abstract：:Methylation of histones on different lysine residues is dynamically added by distinct writer enzymes, interpreted by reader proteins, and removed by eraser enzymes. This epigenetic mark has widespread, dynamic roles in plant development and environmental responses. For example, histone methylation plays a key role in ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： He K,Cao X,Deng X

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Climbing plants have voluble organs, for example, tendrils and modified stems, which twine up neighboring plants to reach the canopy. These organs perform exaggerated circumnutation, during which they grow towards the shaded areas of the forest (skototropism) to find a host. In response to mechanical stimulus, they gr...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Sousa-Baena MS,Hernandes-Lopes J,Van Sluys MA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All the above-ground organs of a plant are derived from stem cells that reside in shoot apical meristems (SAM). Over the past 25 years, the genetic pathways that control the proliferation of stem cells within the SAM, and the differentiation of their progenitors into lateral organs, have been described in great detail...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fouracre JP,Poethig RS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear pore complexes (NPC) are highly conserved mega protein complexes that penetrate the double-layered nuclear membrane and form channels to allow bi-directional transport of macromolecules between the nucleus and the cytosol. Non-passive nucleocytoplasmic transport also requires nuclear transport receptors (NTR),...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Li X,Gu Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) are the two most essential nutrients ensuring food production and security. The ever growing population demands more N and P-based fertilizers. Even though the N provision to the agricultural system is virtually infinite (Haber and Bosch process) it triggers pollution when it is not use...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Krouk G,Kiba T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing new genotypes of plants is one of the key options for adaptation of agriculture to climate change. Plants may be required to provide resilience in changed climates or support the migration of agriculture to new regions. Very different genotypes may be required to perform in the modified environments of prot...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Henry RJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agriculture faces enormous challenges including the need to substantially increase productivity, reduce environmental footprint, and deliver renewable alternatives that are being addressed by developing new oil crops for the future. The efforts include domestication of Lepidium spp. using genomics-aided breeding as a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Ortiz R,Geleta M,Gustafsson C,Lager I,Hofvander P,Löfstedt C,Cahoon EB,Minina E,Bozhkov P,Stymne S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant diseases threaten global food security and biodiversity. Rapid dispersal of pathogens particularly via human means has accelerated in recent years. Timely detection of plant pathogens is essential to limit their spread. At the same time, international regulations must keep abreast of advances in plant disease di...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hu Y,Wilson S,Schwessinger B,Rathjen JP

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins are among the most numerous and widely distributed pigments in land plants. Given that these pigments are the valuable compounds, as stress protectants and health-promoting components because of their potent antioxidant activity, several metabolic engineering approaches focusing on t...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Saigo T,Wang T,Watanabe M,Tohge T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their prominent roles in plant development, transcription factors (TF) play central roles as drivers of innovation in the evolution of the green lineage (viridiplantae). The advent of massive sequencing combined with comparative genetics/genomics allows a rigorous investigation of how TF families have contr...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lai X,Chahtane H,Martin-Arevalillo R,Zubieta C,Parcy F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two decades, work on auxin signaling has helped to understand many aspects of the fundamental process underlying the specification of tissue types in the plant embryo. However, the immediate steps after fertilization including the polarization of the zygote and the initial body axis formation remained poor...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Wang K,Chen H,Miao Y,Bayer M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gravitropism is the directional control of plant organ growth in response to gravity. Specialized gravity-sensing cells contain amyloplasts that can change their position according to the direction of gravity. Gravity signaling, which is elicited by the relocation of amyloplasts, is a key process that redirects auxin ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Nakamura M,Nishimura T,Morita MT

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular eukaryotic cells, metabolism and growth are sustained by the cooperative functioning of organelles in combination with cell-to-cell communication at the organism level. In land plants, multiple strategies have evolved to adapt to life outside water. As basal land plant, the moss Physcomitrella patens ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Falz AL,Müller-Schüssele SJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, plants interact with numerous other organisms. Some interactions benefit both the plant and the other organism(s), while others lead to disease or even death of the plant hosts. The traditional focus of research into plant biotic interactions has been on the negative effects on plants and the strategies pla...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fernandez JC,Burch-Smith TM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylsugars are insecticidal plant specialized metabolites produced in the Solanaceae (nightshade family). Despite having simple constituents, these compounds are unusually structurally diverse. Their structural variations in phylogenetically closely related species enable comparative biochemical approaches to understa...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Fan P,Leong BJ,Last RL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMOylation is an essential post-translational modification that affects several cellular processes, from gene replication to stress response. Studies using the SUMO (de)conjugation machinery have provided evidence regarding its potential to improve crop performance and productivity under normal and adverse conditions...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Rosa MT,Abreu IA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an essential kingdom of life, responsible via photosynthesis for the majority of global primary production, and directly utilized by humankind for nutrition, animal feed, fuel, clothing, medicine and other purposes. There are an estimated 391 000 species of land plants, in addition...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Kersey PJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of land plants from a charophycean algal ancestor was accompanied by an increased diversity of regulatory networks, including signaling pathways mediating cellular communication within plants and between plants and the environment. Canonical land plant hormone signaling pathways were originally identifie...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Bowman JL,Briginshaw LN,Fisher TJ,Flores-Sandoval E

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrosomes play various critical roles in animal cells such as microtubule nucleation and stabilization, mitotic spindle morphogenesis, and spindle orientation. Land plants have lost centrosomes and yet must execute many of these functions. Recent studies have revealed the crucial roles played by morphologically dist...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Yi P,Goshima G

