Nature Plants
Branching for yield
Nature Plants, Published online: 28 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01312-wBranching for yield
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Maize root system architecture improvement for high-density planting
Nature Plants, Published online: 18 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01277-wAppropriate root system architecture (RSA) is essential for efficient water and nutrient use, especially in high-density planting conditions in intensive …
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Discovery of genes conferring host resistance to sweet potato weevils
Nature Plants, Published online: 18 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01273-0Sweet potato weevils (SPWs) pose one of the greatest challenges to sweet potato production worldwide; however, the genetic basis of SPW resistance remains…
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Genome-wide dissection of changes in maize root system architecture during modern breeding
Nature Plants, Published online: 17 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01274-zThe root-related changes in maize domestication, improvement and modern breeding were systematically investigated, and candidate genes related to maize ro…
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Author Correction: Redox-dependent structural switch and CBF activation confer freezing tolerance in plants
Nature Plants, Published online: 14 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01285-wAuthor Correction: Redox-dependent structural switch and CBF activation confer freezing tolerance in plants
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Natural allelic variation confers high resistance to sweet potato weevils in sweet potato
Nature Plants, Published online: 14 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01272-1Sweet potato weevils (SPWs) pose one of the most significant challenges to sweet potato production. This study identifies two major SPW-resistant genes, S…
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Mapping of the plant SnRK1 kinase signalling network reveals a key regulatory role for the class II T6P synthase-like proteins
Nature Plants, Published online: 14 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01269-wSnRK1 is a key metabolic sensor that controls plant development and stress responses. This study integrates phosphoproteomics, affinity purification coupl…
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Icacinaceae fossil provides evidence for a Cretaceous origin of the lamiids
Nature Plants, Published online: 14 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01275-yExtant asterids comprise over 80,000 species of flowering plants. A fossil fruit from western North America shows that the lamiid clade of asterids diverg…
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Nobel adjacency
Nature Plants, Published online: 14 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01298-5It’s time once more for the announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prizes, which again fail to include any researchers who work on plants. However, that…
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Polymerization of the backbone of the pectic polysaccharide rhamnogalacturonan I
Nature Plants, Published online: 10 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01270-3The glycosyltransferase enzyme RGGAT1 is shown to catalyse the addition of galacturonic acid into rhamnogalacturonan I, the backbone of the plant cell wal…