The phytohormones salicylic acid (SA) and gibberellin (GA) promote defense response and growth, respectively. In this study, the authors show that the salicylic acid receptor NPR1 functions as an adaptor of ubiquitin E3 ligase to mediate the polyubiquitination and degradation of the gibberellin receptor GID1, leading to inhibition of gibberellin signaling and thus plant growth. This study reveals…

Plant breeding faces great challenges posed by the flood of big data and the need for improved genetic gain under climate change. Genomic selection can play a more important role in plant breeding by developing more efficient prediction models. Plant breeding will be advanced with the support of big data, artificial intelligence (machine and deep learning), and integrated genomic-enviromic…

Through characterization of the purple tomato “Indigo Rose,” which only shows anthocyanin pigmentation in the skin in a light-dependent manner, this study reveals that the R2R3-MYB protein SlAN2-like orchestrates a hierarchical transcriptional network to promote anthocyanin accumulation. Expression of a functional SlAN2-like gene could bypass light and activate anthocyanin biosynthesis in both…

Single-cell bisulfite sequencing has been applied for human and mouse, although the read distribution is relatively biased, being dependent on the DNA methylation level. This study develops bisulfite-converted randomly integrated fragments sequencing (BRIF-seq), which generates an even read distribution independent of DNA methylation level. Using BRIF-seq the methylation heterogeneity of maize…