Nature Plants, Published online: 30 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01806-9Genetic analysis has shown that RNA polymerase V (Pol V) regulates plant defence independently of its known function in RNA-directed DNA methylation. The…
Nature Plants, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01805-wThe sex ratio is often not even in plants, and its molecular mechanisms have been little known. The study found that an X chromosome-encoded gene, named …
Nature Plants, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01807-8This study reports the discovery of a retrotransposon insertion in the FLC gene conferring an environmentally dependent control mechanism mediated by DNA…
Nature Plants, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01795-9Ye et al. use a novel genetic haploid genome doubling method with parthenogenesis and gene editing to produce edited, maternally derived di-haploid proge…
Nature Plants, Published online: 27 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01792-yThe insertion of the stress-responsive transposable element (TE) ONSEN into a critical flowering regulator gene confers an adaptive response to herbicide…
Nature Plants, Published online: 26 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01808-7Uracil DNA glycosylase-fused TALE-linked deaminases achieve precision A-to-G base editing without bystander C-to-T editing in chloroplast DNA to create h…
Nature Plants, Published online: 24 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01800-1By characterizing the dynamics of epitranscriptomes and translatomes upon Magnaporthe oryzae infection, the authors uncover that ac4C enriched in the 3rd…
Nature Plants, Published online: 23 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01796-8Researchers found that a plant U1 snRNP complex associates with 200 proteins and conducts splicing-independent roles by safeguarding RNAs against prematu…
Nature Plants, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01793-xEnhanced expression of chloroplast elongation factors StTuA/B increases potato disease resistance and photosynthesis, while oomycete effector Pi22926 inh…
Nature Plants, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01809-6The language of science preserves reminders of its chequered history, sometimes resulting in unintended consequences and offence.