8+ hour, 25+ min ago   (599+ words) Plant roots are far more than simple anchors. They are living interfaces, constantly negotiating with an invisible world of bacteria and fungi that surround them in the soil....

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (45+ words) Enzyme Pair Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: A GRX-SOD redox regulatory module that maintains superoxide homeostasis and shoot apical meristem development in maize. Article Title: A GRX-SOD module maintains superoxide homeostasis and meristem development in maize...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (347+ words) eurekalert.org A chromosome-level genome of Chinese spiraea reveals how the rose family conserved and remodeled a major route for producing salicylic acid, a hormone central to plant immunity and environmental stress responses. By combining genome assembly, comparative genomics, transcriptome…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (253+ words) EurekAlert! SmMYB32 interacts with SmPYL8 to regulate the biosynthesis of tanshinones. Tanshinones—the bioactive compounds responsible for the cardiovascular benefits of the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Salvia miltiorrhiza—accumulate at relatively low levels in the plant, limiting their therapeutic and commercial potential....

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (78+ words) Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help roots find water—depends on proteins physically touching one another. These countless molecular handshakes, collectively known as the protein…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (59+ words) Deep inside plant genomes lies a family of small proteins so structurally rigid that they survive boiling, so chemically versatile that they can both shield cells from oxidative damage and, in some contexts, promote it, and so evolutionarily ancient that…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (743+ words) In the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers have grown a remarkable variety of maize for generations. Unlike the corn cultivated across the world’s great breadbaskets, these Sierra Mixe landraces send up clusters of thick aerial roots from their stalks, sometimes…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (101+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists fight one of agriculture’s most elusive classes of pathogens, researchers in Japan have discovered that short, synthetic strands of DNA can do something remarkable: when applied alongside the potato spindle tuber viroid,…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (400+ words) | Newswise Newswise Ginsenoside from Panax plants rewires root growth by blocking auxin traffic and triggering oxidative stress Integrative analysis of morphological alterations in P. ginseng adventitious roots following ZR1 treatment. Continuous cropping of Panax species—medicinal plants valued for their ginsenoside content…...