The hidden world within plants: metatranscriptomics unveils the complexity of wood microbiomes

L Nerva, JF Garcia, F Favaretto… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… To profile the fungal behaviour and expression of virulence function in the two sample
types… define the composition of the microbial community associated with a complex ecological

Plants are intelligent, here's how

P Calvo, M Gagliano, GM Souza, A Trewavas - Annals of botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Below we have replaced the word ‘agent’ with ‘plant’ in their definition: … The goal in niche
construction is the production of an equable soil environment for root growth, root function and …

Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models

BT McClintock, R Langrock, O Gimenez, E Cam… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… HMMs are neither a panacea nor a black box – the appropriateness and feasibility of a
particular model will be case-dependent and requires careful consideration. In determining if …

The plant endosphere world–bacterial life within plants

S Compant, MC Cambon, C Vacher… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… microbial functions, the interaction between endophytes and plants … the endosphere on plant
traits and ecosystem functioning. … A revised definition was needed due to the understanding …

On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems

ML Wong, CE Cleland, D Arend Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… , we could define E x as the … function under consideration: The catalytic efficiency of an
enzyme might be measured as a decrease in activation energy, for example, whereas the function

Burning questions for a warming and changing world: 15 unknowns in plant abiotic stress

PE Verslues, J Bailey-Serres, C Brodersen… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Better defining what constitutes … function and, ultimately, deploy that knowledge for plant
improvement or understanding natural systems? Despite advances such as automated plant

Defining lyfe in the universe: from three privileged functions to four pillars

S Bartlett, ML Wong - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
… Life is defined as the instance of lyfe that we are … We define lyfe as any system that performs
all four pillars and sublyfe as any system that performs some but not all of those functions (…

Plant ecological genomics at the limits of life in the Atacama Desert

G Eshel, V Araus, S Undurraga… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… and pH gradients that define three distinct vegetational belts … 32 dominant plant species
spanning the major plant clades, … protein function, we tested their occurrence within functional (…

Illuminating the hidden world of calcium ions in plants with a universe of indicators

M Grenzi, F Resentini, S Vanneste, M Zottini… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… 1) focusing on their use in plants, providing important clues about how to choose among
them, and also taking into consideration the most appropriate imaging techniques. We will …

Is endophytic colonization of host plants a method of alleviating drought stress? Conceptualizing the hidden world of endophytes

R Byregowda, SR Prasad, R Oelmüller… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… the response of the symbiosome to environmental cues. First, endophytic … functioning of a
plant’s micro-ecosystem and may influence the plant’s responses to numerous environmental