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Parasitic Plant–Host Interactions: Molecular Mechanisms and Agricultural Resistance Strategies

Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 16, 18 March 2026.
Parasitic plants devastate global agriculture through sophisticated molecular interactions with host crops. This review synthesizes current understanding of parasitic plant‐host interactions, from strigolactone‐mediated germination and haustorium formation to host defense mechanisms.
Jiayang Shi, Qi Xie, Feifei Yu
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The Effect of Tip Design on Technological Performance During the Exploration of Earth, Lunar, and Martian Soil Environments

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 387-408, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the penetration performance of soil‐burrowing probes with different tip designs during shallow‐depth penetration in various media, including terrestrial soils (Hostun sand) and well‐characterized planetary soil simulants (LHS‐1 Lunar regolith simulant and MGS‐1 Martian regolith simulant).
Serena Rosa Maria Pirrone, Emanuela Del Dottore, Gunter Just, Barbara Mazzolai, Luc Sibille   +4 more
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Shoot circumnutation and winding movements require gravisensing cells [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005
Circumnutation and winding in plants are universal growth movements that allow plants to survive despite their sessile nature. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms controlling these phenomena remain unclear. We previously found that a gravitropic mutant of Japanese morning glory ( Pharbitis nil
Daisuke, Kitazawa, Yasuko, Hatakeda, Motoshi, Kamada, Nobuharu, Fujii, Yutaka, Miyazawa, Atsushi, Hoshino, Shigeru, Iida, Hidehiro, Fukaki, Miyo Terao, Morita, Masao, Tasaka, Hiroshi, Suge, Hideyuki, Takahashi   +11 more
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Plant Cognition—An Empirical Primer: Evidence, Implications, and Ethics

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent advances in plant biology suggest that plants engage in complex behaviours once thought to require nervous systems. This article surveys the empirical foundations of plant cognition, covering research on goal‐directed movement, decision‐making, anticipatory behaviour, communication, phytoacoustics, and plant neurobiology.
Miguel Segundo‐Ortin, Aditya Ponkshe, Jonny Lee, Paco Calvo   +3 more
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Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges

Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field.
Miguel Segundo‐Ortin, Aditya Ponkshe, Jonny Lee, Paco Calvo   +3 more
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Current understanding of the role of the cell wall in Cuscuta parasitism

Plant Biology, Volume 27, Issue 7, Page 1235-1243, December 2025.
We comprehensively summarise the roles of plant cell wall in key processes of parasitism by the obligate stem parasite Cuscuta. Abstract The plant cell wall (CW) plays a crucial role in many aspects of parasitism by the obligate stem parasite, Cuscuta. Cuscuta parasitism begins with tight coiling around the host stem by the strong tensile force of the ...
M. Takagawa, R. Yokoyama
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A Photonastic Prototissue Capable of Photo‐Mechano‐Chemical Transduction

Advanced Materials, Volume 37, Issue 40, October 9, 2025.
Mimicking energy transduction in prototissue assemblies remains a challenge of bottom‐up synthetic biology. In this work, prototissues integrating protocells with photothermal gold nanoparticle proto‐organelles and a thermoresponsive polymeric proto‐cortex are developed.
Agostino Galanti, Beatrice Rosetti, Stefano Valente, Nicoletta Braidotti, Maria Sbacchi, Silvia Todros, Piero Pavan, Pierangelo Gobbo   +7 more
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Temporal Dynamics With and Without a Nervous System: Plant Physiology, Communication, and Movement

Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2025.
Abstract The concept of time has long been the subject of complex philosophical reflections and scientific research, which have interpreted it differently based on the starting question, context, and level of analysis of the system under investigation.
Margherita Bianchi, Silvia Guerra, Bianca Bonato, Sara Avesani, Laura Ravazzolo, Valentina Simonetti, Marco Dadda, Umberto Castiello   +7 more
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Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton

New Phytologist, Volume 244, Issue 6, Page 2311-2325, December 2024.
Summary Phosphate (Pi) plays a key role in plant growth and development. Hence, plants display a range of adaptations to acquire it, including changes in root system architecture (RSA). Whether Pi triggers directional root growth is unknown. We investigated whether Arabidopsis roots sense Pi and grow towards it, that is whether they exhibit ...
Hui Sheng, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Teun Munnik   +2 more
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Non-destructive Method for Root Elongation Measurement in Soil Using Acoustic Emission Sensors: II. Spatial measurement of single root elongation

Plant Production Science, 1998
A non-destructive method for measurements of spatial root elongation in soil, using acoustic emission (AE) sensors, was developed. Growing roots passing in close proximity to soil particles generate AE pulses, which are detectable as counts by AE sensors.
Tomohide Shimotashiro, Shinobu Inanaga, Yukihiro Sugimoto, Asana Matsuura, Masami Ashimori   +4 more
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