Plant Biology

Cellulose Synthase Complexes and Remorins Mediate Stress Resilience Through Cell Wall-Plasma Membrane Attachments

1. Yue Rui
2. Magda Zaoralova
3. William P. Dwyer
4. Andres V. Reyes
5. Tarabryn S. Grismer
6. Nikolaj B. Abel
7. Dharanidaran Jayachandran
8. Shishir P.S. Chundawat
9. Thomas Ott
10. Joseph J. Kieber
11. Peter Dahlberg
12. Shou-Ling Xu
13. Jose Ramon Dinneny

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Phosphoinositide-specific Phospholipase C 2 (SlPLC2) Facilitates Vesicle Formation and Modulates Immune Signaling in Tomato Phytophthora infestans Interactions

1. Enzo A. Perk
2. Juan Martín D’Ambrosio
3. Ignacio Cerrudo
4. Luciana Robuschi
5. Marcelo Juárez
6. Pilar Vélez
7. Verónica Mary
8. Martín Theumer
9. María Eugenia Segretin
10. Ana M. Laxalt

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An elevated environmental temperature impairs accumulation of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2

1. Bryony C.I.C. Jacobs
2. Kyle W. Bender
3. Emma Six
4. Cyril Zipfel
5. Marc R. Knight

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Targeted and random mutagenesis of cassava brown streak disease susceptibility factors reveal molecular determinants of disease severity

1. ZJ Daniel Lin
2. Myia K Stanton
3. Gabriela L Hernandez
4. Elizabeth J De Meyer
5. Zachary von Behren
6. Katherine Benza
7. Helene Tiley
8. Anna Meirink
9. Emerald Hood
10. Greg Jensen
11. Kerrigan B Gilbert
12. James C Carrington
13. Rebecca S Bart

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  eLife Assessment

  This valuable study shows that targeted mutations in specific cassava eIF4E-family genes can reduce infection and disease symptoms caused by cassava brown streak viruses. Through systematic knockouts across the eIF4E gene family, the authors provide convincing evidence that certain double mutants show resistance-associated outcomes. Overall, the work supports practical routes to engineer cassava with improved resistance and clarifies which host factors are relevant for this disease.

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A lettuce receptor-like kinase recognizes the highly conserved heptapeptide motif within microbial NEP1-like proteins

1. Iñigo Bañales
2. Sarah L. Mehrem
3. Samara Almeida Landman
4. Marrit Alderkamp
5. L.C.P. (Max) Pijfers
6. Stan Baijens
7. Alix von Bredow
8. Peter Schutte
9. Sander Prevoo
10. Gijs van Asselt
11. Sagayamary Sagayaradj
12. Basten Snoek
13. Richard Michelmore
14. Dmitry Lapin
15. Guido Van den Ackerveken

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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

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  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.

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