Strong and tunable anti‐CRISPR/Cas activities in plants

C Calvache, M Vazquez‐Vilar, S Selma… - Plant biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
CRISPR/Cas has revolutionized genome engineering in plants. However, the use of anti‐
CRISPR proteins as tools to prevent CRISPR/Cas‐mediated gene editing and gene …

A novel fungal effector from Puccinia graminis suppressing RNA silencing and plant defense responses

C Yin, SR Ramachandran, Y Zhai, C Bu… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal plant pathogens, like rust‐causing biotrophic fungi, secrete hundreds of effectors into
plant cells to subvert host immunity and promote pathogenicity on their host plants by …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and Characterization of Chalcone Isomerase Genes Involved in Flavonoid Production in Dracaena cambodiana

J Zhu, W Zhao, R Li, D Guo, H Li, Y Wang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dragon's blood is a traditional medicine in which flavonoids are the main bioactive
compounds; however, the underlying formation mechanism of dragon's blood remains …

The Meloidogyne graminicola effector Mg16820 is secreted in the apoplast and cytoplasm to suppress plant host defense responses

D Naalden, A Haegeman… - Molecular Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
On invasion of roots, plant‐parasitic nematodes secrete effectors to manipulate the cellular
regulation of the host to promote parasitism. The root‐knot nematode Meloidogyne …

[HTML][HTML] A virus-encoded protein suppresses methylation of the viral genome through its interaction with AGO4 in the Cajal body

L Wang, Y Ding, L He, G Zhang, JK Zhu… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
In plants, establishment of de novo DNA methylation is regulated by the RNA-directed DNA
methylation (RdDM) pathway. RdDM machinery is known to concentrate in the Cajal body …

Identification of miRNA858 long-loop precursors in seed plants

W Wang, X Liu, Y Zhu, J Zhu, C Liu, Z Wang… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of nonprotein-coding short transcripts that provide a layer
of post-transcriptional regulation essential to many plant biological processes. MiR858 …

Custom‐made design of metabolite composition in N. benthamiana leaves using CRISPR activators

S Selma, N Sanmartín, A Espinosa‐Ruiz… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Transcriptional regulators based on CRISPR architecture expand our ability to reprogramme
endogenous gene expression in plants. One of their potential applications is the …

A viral protein disrupts vacuolar acidification to facilitate virus infection in plants

M Yang, A Ismayil, Z Jiang, Y Wang, X Zheng… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Vacuolar acidification is essential for vacuoles in diverse physiological functions. However,
its role in plant defense, and whether and how pathogens affect vacuolar acidification to …

Deletion of a C–terminal intrinsically disordered region of WRINKLED 1 affects its stability and enhances oil accumulation in Arabidopsis

W Ma, Q Kong, M Grix, JJ Mantyla, Y Yang… - The Plant …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Summary WRINKLED 1 (WRI 1) is a key transcription factor governing plant oil biosynthesis.
We characterized three intrinsically disordered regions (IDR s) in Arabidopsis WRI 1, and …

[HTML][HTML] Cytoplasmic calcium influx mediated by plant MLKLs confers TNL-triggered immunity

Q Shen, K Hasegawa, N Oelerich, A Prakken… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
The plant homolog of vertebrate necroptosis inducer mixed-lineage kinase domain-like
(MLKL) contributes to downstream steps in Toll-interleukin-1 receptor domain NLR (TNL) …