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Melanaspis corticosa: a new insect pest of olive trees in Europe - Phytoparasitica
The presence of the South African Obscure Scale, Melanaspis corticosa (Brain) (Hemiptera, Diaspididae), was detected infesting olive trees, in Portugal. The identity of the scale insect was confirmed based on both morphological and molecular studies. Until now, this species was only known in a few A...
Cereal species mixtures: an ancient practice with potential for climate resilience. A review - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Food security depends on the ability of staple crops to tolerate new abiotic and biotic pressures. Wheat, barley, and other small grains face substantial yield losses under all climate change scenarios. Intra-plot diversification is an important strategy for smallholder farmers to mitigate losses du...
In an article published in Plant Molecular Biology, Kousuke Hanada & colleagues reported a de novo gene originating from plant mitochondria which controls floral transition in A thaliana.
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A large-scale intergenomic gene transfer event involving the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in the Arabidopsis thaliana lineage created a small coding gene that regulates floral timing.
Melanaspis corticosa: a new insect pest of olive trees in Europe.
This open access research article from Gaetana Mazzeo and colleagues is published in Phytoparasitica.
The presence of the South African Obscure Scale, Melanaspis corticosa (Brain) (Hemiptera, Diaspididae), was detected infesting olive trees, in Portugal. The identity of the scale insect was confirmed based on both morphological and molecular studies. Until now, this species was only known in a few A...
In this review, C. Anilkumar et al. gives an overview of genomic selection, recent developments, and its application in crop improvement and plant breeding.
Their work is published in Planta.
Main conclusion Genomic selection and its importance in crop breeding. Integration of GS with new breeding tools and developing SOP for GS to achieve maximum genetic gain with low cost and time. Abstract The success of conventional breeding approaches is not sufficient to meet the demand of a growin...
As 2023 begins we look back on impactful research from last year.
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Plant Molecular Biology invites you to submit to a special issue on dynamics and mechanics of plant cell walls.
Edited by Laura Bacete, Hugo Mélida & Kazuhiko Nish*tani.
Submission deadline 31 March.
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Walls are essential for plant cells: they provide physical support, define the shape and volume of cells and are the interphase between two neighbour cells, thus also determining cell communication and transport. Moreover, they are the first barrier against pathogen infection, playing both active an...
Transposable elements in plants.
Muthusamy Ramakrishnan et al. review the recent advancement, tools, and prospects in the study and use of these mobile genetic elements.
Their review is published in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.
Transposable elements (TEs) have long been considered junk DNA; however, the availability of genome sequences and the growth of omics databases have accelerated the study of TEs, and they are now considered evolutionary signatures. TEs, essential genetic elements in plant genomes, can move around th...
João Serôdio et al propose the use of hysteresis light curves, an experimental protocol focused on the cumulative effects of light exposure to characterize time dependence of light response in photosynthesis.
Read their article published in Photosynthesis Research.
Photosynthesis vs. light curves (LCs) have played a central role in photosynthesis research for decades. They are the commonest form of describing how photosynthesis responds to changes in light, being frequently used for characterizing photoacclimation. However, LCs are often interpreted exclusivel...
Last year, researchers like yourself made countless contributions to science, and published many of your discoveries with Springer Nature.
We are delighted to share a selection of 2022's highlighted research in plant biology, published in our journals.
Your invitation to read a selection of highly downloaded Springer Nature journal articles and book chapters in Plant Biology.
In this review published in Phytochemistry Reviews, Sagar Bag & colleagues describe flavonoids mediated selective cross-talk between plants and their beneficial soil microbiome.
Plants generate a wide variety of organic components during their different growth phases. The majority of those compounds have been classified as primary and secondary metabolites. Secondary metabolites are essential in plants’ adaptation to new changing environments and in managing several bioti...
Lan Yu and colleagues discuss TOR signaling in plants as the potential core of the conserved regulation of trichome development.
Their review is published in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.
The function of trichome in plants, the first barrier against biotic stress and changing environments, is irreplaceable in physical protection and chemical defense. The regulation processing developments of trichome in plants can be divided into two categories: the single-celled trichome exampled by...
Dormancy breaking treatments in Northern Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) seed suggest a physiological source of Dormancy.
This study from Lillian McGilp, Aaron Semington & Jennifer Kimball is published in Plant Growth Regulation.
Dormancy is a limiting factor for breeding in northern wild rice (NWR; Zizania palustris L). This study developed a dormancy curve and tested a combination of scarification and hormone treatments, across three timepoints, for their ability to break dormancy in NWR and produce viable seedlings and pl...
