Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward

BK Singh, M Delgado-Baquerizo, E Egidi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental
sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that …

News about amino acid metabolism in plant–microbe interactions

J Moormann, B Heinemann, TM Hildebrandt - Trends in Biochemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Plants constantly come into contact with a diverse mix of pathogenic and beneficial
microbes. The ability to distinguish between them and to respond appropriately is essential …

Export of defensive glucosinolates is key for their accumulation in seeds

D Xu, NCH Sanden, LL Hansen, ZM Belew… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Plant membrane transporters controlling metabolite distribution contribute key agronomic
traits,,,,–. To eliminate anti-nutritional factors in edible parts of crops, the mutation of …

Sugar transporters spatially organize microbiota colonization along the longitudinal root axis of Arabidopsis

EPI Loo, P Durán, TY Pang, P Westhoff, C Deng… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
Plant roots are functionally heterogeneous in cellular architecture, transcriptome profile,
metabolic state, and microbial immunity. We hypothesized that axial differentiation may also …

Rice SUT and SWEET transporters

Z Hu, Z Tang, Y Zhang, L Niu, F Yang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sugar transporters play important or even indispensable roles in sugar translocation among
adjacent cells in the plant. They are mainly composed of sucrose–proton symporter SUT …

Dynamic nutrient acquisition from a hydrated apoplast supports biotrophic proliferation of a bacterial pathogen of maize

I Gentzel, L Giese, G Ekanayake, K Mikhail, W Zhao… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Plant pathogens perturb their hosts to create environments suitable for their proliferation,
including the suppression of immunity and promotion of water and nutrient availability …

Microbe-assisted phytoremediation of toxic elements in soils: Present knowledge and future prospects

G Yu, H Ullah, B Yousaf, K Pikoń, V Antoniadis… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the face of escalating anthropogenic impacts stemming from urbanization and
industrialization, our study delves into the critical realm of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) …

When SWEETs turn tweens: updates and perspectives

X Xue, J Wang, D Shukla, LS Cheung… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Sugar translocation between cells and between subcellular compartments in plants requires
either plasmodesmata or a diverse array of sugar transporters. Interactions between plants …

Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens

C Roussin-Léveillée, D Mackey, G Ekanayake… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The plant extracellular space, referred to as the apoplast, is inhabited by a variety of
microorganisms. Reflecting the crucial nature of this compartment, both plants and …

Improvement of plant quality by amino acid transporters: a comprehensive review

K Dong, Z Ye, F Hu, C Shan, D Wen, J Cao - Plant Physiology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstracts Amino acids serve as the primary means of transport and organic nitrogen carrier
in plants, playing an essential role in plant growth and development. Amino acid …