The transformative power of structural predictions with AI in plant science

Since the introduction of various structural prediction programs, the emerging transformative power of these technologies in plant science is apparent. Not only programs like AlphaFold but also RoseTTAFold, Chai-1 and Boltz suddenly enable plant scientists to predict structures with high confidence. This ability has facilitated the discovery of novel protein functions inspired by structural homology and provided novel insights into how proteins evolved from ancestral folds. Prediction of protein