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Root system architecture (RSA) plays a pivotal role in efficient uptake of essential nutrients, such as phosphorous (P), nitrogen (N), and water. In soils with heterogeneous nutrient distribution, root plastic...
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Underground microbial ecosystems have profound impacts on plant health1–5. Recently, essential roles have been shown for plant specialized metabolites in sha** the rhizosphere microbiome6–9. However, the potent...
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Open AccessA nonS-locus F-box gene breaks self-incompatibility in diploid potatoes
Potato is the third most important staple food crop. To address challenges associated with global food security, a hybrid potato breeding system, aimed at converting potato from a tuber-propagated tetraploid c...
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Open AccessThe wax gourd genomes offer insights into the genetic diversity and ancestral cucurbit karyotype
The botanical family Cucurbitaceae includes a variety of fruit crops with global or local economic importance. How their genomes evolve and the genetic basis of diversity remain largely unexplored. In this stu...
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Transcriptional gene silencing is a pivotal mechanism for regulating gene expression and genome stability. In Arabidopsis, combined analyses of small RNAs (sRNAs) and DNA methylation reveals that mobile 24-nt sRN...
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Sanwen Huang and colleagues report a genomic variation map of cucumber. They report the resequencing of 115 cucumber accessions and de novo assembly of the wild cucumber genome.
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Open AccessThe draft genome of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and resequencing of 20 diverse accessions
Zhangjun Fei and colleagues report the draft genome of a Chinese elite watermelon inbred line 97103 and resequencing of 20 diverse accessions that represent the three subspecies of Citrullus lunatus. Comparative ...
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Analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factor families revealed extensive capacity for cell-to-cell movement as well as discrete trafficking patterns
In plants, cell-to-cell communication is pivotal for the orchestration of cell fate determination, organ development, and the integration of whole plant physiology. One of the strategies for intercellular comm...
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Open AccessPlasmodesmal receptor-like kinases identified through analysis of rice cell wall extracted proteins
In plants, plasmodesmata (PD) are intercellular channels that function in both metabolite exchange and the transport of proteins and RNAs. Currently, many of the PD structural and regulatory components remain ...
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The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.
Jun Wang and colleagues report the genome sequence of the cucumber. The cucumber genome is the seventh plant genome sequence to be reported and was assembled with a combination of traditional Sanger and next-g...
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A role for RNA as a non-cell-autonomous information macromolecule is emerging as a new model in biology. Studies on higher plants have shown the operation of cell-to-cell and long-distance communication networ...
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Identification of immunologically related proteins in sieve-tube exudate collected from monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants
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