Nature Plants, Published online: 09 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01146-6The genome of the flying spider-monkey tree fern and investigations on stem formation and secondary metabolite biosynthesis promote our understanding of fern e…
Nature Plants, Published online: 05 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01142-wThis Perspective analyses how biological and economic factors determine whether a commercial plant breeder will opt for a hybrid breeding system, and finds tha…
Nature Plants, Published online: 02 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01139-5A network of ABA-responsive transcription factors emerges from a genome-wide comparative analysis of four Brassicaceae species, including Arabidopsis thaliana …
Nature Plants, Published online: 02 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01136-8Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) can repress translation efficiency to achieve low but precise protein production. Wu et al. show that uORFs function to bu…
Nature Plants, Published online: 02 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01143-9Theory and single-cell experiments outline a new role for upstream open reading frames in buffering cellular heterogeneity in protein abundance at the translat…
Nature Plants, Published online: 28 April 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01145-7This study elucidates the functional dynamics of the ubiquitin ligase SCF D3/MAX2 as a key element in strigolactone signalling. The switch between D3/MAX2 co…
Nature Plants, Published online: 28 April 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01140-yMutant analysis shows that sucrose synthase makes no substantial contribution to transitory starch synthesis in Arabidopsis leaves, resolving a 20-year-old c…
Nature Plants, Published online: 21 April 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01149-3Classification is hard, especially in biology, where things rarely fit into neat categories. Perhaps it is time to abandon the term ‘plant’ for something mor…
Nature Plants, Published online: 21 April 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01124-yExtensive genetics and genomics analyses reveal the co-transcriptional processing mode of primary substrates of microRNAs in Arabidopsis, and an unexpected p…
Nature Plants, Published online: 21 April 2022; doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01138-6Xylan-rich nanodomains at pit borders of xylem vessels determine a pitted wall pattern by anchoring cellulosic nanofibrils at the pit edges and are crucial t…