Author: Robert P Skelton1 [email protected] 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…

Descriptive 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…

Rumen 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…

Ksenia 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…

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…

Since 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,…

Much 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,…

The 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…