Plants constantly encounter diverse biotic and abiotic stresses that threaten their survival and productivity. With climate change intensifying the severity of these stressors, a deeper understanding ...

High-throughput phenotyping (HTP) has advanced rapidly in recent decades, driven by technological developments across research and agricultural frameworks. Despite its success in measuring traits, it ...

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AbstractBackground and Aims. Byblis liniflora (Byblidaceae) is a carnivorous plant that has developed sticky flypaper traps with two types of glandular tri

Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago

MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...

An E3 ligase helps control plant immune responses and regulates reactive oxygen species production, offering a strategy to boost disease resistance in leav

Zymoseptoria tritici causes Septoria Leaf Blotch disease of wheat and has evolved to overcome most chemical and genetic control methods. As such, new tools are required for future disease control. We...

Plants recruit specific soil microbes through a sophisticated ‘cry for help’ strategy to mitigate environmental stresses. Recent advances highlight the potential of leveraging this mechanism to develop microbe-based approaches for enhancing crop health, but challenges remain in refining the criteria and conceptual frameworks to effectively investigate and harness these plant–microbe interactions.

Traditionally viewed as a plant defense molecule, nitric oxide (NO) has now been shown to play a key role in fungal pathogenesis. A recent study by Zhang et al. reveals that banana pathogenic isolates...

Future genome editing in plants will mimic the natural evolutionary processes that shape genomes. It will be used to reshape plant genomes in a manner that could have happened naturally, but more prec...

Plants are engaged in a constant battle for survival against pathogens, which triggers a multifaceted immune response characterized by pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity ...

Recently, Feyissa et al. discovered an orphan gene, BOOSTER (BSTR), in Populus species, which has been shown to optimize photosynthesis and enhance CO2 assimilation and biomass accumulation. Integrating BSTR into breeding programs holds promise for boosting crop yields and contributing to food security, increased biofuel production, and sustainable agriculture.

Scientists discovered stable RNA on plant leaves that can regulate microbes, revealing a new layer of plant-environment interaction.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Abstract. The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricul

GasanalyzeR, a new software tool, helps analyse data related to photosynthesis to achieve consistent and reproducible results. Many physiologically relevan

Abstract. Breeding for high nitrogen-use efficient crops can contribute to maintaining or even increasing yield with less nitrogen. Nitrogen use is co-dete

This study reports the discovery of a retrotransposon insertion in the FLC gene conferring an environmentally dependent control mechanism mediated by DNA methylation that drives the adaptation of natu...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...

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...

The intracellular colonization of plant roots by the beneficial fungal endophyte Serendipita indica follows a biphasic strategy, including a host cell…

A review of the mechanisms that silence the T-DNA in transgenic plants and during Agrobacterium infection and the crosstalk between the T-DNA and genome-wi