Volume 192, Issue 3, July 2023

Insights into cell wall changes during fruit softening from studies on transgenic and naturally occurring mutants.

DNA methylation and histone modification, including methylation and acetylation, are possible triggering factors involved in the onset of climacteric fruit ripening.

Research progress in the regulation of developmental cues, hormones, environmental factors and their crosstalk in fruit anthocyanin accumulation has significantly advanced in recent years.

A comprehensive review summarizes recent advances in knowledge of cold tolerance in grapevine.

Proof from various complementary experimental approaches is needed to assign a specific regulatory function to active biomolecules.

Fruit crops cope with drought stress through complicated physiological and molecular mechanisms.

Various posttranscriptional, translational, and posttranslational mechanisms constitute the molecular framework of fruit ripening.

MicroRNA408 targets a previously unknown gene, regulates riboflavin biosynthesis, and mediates m6A modification and RNA homeostasis, promoting cell division and early somatic embryogenesis in longan.

Vigorous triploids and dwarf tetraploids show diverging vascular porosity but higher plant hydraulic efficiency under soil water scarcity compared with diploids.

The microRNA156ab-SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE13 module facilitates auxin biosynthesis to promote plant growth and enhance drought resistance in apple.

The transcription factor CitZAT5 participates in sugar metabolism and transport by regulating CitSUS5 and CitSWEET6, promoting sugar accumulation and increasing hexose proportion in citrus fruit.

Competitive binding effect between MdMYB123 and mdmyb123 results in differential expression profiles of MdMa1 and MdMa11, which leads to variation in malic acid content.

A regulatory feedback loop mechanism involving repressor ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTORS 4.1/4.2 balances anthocyanin overaccumulation in red-skinned pears.

Degreening and reddening during ripening of litchi fruit is under the control of a regulatory gene, LcNAC002.

The transcriptional factor VviNAC60 regulates organ maturation initiation in grapevine, promoting anthocyanin synthesis, chlorophyll degradation, cell death, and other senescence-related processes.

CiACS4 is activated by an ethylene reaction factor (CiERF023), forms a complex with CiERF3, and then binds to the promoters of CiGA20ox1 and CiGA20ox2 to regulate plant height in citrus.

E3 ubiquitin ligase MaNIP1 and chlorophyll catabolic enzyme MaNYC1 form a regulatory module to mediate high-temperature-induced green ripening.

The transcription factor PpABF3 activates PpWRKY44 expression, and they coordinately regulate salinity-enhanced malate accumulation by regulating aluminum-activated malate transporter 9 in pear.

The transcription factor PbrMYB24 regulates lignin and cellulose biosynthesis in stone cells of pear fruits by binding to different cis-elements

The B-box proteins PavBBX6 and PavBBX9 positively regulate ABA biosynthesis and red coloration in bicolored sweet cherry fruit in the light.

Caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase methylates different phenolic compounds with a preference for flavonoids in vitro and promotes the accumulation of multiple polymethoxylated flavonesins in citrus.

ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE 3-LIKE 2 controls β-carotene and ascorbic acid biosynthesis in tomato fruits via different regulatory pathways.

MdbZIP23/46–MdWRKY9–MdSWEET9b promotes fruit sugar accumulation under ABA signaling conditions.

The MdHY5-MdWRKY31-MdLAC7 protein module regulates preharvest apple peel browning.

SnRK1 kinase modulates sorbitol metabolism in apple via phosphorylation of transcription factor bZIP39, which integrates sorbitol signaling into the SnRK1-mediated sugar signaling network.

MdHYL1 acts as a positive regulator of cold tolerance and disease resistance in apple via positively regulating the expression of MdMYB88 and MdMYB124 as well as miRNA biogenesis.

Methylglyoxal detoxification, catalyzed by glutathione-dependent glyoxalase I and regulated by the MADS-box transcription factor RIPENING INHIBITOR, is crucial for fruit ripening.

A regulatory mechanism involving H₂S-mediated MYB10 persulfidation represses anthocyanin accumulation in red-skinned pears.

The transcription factor MhDREB2A activates MhZAT10 expression, and they coordinately regulate drought and cold stress by integrating multiple pathways in apple rootstock to improve shoot-shriveling tolerance.

Multi-copper oxidases SKU5 and SKS1 modulate reactive oxygen species homeostasis in root apoplast to regulate cell wall formation.

Enlarged root cortical cells and reduced cortical cell file number decrease the metabolic cost of soil exploration, thereby improving plant growth under suboptimal nitrogen availability.

Temperature and day length control the duration of flowering in Arabidopsis through the floral integrator FLOWERING LOCUS T.

ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3 (EIN3) and its homolog EIN3-LIKE1 regulate floral transition by recruiting histone demethylase FLOWERING LOCUS D to modulate transcription of floral repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C.

During rice pollen development, a heat shock protein interacts with and stabilizes a starch-binding protein to ensure normal starch granule biogenesis under high temperature.

Targeting a dysfunctional GFP fusion protein to a thylakoid identifies the coordination of the thylakoid translocation pathway and the FtsH protease on thylakoid membrane-associated proteostasis.

Modulating the activity of auxin response factors increases yield in extreme temperatures in a dose-dependent manner.

The brassinosteroid-activated transcription factor BRASSINAZOLE-RESISTANT1 regulates pollen tube growth during self-incompatibility signaling in pear.

A comparative transcriptome and DNA methylome analysis of different stages of inflorescence between upland and lowland ecotypes reveals gene expression and DNA methylation divergence in Panicum hallii.

Complex regulatory networks of physiological and biochemical pathways influence root lodging in maize, with limited overlap of genes associated with lodging resistance and root system architecture.

The natural variation of the anatomy, system architecture, and hydraulic capacity of maize roots, which together shape the root hydraulic architecture, reveals a high diversity of water uptake strategies in this species.

The relationship between floral scent and allelic variation of TERPENE SYNTHASE in representative wild species reveals the molecular basis of interspecific floral diversity among Freesia species.

COLD REGULATED GENE 27 and 28 bind to and antagonize the ability of the circadian clock–associated RVE8/LNK complex to induce target gene expression in the evening in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The trans-zeatin-type cytokinins are biosynthesized via the cytochrome P450 monooxygenases CYP735As and control growth of both roots and shoots in rice.

RNA-sequencing, hormone measurement, and genetic analysis show that extracellular self-DNA-mediated growth inhibition and immunity induction are achieved through the jasmonic acid signaling pathway.

XCT plays genetically separable roles in controlling the fidelity of 3' splice site selection during pre-mRNA splicing and the pace of circadian clock in Arabidopsis.

Phytosulfokine inhibits plant U-box E3 ligase-mediated ubiquitylation of PHYTOSULFOKINE RECEPTOR 1 (PSKR1) to trigger plant defense against Botrytis cinerea in tomato.

SICKLE is involved in the regulation of salicylic acid-triggered programmed cell death in Arabidopsis by affecting alternative splicing and decay of mRNAs.

Bacterial pathogens hijack host rice microRNA-regulated signal transduction to compromise salicylic acid- and jasmonic acid-mediated immune responses.

ADH and the related hypoxia-responsive pathway of D. catenatum protocorms regulate interactions with Serendipita indica, which is determined to be a broad-spectrum orchid-germinating OrM fungus.