Review
Plant Sciences
Kevin Daniel, Sjon Hartman
Summary: Plant submergence is a major abiotic stress that can be mitigated by changes in root growth behavior and adaptation to low oxygen conditions. Ethylene and hypoxia signaling play important roles in regulating these adaptive root growth responses. Future research should focus on more natural experimental designs to better understand how plants respond to and survive waterlogging.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yi Ding, Donald M. Gardiner, Jonathan J. Powell, Michelle L. Colgrave, Robert F. Park, Kemal Kazan
Summary: This study investigated the transcriptional and metabolic responses in Brachypodium distachyon roots following challenge with Fusarium graminearum. It was found that Bd roots recognized encroaching Fg prior to physical contact by altering gene expression and secretion of host metabolites, resulting in increased resistance to the pathogen.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Tim Burton, Irja Ida Ratikainen, Sigurd Einum
Summary: This article examines the rate at which reversible phenotypic plasticity (RPP) occurs and its potential impact on how organisms overcome environmental challenges. The study suggests that current theoretical models do not consider the evolutionary potential of RPP rates. If the rate of plasticity itself can evolve, it may alter the organism's perception of environmental predictability and influence the slope of the evolved reaction norm. The optimization of phenotypic plasticity rates, their evolutionary dynamics in different environments, and the costs associated with them warrant further exploration in future research.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Mirza Shoaib, Bikram P. Banerjee, Matthew Hayden, Surya Kant
Summary: This review comprehensively discusses the importance of root architectural responses and root-microbe relationships in drought-resilient crop development. It highlights the continuous and complex processes involved in root responses to drought adaptation and the additional root traits and interactions among themselves. The review also emphasizes the significance of root contribution in improving soil structure and water holding capacity, and proposes various drought adaptive root ideotypes for different agroclimatic conditions.
Review
Plant Sciences
Gabriela Auge, Valentin Hankofer, Martin Groth, Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti, Irja Ratikainen, Christian Lampei
Summary: Plants have a remarkable ability to adapt to their environment and utilize previous experiences to improve their development and survival. This "plant memory" is a complex molecular mechanism with multiple components and layers, and has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding and management of plant communities in natural and agricultural ecosystems through the integration of mathematical modeling with knowledge of ecological, physiological, and developmental effects.
Review
Plant Sciences
Dagmar Hromadova, Ales Soukup, Edita Tylova
Summary: The responsiveness to environmental conditions and developmental plasticity of root systems are crucial for plant fitness, with AGPs playing an essential role at the cellular level in cell expansion, differentiation, root growth regulation, interactions with other organisms, and environmental responses. Despite the complexity of cell wall functional and regulatory networks, the exact molecular mechanisms of AGP-action remain largely unknown, as summarized in this evolving field of root biology.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yangminghao Liu, Daniel Patko, Ilonka Engelhardt, Timothy S. George, Nicola R. Stanley-Wall, Vincent Ladmiral, Bruno Ameduri, Tim J. Daniell, Nicola Holden, Michael P. MacDonald, Lionel X. Dupuy
Summary: Our study developed a three-dimensional live microscopy technique to observe plant-microbe interactions in transparent soil, providing valuable insights into the colonization patterns of Bacillus subtilis populations in the rhizosphere of lettuce plants. This innovative system allows for real-time tracking of microbial movement and is a powerful tool for understanding complex interactions in the environment.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ilaria Fraudentali, Renato A. Rodrigues-Pousada, Riccardo Angelini, Sandip A. Ghuge, Alessandra Cona
Summary: Polyamines are essential compounds in living organisms, and copper amine oxidases play a key role in oxidizing them to aminoaldehydes. CuAOs participate in the response to various stresses by modulating multilevel phenotypic plasticity expression in different plant species, particularly in Arabidopsis thaliana. Studies have focused on the involvement of CuAOs in the IAA/JA/ABA signal transduction pathways mediating stress-induced phenotypic plasticity events.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Yi Rong, Zi-Long Zhao, Xi-Qiao Feng, Jialing Yang, Yi Min Xie
Summary: This study investigates the formation, optimization, and evolution mechanisms of plant roots through biomechanical morphogenesis. The results reveal that the morphological evolutions of root systems are driven by maximizing the transport efficiency of water and nutrients, and are regulated by geotropism, hydrotropism, and growth inertia.
