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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xue Xia, Chun-Meng Tang, Gu-Zi Chen, Jia-Jia Han
Summary: Proteasome dysfunction in plants leads to abnormal development and reduced adaptability to environmental stresses. This study found that proteasome dysfunction downregulated the hypoxia-responsive pathway and impaired plant growth and adaptability to hypoxia stress.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Michael J. Considine, Christine H. Foyer
Summary: Plant growth is mediated by cell proliferation and expansion, with ROS playing a crucial role in stress response. Understanding ROS signaling and regulatory mechanisms is essential for enhancing stress resilience in plants.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Soeun Yang, Horim Lee
Summary: Salt stress has a severe impact on plant growth and development. Understanding the mechanisms related to growth and development in response to salt stress is crucial for plant tolerance and adaptation. This paper highlights the roles of microRNAs, redox status, reactive oxygen species, nitric oxide, and phytohormones in apical meristems for salt tolerance, as well as the relationship between salt stress response and stem cell homeostasis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Anne-Marie Labandera, Hannah M. Tedds, Mark Bailey, Colleen Sprigg, Ross D. Etherington, Olunwatunmise Akintewe, Geetika Kalleechurn, Michael J. Holdsworth, Daniel J. Gibbs
Summary: VRN2, a subunit of PRC2, is regulated by O-2 and the N-degron pathway, showing differential activity in plant development. Its stability affects flowering and root architecture, with environmental cues influencing its accumulation and function.
Article
Plant Sciences
Qianqian Qin
Summary: This review discusses the pivotal role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in shoot and root stem cell niches, including their impact on niche stability, regulation by transcription factors, interaction with phytohormones, and regulation of cell cycle. Understanding the regulation mechanisms of ROS in cells is of great importance to plant developmental biology.
JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Ok-Kyoung Cha, Soeun Yang, Horim Lee
Summary: Research on developmental priming genes in shoot apical meristem can reveal the adaptive mechanisms of plants under stressful environmental conditions.
Review
Plant Sciences
Tao Fang, Hans Motte, Boris Parizot, Tom Beeckman
Summary: Roots play crucial roles in plant growth by anchoring and absorbing water and nutrients. Root evolution occurred independently at least twice in lycophyte and euphyllophyte clades, with the control mechanisms of root development in lycophytes remaining unclear.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Alvaro Sanchez-Corrionero, Inmaculada Sanchez-Vicente, Noelia Arteaga, Isabel Manrique-Gil, Sara Gomez-Jimenez, Isabel Torres-Quezada, Pablo Albertos, Oscar Lorenzo
Summary: Plant root growth and development are regulated by nitric oxide (NO), which interacts with phytohormones and hypoxia-related factors to control cell proliferation and differentiation.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Cell Biology
Donato Chiatante, Antonio Montagnoli, Dalila Trupiano, Gabriella Sferra, John Bryant, Thomas L. Rost, Gabriella S. Scippa
Summary: Mechanical stress in tree roots induces the production of reaction wood and new branch roots, which help prevent anchorage failure and limb damage. The vascular cambium plays a crucial role in coordinating these responses, with intense crosstalk between meristematic cells to evaluate mechanical forces and coordinate suitable responses along the root axis. The concept of a meristematic connectome suggests that various meristems in the plant body function as a single interconnected structure to adjust the plant to its environment.
Review
Plant Sciences
Ali Eljebbawi, Anika Dolata, Vivien I. Strotmann, Yvonne Stahl
Summary: Plant development relies on the balance of stem cell maintenance and differentiation, which is regulated by intricate networks of biomolecules. Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) plays a crucial role in plant development by regulating cell fate decisions, floral transition, flowering time, and maintaining the stem cell niche. Further research is required to fully understand the importance of LLPS in plant development.
CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Michael F. Schwartz, Rachel Peters, Aitch M. Hunt, Abdul-Khaliq Abdul-Matin, Lisa Van den Broeck, Rosangela Sozzani
Summary: In contrast to animals, plants continuously produce organs and structures through meristems. Plants have various types of meristems that must be tightly regulated to balance organ production and maintenance. In addition to summarizing plant meristems, this review also discusses cell types with similar molecular features but different maintenance rules.
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yawen Song, Shaohui Yang, Jiehua Wang
Summary: Intercellular communication mediated by the plant-specific CLE family members is a fundamental mechanism coordinating the development of plant bodies, with sequence variations in CLE peptides affecting their functional characteristics.
