BACKGROUND: Plant pathogens cause billions of dollars of crop loss every year and are a major threat to global food security. Effector proteins are the tools such pathogens use to infect the cell, predicting effectors de novo from sequence is difficu...
In the evolutionary history of plants, variation in cis-regulatory elements (CREs) resulting in diversification of gene expression has played a central role in driving the evolution of lineage-specific traits. However, it is difficult to predict expr...
Adapted plant pathogens from various microbial kingdoms produce hundreds of unrelated small secreted proteins (SSPs) with elusive roles. Here, we used AlphaFold-Multimer (AFM) to screen 1879 SSPs of seven tomato pathogens for interacting with six def...
Potato is one of the most important crops worldwide, to feed a fast-growing population. In addition to providing energy, fiber, vitamins, and minerals, potato storage proteins are considered as one of the most valuable sources of non-animal proteins ...
The protein content (PC) and wet gluten content (WGC) are crucial indicators determining the quality of wheat, playing a pivotal role in evaluating processing and baking performance. Original reflectance (OR), wavelet feature (WF), and color index (C...
Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects
38490467
BACKGROUND: Abiotic stresses pose serious threat to the growth and yield of crop plants. Several studies suggest that in plants, transcription factors (TFs) are important regulators of gene expression, especially when it comes to coping with abiotic ...
The prediction of metabolite-protein interactions (MPIs) plays an important role in plant basic life functions. Compared with the traditional experimental methods and the high-throughput genomics methods using statistical correlation, applying hetero...
International journal of biological macromolecules
39079238
Drought stress is a major constraint on crop development, potentially causing huge yield losses and threatening global food security. Improving Crop's stress tolerance is usually associated with a yield penalty. One way to balance yield and stress to...
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology
39152709
Structural prediction by artificial intelligence can be powerful new instruments to discover novel protein-protein interactions, but the community still grapples with the implementation, opportunities and limitations. Here, we discuss and re-analyse ...