The tomato mars1/rough mutant displays enhanced root regeneration and rough fruits due to ectopic cell proliferation. The causal gene encodes a lysine-specific histone demethylase that normally maint....

This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...

Genetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ...

Telomerase assembles on a multi-domain RNA scaffold that must adopt a specific structure to function. Here, the authors reveal an alternative RNA conformation in living cells that disrupts telomerase ...

Nature Communications - Auxin is a universal regulator of plant growth and development. The authors report the origin and evolutionary history of the key DNA-binding transcription factors mediating...

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found the secret to how the plants do it.

imageimageYTHDF proteins read the m6A-code on eukaryotic mRNA in the cytoplasm. This report shows that in Arabidopsis, m6A is read not simply by YTHDF proteins, but by their complexes with the ancient RNA-binding ALBA proteins. A short linear ...

Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...

Transposons are DNA sequences that can mobilize, causing deleterious mutations. This work uncovers a novel structure in RNA polymerase IV allowing it to dock with four CLSY recruitment factors and sil...

Höfler et al. show that precisely regulated cell division plane orientations in cambium stem cells are guided by mechanical stress patterns in the tissue. The stress pattern is robust against local pe...

In tomato roots, the exodermis forms a genetically distinct polar lignin cap (PLC) barrier from the Casparian strip. SlSCZ and SlEXO1 repress PLC deposition in inner layers. The PLC cannot fully compe...

CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated proteins 9) technology was awarded the Nobel Prize 8 years after i

Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines began in northern Italy on 30 September 2024. Developed by EdiVite, a spinoff from the University of Verona, these Chardonnay vines have undergone gene ...

N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is the predominant internal RNA modification in eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and plays a crucial role in mRNA stability.…

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Oriented cell divisions are crucial for determining the overall morphology and size of plants, but what controls the onset and duration of this process remains largely unknown. Here, we identified a s...

Plants make complex and potent therapeutic molecules, but difficulties in sourcing from natural producers or chemical synthesis can challenge their use in the clinic. A prominent example is the anti-c...

Dioecy, defined by the presence of either female or male flowers on separate individual plants, is r

evolution of regulatory mechanisms in development and plant signaling

A collection of promoters was systematically derived from transcription factor genes in Marchantia polymorpha and used to build a precise map of cell fates

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Wood constitutes the largest reservoir of terrestrial biomass. Composed of xylem, it arises from one side of the vascular cambium, a bifacial stem cell niche that also produces phloem on the opposing ...

Plants are amazing machines -- for millions of years, they've taken carbon dioxide out of the air and stored it underground, keeping a crucial check on the global climate. Plant geneticist Joanne Chor...