Green Revolution-associated DELLA accumulation enhances salt tolerance in cereals by disrupting INDETERMINATE SPIKELET1 biomolecular condensates #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Plant Com Apr 2026 issue online 🎉Cover story: Pyramiding elite alleles of the genetically linked OsNRAMP5 and OsHMA3 confers low Cd accumulation in rice grains without compromising stress tolerance. Image by Tingting Liang, Li Tang, and Caiyan Chen. cell.com/plant-commun...

Antiviral RNAi defective 4 (AVI4) encodes a lysophospholipid acyltransferase coopting AVI2 and ATG8a to promote antiviral immunity in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

From sugarcane to polyploid crops: graph pangenomes usher in a new era of complex genome breeding #commentary #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

TargetGAN: A generative AI framework for designing plant core promoters with targeted activity #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

AI-driven fungicide design: From target identification to field application #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Two telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies and comparative genomics reveal the conserved “toolkit” genes associated with sugar accumulation in Rubus genus #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Potential Applications in Crop Improvement #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

A conserved translational repression module buffers sugar-inducible root vascular proliferation #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

N-hydroxypipecolic acid acts as a mobile signal for systemic acquired resistance #correpondence #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

SSBP: A meta-GWAS-based pleiotropy-aware QTL atlas and smart breeding platform for soybean #correspondence #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Mol Plant Apr 2026 issue🎉Cover Story: A positive feedback loop formed between OsFTIP9 and OSH1 orchestrates temperature-sensitive seed germination in rice (Zhang et al., 2026). Cover design: Liang Shao, Zhixiang Zha, Liang Zhang, Ying Chen. cell.com/molecular-pl...

From Green Revolution to Multigene Revolution: Breeding High-Yield Rice by Design #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

PlantSetDelta: Mining Regulatory Features for Interpretable Gene-Set Analysis in Plants #Correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Tomato B-Cell Receptor-associated Protein 31 homologs enhance thermotolerance by promoting chloroplast PSBW accumulation and stabilizing PSII-LHCII complex #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals the Spatiotemporal Trajectory of the Small Peptide TAP4 in Delaying Postharvest Fruit Senescence #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Beyond the Data: Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Graphs, and the Next Revolution in Wheat Breeding #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

PVA-based microneedle systems for precise molecular delivery in plants #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

A GPS2-like protein interacts with HOS15 and HDA6 to form a repressor complex that regulates ABA signaling and drought adaptation in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Functional evolution and rewiring of the UVR8-BES1/BIM1 module underpin the refined UV-B responses during plant terrestrialization #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

The EAR motif-containing adaptor protein ECAP enhances ABI5-mediated ABA signaling to inhibit seed germination in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

The E3 ubiquitin ligase RHB1A and GRF1 transcript factor forms a regulatory module to orchestrate the trade-off between photosynthetic growth and salt tolerance in poplar #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Crosstalk and reciprocal regulation between phosphorylation and ubiquitination mediated by receptor-like kinases and U-box E3 ligases during plant growth and environmental stress responses #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Biology-driven genebank pangenetics meet AI-powered predictions to transform crop breeding #opinion #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Single-cell and haplotype-resolved transcriptomics reveal molecular signatures of orchid floral structures #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

The EAR motif-containing adaptor protein ECAP enhances the assembly of PYR1-ABI1 complex to promote ABA signaling in Arabidopsis #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

On the Road to Phenotyping 4.0: from Bottleneck to Breakthrough #opinion #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Targeted CENH3 protein depletion in egg cells enables highly efficient haploid induction #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Telomere-to-telomere genome and mutant library empower functional genomics and genetic improvement in Cucurbita moschata #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

NodeGWAS: Leveraging Graph Pangenomes for Sensitive and Accurate Association Analysis in Diverse Diploid and Polyploid Species #correspondence #PlantCommunications