Calcium spikes, waves and oscillations in plant development and biotic interactions

W Tian, C Wang, Q Gao, L Li, S Luan - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The calcium ion (Ca2+) is a universal signal in all eukaryotic cells. A fundamental
question is how Ca2+, a simple cation, encodes complex information with high specificity …

Celebrating 20 years of genetic discoveries in legume nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation

S Roy, W Liu, RS Nandety, A Crook, KS Mysore… - The Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Since 1999, various forward-and reverse-genetic approaches have uncovered nearly 200
genes required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in legumes. These discoveries …

Biosynthesis and biological functions of terpenoids in plants

D Tholl - Biotechnology of isoprenoids, 2015 - Springer
<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract Terpenoids (isoprenoids) represent the largest
and most diverse class of chemicals among the myriad compounds produced by plants …

Speak, friend, and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

GED Oldroyd - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Plants associate with a wide range of microorganisms, with both detrimental and beneficial
outcomes. Central to plant survival is the ability to recognize invading microorganisms and …

Innovation and appropriation in mycorrhizal and rhizobial symbioses

D Wang, W Dong, J Murray, E Wang - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Most land plants benefit from endosymbiotic interactions with mycorrhizal fungi, including
legumes and some nonlegumes that also interact with endosymbiotic nitrogen (N)-fixing …

Plant signaling and metabolic pathways enabling arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

AM MacLean, A Bravo, MJ Harrison - The Plant Cell, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Plants have lived in close association with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi for over 400
million years. Today, this endosymbiosis occurs broadly in the plant kingdom where it has a …

Dancing to a different tune, can we switch from chemical to biological nitrogen fixation for sustainable food security?

MY Jhu, GED Oldroyd - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Our current food production systems are unsustainable, driven in part through the
application of chemically fixed nitrogen. We need alternatives to empower farmers to …

The potential of the mevalonate pathway for enhanced isoprenoid production

P Liao, A Hemmerlin, TJ Bach, ML Chye - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
The cytosol-localised mevalonic acid (MVA) pathway delivers the basic isoprene unit
isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP). In higher plants, this central metabolic intermediate is also …

Molecular analysis of legume nodule development and autoregulation

BJ Ferguson, A Indrasumunar… - Journal of integrative …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Legumes are highly important food, feed and biofuel crops. With few exceptions, they can
enter into an intricate symbiotic relationship with specific soil bacteria called rhizobia. This …

A raison d'être for two distinct pathways in the early steps of plant isoprenoid biosynthesis?

A Hemmerlin, JL Harwood, TJ Bach - Progress in lipid research, 2012 - Elsevier
When compared to other organisms, plants are atypical with respect to isoprenoid
biosynthesis: they utilize two distinct and separately compartmentalized pathways to build …