Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Uncovering plant cell types and regulatory genes across species has long been a challenge. Writing in Cell, Xue et al. present single-cell atlases for…

Tight regulation of immune activation is crucial for plant health. How plants control the actions of their immunostimulatory phytocytokines is largely…

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To celebrate this Focus Issue on Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond, we present a timeline highlighting some of the exceptio

Increasing plant genome research, together with advanced transformation technology, enables researchers to address their research questions more effec…

Leading perspectives on molecular mechanisms in RNA biology from Cell Chemical Biology and Molecular Cell.

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Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...

Pluripotent stem cells in the apical meristem have been a key innovation that allows plants to flourish. Hata et al. identified transcriptomic characters of a pluripotent stem cell in Physcomitrium pa...

Takagi and Lee et al. show that florigen-producing cells express unique transcripts not found in other phloem cells by analyzing transcripts translated into proteins. One such transcript encodes FLP1,...

Huang et al. demonstrate that plants use extracellular vesicles (EVs) to send defense proteins into fungal pathogens, thereby combating infection. They highlight the significance of protein transfer from plants to pathogens, a process that plays an important role in reducing crop diseases.

In this study, Lee et al. demonstrate how a metabolite released by tissue damage, glutathione, instructs cells to embark on the first step of regeneration. Glutathione activates fast cell cycles in damaged plant organs, leading cells to rapidly change their identity to restructure a new organ.