How does a plant sense stress and pass those signals around its body? Corentin Dourmap and colleagues have reviewed the role of mitochondria in the plant cell and how they interact with stress signalling. Image: Canva...
Tag - biotic stress
Fi Gennu
Salicylic acid-independent responses in PI4K mutants
Arabidopsis thaliana is the lab rat of plant sciences. Mutants tweaked in certain genes can show the effects of hormones on plants, but it can be hard to change one response without changing some others. How do plants...
Alun Salt
Silicon: the underappreciated plant nutrient
What nutrients do you consider to be important to a plant? What do plants need to be successful, to grow, photosynthesise, develop and defend themselves effectively against pests and disease? The majority of people...
Adam Frew
Gene expression in Musa acuminata during interactions with Meloidogyne incognita
Root-knot nematodes (RKN) (Meloidogyne spp) cause considerable losses in banana (Musa sp.). Castañeda et al. investigate the root transcriptome in Musa acuminata during compatible interactions with M. incognita, showing...
botanyone
Resistance responses triggered by Fusarium crown rot in wheat
Fusarium diseases of cereals constitute economically significant constraints in cereal production systems. In this study, transcriptomic analysis using RNA-seq is combined with metabolite analysis to provide novel...
Auxin, environmental signals and root development (free review article)
Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in auxin–environment interactions can assist development of crops better adapted to stressful environments.
AJ Cann