Air pollutants has emerged as a serious threat to quality crop production. Ram Kumar Shrestha review the morphological, physiological, and biological responses of some crops to air pollutants.
Read the review published in Planta.
Main conclusion Consequences of air pollutants on physiology, biology, yield and quality in the crops are evident. Crop and soil management can play significant roles in attenuating the impacts of air pollutants. Abstract With rapid urbanization and industrialization, air pollution has emerged as a....
In this review, William A Cramer & Stanislav Zakharov discuss the enigmatic cytochrome b-559 of oxygenic photosynthesis.
Their review is published in Photosynthesis Research.
Although there is an extensive literature on the properties and possible electron transfer pathways of cytochrome b-559, which is a prominent subunit of the multi-subunit photosystem II complex which functions in oxygenic photosynthesis, there is presently no consensus on the function of b-559 in th...
Overexpression of the rice BAHD acyltransferase gene OsAt10 in transgenic A. thaliana plants increased cold stress tolerance.
Find this work from Wei Tang & Wells A Thompson published in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.
The rice (Oryza sativa L.) BAHD acyltransferase gene OsAt10 affects growth and metabolism of cells and regulates cell response to environmental stress. However, influence of the OsAt10 gene on low-temperature stress tolerance has not been evaluated in plant cells. Here, cell suspension cultures of p...
Potassium fertilization improved the response of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) to water deficiency and recovery after rehydration.
Read this work from Dayane Mércia Ribeiro Silva et al published in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.
Water deficit affects safflower development, but its effects can be mitigated by potassium fertilization. Physiological and biochemical variables were used to evaluate the effect of potassium fertilization in safflower response to water deficiency and subsequent rehydration. A completely randomized....
Endophytes are growth-promoting microbes with potential to boost crop production. Corey R. Schultz & colleagues report on the role of genetic variation in Zea mays response to beneficial endophytes.
Their work is published in Plant Growth Regulation.
Growth-promoting endophytes have great potential to boost crop production and sustainability. There is, however, a lack of research on how differences in the plant host affect an endophyte’s ability to promote growth. We set out to quantify how different maize genotypes respond to specific growth-...
In this Plant Reproduction article, Gilles Dupouy et al report that PLASTID RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L5 is essential for early embryo development in Arabidopsis thaliana. They identify an N-term chloroplast transit peptide and C-term nuclear localization signal.
Plastid ribosomal proteins (PRPs) can play essential roles in plastid ribosome functioning that affect plant function and development. However, the roles of many PRPs remain unknown, including elucidation of which PRPs are essential or display redundancy. Here, we report that the nuclear-encoded PLA...
Plant Molecular Biology is delighted to launch a new special focus issue on RNA in plant biology!
The editors for this issue are Misato Ohtani, Sally Assmann, Xuemei Chen, Martin Crespi & Andrzej Wierzbicki.
The issue is now open for submission and the submission deadline is 15 April 2023.
For more information, please see the issue's call for papers.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is one of the most important biopolymers that support the basic activities of living organisms. Organisms produce various types of RNAs, which not only transfer the genetic sequence information to proteins, but also participate in regulating protein abundance and function. Dep...
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A comparative transcriptomic study provides new insight into floral regulation of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) and its defense response against phytoplasma.
This study from Injangbuanang Pamei & Ragiba Makandar is published in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.
Phyllody in sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is caused by the mollicute, and phytoplasma is often associated with floral malformations, affecting partial to complete sterility in those plants. The molecular basis for floral malformations in sesame remains largely unexplored. A comparative transcriptome s...
The R2R3-MYB transcription factor MdMYB88/124 modulates miRNA expression in apple tree through the transcriptional pathway, and post-transcriptional processing by acting as a co-factor with MdHYL1.
Their work is published in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.
MicroRNAs are a class of endogenous small-RNA, which repress gene expression through post-transcriptional regulation. MdMYB88/124 (MYELOBLASTOSIS88/124), an R2R3-MYB transcription factor, regulates plants tolerance towards abiotic stress. In this study, we show that MdMYB88/124 alters the expression...
Sarathi M. Weraduwage et al. report the role of guard cell- or mesophyll cell-localized phytochromes in stomatal responses to blue, red, and far-red light.
Their work is published in Planta.
Main conclusion Guard cell- or mesophyll cell-localized phytochromes do not have a predominant direct light sensory role in red- or blue-light-mediated stomatal opening or far-red-light-mediated stomatal closure of Arabidopsis. Abstract The role of phytochromes in blue- and red-light-mediated stomat...
SHI-related sequence (SRS) transcription factors are essential for plant growth and development. Guangbao Luo et al. report an analysis of SRS genes in pepper (Capsicum annuum) and their roles in temperature and phytohormone responses.
