A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation

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By: Chaohui Zhu · Zhirui Yang · Shiping Yang · Xueyan Zhou · Boxin Liu · Tian Tian · Bochen Zhao · Yingying Xie · Yujun Liu · Jinkui Cheng · Huaijun Tang · Yanjun Zhang · Xiaoqing Xie · Lei Zhang · Cheng Liu · Xingrong Wang · Shengxue Liu · Feng Qin

20 May 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10566-9

The Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) protein ZmSAUR72 in maize (Zea mays) promotes silk growth via regulation of H+-ATPase activity, and is a key determinant of the anthesis-silking interval and thus resilience to drought.

EBV strain interacts with host HLA to drive nasopharyngeal carcinoma risk

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By: Yanhong Chen · Jingtong Liang · Wanlin Zhang · Xinyu Zhang · Xinyi Zhang · Ching-Yuan Wang · Fei Yao · Shanshan Zhang · Xiang Zhou · Weimin Ye · Ruimei Feng · Yonglin Cai · Zhe Zhang · Mingfang Ji · Qian Cui · Xihong Lin · Jiesen Li · Jialei Xu · Qiuting Zhang · Qinyao Huang · Yingying Cheng · Yanran Luo · Xiaoping Ye · Qisheng Feng · Minzhong Tang · Mu-Sheng Zeng · Yi-Xin Zeng · Zhonghua Liu · Weiwei Zhai · Jianjun Liu · Miao Xu

15 April 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10416-8

A genome-to-genome association study identifies host and viral risk factors that interact to drive nasopharyngeal carcinoma endemicity in southern China.

Protein phosphatase 2A methylation state impacts α-synucleinopathy in mouse models

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By: Santhosh Maddila · Kambiz Hassanzadeh · Jun Liu · Jie Zhang · Faheem Ullah · Russell E. Nichols · M. Maral Mouradian

24 March 2026 at 08:00

Cell Death Discovery, Published online: 24 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41420-026-03045-7

Protein phosphatase 2A methylation state impacts α-synucleinopathy in mouse models

Multimodal electron microscopy of halide perovskite interfacial dynamics

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By: Xinjuan Li · Qichun Gu · Wei Huang · Simon M. Fairclough · Richard H. Friend · Samuel D. Stranks · Tianjun Liu · Caterina Ducati

11 March 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10238-8

A multimodal in situ electron microscopy approach enables direct visualization of structural and chemical evolution in a working halide perovskite light-emitting diode with nanometre precision.

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