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Elucidating tissue and sub-cellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote (2025)
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Banda, J., Ghosh, S., Roy, D., Ingole, K. D., Clark, L., Sharma, E., Kakkunath, S., Sue-Ob, K., Bhosale, R., Band, L., Ghosh, S., Wells, D., Atkinson, J., Provart, N. J., Bennett, M. J., Lilley, K. S., Jones, A., De Lucas, M., Bishopp, A., & Sadanandom, A. (2025). Elucidating tissue and sub-cellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote. Science Advances, 11(35), Article eadw9153. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adw9153

SUMOylation is essential in plant and animal cells, but it remains unknown how small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) components act in concert to modify specific targets in response to environmental stresses. In this study, we characterize every SUMO... Read More about Elucidating tissue and sub-cellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote.

Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Triticum timopheevii introgression lines for flowering morphology traits for hybrid wheat use (2025)
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Othmeni, M., Grewal, S., Walker, J., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Yang, C.-Y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., King, I. P., & King, J. (2025). Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Triticum timopheevii introgression lines for flowering morphology traits for hybrid wheat use. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16, Article 1621725. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1621725

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.

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation (2025)
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Gopaulchan, D., Moore, C., Ali, N., Sukha, D., Florez González, S. L., Herrera Rocha, F. E., Yang, N., Lim, M., Dew, T. P., Dew, T., González Barrios, A. F., Umaharan, P., Salt, D. E., & Castrillo, G. (2025). A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation. Nature Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02077-6

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) bean fermentation is a spontaneous process involving interactions between abiotic and biotic factors that contribute to the final flavours of chocolate. Understanding these underlying interactions could enable desired flavo... Read More about A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation.

Nicotiana benthamiana as a Source of Cowpea Mosaic Virus‐Derived Particles That Specifically Package Designer RNAs (2025)
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Peyret, H., Shah, S. N., Meshcheriakova, Y., Jung, J., Saunders, K., & Lomonossoff, G. P. (2025). Nicotiana benthamiana as a Source of Cowpea Mosaic Virus‐Derived Particles That Specifically Package Designer RNAs. Plant Biotechnology Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70294

The coupling of replication and encapsidation in the bipartite plant virus, cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), has been used to specifically incorporate designer RNA molecules into viral particles via transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana. This is a... Read More about Nicotiana benthamiana as a Source of Cowpea Mosaic Virus‐Derived Particles That Specifically Package Designer RNAs.

RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants (2025)
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Lastovka, F., Peyret, H., Lomonossoff, G. P., & Chung, B. Y. (2025). RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants. New Phytologist, 247(6), 2517-2537. 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.

The Specificity of RNA Packaging in Isometric RNA Plant Viruses is Principally Determined by Replication (2025)
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Saunders, K., Shah, S. N., Peyret, H., Meshcheriakova, Y., Richardson, J., Eltschkner, S., Lawson, D. M., & Lomonossoff, G. P. (2025). The Specificity of RNA Packaging in Isometric RNA Plant Viruses is Principally Determined by Replication. Journal of Molecular Biology, Article 169352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2025.169352

A potato virus X (PVX)-based transient expression system (pEff) that produces replicating RNA has been used to examine the specificity of RNA packaging in the isometric viruses, turnip crinkle virus (TCV) and satellite tobacco necrosis virus-1 (STNV-... Read More about The Specificity of RNA Packaging in Isometric RNA Plant Viruses is Principally Determined by Replication.

Microbial drivers of root plasticity (2025)
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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.

Taylor Dispersion in Osmotically Driven Flows with Solute Leakage (2025)
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Jepson, J. M., & Band, L. R. (2025). Taylor Dispersion in Osmotically Driven Flows with Solute Leakage. Physics of Fluids, 37, Article 071915. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0269906

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.

Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development (2025)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Genetic control of the leaf ionome in pearl millet and correlation with root and agromorphological traits (2025)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.