Outputs (703)

Future crop breeding needs to consider future soils (2025)
Journal Article
Raza, S., Pandey, B. K., Hawkesford, M. J., Griffiths, S., Bennett, M. J., & Mooney, S. J. (2025). Future crop breeding needs to consider future soils. Nature Plants, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01977-z

Modern crop breeding and seed certification agencies ignore the known spatial heterogeneity of soils and develop cultivars to thrive in a ‘one-size-fits-all’ soil environment. Neglecting the evolving dynamics of soils substantially undermines the cap... Read More about Future crop breeding needs to consider future soils.

Chromosome-level haplotype-resolved genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relative Aegilops mutica (2025)
Journal Article
Grewal, S., Yang, C.-Y., Krasheninnikova, K., Collins, J., Wood, J. M. D., Ashling, S., Scholefield, D., Kaithakottil, G. G., Swarbreck, D., Yao, E., Sen, T. Z., King, I. P., & King, J. (2025). Chromosome-level haplotype-resolved genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relative Aegilops mutica. Scientific Data, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04737-y

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a vital staple crop, with an urgent need for increased production to help feed the world's growing population. Aegilops mutica (2n = 2x = 14; T genome) is a diploid wild relative of wheat carrying valuable agronomic... Read More about Chromosome-level haplotype-resolved genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relative Aegilops mutica.

MYB93 regulates responses to environmental sulphur in Arabidopsis and tomato (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cao, X., Wilkinson, H. B., Hutton, B., McMulkin, N., Graham, N. S., Etherington, R., Oliver, A. G., Clayton, C. M., Kaur, H., & Coates, J. C. MYB93 regulates responses to environmental sulphur in Arabidopsis and tomato

Sulphur (S) is an important nutrient that has wide-ranging effects on plant health and metabolism. Several classes of transcription factor respond to S deprivation, including R2R3-MYBs. In Arabidopsis, the AtMYB93 transcription factor-encoding gene i... Read More about MYB93 regulates responses to environmental sulphur in Arabidopsis and tomato.

Arabidopsis research in 2030: Translating the computable plant (2025)
Journal Article
Brady, S., Auge, G., Ayalew, M., Balasubramanian, S., Hamann, T., Inze, D., Saito, K., Brychkova, G., Berardini, T. Z., Friesner, J., Ho, C., Hauser, M., Kobayashi, M., Lepiniec, L., Mähönen, A. P., Mutwil, M., May, S., Parry, G., Rigas, S., Stepanova, A. N., …Provart, N. J. (2025). Arabidopsis research in 2030: Translating the computable plant. The Plant Journal, 121(5), Article e70047. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70047

Plants are essential for human survival. Over the past three decades, work with the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana has significantly advanced plant biology research. One key event was the sequencing of its genome 25 years ago, which fostered ma... Read More about Arabidopsis research in 2030: Translating the computable plant.

Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth (2025)
Journal Article
Custódio, V., Salas-González, I., Gopaulchan, D., Flis, P., Amorós-Hernández, R., Gao, Y.-Q., Jia, X., Moreno, Â., Carrera, E., Marcon, C., Hochholdinger, F., Margarida Oliveira, M., Salt, D. E., & Castrillo, G. (2025). Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth. Cell Host and Microbe, 33(3), 436-450.e15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.02.002

In natural ecosystems, microbes have the ability to stably colonize plant leaves, overcoming the fluctuating environmental conditions that the leaves represent. How the phyllosphere microbiota influences the growth of individual leaves remains poorly... Read More about Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth.

Supporting data for "High-fidelity Wheat Plant Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields" (2025)
Data
(2025). Supporting data for "High-fidelity Wheat Plant Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields". [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5524/102661

The reconstruction of 3D plant models can offer advantages over traditional 2D approaches by more accurately capturing the complex structure and characteristics of different crops. Conventional 3D reconstruction techniques often produce sparse or noi... Read More about Supporting data for "High-fidelity Wheat Plant Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields".

The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant-aware students (2025)
Journal Article
Hall, H., Stroud, S., Culham, A., Clubbe, C., Batke, S., Medcalf, S., Jones, M. G., Baker, L., Lydon, S., McGale, E., Acedo, C., Charmley, J., Warren, J. M., & Mitchley, J. (2025). The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant-aware students. Plants, People, Planet, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10636

Societal Impact Statement
In some indigenous languages, plants are referred to as ‘those who care for us’, reflecting their essential role in tackling global challenges. Yet, urbanisation and other factors have reduced engagement with plants and bot... Read More about The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant-aware students.

Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm (2025)
Journal Article
Kieber, J., Zheng, Z., Schnable, P. S., Dinneny, J. R., Banda, J., Sturrock, C. J., Pandey, B. K., Bennett, M., Scharwies, J. D., Clarke, T., Dinneny, A., Birkeland, S., Veltman, M. A., Torres-Martínez, H. H., Viana, W. G., & Khare, R. (2025). Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm. Science, 387(6734), 666-673. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads5999

Plants grow complex root systems to extract unevenly distributed resources from soils. Spatial differences in soil moisture are perceived by root tips, leading to the patterning of new root branches toward available water in a process called hydropat... Read More about Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm.

Genetic control of the leaf ionome in pearl millet and correlation with root and agromorphological traits (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Nakombo-Gbassault, P., Arenas, S., Affortit, P., Faye, A., Flis, P., Sine, B., Moukouanga, D., Gantet, P., Kosh Komba, E., Kane, N., Bennett, M., Wells, D., Cubry, P., Bailey, E., Grondin, A., Vigouroux, Y., & Laplaze, L. Genetic control of the leaf ionome in pearl millet and correlation with root and agromorphological traits

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) thrives in arid and nutrient-poor environments, establishing its role as a crucial cereal crop for food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its remarkable adaptability, its yields remain below genetic potential,... Read More about Genetic control of the leaf ionome in pearl millet and correlation with root and agromorphological traits.

How do RNA viruses select which RNA to package? The plant virus experience (2025)
Journal Article
Peyret, H., Shah, S. N., Meshcheriakova, Y., Saunders, K., & Lomonossoff, G. P. (2025). How do RNA viruses select which RNA to package? The plant virus experience. Virology, 604, Article 110435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2025.110435

The process whereby viral RNA is specifically selected for packaging within viral particles has been extensively studied over many years. As a result, two broad hypotheses have emerged to explain this specificity, though these are not mutually exclus... Read More about How do RNA viruses select which RNA to package? The plant virus experience.