Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

Chhillar et al. reveal that plant immunity is organized across leaf tissues through specialized cell-type programs. While a shared core immune program is broadly activated, individual cell types deplo...

While cell identities are established early during embryogenesis, these cells remain immature until germination, and the mechanisms enforcing this developmental pause are poorly understood. Embryonic ...

The limited diversity and recognition scope of natural plant immune receptors impede resistance breeding against rapidly evolving pathogens. Here we report programmable design of synthetic plant immun...

The rapid evolution of plant pathogens poses a persistent threat to global agricultural sustainability, often outpacing the discovery and deployment of natural disease resistance genes. While bioengin...

snRNA-seq reveals shoot stem cell heterogeneity and traces their differentiation into primary stem cell types.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form symbioses with ~70% of plant species, building hyphal networks that exchange nutrients for host-derived carbon. These tubular networks move ~1 billion metric tons of ...

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall–derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

The integration of omics technologies, genome editing and protein design with artificial intelligence (AI) promises rapid advances in the field of crop improvement that will improve global food security.

Single-cell proteomics (SCP) has emerged as a transformative approach for characterizing cellular heterogeneity at the protein level. Recent advances …

The authors use single-cell analysis to identify genes specifically expressed in plant root cells that respond to infection by nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. They show that one of these genes, SYMRKL1, is ...

Single cell RNA-seq shows that commensal bacteria activate a Nod factor-independent program in legume root hairs overlapping with rhizobial signaling. RHD6LA facilitates infection thread formation and...

The widespread prokaryotic immune systems, in particular restriction–modification, CRISPR–Cas and defensive toxin–antitoxin systems, are absent in eukaryotes, whereas relatively rare ones, such as Arg...

An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...

Gene expression and complex phenotypes are determined by the activity of cis-regulatory elements. However, an understanding of how extant genetic variants affect cis regulation remains limited. Here, ...

Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

Manhattan plots for (A) larvae and (B) girdled stems from 379 accessions analyzed for the GWAS analysis. Green line is the Bonferroni correction at p = 0.01, and the red dashed line is at p = 0.05.

The rise of large language models like ChatGPT that can churn out computer code has led to a new term - vibe coding - for people who create software by asking AI to do it for them

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Podcast Episode · This Week in Virology · 03/01/2025 · 59m

TnpB is an evolutionarily diverse family of RNA-guided endonucleases associated with prokaryotic transposons. Due to their small size and putative evolutionary relationship to Cas12s, TnpB holds signi...

This study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or trace elemen...