Archive: December, 2020

Inceptins are degraded fragments of host chloroplast ATP synthase subunit (cATPC) that are an important class of herbivore-associated molecular patterns (HAMPs). These peptides are abundant in herbivore oral secretions (OS). Using Vu-In, a conserved inceptin from cowpea, Steinbrenner and colleagues have…

Review: Thriving under stress: How plants balance growth and stress response What exactly is the growth/defense tradeoff? This review is an excellent place to ask. Zhang et al. review evidence that shows that it is much more than a competition for limiting resources – the plant actively responds…

Ananya Mukherjee ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806 University of Nebraska Lincoln Genetic screens are a remarkable way of identifying mutations affecting various aspects of plant growth and development. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) (T)-DNA insertion lines enable rapid identification of mutant…

Yang and colleagues set out to untangle the network of transcription factors controlling O2 expression during maize seed development By Tao Yang and Yongrui Wu, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology…

Juan Zhang, co-first author of Interdependent evolution of biosynthetic gene clusters for momilactone production in rice Current Position: Postdoc in China Agriculture University; Incoming Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology…

Naoki Kitaoka, co-first author of Interdependent evolution of biosynthetic gene clusters for momilactone production in rice Current Position: Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University Education: PhD, Hokkaido University Non-scientific Interests: Kayaking and jogging Brief bio: I started my…

Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Masaomi Yamamura et al. identify factors that play essential roles in the biosynthesis of seed-coat protective neolignans. Plant Cell. http://bit.ly/3mseqae By Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara and Kazuki Saito, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Background: Neolignans…

Kevin Lehner, first author of VAP-RELATED SUPPRESSORS OF TOO MANY MOUTHS (VST) Family Proteins are Regulators of Root System Architecture Current Position: USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University Education: PhD in Genetics and Genomics, Duke University Non-scientific Interests:…