ReviewThe Plant cell2025
Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops.
Review in The Plant cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Biosensors for Stress Detection: A Systematic Review from Herbaceous to Woody Plants.Biosensors · 2026Pooled it
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- Scalable production of soybean hairy roots: a reliable method for field trials.Plant cell reports · 2026Article
- Understanding the dynamic nature of plant lipid anabolic and catabolic metabolism is key to sustainable oilseed engineering.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Functional Divergence of the Arg/N-Degron Pathway Between the CropPlant direct · 2026Article
- Integrated metagenomic and culturomic strategies to mine and validate beneficial rhizosphereFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Photosynthesis under far-red light-evolutionary adaptations and bioengineering of light-harvesting complexes.FEBS letters · 2026Review
- Translating research on seed dormancy and germination from Arabidopsis to temperate cereals to control pre-harvest sprouting.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Natural genetic variation in calcium sensor genes as a novel resource for abiotic stress tolerance in crops.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Structural basis of VLCFA chain-length determination by the KCS6-CER2 complex in plants.Science advances · 2025Article
- Root Meristem Maintenance Mechanisms are Key to Plant Defense Against Nanoplastics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Advances in Functional Genomics for Exploring Abiotic Stress Tolerance Mechanisms in Cereals.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Translational insights into abiotic interactions: From Arabidopsis to crop plants.The Plant cell · 2025Review
- In defense of funding foundational plant science.The Plant cell · 2025Article
- Focus on Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond.The Plant cell · 2025Article
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Abstract
The significance of research conducted on Arabidopsis thaliana cannot be overstated. This focus issue showcases how insights from Arabidopsis have opened new areas of biology and directly advanced our understanding of crops. Here, experts intimately involved in bridging between Arabidopsis and crops share their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for translation. First, we examine the translatability of genetic modules from Arabidopsis into maize, emphasizing the need to publish well-executed translational experiments, regardless of outcome. Second, we highlight the landmark success of HB4, the first GM wheat cultivar on the market, whose abiotic tolerance is borne from direct translation and based on strategies first outlined in Arabidopsis. Third, we discuss the decades-long journey to engineer oilseed crops capable of producing omega-3 fish oils, with Arabidopsis serving as a critical intermediary. Fourth, we explore how direct translation of starch synthesizing proteins characterized in Arabidopsis helped uncover novel mechanisms and functions in crops, with potential valuable applications. Finally, we illustrate how shared molecular factors between Arabidopsis and barley exhibit distinct molecular wiring as exemplified in cuticular and stomatal development. Together, these vignettes underscore the pivotal role of Arabidopsis as a foundational model plant while highlighting the challenges of translating discoveries into field-ready, commercial cultivars with enhanced knowledge-based traits.
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