A recent study from Miguel Blázquez´s lab addressed the question of how plants integrate light and temperature information through a comparative analysis of four plant lineages, from algae to flowering plants. Catarino et al. compared Ostreococcus tauri (a chlorophyate alga), and three streptophytes, Mesotaenium endlicherianum (an alga), Marchantia polymorpha (a bryophyte), and Arabidopsis thaliana (an […]
How does a plant determine the angle at which a new lateral root should grow? A recent study by Farkas et al. reveals that the answer may depend not only on how plants perceive gravity, but when they perceive it. Lateral roots initially emerge almost perpendicular to the primary root before developing a characteristic gravitropic […]
In a new article by Wu et al., a large team of collaborators led by the Moi lab addressed this question by doing a huge outdoor evolution experiment at 30 places with different climates. The authors achieved real-time adaptation under natural conditions by sowing a mixture of 231 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions and tracking genomic changes over […]
Nitrogen is a key nutrient for plant development, and plant nutrient acquisition is highly influenced by the rhizosphere microbiome. However, how host genomic variation and root transcriptional regulation shape microbiome assembly under field conditions remains unclear. Li and colleagues addressed this important question through a large-scale multi-omics study across 175 Brassica napus accessions. The authors […]