abstract：:Phyllotaxis, the geometry of leaf arrangement around stems, determines plant architecture. Molecular interactions coordinating the formation of phyllotactic patterns have mainly been studied in multicellular shoot apical meristems of flowering plants. Phyllotaxis evolved independently in the major land plant lineages....

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Véron E,Vernoux T,Coudert Y

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon accumulation is a key defence against herbivorous pests, but may have wider detrimental impacts if plants become unpalatable for livestock. We argue that some herbivores are better adapted to silicon-rich diets than others; herbivore anatomy and physiology, and the nature of silicon deposition, are crucial to ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Johnson SN,Hartley SE,Moore BD

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that a multitude of microbial processes are involved in nitric oxide production and consumptions in the pedosphere. Due to its dual function as a toxic metabolite and signaling compound, we speculate that this pedospheric nitric oxide of microbial origin can significantly interact with mycorrhi...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Hu B,Flemetakis E,Rennenberg H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant water isotopic compositions are widely used to describe patterns of soils water uptake. Although valuable, the technique only provides relative uptake distributions, which can be misleading. Without information on total transpiration, the technique cannot address central questions on drought response, competitio...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Rasmussen CR,Kulmatiski A

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Breeding new cultivars allowing reduced fertilization and irrigation is a major challenge. International efforts towards this goal focus on noninvasive methodologies, platforms for high-throughput phenotyping of large plant populations, and quantitative description of root traits as predictors of crop performance in e...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Rongsawat T,Peltier JB,Boyer JC,Véry AA,Sentenac H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin has diverse functions in plant development and stress tolerance, with recent evidence showing a beneficial role in plant biotic stress tolerance. It has been hypothesized that pathogenic invasion causes the immediate generation of melatonin, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and reactive nitrogen species (RNS),...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Zhao D,Wang H,Chen S,Yu D,Reiter RJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food security is an ongoing problem, and current staple foods are not sufficient to overcome challenges such as the present COVID-19 pandemic. We propose here that small millets have the potential to become new staple crops, especially in hunger hotspots. Currently, the absence of intensification of millet farming, la...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Muthamilarasan M,Prasad M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant nutrient acquisition is tightly regulated by resource availability and metabolic needs, implying the existence of communication between roots and shoots to ensure their integration at the whole-plant level. Here, we focus on systemic signaling pathways controlling nitrogen (N) nutrition, achieved both by the roo...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gautrat P,Laffont C,Frugier F,Ruffel S

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Some pri-miRNAs can code for short peptides called micropeptides (miPEPs) and it has been suggested that these peptides positively regulate the accumulation of their associated miRNAs. Recent data further support this model and point towards the potential for miPEPs to be used in the agricultural sector to improve cro...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Prasad A,Sharma N,Prasad M

更新日期：2020-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugars and nitrate play a major role in providing carbon and nitrogen in plants. Understanding how plants sense these nutrients is crucial, most notably for crop improvement. The mechanisms underlying sugar and nitrate sensing are complex and involve moonlighting proteins such as the nitrate transporter NRT1.1/NFP6.3 ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Fichtner F,Dissanayake IM,Lacombe B,Barbier F

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although abundant in soils, iron (Fe) is poorly bioavailable for plants. Improving Fe uptake in crops, enabling them to grow in Fe-depleted soils, has become a major focal interest. The secretion of Fe-mobilizing coumarins by plant roots recently emerged as an important factor allowing nongrass species to cope with lo...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Robe K,Izquierdo E,Vignols F,Rouached H,Dubos C

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormesis is a biphasic dose-response relationship with contrasting effects of low versus high doses of stress. Hormesis is rapidly developing in plant science research and has wide implications for risk assessment, stress biology, and agriculture. Here, we explore selected areas of importance to the concept of hormesi...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Agathokleous E,Kitao M,Calabrese EJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Together with sugars and proteins, lipids constitute the main carbon reserves in plants. Lipids are selectively recycled and catabolized for energy production during development and in response to environmental stresses. Autophagy is a major catabolic pathway, operating in the recycling of cellular components in eukar...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Barros JAS,Siqueira JAB,Cavalcanti JHF,Araújo WL,Avin-Wittenberg T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Waxy (Wx) gene that governs amylose synthesis is an old but widely used target in improving the quality of starchy crops. New genome-editing strategies are being deployed to create beneficial Wx alleles with finely tuned amylose content (AC). Precise targeting must be combined with traditional approaches to develo...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Huang L,Sreenivasulu N,Liu Q

