supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170267 and 32001528);the Key Research and Development Program of Hainan(ZDYF2020066);the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund(ZDYF2022XDNY261);the Hainan Major Science and Technology Project(ZDKJ202002 and ZDKJ202001);the Hainan Academician Innovation Platform(HD-YSZX-202003);the Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory(B21Y10902).
Grain essential amino acid(EAA)levels contribute to rice nutritional quality.However,the molecular mechanisms underlying EAA accumulation and natural variation in rice grains remain unclear.Here we report the identifi...
The selection of heterotic F1 hybrid varieties is a key agronomic strategy for improving crop yields,quality,and disease resistance(Bohra et al.,2016).Large-scale,low-cost hybrid seed production involves generating la...
X.Shen and X.Shi were supported by Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center tor Life Sciences;This project was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture(HATCH project CA-B-PLB-0243-H);the National Science Foundation(grant MCB-2049931);startup funds from Inno-vative Genomics Institute and University of California Berkeley.
The nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat(NLR)proteins comprise a major class of intracellular immune receptors that are capable of detecting pathogen-derived molecules and activating immunity and cell death in p...
Stomatal closure upon pathogen attack is a process involving Ca2+entry into guard cells after perception of pathogen-associated molecular patterns(PAMPs),small microbial molecules recognized by plant receptors.A centr...
Dear Editor,Magnesium (Mg2+) acts as a cofactor for more than 300 enzymes that are involved in a wide range of fundamental biochemical pro- cesses (Knoop et al., 2005). In higher plants, Mg2+ has been suggested ...
To control gene expression by directly responding to hormone concentrations, both animal and plant cells have exploited comparable mechanisms to sense small-molecule hormones in nucleus. Whether nuclear entry of these...
Dear Editor,Protein import into chloroplasts is an essential process for plant survival. Numerous studies in recent years have revealed many facts about the components involved and mechanistic features, but have also ...
Sex determination in plants gives rise to unisexual flowers that facilitate outcrossing and enhance genetic diversity. In cucumber and melon, ethylene promotes carpel development and arrests sta- men development. Five...
Dear Editor Oxalic acid, the simplest of all dicarboxylic acids, is widely found in all plant species (FranceschJ and Nakata, 2005). Two pathways exist for oxalate degradation in plants: degradation via oxalate oxi...
This work was supported by grants 91317302, 31271300, and 31430046 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (to X.W.), by grant 2012CB114300 from the National Basic Research Program of China (to X.W.), and by a startup fund from Huazhong Agricultural University (to X.W.).We thank Wei Su (Fudan University) for critical reading of the manuscript and Zhimin Zheng and Jian-Kang Zhu (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS) for providing the CRISPR/Cas9 systems. No conflict of interest declared.
Dear Editor,Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a class of essential polyhydroxylated steroid hormones regulating plant growth and development, and their responses to environmental cues (Clouse, 2011 ; Yang et al., 2011). ...