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15 January 2025
Plants | Issue Cover Articles in 2024

The articles below have been selected as the 2024 Issue Cover Articles by the Editorial Office of Plants (ISSN: 2223-7747). These articles came from multiple fields within the scope of Plants, and we hope they can provide insights and references for scholars in related fields.

1. “Origin and Function of Amino Acids in Nectar and Nectaries of Pitcairnia Species with Particular Emphasis on Alanine and Glutamine”
by Thomas Göttlinger and Gertrud Lohaus
Plants 202413(1), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13010023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/1/23

2. “Sesquiterpene Lactones Isolated from Centaurea cineraria L. subsp. cineraria Inhibit the Radicle Growth of Broomrape Weeds”
by Jesús G. Zorrilla, Michele Innangi, Antonio Cala Peralta, Gabriele Soriano, Maria Teresa Russo, Marco Masi, Mónica Fernández-Aparicio and Alessio Cimmino
Plants 202413(2), 178; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13020178
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/2/178

3. “Characterization of a Unique Pair of Ferredoxin and Ferredoxin NADP+ Reductase Isoforms That Operates in Non-Photosynthetic Glandular Trichomes”
by Joshua T. Polito, Iris Lange, Kaylie E. Barton, Narayanan Srividya and B. Markus Lange
Plants 202413(3), 409; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030409
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/3/409

4. “Stable Isotope Analyses Reveal Impact of Fe and Zn on Cd Uptake and Translocation by Theobroma cacao
by Rebekah E. T. Moore, Ihsan Ullah, Jim M. Dunwell and Mark Rehkämper
Plants 202413(4), 551; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13040551
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/4/551

5. “Distributing Plant Developmental Regulatory Proteins via Plasmodesmata”
by Joyce M. Schreiber, Erik Limpens and Jeroen de Keijzer
Plants 202413(5), 684; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050684
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/5/684

6. “Exchange or Eliminate: The Secrets of Algal-Bacterial Relationships”
by Bertille Burgunter-Delamare, Prateek Shetty,Trang Vuong and Maria Mittag
Plants 202413(6), 829; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13060829
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/6/829

7. “Evidence for Reductions in Physical and Chemical Plant Defense Traits in Island Flora”
by Micah G. Freedman, Randall W. Long, Santiago R. Ramírez and Sharon Y. Strauss
Plants 202413(7), 1026; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13071026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/7/1026

8. “Polycotyly: How Little Do We Know?”
by Yong-Bi Fu
Plants 202413(8), 1054; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13081054
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/8/1054

9. “Channels of Evolution: Unveiling Evolutionary Patterns in Diatom Ca2+ Signalling”
by Eleanor A. Murphy, Friedrich H. Kleiner, Katherine E. Helliwell and Glen L. Wheeler
Plants 202413(9), 1207; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091207
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/9/1207

10. “Relicts of Threatened Biodiversity: Similarities and Differences among the 7230 EU Habitat Plant Communities on Montane Plateaus of Central Apennines, Italy”
by Giampiero Ciaschetti, Safiya Praleskouskaya and Roberto Venanzoni
Plants 202413(10), 1282; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13101282
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/10/1282

11. “Chromosome-Scale, De Novo, Phased Genome Assemblies of Three Australian Limes: Citrus australasica, C. inodora, and C. glauca
by Khushwant Singh, Matthew Huff, Jianyang Liu, Jong-Won Park, Tara Rickman, Manjunath Keremane, Robert R. Krueger, Madhurababu Kunta, Mikeal L. Roose, Chris Dardick et al.
Plants 202413(11), 1460; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13111460
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/11/1460

12. “Organ’ising Floral Organ Development”
by Kestrel A. Maio and Laila Moubayidin
Plants 202413(12), 1595; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13121595
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/12/1595

13. “When Size Matters: New Insights on How Seed Size Can Contribute to the Early Stages of Plant Development”
by Alessandra Boccaccini, Sara Cimini, Hira Kazmi, Andrea Lepri, Chiara Longo, Riccardo Lorrai and Paola Vittorioso
Plants 202413(13), 1793; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13131793
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/13/1793

14. “Effects of High Salinity and Water Stress on Wetland Grasses from the Spanish Mediterranean Coast”
by Adrián Sapiña-Solano, Monica Boscaiu, Francisco Collado, Oscar Vicente and Mario X. Ruiz-González
Plants 202413(13), 1793; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13131793
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/14/1939

15. “Applications of LIF to Document Natural Variability of Chlorophyll Content and Cu Uptake in Moss”
by Kelly Truax, Henrietta Dulai, Anupam Misra, Wendy Kuhne, Celia Smith and Ciara Bongolan-Aquino
Plants 202413(15), 2031; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13152031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/15/2031

16. “It Is Not All about Alkaloids—Overlooked Secondary Constituents in Roots and Rhizomes of Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) J.St.-Hil”
by Lilo K. Mailänder, Khadijeh Nosrati Gazafroudi, Peter Lorenz, Rolf Daniels, Florian C. Stintzing and Dietmar R. Kammerer
Plants 202413(16), 2208; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13162208
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/16/2208

17. “Trait-Mediated Variation in Seedling Performance in Costa Rican Successional Forests: Comparing Above-Ground, Below-Ground, and Allocation-Based Traits”
by Nohemi Huanca-Nunez, Robin L. Chazdon and Sabrina E. Russo
Plants 202413(17), 2378; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13172378
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/17/2378

18. “Exploring Thinopyrum spp. Group 7 Chromosome Introgressions to Improve Durum Wheat Performance under Intense Daytime and Night-Time Heat Stress at Anthesis”
by Gloria Giovenali, Maria Lia Di Romana, Alessandra Capoccioni, Vinicio Riccardi, Ljiljana Kuzmanović and Carla Ceoloni
Plants 202413(18), 2605; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13182605
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/18/2605

19. “Pomological and Molecular Characterization of Apple Cultivars in the German Fruit Genebank”
by Lea Broschewitz, Stefanie Reim, Henryk Flachowsky and Monika Höfer
Plants 202413(19), 2699; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13192699
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/19/2699

20. “Morphophysiological Adaptations of Aquatic Macrophytes in Wetland-Based Sewage Treatment Systems: Strategies for Resilience and Efficiency under Environmental Stress”
by Leila Teresinha Maranho and Marcelo Pedrosa Gomes
Plants 202413(20), 2870; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13202870
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/20/2870

21. “Photosynthetic Electron Flows and Networks of Metabolite Trafficking to Sustain Metabolism in Photosynthetic Systems”
by Neda Fakhimi and Arthur R. Grossman
Plants 202413(21), 3015; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13213015
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/21/3015

22. “Plants Under Stress: Exploring Physiological and Molecular Responses to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Deficiency”
by Swarup Mishra, Hannah Levengood, Jinping Fan and Cankui Zhang
Plants 202413(22), 3144; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13223144
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/22/3144

23. “Antiangiogenic Potential of Pomegranate Extracts”
by Riccardo Tornese, Anna Montefusco, Rocco Placì, Teodoro Semeraro, Miriana Durante, Monica De Caroli, Gianpiero Calabrese, Anna Eleonora Caprifico and Marcello Salvatore Lenucci
Plants 202413(23), 3350; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13233350
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/23/3350

24. “Improving Phosphate Acquisition from Soil via Higher Plants While Approaching Peak Phosphorus Worldwide: A Critical Review of Current Concepts and Misconceptions”
by Jörg Gerke
Plants 202413(24), 3478; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13243478
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/24/3478

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