BACKGROUND Microbial interactions have shaped plant diversity in terrestrial ecosystems.
By forming mutually beneficial symbioses, microbes helped plants colonize land more than …

Plants are unrivaled in the natural world in both the number and complexity of secondary
metabolites they produce, and the ubiquitous phenylpropanoids and the lineage-specific …

Like other complex multicellular organisms, plants are composed of different cell types with
specialized shapes and functions. For example, most laminar leaves consist of multiple …

Glucosinolates are an important class of secondary metabolites in Brassicales plants with a
critical role in chemical defense. Glucosinolates are chemically inactive but can be …

Glucosinolate–myrosinase is a substrate-enzyme defense mechanism present in Brassica
crops. This binary system provides the plant with an efficient system against herbivores and …

Plant vacuoles are multifunctional organelles. On the one hand, most vegetative tissues
develop lytic vacuoles that have a role in degradation. On the other hand, seed cells have …

The endoplasmic reticulum body (ER body) is an organelle derived from the ER that occurs
in only three families of the order Brassicales and is suggested to be involved in plant …

Most known biological roles of the glucosinolate–myrosinase system depend on its
functioning as a 'chemical bomb'. This term describes chemical defences which are based …

The recent and continuous improvement in single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq)
technology has led to its emergence as an efficient experimental approach in plant research …

Stomata, cellular valves found on the surfaces of aerial plant tissues, present a paradigm for
studying cell fate and patterning in plants. A highly conserved core set of related basic helix …