Plant conservation in the age of genome editing: opportunities and challenges

K Yin, MY Chung, B Lan, FK Du, MG Chung - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Numerous plant taxa are threatened by habitat destruction or overexploitation. To overcome
these threats, new methods are urgently needed for rescuing threatened and endangered …

Carnivorous plant evolution: is a killer defense always the best option?

C Procko, J Chory - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Carnivorous plant evolution: is a killer defense always the best option? | Journal of
Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford …

Trigger hair thermoreceptors provide for heat-induced calcium-electrical excitability in Venus flytrap

S Huang, R Hedrich - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Most plants suffer greatly from heat in general and fire in particular, but some can profit from
what is called fire ecology. 1 Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap, is one such plant. In its …

A mechanical force sensor controls touch-triggered floral organ movement through manipulation of calcium signature in Torenia fournieri

S SU, X Zhou, B Li, J Li, Y Sun, R Xie, T Higashiyama… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Rapid movements of plant structures triggered by mechanical force has been documented
for centuries. Previous studies showed that cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+] cyt) acts as a key …