Turning up the heat: the alternative oxidase pathway drives thermogenesis in cycad cones
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchKim L Johnson
La Trobe Institute for Agriculture & Food, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
Flowers are mostly associated with pleasant smells; the sweet fragrance of a rose, the exotic scent of jasmine, the fresh smell of…
All aboard the mentor-ship: making and using an Individual Development Plan
Blog, Plantae Webinars, Professional Development, WebinarsAll aboard the mentor-ship: making and using an Individual Development Plan
Recorded September 10, 2019
About This Webinar
Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are a tool to facilitate student-trainer relationships and help students and post-docs of all levels to evaluate their project and career…
Taproot S4E3: How to mastermind experimental designs and your graduate applications
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. Scott Barolo about how he made a popular board game into a teaching tool, and we start a two-part discussion about the grad school application process.
Scott gained his BSc at Penn State University and his Ph.D. in biology at the University of California, San Diego.…
Faculty Job: Myths & Realities - an interview with Margaret Frank
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Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty
I did my undergraduate at Barnard College, it’s the Women's College at Columbia University in New York City. New York City is not the first place you would expect to fall in love with Plant Science, but I ended…
To Golgi and Beyond!
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefThe Golgi apparatus is the central sorting station of the eukaryotic secretory pathway. Protein and lipid cargoes are received at its cis face from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and may undergo various modifications including glycosylation before being trafficked onwards from the trans face to their…
Plant leaf apoplast: an easy method to estimate its hydration state and contents
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchBy Maria Grazia Annunziata
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
The plant leaf apoplast is composed of all extracellular compartments beyond the plasmalemma and is filled with gas, water and cell wall elements (Sattelmacher, 2000). The apoplast is involved…
Alternative Splicing in Plants: Retain or Remove?
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellShih et al. investigate red light-triggered pre-mRNA splicing in Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell (2019) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00314
By Chueh-Ju Shih and Shih-Long Tu
Background: Light is important for plant growth and development. Plants have developed various types of photoreceptors…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Charlotte Noelle Miller
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesCharlotte Noelle Miller, first author of Variation in expression of the HECT E3 ligase UPL3 modulates LEC2 levels, seed size and crop yield in Brassica napus
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: BSc, MSc, PhD
Non-scientific interests: My main passion outside of science is music. In…
Mitochondrial dynamics for pollen development
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchAuthor: Masanori Izumi
Affiliation: Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980–8578, Japan
Mitochondria are active organelles that move rapidly, change shape and undergo repeated fusion and fission (Frederick and Shaw, 2007; Tilokani et al., 2018).…