SHI-related sequence (SRS) transcription factors are essential for plant development and growth regulation, phytohormone biosynthesis and stress response. The SRS gene family was analyzed in several plant species including Arabidopsis and rice, however, a systematic analysis of this family in solana...
In this review published in Phytochemistry Reviews, Anne Jahn & Maike Petersen discuss the hydroxycinnamic acid esters - fukinolic acid and cimicifugic acids - from Actaea and Petasites, their biosynthesis and medicinal aspects.
During the last decades, the research on the biological activities of extracts from Cimicifuga/Actaea species and Petasites japonicus as well as their active ingredients has been intensified. Besides terpenoids as dominant natural product group, hydroxycinnamic acid esters such as fukinolic acid and...
Kira Suresh et al. show that the efficiency of suberized plant/environment interfaces as transpiration barriers is not established by the suberin polymer but by the wax molecules sorbed to the suberin polymer.
Their work is published in Planta.
Main conclusion The efficiency of suberized plant/environment interfaces as transpiration barriers is not established by the suberin polymer but by the wax molecules sorbed to the suberin polymer. Abstract Suberized cell walls formed as barriers at the plant/soil or plant/atmosphere interface in var...
Mohammad Foteh Ali and colleagues report how assimilate supply affects early seed development on the pod and seed growth traits in soybean.
Read their work is published in Plant Reproduction.
Although the seed remains small in size during the initial stage of seed development (the lag phase), several studies indicate that environment and assimilate supply level manipulations during the lag phase affect the final seed size. However, the manipulations were not only at the lag phase, making...
In an article published in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Ewa Młodzinska-Michta report involvement of plasma membrane H+-ATPase (AHA) genes root system responses to phosphate nutrition.
Phosphate deficiency is one of the primary abiotic stresses that causes serious problems in crop growth and productivity. Plant roots are the first organs that perceive a signal of nutrient shortage and excess. Plant plasma membrane H+-ATPases are proton pumps that play a central role in almost all....
Metabolomics: towards acceleration of antibacterial plant-based leads discovery.
Read this review from Elwira Sieniawska & Milen I Georgiev is published open access in Phytochemistry Reviews.
The wide and not yet fully uncovered potential of plant secondary metabolites make plants a rich source of drug leads. Metabolomics enables the study of the metabolic perturbations taking place in bacterial cells under the influence of plant-based bioactive molecules. It reveals the changes in metab...
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Aslıhan Çetinbaş-Genç & colleagues review the complex network of communication that shapes the pollen tube, and the deformations that occur when a single component misfunctions.
Their article is published in Plant Reproduction.
Key message The pollen tube is being subjected to control by a complex network of communication that regulates its shape and the misfunction of a single component causes specific deformations. Abstract In flowering plants, the pollen tube is a tubular extension of the pollen grain required for succe...
A recent special issue of Phytochemistry Reviews the advances and challenges of phytochemicals in nutrition and health.
This issue was edited by Pinarosa Avato & Maria Pia Argentieri.
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How does selenium affect flavonoid synthesis?
Kun Deng & colleagues report the molecular mechanism of selenium treatment on flavonoid synthesis in Ginkgo biloba leaves.
Read their article published in Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.
Flavonoids from Ginkgo biloba have antioxidant and free radical scavenging activity. In the present study, we used different concentrations of OS (organic selenium), NS (nano-selenium), and IS (inorganic selenium) to treat the 2-year-old Ginkgo seedlings and studied the effects of different concentr...
Chlorophyll f (Chl f) is a red-shifted chlorophyll found in cyanobacteria.
In their article published in Photosynthesis Research, Miguel A. Hernández‐Prieto et al report that Chl f can replace Chl a in the soluble antenna of dinoflagellates.
Chlorophyll f is a new type of chlorophyll isolated from cyanobacteria. The absorption and fluorescence characteristics of chlorophyll f permit these oxygenic-photosynthetic organisms to thrive in environments where white light is scarce but far-red light is abundant. To explore the ligand propertie...
In this article, Jinni Li & colleagues review the role of long non-coding RNAs in plant responses to abiotic stresses.
Their review is published in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.
As a kind of over 200 nt RNA, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has no protein-coding ability. It exists in a large number of organisms and has multiple biological functions. It is mainly produced by the transcription of RNA polymerase II, and exerts its functions through an epigenetic mechanism, transcr...
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The latest Special Issue of Plant Growth Regulation is now available, entitled "Unravelling Seed Physiology for Developing Dynamic Agriculture".
Special guest editors: Shubhpriya Gupta, Johannes Van Staden & Karel Doležal.
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