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like communities of people, communities of cells must continuously communicate to thrive. Polypeptide signaling molecules that act as mobile ligands are widely used by eukaryotic organisms to transmit information between cells to coordinate developmental processes and responses to environmental cues. In plants, the CL...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Fletcher JC

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epicuticular waxes serve as a protective layer on plant aerial surfaces. The chemical reactions of wax biosynthesis are well understood, but little is known about the underlying regulatory mechanisms. New data from Yang et al. and Lange et al. argue that RNA degradation and silencing play a key role in regulating the ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Daszkowska-Golec A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton (H+) fluxes in plant roots play critical roles in maintaining root growth and facilitating plant responses to multiple soil stresses, including fluctuations in nutrient supply, salt infiltration, and water stress. Soil mining for nutrients and water, rates of nutrient uptake, and the modulation of cell expansio...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Siao W,Coskun D,Baluška F,Kronzucker HJ,Xu W

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing calls for improving terrestrial carbon sequestration and sustainable water use, scientists are faced with the challenge of predicting changes in carbon-water relations from organisms to landscapes. We propose an integrative framework to help in answering basic and applied questions pertaining to couple...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Maxwell TM,Silva LCR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to mammals, genomic imprinting primarily occurs in the endosperm in flowering plants. Nevertheless, the imprinting drivers and functions of imprinted genes remain poorly understood. Batista et al. identified the type I MADS-box transcription factor (TF) PHERES1 (PHE1) as a key regulator of some imprinted a...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Wang Y,Jiang H,Wang G

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woody plant (WP) declines have multifactorial determinants as well as a biological and economic reality. The vascular system of WPs involved in the transport of carbon, nitrogen, and water from sources to sinks has a seasonal activity, which places it at a central position for mediating plant-environment interactions ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Bettenfeld P,Fontaine F,Trouvelot S,Fernandez O,Courty PE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that ancient sickle harvesting led to tough rachises, but the other seed dispersal properties in crop progenitors are rarely discussed. The first steps toward domestication are evolutionary responses for the recruitment of humans as dispersers. Seed dispersal-based mutualism evolved from heavy hu...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Spengler RN 3rd

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of insular systems has a long history in ecology and biogeography. Island plants often differ remarkably from their noninsular counterparts, constituting excellent models for exploring eco-evolutionary processes. Trait-based approaches can help to answer important questions in island biogeography, yet plant ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Ottaviani G,Keppel G,Götzenberger L,Harrison S,Opedal ØH,Conti L,Liancourt P,Klimešová J,Silveira FAO,Jiménez-Alfaro B,Negoita L,Doležal J,Hájek M,Ibanez T,Méndez-Castro FE,Chytrý M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root system architecture (RSA), governed by the phytohormone auxin, endows plants with an adaptive advantage in particular environments. Using geographically representative arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) accessions as a resource for GWA mapping, Waidmann et al. and Ogura et al. recently identified two novel compon...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Xiao G,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strawberry is a fruit crop species of major horticultural importance, for which fruit quality and the control of flowering (for fruit yield), runnering (for vegetative propagation), and the trade-off between the two are main breeding targets. The octoploid cultivated strawberry has a limited genetic basis. This raises...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gaston A,Osorio S,Denoyes B,Rothan C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed evolution (DE) is a powerful approach for generating proteins with new chemical and physical properties. It mimics the principles of Darwinian evolution by imposing selective pressure on a large population of molecules harboring random genetic variation in DNA, such that sequences with specific desirable prop...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gionfriddo M,De Gara L,Loreto F

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomes Uncoupled 1 (GUN1) plays a critical role in various retrograde signaling pathways. Despite numerous studies, the precise molecular mechanism underlying GUN1-mediated retrograde signaling remains elusive. Recently, MORF2 and cpHSC70 have been identified as GUN1-interacting proteins, linking retrograde signaling...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Jia Y,Tian H,Zhang S,Ding Z,Ma C

