Molecular Plant & Plant Communications

A phased small interfering RNA acts in an OsAGO2-dependent manner to mediate OsARF7 cleavage and promote male fertility in rice #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Plant P-Bodies in Post-Transcriptional Control: Composition, Dynamics, and Context-Dependent Roles #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Plant Com Feb 2026 issue online 🎉Cover story: The OsWRKY47–OsMYB30/OsWRKY39 module confers both physical and chemical defenses against Magnaporthe oryzae to enhance rice blast resistance. cell.com/plant-commun...

Mol Plant Mar 2026 issue🎉Cover Story: Duet between stress granules and glutathionylation regulates cytosolic redox state to maintain proteostasis in Arabidopsis (Zhao et al., 2026). Image by Shuai Zhao, Zhouli Xie, Xiaoyuan Chen and Wei Wang. cell.com/molecular-pl...

Tasting Trouble: Rethinking How Plants Sense Salt and Drought #opinion #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Population epigenomics reveals epigenetic drivers of replicated evolution and missing heritability in soybean #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/molecular-pl...

The hypoxic niche enclosing the shoot apical meristem is shaped by a combination of morphological features and metabolic activity #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Synthetic communities and key metabolite-driven enrichment of keystone rhizosphere microbes suppress bacterial wilt disease in peanut #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Phytochrome B and the methyltransferase complex coordinately regulate N6-methyladenosine RNA modifications and shade avoidance responses in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Biosynthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and its evolution in plants #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Landscape of Protein S-Palmitoylation and Its Role in Suppressing Cytosolic Translation under Cold Stress in Rice #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

A rare alle of TabZIP45-4B enhances wheat adaptation to low nitrogen growth conditions #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Editing and synthetic applications of chloroplast genomes #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Dynamic regulation of protein homeostasis underlies thermopriming-mediated acquired thermotolerance in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

metaRLK 2.0: an updated database of plant receptor-like kinases developed with structure- and deep learning-based functional annotation and classification #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

The plasma membrane ABC transporter Sl-ABCB5 mediates acylsugar secretion from tomato trichomes to confer insect resistance #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly and comprehensive mutation library facilitate bitter gourd breeding and functional genomics research #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Roles of MADS-box transcription factors in plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

HASTY-dependent miRNA cell-to-cell movement is required for systemic pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

The unconventional G-protein AtYchF1 interacts with the ribosomal protein AtRPS7 to modulate selective translation for balancing plant growth and stress response in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Adaptive genomic signatures in PEBP genes reveal flowering plasticity and ecological specialization in Orchidaceae #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Spatially Compartmentalized Dual-Epitope Engineering: A Strategy for Multi-Layered Plant Defense #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Putrescine, a double-edged molecule in plant-bacteria interactions #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Rice2035: A decadal vision for rice research and breeding #perspective #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Toward a “Green revolution” for Tartary buckwheat through ideotype breeding #opinion #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Conserved and Divergent: Salicylic Acid Biosynthesis and Signaling Pathways across the Plant Kingdom #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Mol Plant Feb 2026 issue🎉Cover Story: A tripartite pollen killer–protector system confers temperature-sensitive inter-subspecific reproductive isolation in rice (Li et al., 2026). Image by Letian Chen and Jiayi Wei. cell.com/molecular-pl...

Keeping the beans in the pods and tracking the geography of a key domestication trait in Phaseolus: In Memory of Phillip McClean #spotlight #MolecularPlant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Sorghum2035: A decadal vision for sorghum functional genomics and molecular breeding #perspective #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Haploid induction via anther/microspore culture in rice breeding: From art to science #opinion #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...