Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Pingtao Ding, Jonathan D. G. Jones
Summary: Understanding the plant immune system is crucial for protecting crops from diseases. Plants have a two-tiered innate immune system to resist pathogens. Over the last 30 years, significant progress has been made in identifying immune receptors and understanding the signaling pathways and interactions between different components of the immune system.
Review
Plant Sciences
U. K. Ghosh, M. N. Islam, M. N. Siddiqui, X. Cao, M. A. R. Khan
Summary: Proline plays a crucial role in plant response to abiotic stresses, acting as a molecular chaperone, antioxidative defence molecule, osmoprotectant, and signaling molecule. Overproduction of proline in plants helps maintain cellular homeostasis and improve adaptive responses to changing climate conditions.
Correction
Plant Sciences
V Tossi, L. Lamattina, R. Cassia
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jana Sperschneider, Peter N. Dodds
Summary: Many fungi and oomycete pathogens secrete effector proteins to facilitate plant infection. A classifier (EffectorP 3.0) has been developed to accurately predict effector proteins in fungal and oomycete secretomes with low false-positive rates.
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Rosa M. Rivero, Ron Mittler, Eduardo Blumwald, Sara Zandalinas
Summary: Global warming and climate change are leading to an increase in abiotic stresses impacting plants, leading to decreased crop yields and food shortages. The combination of different stresses on plants caused by climate change necessitates further research to understand and mitigate these effects.
Review
Plant Sciences
Amina M. Dirir, Marianne Daou, Ahmed F. Yousef, Lina F. Yousef
Summary: Diabetes is a global health disorder with rising prevalence, leading to research efforts for more effective and less side effect inhibitors. Natural products from plants may offer promising therapeutic options with potential for alpha-glucosidase inhibition.
PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Roberta Paradiso, Simona Proietti
Summary: The quantity and quality of light affect plant growth and physiology, influencing plant behavior. LED technology has enabled a better understanding and manipulation of light spectrum to optimize plant growth and development in greenhouse horticulture.
JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Smita Chaudhry, Gagan Preet Singh Sidhu
Summary: Global climate change has significant impacts on plant growth and development, resulting in the increase of pests, weeds, and pathogens. It also decreases crop productivity and food security, leading to a need for more effective plant protection measures. Researchers worldwide are paying close attention to the changes in global climate and exploring different strategies to combat the negative effects on agriculture.
PLANT CELL REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Baber Ali, Xiukang Wang, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Aqsa Sumaira, Aqsa Hafeez, Muhammad Siddique Afridi, Shahid Khan, Antonio Teixeira do Zaib-Un-Nisa, Izhar Ullah, Antonio Teixeira do Amaral Junior, Aishah Alatawi, Shafaqat Ali
Summary: This study demonstrates that Enterobacter cloacae PM23 exhibits multi-stress tolerance and promotes plant growth under salinity stress. It mitigates salt stress by upregulating stress-related genes and producing beneficial substances. Inoculation with E. cloacae PM23 enhances plant adaptation to salinity stress, improving plant growth and antioxidant capacity.
Review
Plant Sciences
Zhihui Wen, Philip J. White, Jianbo Shen, Hans Lambers
Summary: The concept of root exudation plays a crucial role in enhancing resource acquisition, yet remains a missing link in current research on root trait variation and belowground strategies. Incorporating root exudation into the structure of the root economics space is essential for a comprehensive understanding of soil nutrient acquisition. By integrating different root functional traits, a deeper understanding of the complexity of belowground resource-acquisition strategies can be achieved.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Fang-Jie Zhao, Zhong Tang, Jia-Jun Song, Xin-Yuan Huang, Peng Wang
Summary: Agricultural soils are at risk of toxic metal contamination, which leads to excessive accumulation of these metals in food crops and poses significant risks to human health. Understanding the uptake, translocation, and detoxification processes of these toxic metals is essential for developing strategies to limit their accumulation in food. Various transporters are involved in the uptake and transport of toxic metals across different cellular compartments and plant tissues, and these processes are regulated at the transcriptional and posttranslational levels. Complexation with thiol-rich compounds and sequestration in vacuoles are common mechanisms for detoxification and limiting the translocation of toxic metals. Genes involved in toxic metal uptake, transport, and detoxification have been identified and can be targeted for genetic manipulation. Natural variations in toxic metal accumulation exist in crop germplasm, and marker-assisted breeding can be employed to develop low metal accumulation crops. Phytoremediation, using plants to extract and remove toxic metals from soil, is also possible but requires plants with high accumulation capacity. Knowledge gaps and future research needs are discussed.