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, few data were available on photosynthesis and its underlying mechanistically limiting factors in plants, other than crops and model species. Currently, a new large pool of data from extant representatives of basal terrestrial plant groups is emerging, allowing exploration of how photosynthetic capacity...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gago J,Carriquí M,Nadal M,Clemente-Moreno MJ,Coopman RE,Fernie AR,Flexas J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commercial release of third-generation sequencing technologies (TGSTs), giving long and ultra-long sequencing reads, has stimulated the development of new tools for assembling highly contiguous genome sequences with unprecedented accuracy across complex repeat regions. We survey here a wide range of emerging seque...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Jung H,Winefield C,Bombarely A,Prentis P,Waterhouse P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant holobiont extends the plant's capacity for nutrient acquisition and stress protection. Recent studies show that under biotic stress plants can promote the acquisition of certain beneficial bacteria to their rhizosphere. Active emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is a newly identified mechanism util...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Liu H,Brettell LE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational models are invaluable tools for understanding the hormonal and genetic control of root development. Thus far, models have focused on the crucial roles that auxin transport and metabolism play in determining the auxin signaling gradient that controls the root meristem. Other hormones such as cytokinins, g...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Rutten JP,Ten Tusscher K

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxin is one of the most important plant hormones controlling various aspects of plant growth and development. Here, we highlight three recent papers that shed light on how local auxin biosynthesis contributes to plant growth and development in response to endogenous developmental signals and exogenous environmental c...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lv B,Yan Z,Tian H,Zhang X,Ding Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eating plant-derived compounds can lead to a longer and healthier life and also benefits the environment. Innovation in the fresh food sector, as well as new cultivars, can improve consumption of fruit and vegetables, with MYB transcription factors being a target to drive this novelty. Plant MYB transcription factors ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Allan AC,Espley RV

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The grey mould Botrytis cinerea causes disease in more than 1000 plant species, including important crops. The interaction between Botrytis and its (potential) hosts is determined by quantitative susceptibility and virulence traits in both interacting partners, resulting in a greyscale of disease outcomes. Fungal infe...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Veloso J,van Kan JAL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polar growth in root hairs and pollen tubes is an excellent model for investigating plant cell size regulation. While linear plant growth is historically explained by the acid growth theory, which considers that auxin triggers apoplastic acidification by activating plasma membrane P-type H+-ATPases (AHAs) along with c...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Mangano S,Martínez Pacheco J,Marino-Buslje C,Estevez JM

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution patterns and finely-tuned concentration gradients of plant hormones govern plant growth and development. Gibberellin (GA) is a plant hormone regulating key processes in plants; many of them are of significant agricultural importance, such as seed germination, root and shoot elongation, flowering, and frui...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Binenbaum J,Weinstain R,Shani E

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) fixes atmospheric CO2 into organic compounds and is composed of eight copies each of a large subunit (RbcL) and a small subunit (RbcS). Recent reports have revealed unusual RbcS, which are expressed in particular tissues and confer higher catalytic rate, lesser...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Pottier M,Gilis D,Boutry M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being continuously exposed to variable environmental conditions, plants produce phytohormones to react quickly and specifically to these changes. The phytohormone ethylene is produced in response to multiple stresses. While the role of ethylene in defense responses to pathogens is widely recognized, recent studies in ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Dubois M,Van den Broeck L,Inzé D

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) light suppresses hypocotyl elongation. Although UV-B photo-perception mechanisms have been well investigated, the signaling events from UV-B photoreceptor to downstream transcription are largely unknown. Two recent papers illustrate that the UV-B photoreceptor directly inhibits its interacting tra...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Sun K,Zhu Z

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CONSTANS (CO) is a master regulator of flowering time, although the mechanisms underlying its role as a transcriptional regulator are not well understood. The DNA-binding domain of CO shares homology with that of NUCLEAR FACTOR YA (NF-YA), a subunit of the CCAAT-binding trimer NF-Y. Recent publications indicate that C...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Gnesutta N,Mantovani R,Fornara F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 3 (PIF3) is a basic ​helix-loop-helix transcription factor with critical roles in light signaling. Recent work identified PIF3 as a negative regulator of arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) freezing tolerance. ...

journal_title：Trends in plant science

authors： Lin L,Liu X,Yin R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00