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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Junhui Peng, Nicolas Svetec, Li Zhao
Summary: Proteins are essential for cell functions, and understanding their molecular evolution is crucial. Previous studies have shown that adaptation often occurs at the protein surface, but it is unclear whether adaptive sites are randomly distributed throughout the genome or associated with specific structural or functional characteristics. This study found that protein sequence adaptation is more related to function than structure, and strongly differentiated amino acids across geographic regions in protein-coding genes are mostly adaptive, contributing to long-term adaptive evolution. The results highlight the importance of intermolecular interactions and coadaptation in protein adaptive evolution at both species and population levels.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Nan-Qi Wang, Chui-Hua Kong, Peng Wang, Scott J. Meiners
Summary: Plant-to-plant signalling plays a key role in interactions among plant species, with root exudates serving as key players in conveying information on local conditions and driving facilitation both within and between species. Thorough understanding of root-secreted chemical signals and their mechanisms holds ecological implications and potential applications for sustainable agriculture.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Shu Wang, Ragan M. Callaway
Summary: The study reveals that interactions between different plants can influence the growth and plasticity of plants in response to environmental factors, especially in dry conditions, plant interactions may have a positive facilitative effect on plant growth.
Review
Plant Sciences
Yi Liu, Danyu Kong, Hui-Lan Wu, Hong-Qing Ling
Summary: This article discusses the important role of iron in plant-pathogen interactions and how plants and pathogens regulate iron levels to maintain fitness. It also proposes directions for future research on this topic.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Martina Huber, Nicole M. Nieuwendijk, Chrysoula K. Pantazopoulou, Ronald Pierik
Summary: Plants growing at high densities interact via various pathways, with individual plants perceiving neighbor-induced changes in light quality and quantity mainly through phytochromes. These interactions lead to shade avoidance responses and architectural adjustments, impacting canopy structure, species composition, and population fitness within the plant community.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Sagar Bashyal, Chandan Kumar Gautam, Lena Maria Muller
Summary: Plants need to adapt rapidly to environmental changes by converting environmental signals into cellular signals, which induce physiological and developmental changes. CLE peptides and CLAVATA receptors play crucial roles in plant-environment interactions by regulating plant responses to environmental cues.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Casper J. van der Kooi, Mario Vallejo-Marin, Sara D. Leonhardt
Summary: The relationship between plants and animal pollinators is often asymmetric, depending on the perspective taken, and there is variation in (a)symmetry within and between species as well as geographic locations. By considering different viewpoints from the plant and pollinator sides, new insights are provided for studies on the maintenance and evolution of animal pollination and on the (a)symmetry in plant-pollinator interactions.
Review
Plant Sciences
Bin J. W. Chen, Shuqing N. Teng, Guang Zheng, Lijuan Cui, Shao-peng Li, Arie Staal, Jan U. H. Eitel, Thomas W. Crowther, Miguel Berdugo, Lidong Mo, Haozhi Ma, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Constantin M. Zohner, Daniel S. Maynard, Colin Averill, Jian Zhang, Qiang He, Jochem B. Evers, Niels P. R. Anten, Hezi Yizhaq, Ilan Stavi, Eli Argaman, Uri Basson, Zhiwei Xu, Ming-Juan Zhang, Kechang Niu, Quan-Xing Liu, Chi Xu
Summary: This article explores how remote sensing technologies can be used to infer plant-plant interactions and their roles in shaping plant-based systems at different levels, including individual, community, and landscape. Remote sensing data can detect the key attributes of ecosystems derived from plant-plant interactions. By combining remote sensing techniques with theories, models, experiments, and data analysis algorithms, we can better understand biotic interactions and scale ecological patterns.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
Summary: The article mainly introduces the threat of plant-parasitic nematodes to food security and emphasizes the importance of interactions between plants and nematodes. It also points out significant progress in the field of plant nematology in recent years and looks forward to future developments.
CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Karim Barkaoui, Florence Volaire
Summary: Dehydration tolerance in plants is crucial for drought survival, and it is influenced by factors such as soil water content, vapour pressure deficit, and plant-plant interactions. This study compared the dehydration dynamics, mortality, and recovery of two perennial grass species under different drought conditions, and found that plant-plant interactions can improve dehydration tolerance and drought resistance. The study also revealed that dehydration of leaf meristems leads to plant mortality, and acclimation to drought can increase dehydration tolerance.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Po-An Lin, Jessica Kansman, Wen-Po Chuang, Christelle Robert, Matthias Erb, Gary W. Felton
Summary: Water availability has a significant impact on plant-herbivore interactions. This review summarizes recent research on the effects of water availability on plant antiherbivore defense and the physiological processes involved. Water deficit tends to enhance certain defense traits but negatively affects others, and the impact of water availability on species interactions and plant evolution is discussed. However, there is a lack of study on the interactive impact of additional abiotic stressors on water-plant-herbivore interactions.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Daniela Ramos-Cruz, A. Niloya Troyee, Claude Becker
Summary: Plants are the central hubs of organismic interactions, constantly engaging in beneficial or competitive exchanges with various organisms. In order to establish and maintain these interactions, as well as defend against pathogens and herbivores, plants have evolved intricate regulatory mechanisms, with epigenetic mechanisms emerging as an additional regulatory entity. This review highlights recent advances in understanding the contribution of various epigenetic components and diversity to plant-organismic interactions.
CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Agronomy
Jeffrey D. D. Weidenhamer, Don Cipollini, Kathryn Morris, Saliya Gurusinghe, Leslie A. A. Weston
Summary: Progress in understanding allelopathic interactions among plants has been limited by the complexity of direct and indirect interactions, as well as the influence of various factors such as resource limitations, pathogens, and herbivores. Recent advancements in technology and analytical techniques have allowed researchers to study the biosynthesis of allelochemicals and plant responses in more detail. This review highlights the importance of applying these new approaches in ecologically rigorous ways to enhance our understanding of allelopathic interactions.
Article
Plant Sciences
Camille Puginier, Jean Keller, Pierre-Marc Delaux
Summary: Plants have independently colonized emerged lands over the last 450 million years with the help of mutualistic interactions with fungi and potentially bacteria. The diversity of developmental and physiological features in plants results from gains and losses of functional innovations across the plant phylogeny. The terrestrialization of plants, especially embryophytes, has been extensively studied, but other plant lineages also underwent similar processes facilitated by mutualistic symbioses.
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Ecology
Maral Bashirzadeh, Santiago Soliveres, Mohammad Farzam, Hamid Ejtehadi
Summary: The study found that nurse plants have a positive impact on the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of alpine communities, as well as the functional and phylogenetic diversity of dryland communities. Nurse plants have the largest effects on biodiversity in moderate environmental conditions, which suggests their potential to protect biodiversity from the impacts of climate change in the future.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)