Summer fun: how plants beat the heat
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: News
By Adam Phillips. Reprinted from It Ain't Magic, The RIKEN Global Communications Team https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off-the-press/plants-beat-heat
It seems like I’ve been writing a lot about plants recently. The truth is that I hardly have enough time to write about all the cool plant…
Chen Mingsheng's research team found an evolutionary trend of genes fleeing the centromere region
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: NewsArticle source: http://theworldseeds.cn/index.php?p=152804 (Translated by Google Translate)
The centromere and its surroundings are the fastest-evolving and most complex areas of the plant genome. The centromere and near centromere regions not only undergo rapid sequence changes and structural remodeling,…
Book Recommendations - Other
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A list of book recommendations from our community that are not directly related to plant science, but are still good reads
"I'd recommend scientists to get out of the wormhole and read something else... Something historical, philosophical, or something as far removed from science as is possible. Something…
Book Reccomendations - Professional Development
BlogA list of book recommendations from our community with a focus on Professional Development
Research Skills
At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator by Kathy Barker (2004)
At the Bench is the unique and hugely successful handbook for living and working in the laboratory, an essential aid to…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Annika Brünje
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesAnnika Brünje, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: PhD student, Plant Physiology, University of Münster
Education: Master of Science, Biology, University of Bochum
Non-scientific Interests: Good books and…
Nuclear Positioning Requires a Tug-of-War Between Kinesin Motors
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefThe microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton is a dynamic network of self-assembling highways that, together with the help of motor proteins, promotes intracellular transport and the formation of magnificent structures such as the preprophase band, mitotic spindle, and phragmoplast (Nebenführ and Dixit, 2018). …
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Minna Koskela
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesMinna Koskela, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: PhD student, Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku
Education: Master of Science, Biochemistry, University of Helsinki
Non-scientific Interests: PC…
A pretty plant of summer produces a promising anti-diabetes compound
Blog, The Plant CellDiscovery of the biosynthetic pathway of a plant metabolite lays the groundwork for its use as an anti-diabetes drug
Roughly half of the western medicines used today were derived from naturally occurring plant metabolites. Plants produce over 200,000 of these specialized metabolites, but identifying…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Sandra Irmisch
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesSandra Irmisch, first author of Discovery of UDP-Glycosyltransferases and BAHD-Acyltransferases in the Biosynthesis of the Anti-Diabetic Plant Metabolite Montbretin A
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Joerg Bohlmann, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia,…