In wheat, epigenetically regulated expression of FIP peptides upon pathogen challenge enables their perception by the receptor FIPR, thereby activating defence responses.

A rust effector interacts with a plasma membrane-anchored N-myristoylated protein TaMP to hijack and promote its relocalization from the plasma membrane to chloroplasts, increasing wheat susceptibility to rust fungus.

This Perspective reviews emerging nanocarriers for RNA delivery in agriculture and outlines future research directions, emphasizing that efficient delivery into plant cells, where viruses replicate, remains a key bottleneck for viral disease control.

The GmPEplus system achieves a prime editing (PE) efficiency of 81.3% in stably transformed soybean lines, while the Csy4-mediated multiplex PE system enables simultaneous multi-gene editing. These efficient and precise editing tools greatly facilitate genome editing for soybean breeding.

The polarized growth of pollen tube cells requires actin filament attachment and apical plasma membrane expansion to be coordinated. Data now show that the class VIII myosin ATM2 acts as an adaptor that links actin filaments with the plasma membrane and promotes the formation of the regulatory phospholipid phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, and thereby reduces actin dynamics and stabilizes actin–membrane contacts.

In glowing plants, monitoring colour shifts instead of changes in luminescence intensity enables quantitative measurements of physiology despite changes in metabolic activity.

Family-wide chromosome-level phylogenomics sheds light on the evolutionary trajectories of grapevine genomes and karyotypes, highlighting the role of Helitron transposons in the expansion and regulation of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat disease resistance genes in grapevines.

Centromere editing in wheat drives extensive, heritable rearrangements across multiple chromosomes. This demonstrates centromere plasticity and provides a powerful strategy for engineering complex karyotypes in polyploid crops.

This study models the evolution of spore characteristics in living land plants to reinterpret their spore-dominated early fossil record. The results indicate a much later origin than previous molecular dating studies.

A synthetic gibberellin (GA)-receptor system enables spatial and temporal control of GA signalling, revealing that coordinated GA signalling in the endodermis and epidermis is required for full root elongation and providing a tool for resolving hormone action.

In Arabidopsis, NIKs are identified as signal-propagating components downstream of multiple phytocytokine receptor complexes, offering insights into the molecular mechanism governing the activation of danger-triggered immunity signalling.

MAKR6 connects auxin signalling to PIN1 transporter regulation while integrating multiple cell-surface receptor kinase pathways to coordinate auxin canalization, a self-organizing process that directs plant vascular development and regeneration.

October is Nobel Prize month, and at first glance it might seem that plant biology has again been overlooked. However, closer inspection shows notable involvement of ‘the green lineage’ in at least one of the prizes.