair PB,Mukhtar MS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vernalization is the promotion of flowering in response to prolonged exposure to low temperatures. In Arabidopsis, FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a suppressor of flowering, is repressed by low temperatures but the mechanism leading to the initial decrease in FLC transcription remains a mystery. No mutants that block the rep...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Helliwell CA,Anderssen RS,Robertson M,Finnegan EJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS)- and calcium- dependent signaling pathways play well-established roles during plant innate immunity. Chloroplasts host major biosynthetic pathways and have central roles in energy production, redox homeostasis, and retrograde signaling. However, the organelle's importance in immunity has ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Stael S,Kmiecik P,Willems P,Van Der Kelen K,Coll NS,Teige M,Van Breusegem F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of specialized metabolites enables plants to respond to biotic and abiotic stresses, but requires the sequential action of multiple enzymes. To facilitate swift production and to avoid leakage of potentially toxic and labile intermediates, many of the biosynthetic pathways are thought to organize in mult...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Laursen T,Møller BL,Bassard JE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:January 1974: In the dark of the electron microscope room, Paola Bonfante started up and looked again at the greenish screen; she was indeed looking at a round body very similar to a bacterium. Unexpectedly, this faint body was inside the cytoplasm of a mycorrhizal symbiotic fungus, which was inside the root cells of ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Bonfante P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although plant embryogenesis is usually studied in the context of seed development, there are many alternative roads to embryo initiation. These include somatic embryogenesis in tissue culture and microspore embryogenesis, both widely used in breeding and crop propagation, but also include other modes of ectopic embry...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Radoeva T,Weijers D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine (Ser) has a fundamental role in metabolism and signaling in living organisms. In plants, the existence of different pathways of Ser biosynthesis has complicated our understanding of this amino acid homeostasis. The photorespiratory glycolate pathway has been considered to be of major importance, whereas the non...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ros R,Muñoz-Bertomeu J,Krueger S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unless there are mechanisms to selectively retain membrane proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or in the Golgi apparatus, they automatically proceed downstream to the plasma or vacuole membranes. Two types of coat protein complex I (COPI)-interacting motifs in the cytosolic tails of membrane proteins seem to fa...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gao C,Cai Y,Wang Y,Kang BH,Aniento F,Robinson DG,Jiang L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00