Sexual reproduction in plants is a tightly coordinated process that underpins biodiversity, drives speciation, and serves as a foundation for modern crop improvement. Here, we synthesize recent advances in elucidating the molecular mechanisms governing major reproductive events in flowering plants, including male and female gametogenesis, pollen-pistil communication, double fertilization, embryogenesis, and endosperm-mediated...

Individual microbes often respond differently to the same environment, yet the magnitude of such niche variation inherent to individuals remains unresolved and is anticipated to differ substantially from community‐level average responses. We conducted metagenomic binning on monthly time‐series soil samples from three sites across seasonal cycles. By considering 440,571 genes as dimensions of the fundamental individualised nich...