摘要：Asoybean shoot with emerald-green leaves and full pods stands gracefully at the center of a wreath of small, light purple flowers,

A soybean shoot with emerald-green leaves and full pods stands gracefully at the center of a wreath of small, light purple flowers, symbolizing soybean's place as a shining star on the world agricultural product stage. In the featured article, Zhao et al. (pages 3–6) expressed GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR3 and GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR-INTERACTING FACTOR1 from a single construct separated by a small intergenic spacer, during soybean transformation. This construct enhanced the transformation efficiency, opening up a new avenue for soybean research and crop breeding.

Brief Communications

A highly efficient soybean transformation system using GRF3-GIF1 chimeric protein

Ying Zhao, Peng Cheng, Ying Liu, Chunyan Liu, Zhenbang Hu, Dawei Xin, Xiaoxia Wu, Mingliang Yang, Qingshan Chen

Expression of GRF3-GIF1 chimera significantly enhanced regeneration and transformation efficiency in soybean, increasing the number of transformable cultivars. Moreover, GmGRF3-GIF1 can be combined with CRISPR/Cas9 for highly effective gene editing.

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JIPB | 东北农业大学陈庆山/武小霞/杨明亮研究团队利用GRF3-GIF1嵌合蛋白构建高效大豆转化体系

Efficient gene disruption in polyploid genome by Cas9–Trex2 fusion protein

Wenbo Pan, Chunlei Gao, De Niu, Jinghua Cheng, Jiao Zhang, Xiying Yan, Qiang Long, YaoYao Zhu, Wenjing Sun, Qi Xie, Yuehui He, Xing Wang Deng, Huawei Zhang, Jian Li

The fusion of the exonuclease Trex2 with the Cas9 protein significantly enhanced the efficiency of genome editing in hexaploid common wheat, particularly for the simultaneous editing of multiple favorable alleles within a single generation, thereby facilitating genome editing-assisted breeding in polyploid crops.

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JIPB | 潍坊现代农业山东省实验室/北京大学现代农业研究院/小麦育种全国重点实验室李健/张华伟团队构建小麦高效基因编辑体系

A resurfaced sensor NLR confers new recognition specificity to non-MAX effectors

Tongtong Zhu, Xuefeng Wu, Guixin Yuan, Dongli Wang, Vijai Bhadauria, You-Liang Peng, Junfeng Liu, Xin Zhang

Replacing the HMA domain of the rice (Oryza sativa) immune receptor RGA5 with that of the rice HMA DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 120 (HMA120) creates a designer RGA5HMA120 that confers resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae isolates expressing the non-MAX effector gene AVR-Pita, thus enabling the generation of new synthetic resistance genes.

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JIPB | 中国农业大学刘俊峰和彭友良教授团队设计出识别非MAX类效应蛋白的新抗瘟免疫受体

horizontal transposon transfer during plant terrestrialization

Hao Wang, Zilong Xu, Zhenhua Zhang, Bojian Zhong

During the move to land, plants acquired transposable elements by horizontal transfer from bacteria and fungi and land plants have many long non-coding RNAs derived from retrotransposons acquired by horizontal transposon transfer, including some that are highly expressed and involved in the response to drought stress and abscisic acid.

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JIPB | 南京师范大学钟伯坚团队在植物转座子起源与演化研究取得重要进展

Abiotic Stress Responses

TaWRKY55–TaPLATZ2 module negatively regulate saline–alkali stress tolerance in wheat

Lin Wei, Xinman Ren, Lumin Qin, Rong Zhang, Minghan Cui, Guangmin Xia, Shuwei Liu

The TaWRKY55-TaPLATZ2 transcription factor module regulates saline-alkali stress responses in wheat by inhibiting the expression of the H+-ATPase gene TaHA2 and the salt overly sensitive (SOS) pathway gene TaSOS3.

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JIPB | 山东大学刘树伟课题组解析TaWRKY55-TaPLATZ2模块调控小麦耐盐碱胁迫的分子机制

Cell and Developmental Biology

The MON1–CCZ1 complex plays dual roles in autophagic degradation and vacuolar protein transport in rice

Binglei Zhang, Yihua Wang, Yun Zhu, Tian Pan, Haigang Yan, Xin Wang, Ruonan Jing, Hongming Wu, Fan Wang, Yu Zhang, Xiuhao Bao, Yongfei Wang, Pengcheng Zhang, Yu Chen, Erchao Duan, Xiaohang Han, Gexing Wan, Mengyuan Yan, Xiejun Sun, Cailin Lei, Zhijun Cheng, Zhichao Zhao, Ling Jiang, Yiqun Bao, Yulong Ren, Jianmin Wan

The MONENSIN SENSITIVITY1-CALCIUMCAFFEINE ZINC SENSITIVITY1 (MON1-CCZ1) complex facilitates the membrane fusion between autophagosomes with vacuoles by interacting with AUTOPHAGY-RELATED 8 and has a conserved role as the guanine exchange factor for Rab7 in vacuolar transport pathway.

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JIPB | 万建民院士团队在水稻自噬体融合分子机制上取得新进展

The regulatory network and critical factors promoting programmed cell death during embryogenesis

An Luo, Ce Shi, Pan Luo, Zifu Zhao, Meng-Xiang Sun

Comparative transcriptome analysis of protease-expressing synchronous two-celled tobacco proembryos with ongoing programmed cell death (PCD) reveals the landscape of gene expression during PCD initiation and major pathways regulating plant PCD.

