This review highlights the way #immune receptors and proteases work together to limit viral spread and reveals new opportunities to engineer #crops with stronger and broader resistance to #viral diseases.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70259
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🍿The origin of the #maize ear has been fiercely debated for more than a century.
🌽Using historical accounts and recent advances regarding maize domestication, Yu et al. propose a model for the origin of maize ear.
🦄 https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70035
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🤔How do TAD-associated chromatin dynamics and CGVs shape transcriptional plasticity, stress responses, and adaptive #evolution in #plants?
🗝️3D #genomics, chromatin accessibility, and multi-omics data hold the key!
🌱 https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70241
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✂️This comprehensive validation of CasY7 across 942 #transgenic #plants confirmed robust editing in #maize, #rice, and #wheat, establishing CasY7 as a high-efficiency addition to the #CRISPR toolkit.

🧬https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70181
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🚨New in #JIPB!
🌾Cao et al. report that HSP101-encoding NEO-TETRAPLOID RICE FERTILITY GENE 1 interacts with SAPK2 to regulate tapetum #development in polyploid #rice, providing a resource for its #genetic improvement.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70218
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🛡️Xu et al. reveal a striking #evolutionary divergence in the regulatory mechanisms of salicylic acid #biosynthesis between N. benthamiana and #Arabidopsis.
⬇️Get a free sneak peek at this new work right here!
⚔️https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70214
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🌾Wu et al. report that TE-mediated #DNA methylation leads to grain filling with a maternal effect in high-latitude Japonica rice varieties, possibly associated with the northward expansion of #rice during domestication.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70126
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😎Because when it comes to #PlantSci, you can't have too much of a good thing!
💪Zhao et al. report on an AGO2–miR167g-3p–SNAP32 module that confers #antiviral immunity in #rice.
🌾https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70112
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#CropSci #JIPB #agriculture #AgTech #RNA #botany
In this Commentary, Zhang et al. discuss the novel strategy developed by Chen et al. that improves drought tolerance in #rice, by connecting rhizosphere #ecology, gaseous signaling, and #epigenetic control.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70104
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#ClimateChange will have a major impact on #FoodSecurity. This #JIPB commentary explores the potential of DULL NITROGEN RESPONSE 1 for climate-smart crop breeding under elevated CO2.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70084
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