Archive: July, 2018

Ramesh et al. discover a malate-GABA transporter that may play a role in signaling envioronmental condtions and metabolic status in plant cells. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00864 Background: Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a signaling molecule in mammalian nervous systems where it…

Rytz et al. investigate the selectivity of SUMOylation in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell (2018) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00993 By Thérèse C. Rytz and Richard D. Vierstra Background: The covalent attachment of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) to other intracellular proteins is an essential…

Zhou et al. demonstrate that a kinase STRK1 can phosphorylate CatC to enhance rice salt toterance. The Plant Cell (2018). https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.01000 By Yan-Biao Zhou, Cong Liu, Jian-Zhong Lin and Xuan-Ming Liu Background: Salt stress can significantly affect plant growth and agricultural…

Plant Biology 2018 ("A joint meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, Canadian Society of Plant Biologists/Societe Canadienne de Biologie Vegetale, and the International Society of Photosynthesis Research at the Palais des congrès de Montréal") is over, and appears to have been record…

We can create the right kind of food plants to survive on Mars. Shutterstock/SergeyDV Briardo Llorente, Macquarie University Preparations are already underway for missions that will land humans on Mars in a decade or so. But what would people eat if these missions eventually lead to the permanent…

Keshav Dahal, first author of Growth at elevated CO2 requires acclimation of the respiratory chain to support photosynthesis Current Position: Research Scientist-Plant Stress Physiologist, Fredericton Research and Development Centre Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Government of Canada. Education:…

The Plant Science Research Network (PSRN) was established in August 2015 through the support of a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (RCN) award to the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), to further the goals outlined in the 2013…

Vadir López-Salmerón, co-first author of A Comprehensive Toolkit for Inducible, Cell Type-Specific Gene Expression in Arabidopsis Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Developmental Physiology, Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg. Education: PhD (2013) in Plant Molecular Biology at Centro…