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

Reviewed by PREreview

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

Reviewed by Review Commons

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

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

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Two NLR immune receptors acquired high-affinity binding to a fungal effector through convergent evolution of their integrated domain

1. Aleksandra Białas
2. Thorsten Langner
3. Adeline Harant
4. Mauricio P Contreras
5. Clare EM Stevenson
6. David M Lawson
7. Jan Sklenar
8. Ronny Kellner
9. Matthew J Moscou
10. Ryohei Terauchi
11. Mark J Banfield
12. Sophien Kamoun

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Convergent evolution is often observed in nature, but the molecular mechanisms allowing similar functions to independently emerge are rarely understood. This work determines how the high-affinity recognition of a pathogenic effector produced by the rice blast fungus, Avr-PikD, evolved in the immune receptor Pik-1. The integration of molecular evolution analyses with structure-function biochemical testing is novel to the field and the data quality is exceptional. In addition to advancing knowledge of host-microbe co-evolution, this work is exemplary in its transparency and the breadth of approaches utilized to understand protein evolution, and we expect that this study will provide a conceptual framework for similar studies in the future.

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