Simulation modeling platform provides a powerful tool for identifying optimal traits and management practices for wheat production
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchAuthor: Robert P Skelton1
skelrob@berkeley.edu
Affiliation: Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Global demand for food security places an emphasis on a need to improve crop yield. The complexity of plant development and its interaction…
The spikelet, a different “flower” in rice
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDescriptive paragraph. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00682
By Hui Zhuang and Yunfeng Li
Background: The spikelet, often mistaken for a “flower”, is actually an inflorescence unit and can produce one or more florets in some species of grass. This implies that it could be possible…
Recognizing Plant Direct authors: Rumen Ivanov
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesRumen Ivanov, co-first author of Mobility and localization of the iron deficiency-induced transcription factor bHLH039 change in the presence of FIT
Current position: Senior Researcher, Institute of Botany, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Education: National High School of Mathematics…
Recognizing Plant Direct authors: Ksenia Trofimov
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesKsenia Trofimov, co-first author of Mobility and localization of the iron deficiency-induced transcription factor bHLH039 change in the presence of FIT
Current Position: PhD Student, Institute of Botany, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology (Molecular…
ASPB at PAG! (Jan 12-14, 2020)
Blog, Pubs Pages
Are you planning to be in San Diego in January for the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) meeting? The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is exhibiting there and we would love to meet you.
Come by and see us at booth 634. Learn more about our journals, The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, and…
Special Current Opinion in Biotechnology issue Issue: Plant Biotechnology
Plant Science Research WeeklySince most of us will have a few days off this coming week as we welcome in 2020, I’d like to highlight some of the engrossing reviews in this special issue of Current Opinion in Biotechnology, edited by Ralf Reski, Gary Foster & Ed Rybicki. Several of the articles focus on Molecular Pharming,…
Review: Molecular bases of responses to abiotic stress in trees (J. Exp. Bot)
Plant Science Research WeeklyMuch of our understanding of abiotic stress response comes from studies on short-lived annual plants, for good reasons: they are small and easy to study, their short-generation time makes them amenable to genetic studies, and most of our food comes from annual plants. Trees are more difficult to study,…
Review: Surface sensor systems in plant immunity (Plant Physiol)
Plant Science Research WeeklyThe first line of defense is detection. Plants have numerous cell-surface receptor proteins (Pattern Recognition Receptors, PRRs) that recognize potentially harmful pathogens as well as endogenous molecules that suggest damage, known as Damage Associated Molecular Patterns or DAMPS and phytocytokines…
Control of nitrogen fixation in bacteria that associate with cereals (Nature Microbiol)
Plant Science Research WeeklyLegumes benefit from mutualistic symbioses with Rhizobia bacteria, which are induced to fix nitrogen when inside of the nodules produced by the plant. Cereals also associate with Rhizobia, but without nodules they don’t fix nitrogen. Ryu et al. set out to engineer inducible nitrogenase activity in…