1. Exploring fern pathosystems and immune receptors to bridge gaps in plant immunity

    This article has 7 authors:
    1. Baptiste Castel
    2. Madeleine Baker
    3. Jean Keller
    4. Yves Martinez
    5. Maxime Bonhomme
    6. Pierre-Marc Delaux
    7. Christophe Jacquet

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  2. Archaeological Bolivian maize genomes suggest Inca cultural expansion augmented maize diversity in South America

    This article has 9 authors:
    1. Huan Chen
    2. Amy Baetsen-Young
    3. Addie Thompson
    4. Brad Day
    5. Thelma Madzima
    6. Sally Wasef
    7. Claudia Rivera Casanovas
    8. William Lovis
    9. Gabriel Wrobel
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      eLife Assessment

      This useful study attempts to place an ancient maize sample from Bolivia, dated to the end of the Incan empire, in genetic and geographical context. The analyses show that this sample is most closely related to ancient Peruvian maize, but the data are inadequate to determine the direction of dispersal. There are additional deficiencies in the statistical analyses and selection inferences. The topic of the study would appeal to researchers studying maize dispersal and adaptation.

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

    This article has 3 authors:
    1. Jonathan Acosta-Bayona
    2. Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada
    3. Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
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      This study presents a valuable investigation into how heavy metal stress may have influenced the domestication of maize from its wild ancestor, teosinte parviglumis, focusing on specific ATPase genes with proposed roles in heavy metal homeostasis. The evidence supporting the main claims is incomplete, with suggestive but not definitive data linking gene function to domestication traits, and limited environmental context for the hypothesized selection pressures. While the work introduces an interesting model connecting environmental stress responses to evolutionary transitions and highlights underexplored aspects of teosinte plasticity, the conclusions would benefit from more comprehensive analyses such as transcriptomics, a broader survey of loci, and stronger paleoenvironmental validation. The study will be of interest to researchers in plant evolution and domestication, but currently lacks the analytical depth to fully support its central hypothesis.

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  4. Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula

    This article has 11 authors:
    1. Morgane Batzenschlager
    2. Beatrice Lace
    3. Ning Zhang
    4. Chao Su
    5. Anna Boiger
    6. Sabrina Egli
    7. Pascal Krohn
    8. Jule Salfeld
    9. Franck Anicet Ditengou
    10. Thomas Laux
    11. Thomas Ott
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      This is a fundamental cell biological study of host responses during symbiotic microbial infection of plants. Compelling imaging-based approaches using genetically encoded cell cycle markers show that in Medicago truncatula root cortex cells, early rhizobial infection events are associated with cell-cycle re-entry, but once the infection is established, host cells exit the cell cycle. The work will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in fields from development and cell biology to plant-microbe interactions.

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  5. Rpv2 is part of a cluster of NLRs specific to Vitis rotundifolia and confers extreme resistance to grapevine downy mildew

    This article has 14 authors:
    1. Laurie Marsan
    2. Emilce Prado
    3. Sabine Wiedemann-Merdinoglu
    4. Laure Schmidlin
    5. Sophie Blanc
    6. Marion Delame
    7. Sylvain Schnee
    8. Burak Arti
    9. Guillaume Barnabé
    10. Amandine Velt
    11. Vincent Dumas
    12. Didier Merdinoglu
    13. Camille Rustenholz
    14. Pere Mestre

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  6. A spontaneous mutation in a key C 4 pathway gene significantly alters leaf δ 13 C, uncoupling its relationship with WUE and photosynthetic performance in Zea mays

    This article has 7 authors:
    1. Robert J. Twohey
    2. Joseph D. Crawford
    3. Matthew J. Runyon
    4. Jiayang Xie
    5. Andrew D. B. Leakey
    6. Asaph B. Cousins
    7. Anthony J. Studer

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  7. A simple method to efficiently generate structural variation in plants

    This article has 5 authors:
    1. Lindsey L. Bechen
    2. Naiyara Ahsan
    3. Alefiyah Bahrainwala
    4. Mary Gehring
    5. PRV Satyaki

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  8. Transcriptional Dynamics and Chromatin Accessibility in the Regulation of Shade-Responsive Genes in Arabidopsis

    This article has 8 authors:
    1. Sandi Paulisic
    2. Alessandra Boccaccini
    3. René Dreos
    4. Giovanna Ambrosini
    5. Nicolas Guex
    6. Ruben Maximilian Benstei
    7. Markus Schmid
    8. Christian Fankhauser

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  9. Making plant tissue accessible for cryo-electron tomography

    This article has 19 authors:
    1. Matthias Pöge
    2. Marcel Dickmanns
    3. Peng Xu
    4. Meijing Li
    5. Oda H Schiøtz
    6. Christoph OJ Kaiser
    7. Jianfei Ma
    8. Anna Bieber
    9. Cristina Capitanio
    10. Johann Brenner
    11. Margot Riggi
    12. Sven Klumpe
    13. Manuel Miras
    14. Neda S Kazemein Jasemi
    15. Waltraud X Schulze
    16. Rüdiger Simon
    17. Wolf B Frommer
    18. Jürgen M Plitzko
    19. Wolfgang Baumeister
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      Thick multicellular plant samples provide unique challenges when it comes to cryo-preservation, which has resulted in limited successful examples for structural studies using in situ cryo-electron tomography. To address this deficiency, this important study describes procedures for high-pressure-freezing, focused ion-beam milling, and cryo-electron tomography imaging of certain plant types. The results described in the paper provide solid evidence for the usefulness of the methods described, although some reservations remain about the applicability of the methods to a wider range of plant cell types.

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  10. The Mp CAFA gene encodes a ciliary protein required for spermatozoid motility in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

    This article has 2 authors:
    1. Mizuki Morita
    2. Katsuyuki T. Yamato

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