Hi @anavalladares @CPFreed @LauraMejia92 @rah107 @CPFreed@Humberto_Herrera, thank you so much for making up the fantastic infographics for FOPD! I am making up this post to compile them and what the social media text will look like. I will make up an article with all of them in Open Forum…

Lena Maria Müller Boyce Thompson Institute [email protected] Plants are in constant contact with millions of microbes, which can be pathogenic or establish mutualistic interactions with the plant. One well-studied mutualistic interaction is the nodulation symbiosis of legumes with nitrogen-fixing…

Hüther et al. develop a new pipeline to extract phenotypic traits from plant pictures with minimal supervision from the user. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00318 By Patrick Hüther, Niklas Schandry, Katharina Jandrasits, Ilja Bezrukov and Claude Becker Background: To understand…

Liu et al. investigate the diverse roles of the salicylic acid receptors NPR1, NPR3 and NPR4 in local and long-range plant immunity. The Plant Cell (2020).  https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00499 By Yanan Liu1,2, Tongjun Sun2,3 and Yuelin Zhang2 (1 College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural…

Viruses have small genomes with limited protein-coding capacities. To compensate for this, viruses modulate plant gene expression and co-opt host factors to support their replication, cell-to-cell movement, and systemic movement. Modulation of host gene expression can lead to the development of disease…

Stomata respond to changes in the light environment through multiple mechanisms that jointly regulate the tradeoff between carbon assimilation and water loss. The rapid and highly sensitive widening of stomatal aperture in response to low-fluence blue light is present in most vascular plant groups but…

Guillaume Charrier Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. [email protected] Water potential (Ψ) defines the energy required to move water between the different compartments of a closed system. Water flows passively in the direction of decreasing…

Moving around taught me two essential skills, only one being relevant here: how to put up wallpaper, and how critical it is to label boxes to help the moving company drop them at their intended location. Now think of a cell: the boxes are vesicles, their contents are proteins and metabolites, and the…