Rice functional genomics: decades' efforts and roads ahead

R Chen, Y Deng, Y Ding, J Guo, J Qiu, B Wang… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Molecular interactions between plants and insect herbivores

M Erb, P Reymond - Annual review of plant biology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Diverse molecular processes regulate the interactions between plants and insect
herbivores. Here, we review genes and proteins that are involved in plant–herbivore …

Plant signalling in symbiosis and immunity

C Zipfel, GED Oldroyd - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Plants encounter a myriad of microorganisms, particularly at the root–soil interface, that can
invade with detrimental or beneficial outcomes. Prevalent beneficial associations between …

High aspect ratio nanomaterials enable delivery of functional genetic material without DNA integration in mature plants

GS Demirer, H Zhang, JL Matos, NS Goh… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts, natural product synthesis
and crop engineering. The plant cell wall is a barrier that limits the ease and throughput of …

Tritrophic interactions mediated by herbivore-induced plant volatiles: mechanisms, ecological relevance, and application potential

TCJ Turlings, M Erb - Annual review of entomology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Tritrophic interactions between plants, herbivores, and their natural enemies are an integral
part of all terrestrial ecosystems. Herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) play a key role in …

DNA nanostructures coordinate gene silencing in mature plants

H Zhang, GS Demirer, H Zhang, T Ye… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Delivery of biomolecules to plants relies on Agrobacterium infection or biolistic particle
delivery, the former of which is amenable only to DNA delivery. The difficulty in delivering …

Function, discovery, and exploitation of plant pattern recognition receptors for broad-spectrum disease resistance

F Boutrot, C Zipfel - Annual review of phytopathology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Plants are constantly exposed to would-be pathogens and pests, and thus have a
sophisticated immune system to ward off these threats, which otherwise can have …

Nanoparticle cellular internalization is not required for RNA delivery to mature plant leaves

H Zhang, NS Goh, JW Wang, RL Pinals… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapidly growing interest in the nanoparticle-mediated delivery of DNA and RNA to plants
requires a better understanding of how nanoparticles and their cargoes translocate in plant …

Allelic diversity in an NLR gene BPH9 enables rice to combat planthopper variation

Y Zhao, J Huang, Z Wang, S Jing… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens Stål, is one of the most devastating insect
pests of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Currently, 30 BPH-resistance genes have been genetically …

An R2R3 MYB transcription factor confers brown planthopper resistance by regulating the phenylalanine ammonia-lyase pathway in rice

J He, Y Liu, D Yuan, M Duan, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Brown planthopper (BPH) is one of the most destructive insects affecting rice (Oryza sativa
L.) production. Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) is a key enzyme involved in plant …