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Juan de la Cruz Jimenez, Elisa Pellegrini, Ole Pedersen, Mikio Nakazono
Summary: Efficient internal aeration is crucial for root growth and plant survival in flooded soils. Root barriers are formed by many wetland species to restrict oxygen loss and enhance oxygen diffusion, while also preventing the entry of toxic compounds into the roots. Root oxygen loss is important for rhizosphere oxygenation and toxin oxidation.
Article
Environmental Sciences
James Whitehead, Stefan Hempel, Matthias C. Rillig
Summary: The symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi undergoes changes across an urban gradient, with plant communities playing a crucial role in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization levels. However, non-mycorrhizal fungal colonization increases with urbanization. Additionally, root hair presence increases with urbanization. These patterns are driven by an urban syndrome rather than soil chemistry.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Melisandre A. Tefit, Tifanny Budiman, Adrianna Dupriest, Joanne Y. Yew
Summary: The microbiome has been proposed as a key factor in driving phenotypic variation in host organisms, affecting metabolic processes, development, and novel functions necessary for survival. A study inoculating germ-free fruit flies with microbes from different environmental sites shows that these microbes induce significant variation in reproduction, fatty acid levels, stress tolerance, and sleep behavior. Removal of microbes eliminates these phenotypic differences, supporting the causal role of environmental microbes in driving host phenotypic plasticity and potentially rapid adaptation and evolution.
Article
Ecology
Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai, Diego Llusia, Tadeu Siqueira, Thiago S. F. Silva
Summary: Acoustic signaling is crucial in mate selection, but background noise and habitat structure can impact signal transmission. The acoustic space reflects selective pressures against signal interference and degradation, influenced by phylogenetic niche conservatism, allometric constraints, and ecological assembly processes. Sorting of species based on public information through communication networks can also shape the acoustic space.
Review
Biochemical Research Methods
Yang Liu, DongMing Li, Ji Qian, Bao Di, Gang Zhang, ZhenHui Ren
Summary: This review summarizes the application of electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in plant root measurement, discussing experimental schemes, instruments, electrode, excitation frequency range, root electrical characteristics, equivalent circuit, and the combination of EIS with artificial intelligence. It suggests future research should focus on the miniaturization of measurement equipment, standardization of planting environment, and intelligentization of root diagnosis.
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Daiyan Li, Zhongtao Jia
Summary: The study shows that auxin dynamics play a critical role in facilitating plant root penetration into hard soil barriers. By mapping the genetic locus associated with primary root penetrability, new insights into the regulatory role of auxin signaling in root penetrability and related natural genetic variation for this important trait are gained.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sinead English, Ido Pen, Nicholas Shea, Tobias Uller
Article
Plant Sciences
Jennie R. McLaren, Ariel Novoplansky, Roy Turkington
Article
Plant Sciences
Omer Falik, Yonat Mordoch, Daniel Ben-Natan, Miriam Vanunu, Oron Goldstein, Ariel Novoplansky
Article
Ecology
M. Gruntman, A. Novoplansky
JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
(2011)
Article
Ecology
A. Arbiv, I. S. Khokhlova, O. Ovadia, A. Novoplansky, B. R. Krasnov
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Plant Sciences
H. Shemesh, A. Novoplansky
Article
Plant Sciences
Hagai Shemesh, Ofer Ovadia, Ariel Novoplansky
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hadas Shema, Judit Bar-Ilan, Mike Thelwall
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maartje P. Groot, Rik Kooke, Nieke Knoben, Philippine Vergeer, Joost J. B. Keurentjes, N. Joop Ouborg, Koen J. F. Verhoeven
Article
Plant Sciences
Omer Falik, Shachar Mauda, Ariel Novoplansky
Summary: This study demonstrates that unstressed plants are able to perceive and adaptively respond to stress cues emitted from their drought-stressed neighbors, and induce adaptive responses in additional unstressed plants. The root communication of drought cues among neighboring plants can have novel implications for plant interactions, survival, and performance. ABA plays a significant role in interplant drought cuing.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
M. A. Ferre, J. J. R. Bennett, A. Novoplansky, E. Meron
Summary: Alien species often become invasive by affecting the growth of pathogens, which in turn negatively impact native species. This study suggests that invasion can be managed by local manipulations in the front zone to reverse the invasion and restore native species.
CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Omer Falik, Ariel Novoplansky
Summary: Plants can communicate with their pollinators, herbivores, symbionts, and the predators and pathogens of their herbivores. Previous research has shown that plants can exchange and utilize drought cues from their conspecific neighbors. This study investigated whether plants can exchange drought cues with their interspecific neighbors. The experiments observed drought cuing and relayed cuing in all intra- and interspecific neighbor combinations, but the strength of the cues depended on plant identity and position.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Omer Falik, Ariel Novoplansky
Summary: Recent research has found that root signals from drought-stressed plants can increase the survival time of neighboring plants under drought conditions, but this comes with performance costs under benign conditions. The involvement of abscisic acid (ABA) is high, as interplant drought signaling is greatly reduced in ABA-deficient plants.
PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Omer Falik, Ishay Hoffmann, Ariel Novoplansky
PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
(2014)
Review
Cell Biology
Alyssa Kearly, Andrew D. L. Nelson, Aleksandra Skirycz, Monika Chodasiewicz
Summary: Stress Granules (SGs) and Processing-bodies (P-bodies) are important biomolecular condensates that play crucial roles in maintaining mRNA balance and regulating stress responses. They are composed of proteins and RNAs involved in translation, protein folding, and energy metabolism.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
P. Lemonnier, T. Lawson
Summary: Stomatal conductance plays a crucial role in determining CO2 uptake and water loss in plants, affecting overall water status and productivity. However, the signals coordinating mesophyll demands for CO2, the role of chloroplasts in stomatal function, and other GC metabolic processes in stomatal function remain poorly understood.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Matteo Gionfriddo, Timothy Rhodes, Spencer M. Whitney
Summary: Rubisco is a key enzyme that facilitates the entry of CO2 into the biosphere, but its catalytic properties are slow and error-prone. More effective Rubisco variants have been discovered in certain algae, offering the potential to significantly improve crop productivity. However, incompatibilities in protein folding have hindered the transplantation of these variants into plants. Directed evolution is now being explored to enhance Rubisco catalysis.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Vittoria Clapero, Stephanie Arrivault, Mark Stitt
Summary: The Calvin-Benson cycle has undergone massive selection and co-evolution with carbon-concentrating mechanisms due to changing environmental factors. Metabolite profiling reveals species-specific variations in the operation of the cycle, indicating the influence of different modes of photosynthesis. Connectivity analysis identifies constraints and driving factors for cross-species diversity in the cycle.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Sukhbir Kaur, David D. Roberts
Summary: Thrombospondin-1 modulates cell behavior by interacting with components of the extracellular matrix and cell surface receptors. Its release and expression are influenced by injuries and various diseases, while its sustained presence in the extracellular space is regulated by receptor-mediated clearance. Thrombospondin-1 plays important roles in immune responses.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Richard P. Tucker, Josephine C. Adams
Summary: Thrombospondins (TSPs) play diverse roles in animals and have been found to belong to a superfamily that includes different subgroups such as mega-TSPs, sushi-TSPs, and poriferan-TSPs. Invertebrates encode a greater diversity of TSP superfamily members than vertebrates.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
James Petrik, Sylvia Lauks, Bianca Garlisi, Jack Lawler
Summary: Many cancers start with a small nest of transformed cells that can remain dormant. Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) initially promotes dormancy by suppressing angiogenesis, but over time, factors promoting angiogenesis become dominant and recruit various cells to form a complex tumor microenvironment. TSPs play a role in the proliferation, migration, and invasion of cells in the tumor microenvironment, as well as influencing the immune characteristics and phenotype of tumor-associated macrophages.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Hana Fakim, Christine Vande Velde
