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View article: Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly Open
Plant microbiota assembly is a dynamic process shaped by a succession of microbial dispersal events, interactions, and environmental fluctuations. While most research emphasizes the roles of resident and core taxa in driving microbiome str…
View article: Life at the borderlands: microbiomes of interfaces critical to One Health
Life at the borderlands: microbiomes of interfaces critical to One Health Open
Microbiomes are foundational components of the environment that provide essential services relating to food security, carbon sequestration, human health, and the overall well-being of ecosystems. Microbiota exert their effects primarily th…
View article: Streptomyces and their specialised metabolites for phytopathogen control – comparative in vitro and in planta metabolic approaches
Streptomyces and their specialised metabolites for phytopathogen control – comparative in vitro and in planta metabolic approaches Open
In the search for new crop protection microbial biocontrol agents, isolates from the genus Streptomyces are commonly found with promising attributes. Streptomyces are natural soil dwellers and have evolved as plant symbionts producing spec…
View article: Metatranscriptomics captures dynamic shifts in mycorrhizal coordination in boreal forests
Metatranscriptomics captures dynamic shifts in mycorrhizal coordination in boreal forests Open
Carbon storage and cycling in boreal forests—the largest terrestrial carbon store—is moderated by complex interactions between trees and soil microorganisms. However, existing methods limit our ability to predict how changes in environment…
View article: Metabolic control of arginine and ornithine levels paces the progression of leaf senescence
Metabolic control of arginine and ornithine levels paces the progression of leaf senescence Open
Leaf senescence can be induced by stress or aging, sometimes in a synergistic manner. It is generally acknowledged that the ability to withstand senescence-inducing conditions can provide plants with stress resilience. Although the signali…
View article: Those in glass houses
Those in glass houses Open
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. This well-worn proverb tells of the peril of casting criticism from a position of vulnerability. However, there are a number of examples in the natural world where the incorporation o…
View article: Gene atlas of iron‐containing proteins in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>
Gene atlas of iron‐containing proteins in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> Open
SUMMARY Iron (Fe) is an essential element for the development and physiology of plants, owing to its presence in numerous proteins involved in central biological processes. Here, we established an exhaustive, manually curated inventory of …
View article: What you remember saves you
What you remember saves you Open
It is difficult to separate the capacity for memory from the act of thinking. Indeed, memories are held as so fundamental an act of cognition that the concept of an organism without a brain (let alone a nervous system) storing and acting u…
View article: Centralization Within Sub-Experiments Enhances the Biological Relevance of Gene Co-expression Networks: A Plant Mitochondrial Case Study
Centralization Within Sub-Experiments Enhances the Biological Relevance of Gene Co-expression Networks: A Plant Mitochondrial Case Study Open
Gene co-expression networks (GCNs) are the product of a variety of mathematical approaches that identify causal relationships in gene expression dynamics but are prone to the misdiagnoses of false-positives and false-negatives, especially …
View article: Finding the metabolomic signature of drought resistance in poplar
Finding the metabolomic signature of drought resistance in poplar Open
Efforts to decipher the processes underpinning biological systems now have a plethora of approaches from which to choose. Transcriptomics and proteomics provide a global snapshot of the abundance of gene products in a sample, from which re…
View article: From the stench of death to an antidote for plant aluminium toxicity
From the stench of death to an antidote for plant aluminium toxicity Open
Putrescine is a member of a group of aliphatic compounds, known as polyamines, which are derived from the breakdown of amino acids in living (and dead) cells. Along with the grimly named cadaverine, putrescine was discovered in 1885 by the…
View article: Eucalypt seedlings are aided by phosphorus in the face of drought
Eucalypt seedlings are aided by phosphorus in the face of drought Open
