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The cover of this edition of the Biochemical Journal features photographs depicting the phenotypic comparison of rice put3 T-DNA insertion lines from different cultivars. In contrast to wild type cultivars, germinated seeds of both of the rice mutants were tolerant to the presence of paraquat in the culture medium, indicating loss of function of PUT3. Under standard growth conditions, put3 HY seedlings were developmentally impaired compared to the corresponding wild type. By contrast put3 TNG67 seedlings appeared like the corresponding wild type (TNG67) throughout development. Read more in ‘Paraquat resistance mutations have differential effects on plant fitness in two rice cultivars’ by Fudge and Fitzpatrick at: https://doi.org/10.1042/bcj20240683