Cell walls in plants, particularly forest trees, are the major carbon sink of the terrestrial
ecosystem. Chemical and biosynthetic features of plant cell walls were revealed early on …

Rapid development of high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)
technologies offers exciting opportunities to reveal new and rare cell types, previously …

Protein function annotation has been one of the longstanding issues in biological sciences,
and various computational methods have been developed. However, the existing methods …

Primary and secondary growth of the tree stem are responsible for corresponding increases
in trunk height and diameter. However, our molecular understanding of the biological …

Single-cell genomics technologies are ushering in a new research era. In this review, we
summarize the benefits and current challenges of using these technologies to probe the …

In addition to primary growth, which elongates the plant body, many plant species also
undergo secondary growth to thicken their body. During primary vascular development, a …

Monolignol serves as the building blocks to constitute lignin, the second abundant polymer
on Earth. Despite two decades of diligent efforts, complete identification of all metabolites in …

Wood is an invaluable asset to human society due to its renewable nature, making it suitable
for both sustainable energy production and material manufacturing. Additionally, wood …

Plants are complex systems hierarchically organized and composed of various cell types. To
understand the molecular underpinnings of complex plant systems, single-cell RNA …

Plant vascular tissues are crucial for the long-distance transport of water, nutrients, and a
multitude of signal molecules throughout the plant body and, therefore, central to plant …