New Phytologist

Cytokinin downregulates Photosystem II photochemistry during prolonged darkness in a phytochrome B-dependent manner

Veronika Kábrtová, Zuzana Kučerová, Ivo Chamrád, René Lenobel, Pavel Roudnický, Jan Skalák, Martin Hudeček, Filip Zavadil Kokáš, Marek Rác, Tereza Vánská, Jaroslav Nisler, Jan Hejátko, Miroslav Strnad, Martina Špundová, Ondřej Plíhal

New Phytologist, April. 2026, Volume 250, Issue 6, pp. 3846-3866, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.71224

Science

Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate

Donghwi Ko, Raili Ruonala, Alexandre Faille, Eva Hellmann, Hanna Help, Huili Liu, Ronni Nielsen, Anders Haakonsson, Nuria De Diego, Anja Paatero, Mariia V. Shcherbii, Karolina Stefanowicz, Sanja Ćavar Zeljković, Tine Drud Lundager Rasmussen, Ondrej Novak, Zsuzsanna Bodi, Gugan Eswaran, Brecht Wybouw, Matthieu Bourdon, Cristina Urbez, Xiaonan Liu, Kari Salokas, Tiina Öhman, Tanya Waldie, Petri Törönen, Sedeer el-Showk, Martin Balcerowicz, Fabrice Besnard, Xiaomin Liu, Patrick Perkins, Serina Mazzoni-Putman, Julia P. Vainonen, Maija Sierla, Mikko J. Frilander, Susanne Mandrup, Teva Vernoux, Karin Ljung, Alejandro Ferrando, Miguel A. Blazquez, Liisa Holm, Rupert Fray, Markku Varjosalo, Ottoline Leyser, Ville O. Paavilainen, Ari Pekka Mähönen, Anna Stepanova, Jose Alonso, Steffen Heber, Robert Malinowski, Finn Kirpekar, Alan J. Warren, and Ykä Helariutta

Science, Feb. 2026, Volume 391, No. 6786, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx2867

Molecular Plant

A decoy receptor derived from alternative splicing fine-tunes cytokinin signaling in Arabidopsis

Michaela Králová, Ivona Kubalová, Jakub Hajný, Karolina Kubiasová, Karolína Vagaská, Zengxiang Ge, Michelle Gallei, Hana Semerádová, Anna Kuchařová, Martin Hönig, Aline Monzer, Martin Kovačik, Jiří Friml, Ondřej Novák, Eva Benková, Yoshihisa Ikeda, David Zalabák

Mol.Plant, Dec. 2024, Volume 17, Issue 12, p.1850-1865, https://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/fulltext/S1674-2052(24)00300-9

Molecular Plant

Sucrose-responsive osmoregulation of plant cell size by a long non-coding RNA

Jakub Hajný, Tereza Trávníčková, Martina Špundová, Michelle Roenspies, R.M. Imtiaz Karim Rony, Sebastian Sacharowski, Michal Krzyszton, David Zalabák, Christian S. Hardtke, Aleš Pečinka, Holger Puchta, Szymon Swiezewski, Jaimie M. van Norman, Ondřej Novák

Mol.Plant, Nov. 2024, Volume 17, Issue 11, p.1639-1786, https://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/fulltext/S1674-2052(24)00300-9

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Metabolomics: Potential non-protein biomarker candidates of Parkinson’s disease

Michal Kaleta, Gabriel Gonzalez, Eva Hényková, Kateřina Menšíková, Dorota Koníčková, Petr Kaňovský

Neurosci Biobehav Rev., Volume 176, June 2025, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425003112?via%3Dihub

Plant Biology

The carnivorous rainbow plant Byblis filifolia Planch. secretes digestive enzymes in response to prey capture independently of jasmonates

Andrej Pavlovič, Tereza Jílková, Ivo Chamrád, René Lenobel, Ondřej Vrobel, Petr Tarkowski

Plant Biol., Volume 27, Issue 4, June 2025, 549-557, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/plb.70029

Journal of Chromatography B

Targeted analysis of seven selected tryptophan-melatonin metabolites: Simultaneous quantification of plasma analytes using fast and sensitive UHPLC–MS/MS

Michal Kaleta, Bhagya S. Kolitha, Ondřej Novák,  Farshid Mashayekhy Rad, Jonas Bergquist, S.J. Kumari A. Ubhayasekera

J. Chromatogr., Volume 1256, 15 April 2025, 124520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchromb.2025.124520

JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of Nitro-fatty Acids as NRF2 Pathway Activators Working under Ambient or Hypoxic Conditions

Daniel Chrenko, Jana Pereckova, Martina Zatloukalová, Jan Vacek, Jiří Pospíšil, Tomas Perecko

T J. Med. Chem. 2025, May 26 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00982

PLANT COMMUNICATIONS

A DOF transcriptional repressor-gibberellin feedback loop plays a crucial role in modulating light-independent seed germination

Andrea Lepri, Hira Kazmi, Gaia Bertolotti, Chiara Longo, Sara Occhigrossi, Luca Quattrocchi, Mirko De Vivo, Daria Scintu, Noemi Svolacchia, Danuse Tarkowska, Veronika Tureckova, Miroslav Strnad, Marta Del Bianco, Riccardo Di Mambro, Paolo Costantino, Sabrina Sabatini, Raffaele Dello Ioio, Paola Vittorioso

The PLANT CELL

The dimorphic diaspore model Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae): Distinct molecular and morphological control of responses to parental and germination temperatures

SCIENCE

Structure and function of the Arabidopsis ABC transporter ABCB19 in brassinosteroid export

Wei Ying, Yaowei Wang, Hong Wei, Yongming Luo, Qian Ma, Heyuan Zhu, Hilde Janssens, Nemanja Vukašinović, Miroslav Kvasnica, Johan M. Winne, Yongxiang Gao, Shutang Tan, Jiří Friml, Xin Liu, Eugenia Russinova, Linfeng Sun

SCIENCE, 22 Mar 2024, Vol 383, Issue 6689

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj4591

PNAS

Strigolactones promote flowering by inducing the miR319-LA-SFT module in tomato

Ivan Visentin, Leticia Frizzo Ferigolo, Giulia Russo, Paolo Korwin Krukowski, Caterina Capezzali, Danuše Tarkowská, Francesco Gresta, Eleonora Deva, Fabio Tebaldi Silveira Nogueira, Andrea Schubert, and Francesca Cardinale

PNAS, May 3, 2024, 121 (19) e2316371121

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316371121