Showing papers in "Trends in Plant Science in 2016"

TL;DR: Key challenges for future research include: development of efficient stabilization processes, simplification of the complex and costly biopesticide authorization requirements, and optimization of plant growing conditions and extraction processes leading to EOs of homogeneous chemical composition.

TL;DR: This work provides a comprehensive overview and user-friendly taxonomy of ML tools to enable the plant community to correctly and easily apply the appropriate ML tools and best-practice guidelines for various biotic and abiotic stress traits.

TL;DR: To ensure both the safe use and social acceptance of phytonanotechnology, the adverse effects, including the risks associated with the transfer of NPs through the food chain, are discussed.

TL;DR: A guideline that might assist the plant research community in a consistent assessment of defense priming in plants is proposed.

TL;DR: Promising chemical agents such as sodium nitroprusside, hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydrosulfide, melatonin, and polyamines that can potentially confer enhanced tolerance when plants are exposed to multiple abiotic stresses are reviewed.

TL;DR: The shaping of the rhizomicrobiome is discussed and which aspects can be considered signaling are defined and divided into three categories: between microbes, from plants to microorganisms, and from microorganisms to plants.

TL;DR: In this paper, a spatially explicit metabolome of the root and its exudates at a scale that is relevant for the rhizosphere community was generated. But the main limitations are proper sampling of the exudate, the sensitivity of the metabolomics platforms, and the multivariate data analysis to identify causal relations.

TL;DR: Evidence for a role of MAPK modules in the context of different plant ABA signaling pathways is discussed, including gene regulation, stomatal closure, and plant growth modulation.

TL;DR: With growing interest in perennial crops as valuable components of sustainable agriculture, rootstocks provide one mechanism by which to improve and expand woody perennial cultivation in a range of environmental conditions.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a systematic landrace evaluation may define patterns of diversity, which will facilitate identifying alleles for enhancing yield and abiotic stress adaptation, thus raising the productivity and stability of staple crops in vulnerable environments.

TL;DR: This review focuses on contextualizing root developmental changes elicited by PGPR in light of the understanding of plant-microbe interactions and root developmental biology.

TL;DR: Studies of carotenoid feedback regulation, chloroplast biogenesis, stress signaling, and leaf and root development are reviewed providing evidence that apocarotenoids may fine-tune plant development and responses to environmental stimuli.

TL;DR: In this review, the growing understanding of the dynamic regulation of miRNA biogenesis is discussed, with special emphasis on crosstalk between mi RNA biogenesis and other cellular processes such as transcription and splicing.

TL;DR: The opportunities for products created using NPBTs are reviewed, and the future applications of these methods are touched upon, such as cisgenic potato genotypes in which specific combinations of Phytophthora infestans resistance genes have been stacked for use in durable cultivation.

TL;DR: Different transport mechanisms for land plants and green algae - in the model systems Arabidopsis thaliana, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - are compared, thereby providing a current perspective on protein-mediated FA and lipid trafficking in photosynthetic cells.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that plants can sense [CO2] changes via guard cells and via mesophyll tissues in mediating stomatal movements, and together function in the CO2 regulation ofStomatal conductance and gas exchange in plants.

TL;DR: The plants are no longer seen as 'individual' but rather as a holobiont, in other words a unit of selection in evolution, a concept that holds great promise for future plant breeding programs.

TL;DR: The most recent discoveries concerning autophagy in plants, touching upon all aspects, are reviewed, including fundamental mechanistic aspects in autophile which may have relevance in non-plant systems.

TL;DR: Recent progress on molecular players of membrane transport involved in nutritional exchanges between mycorrhizal plants and fungi are reviewed, from the transport proteins involved in sugar fluxes from plants towards fungi, to the uptake from the soil and exchange of nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, sulfate, and water.

TL;DR: Genetic manipulation of GABA levels has revealed that GABA accumulation functions in defense against drought and insect herbivory.

TL;DR: New screening approaches are proposed to obtain further information on the components required for electrical signalling in phloem cables to identify glutamate receptor-like genes involved in the propagation of electrical activity from the damaged to undamaged leaves.

TL;DR: Recent advances in newly identified SERK functions in plant cell differentiation, growth, and immunity are reviewed; the regulation and activation mechanisms of SERK-associated receptorsomes are discussed; and insights are provided into how SERKs maintain signaling specificity as convergent hubs in various signaling pathways.

TL;DR: The prediction is that food supply must double by 2050 to cope with the impact of climate change and population pressure on global food systems.

TL;DR: A better understanding of the mechanisms and processes involved to predict future responses of tropical forest carbon sequestration to climate change is urgently needed.

TL;DR: The key mechanisms of Mn deficiency in plants are described by focusing on the impact of Mn on PSII stability and functionality, and the mechanisms underlying the differential tolerance towards Mn deficiency observed among plant genotypes are addressed.

TL;DR: Recent research unearthed that plant genotype-dependent navigation of microbial community composition in the rhizosphere is associated with fitness consequences for the host plant, providing great promise for breeding soil-borne supremacy traits into future crops.

TL;DR: It is argued that it is time to bring together the recent insights from both scientific disciplines to fully understand root functioning in the real world.

TL;DR: This review highlights how the presence ofother pathogen species, or other pathogen genotypes, within a plant can affect key components of host-pathogen interactions and how to evaluate the evolution and effectiveness of resistance within a coinfection framework.

TL;DR: Light-induced electron delivery from light-harvesting pigments can efficiently drive LPMO activity, and the concept of fungal degradation of lignocellulose has been revised in the light of this recent finding.

TL;DR: It is proposed that CREs are interesting targets for genome editing to create new alleles for plant breeding because of the lack of detrimental pleiotropic effects.