Current Opinion in Plant Biology

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Contents	160
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	146
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	144
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	117
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	107
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	100
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	96
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	94
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	90
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	84
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	80
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	78
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	77
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	77
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	73
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	68
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	63
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	62
Editorial Board	62
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	61
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	57
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	57
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	57
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	56
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	54

At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	54
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	54
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	54
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	53
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	52
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	50
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Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	48
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	47
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	47
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	47
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	47
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	46
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	44
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	44
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	43
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	42
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	42
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	42
Contents	41
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	41
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	40
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	39
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	38
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	38
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	38
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	36
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	36
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	36
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	36
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	36
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	36
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals	36
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	36
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	35
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	35
Editorial Board	34
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Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling	33
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	33
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	33
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	33
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	32
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	32
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	32
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	31
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	31
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Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	31

Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration	31
Editorial Board	31
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	30
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	30
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	30
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	30
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	29
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	29
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	29
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	28
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	28
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	28
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	27
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	27
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	27
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	27
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	27
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	27
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	27
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	27
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	26
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	26
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	26
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	25
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	25
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	25
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	25
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	24
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	24
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	24
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	24
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Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	24
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	23
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	23
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	23
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	23
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	22
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	22
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	22
Editorial Board	22
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	22
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	22
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	21
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	21
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	21
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	21
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	21
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	21
Editorial Board	21
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	20
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	20
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	20
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	20
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	19
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	19
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	19
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	19
From genes to epidemics: Genomic insights into bacterial plant pathogen emergence	19
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	19
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	18
Growing a glue factory: Open questions in laticifer development	18
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	18
Editorial Board	18
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	18
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	18
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	18
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	18
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	18
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	18
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	18
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	17
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	17
Advances in functional proteomics to study plant-pathogen interactions	17
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	17

Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	17
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	16
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	16
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	16
Sense and sensitivity - decoding calcium signalling across cellular, autocrine, paracrine and endocrine pathways in plant resilience	16
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	16
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity	16
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	16
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	16
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	16
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	16
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	15
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	15
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New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	15
Editorial Board	15
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	14
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	14
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	14
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	14
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity	13
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	13
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	13
Asymmetrical cell division in brown algae: How far can we take the paradigm?	13
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	13
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	13
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	13
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	13
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	13
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Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	12
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	12
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	11
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	11
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	11
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	11
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	11
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	11
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	11
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	11
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	11
How chromatin senses plant hormones	11
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	11
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression	11
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	10
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	10
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales	10
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism	10
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From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	10
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development	10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	10
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	9
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens	9
Editorial Board	9
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond	9
Editorial Board	9
Establishing a regulatory blueprint for ovule number and function during plant development	9
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	9
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones	9
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	9
Climate change challenges plant breeding	9
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	9
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow	8
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants	8
Advancing root developmental research through single-cell technologies	8
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	8
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	8
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants	8
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Editorial Board	8
Control of resource allocation between primary and specialized metabolism in glandular trichomes	8
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants	8
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	8
Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	8
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	8
Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies	8
From stress to growth: Mechanical tissue interactions in developing organs	7
Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach	7
The versatile role of guard cell starch in speedy stomata: Beyond Arabidopsis	7
Function of nuclear envelope proteins in plant growth and development	7
Root hairs vs. trichomes: Not everyone is straight!	7
Stochasticity in gene body methylation	7
New frontiers in the biosynthesis of psychoactive specialized metabolites	7
Celastrol: A century-long journey from the isolation to the biotechnological production and the development of an antiobesity drug	7
On the hidden temporal dynamics of plant adaptation	7