Plant Biology

An array of Zymoseptoria tritici effectors suppress plant immune responses

1. E. Thynne
2. H. Ali
3. K. Seong
4. M. Abukhalaf
5. M. A. Guerreiro
6. V. M. Flores-Nunez
7. R. Hansen
8. A. Bergues
9. M. J. Salman
10. J. J. Rudd
11. K. Kanyuka
12. A. Tholey
13. K. V. Krasileva
14. G. J. Kettles
15. E. H. Stukenbrock

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Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri type III effector PthA4 directs the dynamical expression of a putative citrus carbohydrate-binding protein gene for canker formation

1. Xinyu Chen
2. Huasong Zou
3. Tao Zhuo
4. Wei Rou
5. Wei Wu
6. Xiaojing Fan

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This valuable study provides new insight into potential subtle dynamics in effector biology. The data presented generally support the claims, but in some cases, significant controls are missing and so the overall work is currently incomplete. If the limitations can be addressed, this work should be of broad relevance for biologists interested in molecular plant-microbe interactions.

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Molecular Matchmakers: Phytoplasma Effector SAP54 Targets MADS-Box Factor SVP to Enhance Attraction of Fecund Female Vectors by Modulating Leaf Responses to Male Presence

1. Zigmunds Orlovskis
2. Archana Singh
3. Adi Kliot
4. Weijie Huang
5. Saskia A. Hogenhout

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study highlights an important discovery: a bacterial pathogen's effector influences plant responses that in turn affect how the leafhopper insect vector for the bacteria is attracted to the plants in a sex-dependent manner. The research is backed by convincing physiological and transcriptome analyses. This study unveils a complex interdependence between the pathogen effector, male leafhoppers, and a plant transcription factor in modulating female attraction to the plant, shedding light on previously unexplored aspects of plant-bacteria-insect interactions.

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Hyperspectral imaging for chloroplast movement detection

1. Paweł Hermanowicz
2. Justyna Łabuz

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Polarised subcellular activation of ROPs by specific ROPGEFs drives pollen germination in Arabidopsis thaliana

1. Alida Melissa Bouatta
2. Andrea Lepper
3. Philipp Denninger

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Long non-coding RNAs regulate the expression of cell surface receptors in plants

1. Hemal Bhasin
2. Hasna Khan
3. Zachary Kileeg
4. G. Adam Mott

Reviewed by Review Commons

Using AlphaFold Multimer to discover interkingdom protein-protein interactions

1. Felix Homma
2. Joy Lyu
3. Renier A. L. van der Hoorn

Reviewed by PREreview

The Rhizobial effector NopT targets Nod factor receptors to regulate symbiosis in Lotus japonicus

1. Hanbin Bao
2. Wang Yanan
3. Haoxing Li
4. Qiang Wang
5. Yutao Lei
6. Ying Ye
7. Hui Zhu
8. Gary Stacey
9. Shutong Xu
10. Yangrong Cao

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This valuable study reveals how a rhizobial effector protein cleaves and inhibits a key plant receptor for symbiosis signaling, while the host plant counters by phosphorylating the effector. The molecular evidence for the protein-protein interaction and modification is solid, though biological evidence directly linking effector cleavage to rhizobial infection is incomplete. With additional functional data, this work could have implications for understanding intricate plant-microbe dynamics during mutualistic interactions.

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Plasmodesmal closure elicits stress responses

1. Estee E. Tee
2. Andrew Breakspear
3. Diana Papp
4. Hannah R. Thomas
5. Catherine Walker
6. Annalisa Bellandi
7. Christine Faulkner

Reviewed by preLights

Arabidopsis transcriptome responses to low water potential using high-throughput plate assays

1. Stephen Gonzalez
2. Joseph Swift
3. Adi Yaaran
4. Jiaying Xu
5. Charlotte Miller
6. Natanella Illouz-Eliaz
7. Joseph R Nery
8. Wolfgang Busch
9. Yotam Zait
10. Joseph R Ecker

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This work critically evaluates several widely-used assays of transcriptional responses to water limitation in Arabidopsis grown on defined agar-solidified media and, finding inconsistent responses in root transcriptome responses, introduces a new 'hard agar' assay with more consistent responses. The work is valuable as a simple and alternative experimental system that would enable high-throughput genetic screening (and GWAS) to assess the impacts of environmental perturbations on transcriptional responses in various genetic backgrounds. Within this scope, the work is solid, though the debate about whether field-level physiological inferences can be made from such assays remains.

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