Plant Biology

FER-like iron deficiency-induced transcription factor (FIT) accumulates in nuclear condensates

1. Ksenia Trofimov
2. Regina Gratz
3. Rumen Ivanov
4. Yvonne Stahl
5. Petra Bauer
6. Tzvetina Brumbarova

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Heat stress impairs centromere structure and segregation of meiotic chromosomes in Arabidopsis

1. Lucie Crhak Khaitova
2. Pavlina Mikulkova
3. Jana Pecinkova
4. Manikandan Kalidass
5. Stefan Heckmann
6. Inna Lermontova
7. Karel Riha

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study is an important contribution to our insights into the impact of heat stress on sexual reproduction in plants and provides information about how centromere integrity is affected by heat stress during male meiosis in Arabidopsis thaliana. The evidence supporting the claims, specifically the dynamics of tagged proteins in meiocytes by live cell imaging is solid, even though a deeper mechanistic understanding is still lacking.

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Serine hydroxymethyl transferase is a binding target of caprylic acid: Uncovering a novel molecular target for a herbicide and for producing caprylic acid-tolerant crops

1. Zuren Li
2. Mugui Wang
3. Haodong Bai
4. Hongzhi Wang
5. Jincai Han
6. Likun An
7. Dingfeng Luo
8. Yingying Wang
9. Wei Kuang
10. Xiaoyi Nie
11. Lianyang Bai

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study presents a valuable contribution towards understanding the protein target and mechanism of action of an herbicide, which could be applied to the development of herbicide-based technologies to improve crop yields. Evidence is gathered using a variety of technical approaches that enrich and support the findings, but the methodology and the presentation of the results are incomplete.

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Citizen science data on urban forageable plants: a case study in Brazil

1. Filipi Miranda Soares
2. Luís Ferreira Pires
3. Maria Carolina Garcia
4. Lidio Coradin
5. Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes
6. Rubens Rangel Silva
7. Aline Martins de Carvalho
8. Anand Gavai
9. Yamine Bouzembrak
10. Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan
11. Sheina Koffler
12. Uiara Bandineli Montedo
13. Debora Pignatari Drucker
14. Raquel Santiago
15. Maria Clara Peres de Carvalho
16. Ana Carolina da Silva Lima
17. Hillary Dandara Elias Gabriel
18. Stephanie Gabriele Mendonça de França
19. Karoline Reis de Almeida
20. Bárbara Junqueira dos Santos
21. Antonio Mauro Saraiva

• Curated by GigaByte

  Editors Assessment:

  This is a Data Release paper describing data sets derived from the Pomar Urbano project cataloging edible fruit-bearing plants in Brazil. Including data sourced from the citizen science iNaturalist app, tracking the distribution and monitoring of these plants within urban landscapes (Brazilian state capitals). The data was audited and peer reviewed and put into better context, and there is a companion commentary in GigaScience journal better explaining the rationale for the study. Demonstrating this data providing a platform for understanding the diversity of fruit-bearing plants in select Brazilian cities and contributing to many open research questions in the existing literature on urban foraging and ecosystem services in urban environments.

  This evaluation refers to version 1 of the preprint

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Rapid translocation of NGR proteins driving polarization of PIN-activating D6 protein kinase during root gravitropism

1. Ivan Kulich
2. Julia Schmid
3. Anastasia Teplova
4. Linlin Qi
5. Jiří Friml

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  eLife assessment

  This fundamental study addresses the earliest events that enable plant roots to reorient growth in response to gravity. Compelling molecular and cell biological data establish that plasma membrane localization of the LAZY or NEGATIVE GRAVITROPIC RESPONSE OF ROOTS (NGR) protein family is required for rapid and polar redirection of D6 protein kinase, an activator of the PIN3 auxin transporter. This work complements and extends recent publications on the NGR family in gravity sensing (PMID: 37741279 and PMID: 37561884). Collectively these papers advance our understanding of rapid plant gravity sensing and response.

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Freshwater ‘microcroissants’ shed light on a novel higher-level clade within Trebouxiophyceae and reveal the genus Chlorolobion as a trebouxiophyte

1. Dovilė Barcytė
2. Ladislav Hodač
3. Marek Eliáš

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

A translation proofreader of archaeal origin imparts multi-aldehyde stress tolerance to land plants

1. Pradeep Kumar
2. Ankit Roy
3. Shivapura Jagadeesha Mukul
4. Avinash Kumar Singh
5. Dipesh Kumar Singh
6. Aswan Nalli
7. Pujaita Banerjee
8. Kandhalu Sagadevan Dinesh Babu
9. Bakthisaran Raman
10. Shobha P Kruparani
11. Imran Siddiqi
12. Rajan Sankaranarayanan

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  The work is a fundamental contribution towards understanding the role of archaeal and plant D-aminoacyl-tRNA deacylase 2 (DTD2) in deacylation and detoxification of D-Tyr-tRNATyr modified by various aldehydes produced as metabolic byproducts in plants. It integrates convincing results from both in vitro and in vivo experiments to address the long-standing puzzle of why plants outperform bacteria in handling reactive aldehydes and suggests a new strategy for stress-tolerant crops. A limitation of the study is the lack of evidence for accumulation of toxic D-aminoacyl tRNAs and impairment of translation in plant cells lacking DTD2.

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PAT mRNA decapping factors function specifically and redundantly during development in Arabidopsis

1. Zhangli Zuo
2. Milena Edna Roux
3. Yasin F. Dagdas
4. Eleazar Rodriguez
5. Morten Petersen

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The structural repertoire of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici effectors revealed by experimental and computational studies

1. Daniel S Yu
2. Megan A Outram
3. Ashley Smith
4. Carl L McCombe
5. Pravin B Khambalkar
6. Sharmin A Rima
7. Xizhe Sun
8. Lisong Ma
9. Daniel J Ericsson
10. David A Jones
11. Simon J Williams

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study provides important new insights into the structural diversity of effectors – proteins secreted by pathogens and symbionts into host cells – from the plant-associated fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. The study provides a convincing approach to elucidate how effectors navigate their host environment by exploiting both computational and experimental approaches to understand how their structure influences binding partners. The work will be of interest to those studying molecular host-microbe interactions and disease protection.

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High-resolution kinetics of herbivore-induced plant volatile transfer reveal clocked response patterns in neighboring plants

1. Jamie Mitchel Waterman
2. Tristan Michael Cofer
3. Lei Wang
4. Gaetan Glauser
5. Matthias Erb

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  eLife assessment

  This fundamental study examines the effects of herbivory-induced maize volatiles on neighbouring plants and their responses over time. Measurements of volatile compound classes and gene expression in receiver plants exposed to these volatiles led to the conclusion that the delayed emission of certain terpenes in receiver plants after the onset of light may be a result of stress memory, highlighting the role of priming and induction in plant defences triggered by herbivore-induced plant volatiles. The evidence supporting the conclusions is compelling, with rigorous chemical assays of and state-of-the-art high throughput real time mass spectrometry. The work will be of broad interest to plant biologists and chemical ecologists.

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