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RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants (2025)
Journal Article
Lastovka, F., Peyret, H., Lomonossoff, G. P., & Chung, B. Y. (2025). RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants. New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70400

Engineering of plants for improved traits and efficient heterologous protein production can be achieved by modifying or introducing cis- or trans-acting RNA elements. The function of these elements depends not only on their nucleotide sequence but al... Read More about RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants.

Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Triticum timopheevii introgression lines for flowering morphology traits for hybrid wheat use (2025)
Journal Article
Othmeni, M., Grewal, S., Walker, J., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C.-Y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., King, I. P., & King, J. (in press). Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Triticum timopheevii introgression lines for flowering morphology traits for hybrid wheat use. Frontiers in Plant Science,

The autogamous nature of wheat presents a significant challenge for hybrid wheat breeding, which relies on cross-pollination. To facilitate hybrid wheat production, it is essential to modify the floral morphology of wheat to promote outbreeding rathe... Read More about Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Triticum timopheevii introgression lines for flowering morphology traits for hybrid wheat use.

Microbial drivers of root plasticity (2025)
Journal Article
Dini‐Andreote, F., Wells, D. M., Atkinson, J. A., Atkinson, B. S., Finkel, O. M., & Castrillo, G. (2025). Microbial drivers of root plasticity. New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70371

Soils are highly heterogeneous and dynamic systems, experiencing a constant flow of plant root exudates and moisture fluctuations that affect nutrient distribution, soil physicochemical properties, and microbial metabolisms. Plant roots adjust their... Read More about Microbial drivers of root plasticity.

Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development (2025)
Journal Article
Tidy, A. C., Siles, L., Jacott, C., Wells, R., Kurup, S., & Wilson, Z. A. (2025). Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development. Plant Stress, Article 100957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stress.2025.100957

As a result of climate change temperature extremes are being frequently experienced, which are endangering agricultural production. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.; OSR) is an important cool-season oil crop grown worldwide; however, extremes of cold... Read More about Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development.

Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses (2025)
Journal Article
Roy, D., Mehra, P., Clark, L., Mukkawar, V., Bellande, K., Martin-Arevalillo, R., Ghosh, S., Ingole, K. D., Bhagat, P. K., Brown, A., Sue-ob, K., Jones, A., Vermeer, J. E., Vernoux, T., Lilley, K., Mullineaux, P., Bechtold, U., Bennett, M. J., & Sadanandom, A. (2025). Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses. Science, 389(6757), Article eadu1470. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu1470

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Plasticity in branching patterns is a critical determinant of the foraging capacity of roots because water and nutrients are often heterogeneously distributed in their surrounding soil environment. When growing root tips lose contact... Read More about Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses.

ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia (2025)
Journal Article
Dalle Carbonare, L., van Veen, H., Shukla, V., Perri, M., Bui, L., Holdsworth, M. J., & Licausi, F. (2025). ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia. Molecular Plant, 18(6), 1072-1087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2025.05.015

The transcriptional response to low oxygen (hypoxia) in flowering plants is transduced through group VII Ethylene Response Factor (ERFVII) transcription factors, whose proteolysis is oxygen-dependent via the PLANT CYSTEINE OXIDASE (PCO) N-degron path... Read More about ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia.

Taylor Dispersion in Osmotically Driven Flows with Solute Leakage (2025)
Journal Article
Jepson, J. M., & Band, L. R. (in press). Taylor Dispersion in Osmotically Driven Flows with Solute Leakage. Physics of Fluids,

The phloem facilitates the transport of solute from mature leaves throughout the plant for growth and maintenance. Solute is loaded into the phloem, which drives water influx via osmosis, thereby increasing the phloem pressure. The resulting pressure... Read More about Taylor Dispersion in Osmotically Driven Flows with Solute Leakage.

Genetic control of the leaf ionome in pearl millet and correlation with root and agromorphological traits (2025)
Journal Article
Nakombo-Gbassault, P., Arenas, S., Affortit, P., Faye, A., Flis, P., Sine, B., Moukouanga, D., Gantet, P., Komba, E. K., Kane, N., Bennett, M., Wells, D., Cubry, P., Bailey, E., Grondin, A., Vigouroux, Y., & Laplaze, L. (2025). Genetic control of the leaf ionome in pearl millet and correlation with root and agromorphological traits. PLoS ONE, 20(5), Article e0319140. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319140

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.

Missing the input: the underrepresentation of plant physiology in global soil carbon research (2025)
Journal Article
Raza, S., Cooper, H. V., Girkin, N. T., Kent, M. S., Bennett, M. J., Mooney, S. J., & Colombi, T. (2025). Missing the input: the underrepresentation of plant physiology in global soil carbon research. SOIL, 11(1), 363-369. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-363-2025

Plant processes regulating the quantity and quality of soil organic carbon inputs such as photosynthesis, above- and below-ground plant growth, and root exudation are integral to our understanding of soil carbon dynamics. However, based on a bibliome... Read More about Missing the input: the underrepresentation of plant physiology in global soil carbon research.

Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress (2025)
Journal Article
Zhu, M., Hsu, C.-W., Peralta Ogorek, L. L., Taylor, I. W., La Cavera, S., Oliveira, D. M., Verma, L., Mehra, P., Mijar, M., Sadanandom, A., Perez-Cota, F., Boerjan, W., Nolan, T. M., Bennett, M. J., Benfey, P. N., & Pandey, B. K. (2025). Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress. Nature, 642, 721-729. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08941-z

Land plants thrive in soils showing vastly different properties and environmental stresses1. Root systems can adapt to contrasting soil conditions and stresses, yet how their responses are programmed at the individual cell scale remains unclear. Usin... Read More about Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress.

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, 11, 939-941. 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.

High-fidelity wheat plant reconstruction using 3D Gaussian splatting and neural radiance fields (2025)
Journal Article
Pound, M. P., Stuart, L. A., Wells, D. M., Atkinson, J. A., Castle-Green, S., & Walker, J. (2025). High-fidelity wheat plant reconstruction using 3D Gaussian splatting and neural radiance fields. GigaScience, 14, Article giaf022. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf022

Background: The reconstruction of 3-dimensional (3D) plant models can offer advantages over traditional 2-dimensional approaches by more accurately capturing the complex structure and characteristics of different crops. Conventional 3D reconstruction... Read More about High-fidelity wheat plant reconstruction using 3D Gaussian splatting and neural radiance fields.

Root Growth and Development in “Real Life”: Advances and Challenges in Studying Root–Environment Interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Mehra, P., Banda, J., Ogorek, L. L. P., Fusi, R., Castrillo, G., Colombi, T., Pandey, B. K., Sturrock, C. J., Wells, D. M., & Bennett, M. J. (2025). Root Growth and Development in “Real Life”: Advances and Challenges in Studying Root–Environment Interactions. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 76, 18.1–18.26. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-083123-074506

Plant roots play myriad roles that include foraging for resources in complex soil environments. Within this highly dynamic soil environment roots must sense, interact with, and acclimate to factors such as water availability, microbiota, and heteroge... Read More about Root Growth and Development in “Real Life”: Advances and Challenges in Studying Root–Environment Interactions.

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., 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.

Roles of hormones in regulating root growth–water interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Sharma, S., Bennett, M. J., & Mehra, P. (2025). Roles of hormones in regulating root growth–water interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany, 76(7), 1987-1995. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf063

Water stress presents a critical challenge affecting plant growth and agricultural productivity, with drought alone causing substantial yield losses. Roots serve as the primary site for water uptake, enabling plants to detect water stress by sensing... Read More about Roles of hormones in regulating root growth–water interactions.

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".