Plant Physiology (P.A.W.K., K.P., H.E.N.) and General Zoology/Cellular Neurobiology (J.D.), University of Kaiserslautern, D–67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany; Institut National de la Research Agronomic, UMR1318, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Saclay Plant Sciences, F–78000 Versailles, France (L.S., R.L.H., C.B., M.B., F.C., A.K.); and Umeå Plant Science Center, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå U...

The fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae causes severe disease symptoms and yield losses on rice plants. A new study shows that this fungus elicits disease lesions by co-opting a host protein and reveals how rice plants fight back.

Plant lateral roots have a defined developmental pattern and shape, but a key question is whether strict regulation underlies observed regularity. A new study uses long-term in toto live imaging and simulations to show that organogenesis rather follows self-organizing principles.

The capacity of LiDAR and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide plant height estimates as a high-throughput plant phenotyping trait was explored. An experiment over wheat genotypes conducted under well watered and water stress modalities was conducted. Frequent LiDAR measurements were performed along the growth cycle using a phénomobile unmanned ground vehicle. UAV equipped with a high res...

1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 2 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 3 Department of Plant Pathology and The Stakman-Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant Health, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesot...

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 (J.A., D.S., T.A.D., T.P.D.); Department of Biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610 (S.C., C.S.-S.); Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California 94305 (S.X.); Department of Plant Pathology an...