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Plants | Issue Cover Articles in 2025

5 January 2026

The articles below have been selected as the 2025 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. Proline and ROS: A Unified Mechanism in Plant Development and Stress Response?
by Marco Renzetti, Dietmar Funck and Maurizio Trovato
Plants 202514(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14010002

2. Genome-Wide Study of Plant-Specific PLATZ Transcription Factors and Functional Analysis of OsPLATZ1 in Regulating Caryopsis Development of Rice (Oryza sativa L.)”
by Tao Yang, Xin-Tong Xu, Li-Jun Tang, Wen-Tao Wei, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Jin-Xin Liu, Xue-Feng Yao, Heng Zhao, Chun-Ming Liu and Ai-Ning Bai
Plants 202514(2), 151; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14020151

3. Multiprotein Complexes of Plant Glycosyltransferases Involved in Their Function and Trafficking
by Ning Zhang, Jordan D. Julian and Olga A. Zabotina
Plants 202514(3), 350; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14030350

4. Proteomic Analysis of Plants with Binding Immunoglobulin Protein Overexpression Reveals Mechanisms Related to Defense Against Moniliophthora perniciosa
by Grazielle da Mota Alcântara, Gláucia Carvalho Barbosa Silva, Irma Yuliana Mora Ocampo, Amanda Araújo Kroger, Rafaelle Souza de Oliveira, Karina Peres Gramacho, Carlos Priminho Pirovani and Fátima Cerqueira Alvim
Plants 202514(4), 503; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14040503

5. Unveiling the Potential Role of Dhurrin in Sorghum During Infection by the Head Smut Pathogen Sporisorium reilianum f. sp. Reilianum
by Coumba Fall, Seunghyun Lim, Ezekiel Ahn, Sunchung Park, Louis K. Prom and Clint W. Magill
Plants 202514(5), 740; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14050740

6. Impacts of Leaf Damage Intensity on Ant–Plant Protection Mutualism and Plant Fitness
by Isabela Cristina de Oliveira Pimenta, Eduardo Soares Calixto and Kleber Del-Claro
Plants 202514(6), 837; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14060837

7. Over Time Changes in the Transcriptomic Profiles of Tomato Plants with or Without Mi-1 Gene During Their Incompatible or Compatible Interactions with the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci
by Susana Pascual, Clara I. Rodríguez-Álvarez, Irene López-Vidriero, José M. Franco-Zorrilla and Gloria Nombela
Plants 202514(7), 1054; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14071054

8. Exploring the Interplay of Explant Origin and Culture Density on Olive Micropropagation Efficiency
by Maroua Grira, Amal Rabaaoui, Els Prinsen and Stefaan Werbrouck
Plants 202514(8), 1170; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14081170

9. Impact of Farming System on Soil Microbial Communities Associated with Common Bean in a Region of Northern Spain
by Marta Suarez-Fernandez, Juan Jose Ferreira and Ana Campa
Plants 202514(9), 1359; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14091359

10. Timing Is Everything: The Metabolic Partitioning of Suberin-Destined Carbon
by Jessica L. Sinka and Mark A. Bernards
Plants 202514(10), 1433; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14101433

11. Soil-Gradient-Derived Bacterial Synthetic Communities Enhance Drought Tolerance in Quercus pubescens and Sorbus domestica Seedlings
by Ivan Aleksieienko, Mariana Fernandes Hertel, Jérôme Reilhan, Marie de Castro, Bertrand Légeret, Halley Caixeta Oliveira, Ilja M. Reiter and Catherine Santaella
Plants 202514(11), 1659; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14111659

12. Diversity of Pummelos (Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.) and Grapefruits (Citrus x aurantium var. paradisi) Inferred by Genetic Markers, Essential Oils Composition, and Phenotypical Fruit Traits
by François Luro, Elodie Marchi, Gilles Costantino, Mathieu Paoli and Félix Tomi
Plants 202514(12), 1824; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14121824

13. Trait-Based Selection of Seeds Ingested and Dispersed by North American Waterfowl
by Bia A. Almeida, Mihai Costea, Giliandro G. Silva, Leonardo Maltchik, Susan E. W. De La Cruz, John Y. Takekawa and Andy J. Green
Plants 202514(13), 1964; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14131964

14. Influence of Triploid Musa spp. Genome Background and Exogenous Growth Regulators on In Vitro Regeneration in Plantains and Bananas
by Labode Hospice Stevenson Naitchede, Onyinye C. Ihearahu, Kishan Saha, David O. Igwe, Supriyo Ray and George Ude
Plants 202514(14), 2109; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14142109

15. The Impact of Colony Deployment Timing on Tetragonula carbonaria Crop Fidelity and Resource Use in Macadamia Orchards
by Claire E. Allison, James C. Makinson, Robert N. Spooner-Hart and James M. Cook
Plants 202514(15), 2313; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14152313

16. Metabolism in Sync: The Circadian Clock, a Central Hub for Light-Driven Chloroplastic and Mitochondrial Entrainment
by Luis Cervela-Cardona, Marta Francisco and Åsa Strand
Plants 202514(16), 2464; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14162464

17. Interspecific Competition and Intraspecific Facilitation Shape Coastal Dune Shrub Responses to Experimental Drought
by María Zunzunegui, Mari Paz Esquivias, Mari Cruz Díaz Barradas, Juan B. Gallego-Fernández and Leonor Álvarez-Cansino
Plants 202514(17), 2663; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14172663

18. Bioponics in Tomato Cultivation Toward Sustainable Farming: Evaluation of a Circular Tri-Trophic System Incorporating Aquaponics and Insects
by Anastasia Mourantian, Michalis Chatzinikolaou, Maria Feka and Efi Levizou
Plants 202514(18), 2882; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14182882

19. Turning Susceptibility into Strength: A New Era of Durable Resistance in Plants Through Genome Editing
by Shallu Thakur, Simranjot Kaur, Sudeep Adhikari, Prerna Sabharwal, Yuqing Fu and Geoffrey Meru
Plants 202514(19), 3080; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14193080

20. Chloroplast Hibernation-Promoting Factor PSRP1 Prevents Ribosome Degradation Under Darkness Independently of 100S Dimer Formation
by Kenta Tanaka, Yusuke Yoshizawa, Takashi Oda and Yasuhiko Sekine
Plants 202413(20), 2870; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13202870

21. Climate Change Projected Effects on Hamatocaulis vernicosus Occurrence in Romania
by Sorin Ștefănuț, Claudia Biță-Nicolae, Tiberiu Sahlean, Constantin-Ciprian Bîrsan, Ioana Cătălina Paica, Georgiana-Roxana Nicoară, Florența-Elena Helepciuc, Miruna-Maria Ștefănuț and Ana-Maria Moroșanu
Plants 202514(21), 3354; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14213354

22. Characterization of a Rice GH5_11 Gene Associated with Endosperm and Seed Traits
by Koen Gistelinck, Zoë Madder, Isabel Verbeke and Els J. M. Van Damme
Plants 202514(22), 3428; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14223428

23. Single-Cell Omics in Legumes: Research Trends and Applications
by Yaohua Li, Md Sabbir Hossain and Marc Libault
Plants 202514(23), 3615; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14233615

24. Overcoming Recalcitrance: A Review of Regeneration Methods and Challenges in Roses
by Anna Nelson, Thomas Ranney, Wusheng Liu, Tim Kelliher, Hui Duan and Kedong Da
Plants 202514(24), 3797; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14243797