Traffic control: Subversion of plant membrane trafficking by pathogens

ELH Yuen, S Shepherd… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Membrane trafficking pathways play a prominent role in plant immunity. The endomembrane
transport system coordinates membrane-bound cellular organelles to ensure that …

[HTML][HTML] The cytoskeleton in plant immunity: dynamics, regulation, and function

J Wang, N Lian, Y Zhang, Y Man, L Chen… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The plant cytoskeleton, consisting of actin filaments and microtubules, is a highly dynamic
filamentous framework involved in plant growth, development, and stress responses …

Calponin homology domain containing kinesin, KIS1, regulates chloroplast stromule formation and immunity

ND Meier, K Seward, JL Caplan… - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Chloroplast morphology changes during immunity, giving rise to tubule-like structures
known as stromules. Stromules extend along microtubules and anchor to actin filaments …

Circular biomanufacturing through harvesting solar energy and CO2

M Sørensen, J Andersen-Ranberg, B Hankamer… - Trends in Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
Using synthetic biology, it is now time to expand the biosynthetic repertoire of plants and
microalgae by utilizing the chloroplast to augment the production of desired high-value …

[HTML][HTML] Talk to your neighbors in an emergency: Stromule-mediated chloroplast-nucleus communication in plant immunity

S Jung, J Woo, E Park - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypersensitive response-programmed cell death (HR-PCD) is a response mounted by
plants to defend themselves against pathogens. Communication between the chloroplast …

Efficient control of root-knot nematodes by expressing Bt nematicidal proteins in root leucoplasts

Y Wang, M Wang, Y Zhang, L Peng, D Dai, F Zhang… - Molecular Plant, 2024 - cell.com
Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) are plant pests that infect the roots of host plants. Bacillus
thuringiensis (Bt) nematicidal proteins exhibited toxicity to nematodes. However, the …

Complex eigenvalue instantons and the Fredholm determinant expansion in the Gross-Witten-Wadia model

DS Eniceicu, R Mahajan, C Murdia - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We study the leading nonperturbative corrections to the strong-coupling
(ungapped) phase of the Gross-Witten-Wadia (GWW) integral over unitary matrices, to one …

Tuning the wavelength: Manipulation of light signaling to control plant defense

S Breen, H McLellan, PRJ Birch, EM Gilroy - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The growth–defense trade-off in plants is a phenomenon whereby plants must balance the
allocation of their resources between developmental growth and defense against attack by …

An effector of Erysiphe necator translocates to chloroplasts and plasma membrane to suppress host immunity in grapevine

B Mu, Z Teng, R Tang, M Lu, J Chen, X Xu… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator) is a prevalent pathogen hampering grapevine
growth in the vineyard. An arsenal of candidate secreted effector proteins (CSEPs) was …

The passage of H2O2 from chloroplasts to their associated nucleus during retrograde signalling: reflections on the role of the nuclear envelope

E Breeze, PM Mullineaux - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The response of chloroplasts to adverse environmental cues, principally increases in light
intensity, stimulates chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling, which leads to the …