Review
Plant Sciences
Xiu-Fen Song, Xiu-Li Hou, Chun-Ming Liu
Summary: Plant CLE peptides play important roles in regulating stem cell maintenance and vascular bundle development in plants. They have different functions and regulatory mechanisms in different tissues and organs. However, the study of CLE peptides and their receptor kinases and signal transduction is still challenging due to genome-wide redundancies and rapid evolution.
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Ronald Pierik, Christian Fankhauser, Lucia C. Strader, Neelima Sinha
Summary: Plasticity in plant architecture influences plant performance by utilizing dedicated molecular networks.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Moeko Sato, Hiroko Akashi, Yuki Sakamoto, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Hiroyuki Tsuji
Summary: This study established a protocol for tissue clearing and 3D imaging in rice, allowing for cellular-resolution 3D imaging of rice shoot apical meristems, florets, and root apical meristems. Using fluorescent reporters, the 3D distribution of auxin signaling events in rice root tips was revealed.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Vinay Shukla, Lara Lombardi, Sergio Lacopino, Ales Pencik, Ondrej Novak, Pierdomenico Perata, Beatrice Giuntoli, Francesco Licausi
Review
Plant Sciences
Francesco Licausi, Beatrice Giuntoli
Summary: Synthetic biology has great potential in the study of plant hypoxia physiology, allowing for the inference of plant oxygen sensing mechanisms and the development of genetic tools for regulating plant responses and metabolism in low oxygen environments.
Article
Plant Sciences
Maria Cristina Valeri, Giacomo Novi, Daan A. Weits, Anna Mensuali, Pierdomenico Perata, Elena Loreti
Summary: Infection by Botrytis cinerea induces local hypoxia in leaves, leading to stabilization of ERF-VII proteins. This hypoxic environment may impact the stability of other N-degron-regulated proteins and the metabolism of elicitors.
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Francesco Licausi, Beatrice Giuntoli, Pierdomenico Perata
TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Plant Sciences
Khac Nhu Nghi, Andrea Tagliani, Lorenzo Mariotti, Daan A. Weits, Pierdomenico Perata, Chiara Pucciariello
Summary: The availability of auxin in rice coleoptile under submergence correlates with its final length, with the auxin influx carrier AUX1 playing a key role in influencing this trait. The coleoptile tip is involved in determining the final length of rice varieties with long coleoptiles. Experimental results suggest that auxin biosynthesis and transport are underlying factors in the differential elongation between short and long coleoptile-harbouring varieties of japonica rice.
Article
Plant Sciences
Liem T. Bui, Vinay Shukla, Federico M. Giorgi, Alice Trivellini, Pierdomenico Perata, Francesco Licausi, Beatrice Giuntoli
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mark D. White, Laura Dalle Carbonare, Mikel Lavilla Puerta, Sergio Lacopino, Martin Edwards, Kate Dunne, Elisabete Pires, Colin Levy, Michael A. McDonough, Francesco Licausi, Emily Flashman
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2020)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emma U. Hammarlund, Emily Flashman, Sofie Mohlin, Francesco Licausi
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Gabriele Panicucci, Sergio Iacopino, Elisa De Meo, Pierdomenico Perata, Daan A. Weits
Article
Plant Sciences
Luca Piccinini, Sergio Iacopino, Stefano Cazzaniga, Matteo Ballottari, Beatrice Giuntoli, Francesco Licausi
Summary: Inspired by the light-driven conformational transitions of orange carotenoid proteins, researchers developed a molecular device that can switch its state in response to blue-green light. This study provides a new approach for applying light-responsive systems in plants and successfully controlled transcriptional responses in chloroplasts using a photoswitch.
Article
Plant Sciences
Daan A. Weits, Lina Zhou, Beatrice Giuntoli, Laura Dalle Carbonare, Sergio Iacopino, Luca Piccinini, Lara Lombardi, Vinay Shukla, Liem T. Bui, Giacomo Novi, Joost T. van Dongen, Francesco Licausi
Summary: N-terminal cysteine oxidases (NCOs) oxidise the N-terminal cysteine of specific proteins, initiating proteolytic N-degron pathway. Both types of PCOs regulate the anaerobic response in angiosperms.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Daai Zhang, Francesco Licausi
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chrysoula K. Pantazopoulou, Sara Buti, Chi Tam Nguyen, Lisa Oskam, Daan A. Weits, Edward E. Farmer, Kaisa Kajala, Ronald Pierik
Summary: Plants detect their neighbors through touch, which triggers a calcium response and drives leaf movement. This touch-induced hyponasty mechanism is adaptive and involves an increase in cytosolic calcium concentration in leaf tip trichomes.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)