Summary: There has been increasing attention to the role of phase-separated biomolecular condensates, specifically stress granules, in neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. ALS-associated mutations in genes involved in stress granule assembly have been found, and stress granule proteins have been detected in pathological inclusions in ALS patient neurons. However, protein components of stress granules are also present in other physiological biomolecular condensates, which have not been adequately discussed in relation to ALS. This review explores the functions of TDP-43 and FUS in physiological condensates occurring in the nucleus and neurites beyond stress granules, and discusses the impact of ALS-linked mutations on their ability to phase separate and perform their functions in stress-independent biomolecular condensates.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Alexander Lin, Yogambha Ramaswamy, Ashish Misra
Summary: Smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, and macrophages in blood vessels display remarkable heterogeneity, and their developmental origins may influence their plasticity. Unbiased single cell whole transcriptome analysis techniques are revolutionizing the understanding of cellular diversity and plasticity, providing insights for therapeutic research.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Elton P. Hudson
Summary: The Calvin Benson cycle plays a crucial role in the ecological and biotechnological aspects of bacteria. Recent studies have shed light on the regulation of this cycle in bacteria, with post-transcriptional and post-translational regulation being important in phototrophic bacteria, and transcriptional regulation being prominent in chemolithoautotrophic bacteria. Understanding the regulation of the Calvin Benson cycle has implications for enhancing CO2 fixation and improving the synthesis of desired products. Non-canonical cycles may offer potential benefits for industrial applications.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Xin-Guang Zhu, Haim Treves, Honglong Zhao
Summary: This paper discusses the major regulatory mechanisms over the Calvin Benson Cycle (CBC) that maintain homeostasis of metabolite levels. These mechanisms include redox regulation of enzymes, metabolite regulations (especially allosteric regulations), and balanced activities of enzymes. These regulatory mechanisms are crucial for maintaining high flux and photosynthetic efficiency in CBC.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Hunter C. Herriage, Yi-Ting Huang, Brian R. Calvi
Summary: Apoptosis prevents the inappropriate acquisition of extra copies of the genome, known as polyploidy, but the polyploid state can suppress apoptosis. The mechanisms linking apoptosis and polyploid cell cycles are still largely unknown, and studying the regulation of apoptosis in development and cancer could lead to more effective therapies.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Daniel Campbell, Steven Zuryn
Summary: Mitochondrial dynamics play a crucial role in regulating cellular and organismal homeostasis, impacting various aspects of an organism's healthspan. By studying the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a comprehensive understanding of the impact of mitochondrial dynamics on homeostasis over a lifetime can be obtained.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Diba Borgmann, Henning Fenselau
Summary: Maintaining blood glucose at an appropriate physiological level requires coordination of multiple organs and tissues, with the vagus nerve playing a key role in central control. Recent studies have revealed the cellular identity, neuroanatomical organization, and functional contributions of vagal neurons in the regulation of systemic glucose metabolism. These findings provide new insights into the precise roles of vagal neurons in coordinating glucose levels and offer potential avenues for treating glucose metabolism disorders.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)
Review
Cell Biology
Tatiana C. Coverdell, Stephen B. G. Abbott, John N. Campbell
Summary: In this article, we review how genetic technology and single-cell genomics are revealing the organizational principles of the efferent vagus in unprecedented detail.
SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2024)