This week’s articles highlight synaptic organization in sociability, the interactions between a plant and its microbiome, and the role of RNA modification in the response to DNA damage.
HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Plants prioritize nutrition over defense
Castrillo et al. found that a plant nutrient stress response network shapes the root microbiome and coordinates defense with nutritional stress.
NEUROSCIENCE
Sociability through glutamatergic signaling
Krishnan et al. report that an autism-associated protein impairs sociability in mice by altering glutamatergic synapse organization.
DNA REPAIR
Marking DNA damage with methylated RNA
Xiang et al. found that ultraviolet radiation induces an RNA modification that recruits a DNA repair enzyme.