Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain to...

High planting density boosts crop yields but also heightens pest and pathogen risks. How plants adapt their defenses under these conditions remains unclear. In this study, we reveal that maize enhance...

A genome editing and AI-driven robotic system that overcomes floral barriers to facilitate automated hybrid breeding in tomato and soybean.

Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alternate inheritance of highly divergent parental alleles drove the origin of tubers and explosive species diversification and niche expansion into the high Andes.

Apical hook development is an ideal model for studying differential growth in plants and is controlled by complex phytohormonal crosstalk, with aux...

imageimageRho Of Plant 6 (ROP6) acts as hub for several independent signaling processes and relies on stimuli-dependent membrane nanodomain formation. This study reveals that the GEF isoform GEF14 is ...

Cryo-focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (cryo-FIBSEM) has become essential for preparing electron-transparent lamellae from cryo-plunged and high-pressure frozen specimens. However, targeti...