Drought is an increasingly common climatic event that can devastate ecosystems, as well as surrounding agricultural and forestry industries. Few places face this challenge more than Australia, where millennia of droughts linked to geograph…
View article: Enhancing the biological relevance of Gene Co-expression Networks: A plant mitochondrial case study
Enhancing the biological relevance of Gene Co-expression Networks: A plant mitochondrial case study Open
Gene Co-expression Networks (GCNs) are obtained by a variety of mathematical of models commonly derived on data sampled from diverse developmental processes, tissue types, pathologies, mutant backgrounds, and stress conditions. These netwo…
View article: The genetic program at the root of the biological stock exchange
The genetic program at the root of the biological stock exchange Open
Beneath the gardens, farmlands and forest floors that surround us, a hidden world blooms in careful cooperation and intense competition. The mutualistic symbiosis of the thread‐like hyphae of fungi and plant roots (collectively termed myco…
View article: Functional, Structural and Biochemical Features of Plant Serinyl-Glutathione Transferases
Functional, Structural and Biochemical Features of Plant Serinyl-Glutathione Transferases Open
Glutathione transferases (GSTs) belong to a ubiquitous multigenic family of enzymes involved in diverse biological processes including xenobiotic detoxification and secondary metabolism. A canonical GST is formed by two domains, the N-term…
View article: New tools for engineering tomorrow's forests
New tools for engineering tomorrow's forests Open
It is difficult to overstate the role of wood in the story of humanity. In times that predate recorded history it provided shelter from the elements, light and warmth when burned, and a supple material with which early humans could craft t…
View article: Differences in pH influence the fate of CO<sub>2</sub> in plants
Differences in pH influence the fate of CO<sub>2</sub> in plants Open
Soils represent the largest and most stable carbon pools on Earth, exceeding even the carbon aggregate found in the atmosphere and global phytomass. However, our understanding of how CO 2 travels from the soil to the atmosphere, and the ro…
View article: Sobering challenges faced by the brewing industry in a warming world
Sobering challenges faced by the brewing industry in a warming world Open
Barley ( Hordeum vulgare ), a vital crop to the food and beverage industry, is highly vulnerable to unstable conditions on the climatic horizon. An article in this special issue of Physiologia Plantarum by Mahalingam and Bregitzer (2019) d…
View article: Darkened Leaves Use Different Metabolic Strategies for Senescence and Survival
Darkened Leaves Use Different Metabolic Strategies for Senescence and Survival Open
In plants, an individually darkened leaf initiates senescence much more rapidly than a leaf from a whole darkened plant. Combining transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), we present an overvi…
View article: Dissecting the Metabolic Role of Mitochondria during Developmental Leaf Senescence
Dissecting the Metabolic Role of Mitochondria during Developmental Leaf Senescence Open
The functions of mitochondria during leaf senescence, a type of programmed cell death aimed at the massive retrieval of nutrients from the senescing organ to the rest of the plant, remain elusive. Here, combining experimental and analytica…
View article: Characterization of a novel β-barrel protein (AtOM47) from the mitochondrial outer membrane of<i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>
Characterization of a novel β-barrel protein (AtOM47) from the mitochondrial outer membrane of<i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> Open
In plant cells, mitochondria are major providers of energy and building blocks for growth and development as well as abiotic and biotic stress responses. They are encircled by two lipid membranes containing proteins that control mitochondr…
View article: Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Stress Responses Are Modulated in Distinct Touch and Chemical Inhibition Phases
Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Stress Responses Are Modulated in Distinct Touch and Chemical Inhibition Phases Open
Previous studies have identified a range of transcription factors that modulate retrograde regulation of mitochondrial and chloroplast functions in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, the relative importance of these regulators an…
View article: Inactivation of Mitochondrial Complex I Induces the Expression of a Twin Cysteine Protein that Targets and Affects Cytosolic, Chloroplastidic and Mitochondrial Function
Inactivation of Mitochondrial Complex I Induces the Expression of a Twin Cysteine Protein that Targets and Affects Cytosolic, Chloroplastidic and Mitochondrial Function Open