Plants are able to sense and remember heat stress.An initial priming heat stress enables plants to acclimate so that they are able to survive a subsequent higher temperature.The heat shock transcription factors(HSFs)p...
supported by grants from the Major Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Research(2019B030302006);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32000449,32270292,32270344,32270752,and 32170593);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M672674);the Program for Changjang Scholars,the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(2024A1515011497,2020B1515020007,and 2024A1515011071);the Guangdong Provincial Pearl River Talent Plan(2019QN01N108);the National Science Foundation of USA(2347540).
Under warm temperatures,plants adjust their morphologies for environmental adaption via precise gene expression regulation.However,the function and regulation of alternative polyadenylation(APA),an important fine-tuni...
Receptor-like kinases(RLKs)are plasma membrane(PM)proteins that monitor the extracellular environment and regulate various processes such as biotic interactions.Lysin motif(LysM)RLKs are a specific class of RLKs invol...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.32090064 to F.K.);the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFF1001203 to X.H.);the“Strategic Priority Research Program"of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant no.XDA24010105 to X.H.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.32230078 and 31871643 to X.H.);the Major Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Research(grant no.2019B030302006 to F.K.);the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project(grant no.202201010641toY.H.).
Soybean is a photoperiod-sensitive short-day crop whose reproductive period and yield are markedly affected by day-length changes.Seed weight is one of the key traits determining the soybean yield;how-ever,the promine...
funding by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32250410283,31800386,and 32000201);the Jiangsu Outstanding Postdoctoral Program(2022ZB678);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20211319).
Plants are consistently exposed to pathogens throughout theirlife cycle and have developed sophisticated and effective regulatory mechanisms to protect themselves against infections.Viruses,as obligate pathogens,can t...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972229);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program(ASTIP);the Pests and Diseases Green Prevention and Control Major Special Project([110202101045([LS-05)];China Postdoctoral Science Foundation awards 2019M660893 and 2020T130710.
During effector-triggered immunity(ETI)against the devastating rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae,Pi9 functions as an intracellular resistance protein sensing the pathogen-secreted effector AvrPi9 in rice.Importan...
supported by funds from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1300702);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(31825022 and 32121003);the Soft Science Project of Science and Technology Department from Sichuan Province(22RKX0800);the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(23NSFSC0007);supported by funds from NSFC(32072407);the State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China,Sichuan Agricultural University(SKLZY202215).
Plants are constantly exposed to a vast diversity of micro-organisms.They have accordingly evolved a sophisticated innate immunity system,mainly consisting of pattern-triggered immunity(PTI)and effector-triggered immu...
National Research Foundation(NRF),Prime Minister's Office,Singapore under its Campus for Research Excel-lence and Technological Enterprise(CREATE)program;The Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision(DiSTAP)is an interdisciplinary research group(IRG)of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre(SMART);National Research Foundation(NRF);Prime Minister's Office,Singapore,under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise(CREATE)program.
Salicylic acid(SA),a defense hormone produced after pathogen challenge,is critical for plant immunity.Arabidopsis NONEXPRESSER OF PR GENES 1(NPR1)and its paralogs NPR3 and NPR4 can bind SA and mediate SA signal transd...
This work was supported by the Basic Research Program provided by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF-2019R1C1C1002045 and NRF-2021R1A2C4002413);the New Breeding Technologies Development Program(project PJ0165302022)provided by the Rural Development Administration of Korea,and the KRIBB Research Initiative Program(KGM5372221).
Plant cells in damaged tissue can be reprogrammed to acquire pluripotency and induce callus formation.However,in the aboveground organs of many species,somatic cells that are distal to the wound site become less sensi...
grants G007218N and G010820N and a pre-doctoral fllowship(to FL.)from the Research Foundation-Flanders.A.Z.S.M.and C.W.M.were supported by a Wallenberg Academy Fllowship(2016-0274);a Vetenskapsradet grant(2017-05122).
Plants show an unparalleled regenerative capacity,allowing them to survive severe stress conditions,such as injury,herbivory attack,and harsh weather conditions.This potential not only replenishes tissues and restores...