Archive: December, 2022

Tao Li, first author of “Comprehensive profiling of epigenetic modifications in fast-growing moso bamboo shoots” Current Position: Bioinformatics and software engineer in company Education: M.S. (Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China) Non-scientific Interests: Table tennis, Badminton,…

Zhiyan Gao, first author of “Expression inheritance and constraints on cis- and trans- regulatory mutations underlying lotus color divergence” Current Position: Graduated Ph.D., Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University,…

Manuel Balparda, first author of "Two plant glyoxalase systems with different evolutionary origins detoxify diverse reactive carbonyl species" Current Position: Post-Doc Education: Ph.D. in Biology, National University of Rosario, Argentina Non-scientific Interests: Sports, traveling, reading…

Liu et al. explore the role of adaptins in plant development. Chan Liu*1 and Marisa Otegui*2 *1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China *2Department of Botany and Center for Quantitative Cell…

Yang et al. investigate the role of the phospholipid flippase ALA3 in pollen tube guidance in Arabidopsis.    Background: In flowering plants, pollen tube guidance regulates the rapid growth and timely targeting of the pollen tube to the ovule in the pistil during sexual reproduction, when signaling…

What a wonderful review! As the title indicates, this review by Liu et al. looks at transposons, considering their “life cycle” – from introduction into a naïve genome, through amplification, diversification, silencing, reactivation, and ultimately domestication or loss-of-function. Besides this…

The May 2023 issue of The Plant Cell has a focus on RNA biology, and some of the articles for this issue are online now. I particularly enjoyed this multi-author perspective review by Manavella et al., in which 12 RNA biology groups from across the globe share the questions that they find most compelling…

This is an interesting paper that grabbed my attention from the very first line: “Tomatoes are the second most valuable crop in the USA”. Of course, a key trait in these important fruits is their flavor, something the Harry Klee team at the University of Florida have been studying for years. Here,…