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JIPB | 武汉大学孙蒙祥教授团队揭示植物PCD起始的调控网络与重要因子

TavWA1 is critical for wheat growth by modulating cell morphology and arrangement

Guowei Chang, Yue Li, Lei Peng, Chuncai Shen, Yipeng Lu, Wan Teng, Yangyang Liu, Yingchun Wang, Weiqi Zhu, Cuimin Liu, Xue He, Yiping Tong, Xueqiang Zhao

In wheat (Triticum aestivum), the von Willebrand factor A domain-containing protein TavWA1-7D regulates growth and yield-related traits by controlling cell morphology and arrangement. TavWA1-7D interacts with the E3 ubiquitin ligase TaVIP1 and TaVIP1 levels are associated with grain size.

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JIPB丨中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所童依平课题组揭示TavWA1通过调节细胞形态与排列影响小麦生长发育的新机制

Metabolism and Biochemistry

Sulfur metabolism under stress: Oxidized glutathione inhibits methionine biosynthesis by destabilizing the enzyme cystathionine γ-synthase

Yael Hacham, Alex Kaplan, Elad Cohen, Maayan Gal, Rachel Amir

Methionine and glutathione synthesis compete for cysteine. Under oxidative stress, when more glutathione is required to protect the plants, its oxidized form binds the key enzyme of methionine biosynthesis, leading to its degradation. This mechanism helps protect plants but reduces their nutritional value due to lower methionine levels.

Zinc finger transcription factors BnaSTOP2s regulate sulfur metabolism and confer Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resistance in Brassica napus

Lihong Dai, Zhaoqi Xie, Tianxu Ai, Yushun Jiao, Xiaoyi Lian, Angchen Long, Jinyun Zhang, Guangsheng Yang, Dengfeng Hong

The rapeseed (Brassica napus) BnaSTOP2 zinc finger transcription factors form multiple protein complexes that regulate sulfur metabolism and defense responses, influencing sulfur assimilation levels, sulfur compound metabolism in roots, leaves, and siliques, and pathogen resistance.

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JIPB | 华中农大油菜团队杨光圣课题组揭示STOP2调控硫代谢和菌核病抗性的新机制

Molecular Physiology

The PtobZIP55–PtoMYB170 module regulates the wood anatomical and chemical properties of Populus tomentosa in acclimation to low nitrogen availability

Jiangting Wu, Shurong Deng, Yang Wang, Chenlin Jia, Jia Wei, Mengyan Zhou, Dongyue Zhu, Zhuorong Li, Payam Fayyaz, Zhi-Bin Luo, Jing Zhou, Wenguang Shi

In Populus tomentosa, low nitrogen induces expression of the transcription factor gene PtobZIP55, and PtobZIP55 activates expression of another transcription factor gene, PtoMYB170. PtoMYB170 in turn, positively regulates lignin biosynthetic genes to enhance lignin deposition in the secondary xylem.

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JIPB | 中国林业科学研究院罗志斌课题组揭示PtobZIP55–PtoMYB170模块调控杨树木材形成适应氮素亏缺的分子机制

The ABC transporter SmABCG1 mediates tanshinones export from the peridermic cells of Salvia miltiorrhiza root

Yajing Li, Junfeng Chen, Jingyu Zhi, Doudou Huang, Yuchen Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xinyi Duan, Pan Zhang, Shi Qiu, Jiaran Geng, Jingxian Feng, Ke Zhang, Xu Yang, Shouhong Gao, Wenwen Xia, Zheng Zhou, Yuqi Qiao, Bo Li, Qing Li, Tingzhao Li, Wansheng Chen, Ying Xiao

In the medicinal plant Salvia miltiorrhiza, the ABC transporter SmABCG1 mediates export of tanshinones, diterpenoid compounds with medicinal properties, from root peridermic cells, likely prompted by their potential cytotoxicity.

JIPB | 上海中医药大学肖莹课题组揭示丹参中丹参酮类成分细胞外排的分子机制

Plant Biotic Interactions

Recognition of a salivary effector by the TNL protein RCSP promotes effector-triggered immunity and systemic resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana

Weiwei Rao, Tingting Ma, Jiayuan Cao, Yajun Zhang, Sisi Chen, Shu Lin, Xiaoxiao Liu, Guangcun He, Li Wan

The Toll-interleukin-1 receptor domain nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat protein RCSP recognizes insect salivary effector chemosensory proteins, promoting effector-triggered immunity and systemic resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana.

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JIPB | 中科院分子植物科学卓越创新中心万里课题组鉴定到刺吸式昆虫效应蛋白CSP在烟草中的NLR受体RCSP

Plant Reproductive Biology

The miR3367–lncRNA67–GhCYP724B module regulates male sterility by modulating brassinosteroid biosynthesis and interacting with Aorf27 in Gossypium hirsutumopen

Anhui Guo, Hushuai Nie, Huijing Li, Bin Li, Cheng Cheng, Kaiyun Jiang, Shengwei Zhu, Nan Zhao, Jinping Hua

In the fertile cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) line 2074B, the long non-coding RNA lncRNA67 acted as an endogenous target mimic, regulating microRNA-mediated cleavage of GhCYP724B, encoding a cytochrome P450 that promotes brassinosteroid biosynthesis. In the cytoplasmic male sterile line 2074A, GhCYP724B interacted with a unique chimeric open reading frame, resulting in male sterility.

The editorial team of JIPB would like to express sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their diligence and insightful feedback between September 15, 2023, and December 31, 2024. Your invaluable contributions are crucial in maintaining the high standards and quality of our journal. We look forward to your continued support in 2025.

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