Review
Plant Sciences
Pankaj Trivedi, Bruna D. Batista, Kathryn E. Bazany, Brajesh K. Singh
Summary: Climate change affects plant-microbiome interactions and ecological functions in various scales. Short-term plant adaptation to climate change relies on the plant microbiome, while long-term adaptation is equally driven by eco-evolutionary interactions between the plant microbiome and its host. Understanding these dynamics can inform predictions of climate change impacts on primary productivity and help in developing management strategies for plant systems.
Review
Plant Sciences
Colin K. Khoury, Stephen Brush, Denise E. Costich, Helen Anne Curry, Stef Haan, Johannes M. M. Engels, Luigi Guarino, Sean Hoban, Kristin L. Mercer, Allison J. Miller, Gary P. Nabhan, Hugo R. Perales, Chris Richards, Chance Riggins, Imke Thormann
Summary: Crop diversity is crucial for agriculture productivity, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Loss of this diversity, known as crop genetic erosion, is a major concern. Evidence shows that changes in crop diversity have led to significant losses, maintenance, and increases in various contexts, depending on species, scale, region, and analytical approach. Further research and actions are needed to understand and mitigate the impacts of crop genetic erosion.
Review
Plant Sciences
Ali Raza, Hajar Salehi, Md Atikur Rahman, Zainab Zahid, Maryam Madadkar Haghjou, Shiva Najafi-Kakavand, Sidra Charagh, Hany S. S. Osman, Mohammed Albaqami, Yuhui Zhuang, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Weijian Zhuang
Summary: Global climate change has led to abiotic stresses that affect plant growth and productivity. Plants have developed various endogenous strategies, such as plant hormone biosynthesis, to withstand these stresses. Abiotic stresses disrupt normal transportation systems in plants, leading to oxidative stress. Plant defense systems, including enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms, help protect plants from oxidative stress.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Yen Ning Chai, Daniel P. Schachtman
Summary: Plant root exudates play crucial roles in supporting plant development, enhancing resource-use efficiency, and facilitating interactions between plants and soil microbes under stress conditions. The elucidation of the function of key root exudates and their impact on microbial communities in the rhizosphere is important for understanding plant responses to various abiotic stresses.
TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Pingtao Ding
Summary: Plants have cell-surface and intracellular receptors to recognize pathogen effectors. These receptors, along with their coreceptors, form networks to mediate downstream immune responses. The cell-surface and intracellular immune systems are interdependent and function synergistically to provide robust resistance against pathogens.
TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Marco Sozzi, Silvia Cantalamessa, Alessia Cogato, Ahmed Kayad, Francesco Marinello
Summary: This paper evaluates six versions of the YOLO object detection algorithm for real-time bunch detection and counting in grapes. The results show that YOLOv4-tiny achieves the best combination of accuracy and speed, making it suitable for real-time grape yield estimation.
Article
Plant Sciences
Ivica Dimkic, Tamara Janakiev, Marija Petrovic, Giuliano Degrassi, Djordje Fira
Summary: Biocontrol strains from the genera Bacillus and Pseudomonas play beneficial roles in plant health by directly inhibiting pathogens, promoting plant growth, inducing systemic resistance, and producing bioactive compounds like lipopeptides and volatile substances. These bacteria are effective against a wide range of phytopathogens and pests, enhancing plant defense mechanisms and inhibiting pathogen growth through various mechanisms like antibiosis, ISR, and competition for resources.
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yiyang Yu, Ying Gui, Zijie Li, Chunhao Jiang, Jianhua Guo, Dongdong Niu
Summary: Beneficial microorganisms can improve the health and growth of plants by inducing an enhanced resistance state called induced systemic resistance (ISR), which provides protection against a broad range of pathogens. Previously, it was believed that ISR signaling primarily relied on the jasmonic acid and ethylene pathways, but recent research has shown the involvement of salicylic acid and small RNAs in regulating ISR.
Article
Plant Sciences
Ruochen Wang, Peng Shu, Chi Zhang, Junlin Zhang, Ya Chen, Yaoxin Zhang, Kui Du, Yue Xie, Mingzhang Li, Tao Ma, Yang Zhang, Zhengguo Li, Don Grierson, Julien Pirrello, Kunsong Chen, Mondher Bouzayen, Bo Zhang, Mingchun Liu
Summary: This study integrated metabolome and transcriptome data from 12 fruit developmental and ripening stages of Actinidia chinensis cv Hongyang, revealing key genes and transcription factors regulating flavor metabolism in kiwifruit. The research provides new insights into the metabolic regulation of flavor during fruit development and ripening, establishing a foundation for flavor improvement in kiwifruit.
