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Plant sciences is the study of plants in all their forms and interactions using a scientific approach.
Reprogramming of plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich immune receptors has long been limited by natural receptor diversity and hard-to-engineer recognition surfaces. A novel approach combines de novo protein design with directed evolution in planta to build synthetic plant immune receptors that detect diverse pathogen proteins, enabling on-demand design and refinement of resistance genes.
Timely estimation and forecasting of crop yields at national and global levels is essential to manage market volatility. Yet, better understanding of estimation accuracy and whether and how this impacts market volatility is essential.
Analysis of 70 experiments and 32 years of field observations shows that increasing the amount of carbon dioxide enhances the growth of the C4 group of grasses when water is limited. These findings challenge the assumption that C4 grasses respond weakly to changes in carbon dioxide level, and reveal an overlooked driver of change across the world’s savannahs.
Reprogramming of plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich immune receptors has long been limited by natural receptor diversity and hard-to-engineer recognition surfaces. A novel approach combines de novo protein design with directed evolution in planta to build synthetic plant immune receptors that detect diverse pathogen proteins, enabling on-demand design and refinement of resistance genes.
With the approval of the European Council and the European Parliament, Regulation (EU) 2026/1388 on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their products was finally adopted by the European Union on 17 June 2026. This is a remarkable achievement considering that Directive 2001/18/EC, the main legislation on the environmental release of genetically modified organisms, dates back to 2001, and that the first Working Group on New Plant Breeding Techniques was established by the European Commission in 2007 with the aim of identifying legislation more appropriate to technologies developed after 2001.
Timely estimation and forecasting of crop yields at national and global levels is essential to manage market volatility. Yet, better understanding of estimation accuracy and whether and how this impacts market volatility is essential.
Analysis of 70 experiments and 32 years of field observations shows that increasing the amount of carbon dioxide enhances the growth of the C4 group of grasses when water is limited. These findings challenge the assumption that C4 grasses respond weakly to changes in carbon dioxide level, and reveal an overlooked driver of change across the world’s savannahs.
Sugar signalling is a cornerstone of anatomical plasticity and reproductive success, tailoring plant development to metabolic and environmental cues. The demonstration of a C-terminal hexapeptide-dependent mechanism for the autoinhibition of cytosolic invertase activity that is controlled by protein phosphorylation and 14-3-3 protein binding is pivotal to our understanding of carbohydrate metabolism and sugar signalling, as is the knowledge of how this mechanism has been tailored to optimize function during evolution.