Aung et al. reveal that pathogenic bacteria target plant plasmodesmata to colonize and invade surrounding tissues. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00707 By Kyaw Aung and Sheng Yang He   Background: Multicellular organisms like animals and plants host a multitude of microorganisms.…

The Plant Cell welcomes 12 new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) for 2020. They join six continuing AFEs who started in 2019. We would also like to thank all of the original AFEs who stepped down from the editorial board in 2018-2019, who helped us to establish the program and provided valuable input…

Reddit et al. show that an effector protein from a pathogen modifies a host factor by ADP ribosylation, thereby activating defenses. The Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00020  Background: To protect themselves against disease, plants employ a family of intracellular receptors called…

Author: Masanori Izumi Affiliation: RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako 351-0198, Japan [email protected] Autophagy is the ubiquitous process in eukaryotes leading to the degradation of intracellular components, during which a portion of the cytoplasm, including organelles,…

Iron is a cofactor of numerous plant proteins that function in processes ranging from redox reactions during photosynthesis to respiration. Typical soils contain approximately 1–5% iron, but much of this iron is not readily accessible to plants due to low solubility. Nongraminaceous plants help solubilize…

Peixin Huang, first author of Salicylic Acid Suppresses Apical Hook Formation via NPR1-Mediated Repression of EIN3/EIL1 in Arabidopsis Current Position: Visiting Research Scholar in Dr. Hongwei Guo’s laboratory, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen,…

ASPB is supporting the Plant and Animal genome conference (PAG) as an exhibitor. It’s a great opportunity for us to meet members of the community and share news about our journals, the benefits of membership and Plantae_org. On Sunday, we set up the exhibit space, from boxes to a beautiful, functional…

Maria Grazia Annunziata Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8593-1741 By acting as redox regulatory factor, NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) is involved in many metabolic processes as well as plastid biogenesis. It…