Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...

Joanne Chory (1955–2024) was a pioneering biologist whose research transformed our understanding of plant growth and development. Her groundbreakin...

Plants grow complex root systems to extract unevenly distributed resources from soils. Spatial differences in soil moisture are perceived by root tips, leading to the patterning of new root branches t...

Plant cell expansion is regulated by hormones and driven by turgor pressure, which stretches the cell wall and can potentially cause wall damage or ru…

Previously, photoreceptors were regarded as a switch for growth control. Hao et al. found that CRY1 acts as dual-control switch to regulate the growth-defense trade-off. LURP1 re-localizes to the plasma membrane upon N-terminal palmitoylation in a calcium- and blue-light-dependent manner after flg22 elicitation to activate immune receptors and promote immunity.