Plant Biology

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

• Curated by eLife

  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.

Reviewed by eLife

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.

Reviewed by eLife

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

Reviewed by Review Commons

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.

Reviewed by eLife

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

• Curated by eLife

  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.

Reviewed by eLife

Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet

1. Carla de la Fuente
2. Alexandre Grondin
3. Bassirou Sine
4. Marilyne Debieu
5. Christophe Belin
6. Amir Hajjarpoor
7. Jonathan A Atkinson
8. Sixtine Passot
9. Marine Salson
10. Julie Orjuela
11. Christine Tranchant-Dubreuil
12. Jean-Rémy Brossier
13. Maxime Steffen
14. Charlotte Morgado
15. Hang Ngan Dinh
16. Bipin K Pandey
17. Julie Darmau
18. Antony Champion
19. Anne-Sophie Petitot
20. Celia Barrachina
21. Marine Pratlong
22. Thibault Mounier
23. Princia Nakombo-Gbassault
24. Pascal Gantet
25. Prakash Gangashetty
26. Yann Guedon
27. Vincent Vadez
28. Jean-Philippe Reichheld
29. Malcolm J Bennett
30. Ndjido Ardo Kane
31. Soazig Guyomarc'h
32. Darren M Wells
33. Yves Vigouroux
34. Laurent Laplaze

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This is an important paper that combines methods ranging from agronomy and plant breeding to Arabidopsis functional genetics, to argue that polymorphism in a single gene affects crop yield in pearl millet by affecting root cell elongation and drought stress resilience in a poorly studied crop. The overall argument is plausible but whether the solid evidence generated with Arabidopsis experiments can be extended to pearl millet itself is unclear.

Reviewed by eLife

Genomic relationships among diploid and polyploid species of the genus Ludwigia L. section Jussiaea using a combination of molecular cytogenetic, morphological, and crossing investigations

1. Dominique Barloy
2. Luis Portillo-Lemus
3. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield
4. Virginie Huteau
5. Olivier Coriton

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Finding the LMA needle in the wheat proteome haystack

1. Delphine Vincent
2. AnhDuyen Bui
3. Vilnis Ezernieks
4. Saleh Shahinfar
5. Timothy Luke
6. Doris Ram
7. Nicholas Rigas
8. Joe Panozzo
9. Simone Rochfort
10. Hans Daetwyler
11. Matthew Hayden

Reviewed by GigaScience