Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(grant YESS20210018 to J.W.);National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant 32271253 to J.W.);Alexander von Humboldt Foundation(professorship to J.C.);Max-Planck-Gesellschaft(a Max Planck fellowship to J.C.);Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(grant SFB-1403-414786233 to J.C.);Germany's Excellence Strategy CEPLAS(EXC-2048/1,project 390686111 to J.C.).
To counter pathogen invasion,plants have evolved a large number of immune receptors,including membrane-resident pattern recognition receptors(PRRs)and intracellular nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat receptors...
Calcium is important for chloroplast, not only in its photosynthetic but also nonphotosynthetic functions. Mul- tiple Ca2+/H+ transporters and channels have been described and studied in the plasma membrane and orga...
Intracellular Ca2+ transients are an integral part of the signaling cascade during pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity in plants. Yet, our knowledge about the spatial distribution of PAM...
Recent reports demonstrate a role of calmodulin (CaM)-binding DNA-binding proteins (transcription factors [TFs]) as repressors of the plant immune response through their interactions with promoters of a number of ...
THE MIXED BLESSING OF ROS: DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I'M TOXIC?Due to plants' aerobic metabolism, reactive oxygen species (ROS) continuously accrue in different tissues and organs as a by-product of many metabolic re...
Dear Editor, Extracellular Ca2+ influx focusing at the tips of pollen tubes is the main source of Ca2+ for the pollen tube tip cytosolic Ca2+ gradient, which is essential for both polar growth and orientation of p...
ABSTRACT Calcium, as a ubiquitous second messenger, plays essential roles in tip-growing cells, such as animal neu-rons, plant pollen tubes, and root hairs. However, little is known concerning the regulatory mechanism...
Ca2+ has been established as an important second messenger regulating pollen germination and tube growth. However, to date, only a few signaling components have been identified to decode and relay Ca2+ signals in gr...
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (grant No. 30830013 to WoH.W.) and the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B06003 to W.H.W.). No conflict of interest declared.
Potassium (K+) is one of the essential macronutrients for plant growth and development. However, K+ content in soils is usually limited so that the crop yields are restricted. Plants may adapt to K+-deficient env...