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membraneless compartments are formed from the dynamic physical association of proteins and RNAs through liquid-liquid phase separation, and have recently emerged as an exciting new mechanism to explain the dynamic organization of biochemical processes in the cell. In this review, we provide an overview of the current ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Cuevas-Velazquez CL,Dinneny JR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings highlight three instances in which major aspects of plant development are controlled by dosage-dependent protein levels. In the shoot apical meristem the mobile transcription factor WUS displays an intricate function with respect to target regulation that involves WUS dosage, binding site affinity and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Hofhuis HF,Heidstra R

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unveiling of hormone perception is central to comprehending hormone action. It is generally recognized that an active hormone molecule binds its receptor to initiate hormone signaling, subsequently dissociates from its receptor without being changed, and then initiates the next round of hormone perception. However, re...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Yao R,Chen L,Xie D

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factors are molecules that enable plant pathogens to infect and colonize host tissues successfully. These molecules co-evolve with host genes to ensure functionality and to avoid recognition by the host immune system. Some pathogens also produce the plant growth hormone cytokinin (CK) and other plant hormone...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Spallek T,Gan P,Kadota Y,Shirasu K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatiles from attacked plants, microbes and herbivores can enhance plant defenses. However, the absence of volatiles rather than their presence has sometimes been associated with enhanced defense, suggesting that volatiles may also act as defense suppressors. Recent work provides a potential mechanistic explanation f...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Erb M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA (mRNA) can move through the vascular system in plants. Until recently the transport of mRNA had been demonstrated only for a few well-documented cases, leading to the suggestion that transport was selective and specific. The extent of this long-distance transport has now been shown to be on the genomic s...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Morris RJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acids represent the major transport form of reduced nitrogen in plants. Long-distance transport of amino acids occurs in the xylem and the phloem. However, the phloem is the main transport route for bulk flow of the organic nitrogen from source leaves to sink tissues. Phloem loading in leaves of most annual plan...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Tegeder M,Hammes UZ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved specialized vascular tissues for the distribution of energy, water, nutrients, and for communication. The phloem transports sugars from photosynthetic source regions (e.g. mature leaves) to sugar sinks (e.g. developing tissues such as buds, flowers, roots). Moreover, chemical signals such as hormon...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Jensen KH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of sieve tube exudate proteins (STEP) have now been identified and predicted to fulfill a diversity of functions. However, most STEPs should be considered putative, since methods to collect sieve tube exudates have many technical drawbacks, and advanced functional characterization will be required to disting...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： De Marco F,Le Hir R,Dinant S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, the behavior of cells in tissues is coordinated along specific orientations or directions by coordinating the polar localization of components in those cells. The coordination of such cell polarity is perhaps nowhere more spectacular than in developing leaves, where the polarity of hundreds of cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Linh NM,Verna C,Scarpella E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To control the abundance of plasma membrane receptors and transporters is crucial for proper perception and response to extracellular signals from surrounding cells and the environment. Posttranslational modification of plasma membrane proteins, especially ubiquitin conjugation or ubiquitylation, is key for the determ...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Isono E,Kalinowska K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional cell-to-cell transport of functional molecules, called polar transport, enables plants to sense and respond to developmental and environmental signals. Transporters that localize to plasma membranes (PMs) in a polar manner are key components of these systems. PIN-FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers, which a...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Naramoto S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemistry assigns phosphate (Pi) dominant roles in metabolism; however, it also renders the macronutrient a genuinely limiting factor of plant productivity. Pi bioavailability is restricted by low Pi mobility in soil and antagonized by metallic toxicities, which force roots to actively seek and selectively acquire the...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Abel S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of microbes with "signature" plants is largely governed by secreted effector proteins, which serve to dampen plant defense responses and modulate host cell processes. Secreted effectors can function either in the apoplast or within plant cell compartments. How oomycetes and fungi translocate their effe...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Lo Presti L,Kahmann R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:​Small RNA (sRNA) induces RNA interference (RNAi) in almost all eukaryotes. While sRNAs can move within an organism, they can also move between interacting organisms to induce gene silencing, a phenomenon called 'cross-kingdom RNAi'. Some sRNAs from pathogens or pests move into host cells and suppress host immunity in...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Wang M,Thomas N,Jin H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During endosymbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi or rhizobial bacteria, the microbial symbionts are housed within membrane-bound compartments in root cortex or nodule cells respectively. Their development involves polarized deposition of membrane around the symbionts as they enter the cells and the membranes sho...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Harrison MJ,Ivanov S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sessile nature of plants has caused plants to develop means to defend themselves against attacking organisms. Multiple strategies range from physical barriers to chemical warfare including pre-formed anticipins as well as phytoalexins produced only upon attack. While phytoalexins require rapid induction, constitut...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Burow M,Halkier BA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant hormones regulate physiological responses in plants, including responses to pathogens and beneficial microbes. The last decades have provided a vast amount of evidence about the contribution of different plant hormones to plant immunity, and also of how they cooperate to orchestrate immunity activation, in a pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Shigenaga AM,Berens ML,Tsuda K,Argueso CT

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental plasticity is a defining feature of plants allowing them to colonize a wide range of different ecosystems by promoting environmental adaptation. Their postembryonic development requires life-long maintenance of stem cells, which are embedded into specialized tissues, called meristems. The shoot apical me...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Pfeiffer A,Wenzl C,Lohmann JU

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have the ability to generate different and new organs throughout their life cycle. Organ growth is mostly determined by the combinatory effects of cell proliferation and cell expansion. Still, organ size and shape are adjusted constantly by environmental conditions and developmental timing. The plasticity of pl...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Rodriguez RE,Schommer C,Palatnik JF

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional reprogramming in response to developmental changes or environmental inputs is regulated by a wide variety of transcription factors and cofactors. In plants, the stability of many transcriptional regulators is mediated by the ubiquitin-mediated proteasome. Recent reports suggest that additional post-tra...

journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology

authors： Skelly MJ,Frungillo L,Spoel SH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00