Current Opinion in Plant Biology

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Contents	215
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	143
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	115
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	112
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	110
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	104
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	91
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	90
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	82
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	78
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	78
Editorial Board	73
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	72
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	68
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	67
Editorial Board	65
Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution	60
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	59
Corrigendum to “NLR receptor subcellular localization and plant immune activation”[Curr Opin Plant Biol 90 (2026) 102855]	59
Beyond elongation: The multifaceted roles of gibberellins in symbiosis and root development	57
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	55
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	55
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	55
How cell edges shape plant morphogenesis	54
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	54

Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	54
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	54
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	53
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	52
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	52
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	51
Contents	51
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	50
Monoubiquitination of histone H2A and H2B: News and views	49
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	48
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	48
Contents	47
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	46
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	46
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	45
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	44
Contents	44
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	43
Systems-level understanding of plant immune networks through single-cell and spatial omics	43
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	43
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	42
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	41
Some assembly required: Modularity and programmability as keys to decoupling growth-defence trade-offs in plants	40
Architects of plant immunity: Structure-informed strategies for engineering plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors	40
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	40
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	39
Plant genome assembly and annotation	38
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	38
Malate synthesis in the chloroplasts of C3 plants	37
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	37
Connecting the dots in plant metabolism: Isotopic labeling and metabolic flux analysis	37
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	37
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	36
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	35
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	35
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	35
Editorial Board	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	34
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	34
Editorial Board	34
Editorial: Plant signaling and cell biology	33
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	33
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	33
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	33
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	33
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	33
Editorial Board	32
Contents	31
Sabotage behind enemy lines: Bacterial hijacking of plant cellular functions	31
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	31

Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	31
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	31
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling	30
Multilayered regulatory control of compound leaf development	30
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	30
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	30
Histone variants: Distinct building blocks of the chromatin acting at the core	30
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	29
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	28
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	28
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	27
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	27
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	26
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	25
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	25
Contents	25
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	24
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	24
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	24
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	23
Deciphering plastid retrograde signals and their roles in plant development	23
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	23
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	23
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	23
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	23
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	23
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	22
Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity	22
Every step you take: How pathogens hijack host proteostasis from transcription, through translation, to degradation	21
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	21
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	21
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	20
Position and identity, two separable but inseparable processes in floral meristem patterning	20
Contents	20
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	20
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	19
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	19
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	19
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	19
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	18
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	18
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	18
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	18
Arabinogalactan proteins: Decoding the multifaceted roles in plant reproduction	18
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	18
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	18
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	18
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	18
Editorial Board	18
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	18
Bridging cells and stages: Plasmodesmata for the coordination of plant development	18
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	17
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	17
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	17
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	17
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	17
From genes to epidemics: Genomic insights into bacterial plant pathogen emergence	17
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	17
Trans-grafting revolution: From molecular regulation mechanisms to biotech applications	17
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	17
Editorial Board	17
How to grow a leaf: Generating, maintaining, and modulating flatness	17
DNA methylation dynamics: patterns, regulation, and function	17
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	16
Editorial Board	16
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	16
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	16
Sense and sensitivity - decoding calcium signalling across cellular, autocrine, paracrine and endocrine pathways in plant resilience	16
Gene expression scaling with cell size: Insights across kingdoms	16
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	15
Fine-scale 3D chromatin architectures and their regulatory mechanisms in plants	15
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	15
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	15
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	15
Editorial Board	15
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	15
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	15
Signaling at the interface: The cell wall, peptides, and extracellular vesicles mediate partner communication during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis	15
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	15
Orchestrating polarity in embryo: From molecular programming to geometric rules	15

Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	14
Interplay between Polycomb-group associated histone modifiers and accessory proteins in plant evolution	14
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	14
Divergent routes to specialization: Guard cells, myrosin cells, and beyond	14
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	14
Trehalose 6-phosphate and hormone signalling crosstalk	14
Conserved, yet distinct: revisiting the roles of C core vacuole/endosome tethering (CORVET) and homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting (HOPS) complexes in plants	14
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	14
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	14
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	13
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	13
Stomatal patterning and development in grasses	13
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	13
Telomeres: The EPI-Ending	13
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	13
A plant ideotype worth its salt	13
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	13
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	13
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	13
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	12
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	12
Editorial Board	12
Contents	12
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	12
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	12
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	11
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	11
Mechanisms and flexibility in plant asymmetric cell division	11
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The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	11
Asymmetrical cell division in brown algae: How far can we take the paradigm?	11
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	11
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	11
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	11
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	11
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	11
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	11
Learning from nature’s plant engineers: Hijacking metabolism and development beyond genetics	11
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	11
How chromatin senses plant hormones	11
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	10
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	10
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	10
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales	10
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	10
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	10
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	10
The art of interdigitation: Current views on pavement cell shape acquisition	10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	10
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	10
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	10
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	10
Pectin biosynthesis, signaling, and cell polarity in stomatal function and morphogenesis	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens	9
Climate change challenges plant breeding	9
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	9
Complex of Proteins Associated with Set1 complexes and their increasing roles in crop improvement	9
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	9
Editorial Board	9
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	9
Editorial Board	9
Integrating plant lipid metabolism with signaling networks and stress adaptation	9
Long noncoding RNAs in plant chromatin 3D conformation dynamics	9
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond	9
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	8
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants	8
Contents	8
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	8
A blind spot in jasmonate biology - How does JA-Ile biosynthesis start?	8
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants	8
Contents	8
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	8
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning	8
Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions	8
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	8
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	8
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	8
Editorial Board	8
New insights into plant gametogenesis: From mechanism to application	8
Contents	8
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	8
First glimpses into the molecular kaleidoscope of pyrenoid diversity	8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	8
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	7
New frontiers in the biosynthesis of psychoactive specialized metabolites	7
Natura non facit saltus: Conserved and rewired molecular pathways underpinning root ground tissue evolution in vascular plants	7
From stress to growth: Mechanical tissue interactions in developing organs	7
Super-enhancer-mediated transcriptional regulation of gene clusters in plants	7
On the hidden temporal dynamics of plant adaptation	7