Plant Biology

AT-HOOK-MOTIF NUCLEAR LOCALIZED 15 extends plant longevity by binding at poorly accessible, epigenetic mark-depleted chromatin that surrounds transcribed regions

1. Thalia Luden
2. Jihed Chouaref
3. Remko Offringa

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This study presents an important study into the molecular function of AT-HOOK MOTIF NUCLEAR LOCALIZED 15 (AHL15), a member of the AHL protein family, identifying it as a potential regulator of three-dimensional gene-loop organization within transcribed gene bodies. The authors support this claim with compelling genome-wide evidence, integrating AHL15 binding profiles with transcriptional and chromatin accessibility changes, as well as demonstrating overlap with genes known to form loops across transcribed regions. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid. Collectively, these findings will be of broad interest to biologists seeking to understand the core regulatory mechanisms underlying gene expression.

Reviewed by eLife

The influence of heavy metal stress on the evolutionary transition of teosinte to maize

1. Jonathan Acosta-Bayona
2. Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada
3. Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This study investigates whether heavy metal stress can induce maize-like phenotypic and molecular responses in teosinte and whether these responses overlap with genomic regions implicated in domestication. By combining copper and cadmium treatments with quantitative phenotyping, gene-expression analyses, and expanded assessments of nucleotide diversity across a key chromosome 5 interval, the authors provide an integrated view of how abiotic stress responses intersect with domestication-related traits. The significance of the findings is valuable, as the work offers meaningful insights for the subfield of maize evolution and stress biology by extending heavy-metal response analyses to teosinte and linking them to domestication-associated loci, although the evolutionary implications remain indirect. The strength of evidence is solid, with appropriately designed and quantitatively supported experiments that broadly support the claims, but do not yet establish a causal or historical role for heavy metal stress in domestication.

Reviewed by eLife

The parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris selectively loads trans -species miRNAs onto host Argonautes, but not self Argonautes

1. Ya-Chi Nien
2. Michael J. Axtell

Reviewed by PREreview

Open RGB Imaging Workflow for Morphological and Morphometric Analysis of Fruits using AI: A Case Study on Almonds

1. Mas-Gómez Jorge
2. Rubio Manuel
3. Dicenta Federico
4. Martínez-García Pedro José

Reviewed by GigaScience

Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases mediate Wall Teichoic Acid perception in Arabidopsis

1. L. Pierdzig
2. C. Seinsche
3. S. Kalla
4. S. Armiento
5. L.M. Schulz
6. J. Rismondo
7. A. Molinaro
8. C. De Castro
9. E.K. Petutschnig
10. V. Lipka

Reviewed by PREreview

Enhancer-driven random gene overexpression (ERGO): a method to study gene function in Chlamydomonas

1. Yuliia Lihanova
2. Rory J. Craig
3. Mia Pribbernow
4. Reimund Goss
5. Severin Sasso

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Dual recognition of structurally unrelated mildew effectors underlies the broad-spectrum resistance of Pm3e in wheat

1. Lukas Kunz
2. Zoe Bernasconi
3. Matthias Heuberger
4. Jonatan Isaksson
5. Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos
6. Ursin Stirnemann
7. Jigisha Jigisha
8. Fabrizio Menardo
9. Thomas Wicker
10. Marion C. Müller
11. Beat Keller

Reviewed by PREreview

Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

1. Ana Pfleger
2. Erwann Arc
3. Shuang Zhang
4. Palak Chaturvedi
5. Emma Antoine
6. Erich Gnaiger
7. Arindam Ghatak
8. Leila Afjehi-Sadat
9. Wolfram Weckwerth
10. Ilse Kranner
11. Thomas Roach

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Actin Counters Geometry to Guide Plant Cell Division

1. Camila Goldy
2. Samantha Moulin
3. Yutaro Shimizu
4. Guillaume Cerutti
5. Vincent Bayle
6. Magali Grison
7. Yvon Jaillais
8. David Bouchez
9. Yohann Boutté
10. Martine Pastuglia
11. Philippe Andrey
12. Marie-Cécile Caillaud

Reviewed by preLights

Catch & Release – rapid cost-effective protein purification from plants using a DIY GFP-Trap-protease approach

1. Sebastian Schwartz
2. Carina Engstler
3. Susanne Mühlbauer
4. Eduard Windenbach
5. Tobias Wunder
6. Hans-Henning Kunz
7. Benjamin Brandt

Reviewed by Arcadia Science