Manipulation and sensing of auxin metabolism, transport and signaling ($) (Plant Cell Physiol)
Plant Science Research WeeklyAuxin is involved in a diverse array of developmental processes as well as biotic and abiotic stress responses. The chemical–genetic approach is a powerful tool to decipher the auxin signaling pathway. In this review, Fukui and Hayashi have provided a comprehensive overview about the structure, molecular…
What We're Reading: October 26th
WWR Full PostThis week’s edition is guest edited by Arif Ashraf, a PhD student at Iwate University, Japan and Graduate Student Ambassador of ASPB. His research interest is understanding the hormonal interplay in primary root development of Arabidopsis thaliana. He blogs about plant science (http://www.aribidopsis.com/).…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Eleanore T. Wurtzel
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesEleanore T. Wurtzel, first author of Changing form and function through carotenoids and synthetic biology
Current Position: Professor, Lehman College and The Graduate School, The City University of New York
Education: B.S. in Biochemistry, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (SUNY Stony Brook);…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Sakharam Pralhad Waghmare
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesSakharam Pralhad Waghmare, first author of SNAREs SYNTAXIN OF PLANTS 121 (SYP121) and SYP122 mediate the secretion of distinct cargo subsets
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Glasgow
Education: PhD, Department of Chemical…
Experimental Reproducibility 101 (Part 2)
BlogThis article is the second of three and is based on a workshop called “Reproducibility for all” presented at PlantBio18 by Benjamin Schwessinger, Sonali Roy, and Lenny Teytelman. In Part 1 (here), the authors describe the importance of having a data management plan, and the value of electronic notebooks.
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Heritable phenotypic variation due to partial maintenance of organ-specific epigenetic marks during asexual reproduction ($) (PNAS)
Plant Science Research WeeklyClonal propagation is widely used by humans to maintain and propagate desirable phenotypic traits in plants. Despite a restricted genetic variety, phenotypical difference, known a somaclonal variation, arises sometimes between parents and the clonally propagated progeny. Some of this variability is attributed…
Tea genome expansion linked to TE bursts (Plant Biotechnol. J.)
Plant Science Research WeeklyExpansion of plant genomes is thought to be linked to massive bursts of transposable elements activity. This implies consequences on the distribution of epigenetic modifications required for the silencing of the causative transposons. Consequences of transposon bursts have been extensively described…
Postzygotic reproductive isolation via sequestration of a transposon-derived siRNA ($) (Devel. Cell)
Plant Science Research WeeklyHybridization of plants with distinct chromosome number often results in seed development defects due to a phenomenon known as the triploid block. While this is triggered by the unbalanced expression of some paternally and maternally imprinted alleles, the molecular basis of the triploid block is not…