The Plant Cell

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Loss of HDAC1/2 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alleviates growth inhibition and reduces cell death after ClpP1 depletion, linking chloroplast proteostasis signaling to nuclear chromatin control.

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Suppressing CsUGT84A22 in tea plants (Camellia sinensis) lowers sinapoyl-β-D-glucose (S-G) accumulation and weakens gray blight resistance during pathogen infection.

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DDRM3/HZE11 forms the E3 ubiquitin ligase CRL4DDRM3 with DDB1 and mediates CDT1 polyubiquitination and degradation to facilitate homologous recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Single-nucleus RNA-seq of early soybean anthers reconstructs microsporocyte differentiation, showing MMCs use oscillatory cell-cycle regulator activation distinct from a smooth mitotic cascade in dividing cells.

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Sustained corolla formation in bisexual disc florets of anemone-type Chrysanthemum × morifolium depends on localized auxin enrichment, with CmARF6 and CmARF8.1 acting as positive regulators.

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SNP544 C/G in the MdWRKY11 promoter is the major determinant of Glomerella leaf blotch susceptibility in apple, with the G allele linked to 96.2% prediction accuracy.

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Optimized prime editing in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) precisely recreated disease-resistance alleles, including deletion of two leucine residues in SlBs5/SlBs5L, yielding enhanced Xanthomonas resistance.

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A 21-bp insertion in the 5' UTR of CsSnAK1 is linked to inhibited lateral branch development in cultivated cucumber by increasing CsSnAK1 mRNA abundance.

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Mass spectrometry-based single-cell metabolomics and mass spectrometry imaging are enabling direct measurement and spatial mapping of plant metabolites at single-cell and subcellular scales.

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High temperature (30 °C) attenuates MaPUB23-mediated proteasomal degradation of MaHSFB1 and MaHDA2, sustaining MaHSFB1–MaHDA2 repression of chlorophyll catabolic genes in banana fruit.

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Pathogen-induced phosphorylation of potato TF StbZIP18 at threonine 337 converts its nuclear condensates into numerous smaller, dynamic transcriptional hubs that enhance immune responses.

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Gap-free telomere-to-telomere assemblies for Glycine soja SoyW02 and Glycine max Zhonghuang 13 substantially resolve repeat-rich regions and complete organelle genomes.

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RS2Z32 splicing isoforms form distinct complexes with SC35 in Arabidopsis, regulating splice-site recognition in CCA1 intron 3 and shifting the CCA1 splice-variant ratio.

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CsVTT1, a PQ-loop vacuolar amino acid transporter in tea plant roots, is nitrogen-inducible and strongly correlates with theanine accumulation across nitrogen regimes.

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SbSTP20, a sorghum monosaccharide transporter, is essential for endosperm hexose influx and sub-aleurone thickening, boosting grain protein and micronutrients.

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Two promoter SNPs (SNP1 and SNP2) in BraHDAC1 define thermotolerant haplotypes in Brassica rapa that enable heat-induced transcription via an ABRE-CE module.

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QingLattice, a vascular-mobile lncRNA, reprograms iron-deficiency responses in sink roots by coordinating MdDML1 recruitment and MdIDN2 chromatin-looping changes to activate MdNRAMP3.

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PDS5A modulates cohesin loop extrusion in Arabidopsis thaliana, shaping TAD-like chromatin architecture with highly similar domain patterns across tissues and ploidy levels.

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Rhg1-encoded atypical SNAP18LC/HC variants promote ATG8-dependent selective autophagic degradation of the soybean cyst nematode effector HgGID, neutralizing its virulence function.

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Loss of the coiled-coil protein GTRD reverses protonemal gravitropism in Physcomitrium patens, revealing that a kinesin-14–linked transport system is required for correct upward growth direction.

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Stilbene (including resveratrol) biosynthesis in plants is dynamically controlled at three mechanistically distinct levels, linking stress signaling, transcriptional combinatorics, and metabolic branch selection to final metabolite output.

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Plant single-cell epigenomics is rapidly advancing, enabling cell type–specific chromatin accessibility atlases and CRE discovery, but profiling histone modifications, DNA methylation, 3D genome organization, and spatial epigenomic states remains in its infancy.

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KIN10, the SnRK1 α-catalytic subunit in Arabidopsis thaliana, promotes starvation-driven autophagosome formation by phosphorylating ATG13a, increasing ATG13a abundance.

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PtoRLK609 alleles in Populus tomentosa are linked to climate-related xylem lignification differences, with PtoRLK609Hap2 reaching fixation or near-fixation in northern populations and elevating lignin content.

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Maize NOB1 paralogs ZmNOB1a and ZmNOB1b are required for proper pre-40S cytoplasmic maturation, with their combined disruption severely reducing kernel development and translational capacity.

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Low ambient temperature at 16°C suppresses Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination by engaging endogenous abscisic acid signaling, requiring ABI3 and ABI5.