Carbon trafficking in green algae
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHuang and Krishnan et al. investigate photoassimilate export in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
By Weichao Huang1 and Arthur Grossman2
1Current position: Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China
1Previous position: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie…
Plant Cell Focus Issue Webinar: Biomolecular Condensates Sept 13, 2023
Blog, Education, Plantae WebinarsPlant Cell Webinar: Biomolecular Condensates
Celebrating the September 2023 Focus Issue on Biomolecular Condensates
Recorded Wednesday, September 13, 2023 12:00 pm UTC
About This Webinar
Biomolecular condensates are membrane-less organelles or bodies that often form via liquid–liquid…
Sending out a salt-related SOS: transcriptional regulation of salt stress responses
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLu et al. explore the roles of a Mediator complex subunit and a WRKY transcription factor in regulating the salt-responsive gene SOS1.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad105
Background: Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that severely affects plant growth and development. Plants…
Cryptophyte PSI–LHCI supercomplexes: understanding the structural diversity and evolution of PSI–LHCI in the red lineage
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhao, Wang, Li, et al. explore how the photosynthetic apparatus evolved in the cryptophyte Chroomonas placoidea, which is related to red algae.
Long-Sheng Zhao1 and Lu-Ning Liu2.
1State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
2Institute of Systems, Molecular…
The importance of being in the right place to respond to light cues
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLopez Vazquez et al explore the importance of protein sub-cellular localization by determining how a protein modulating light responses gets to the right place within the cell.
Christian Fankhauser, Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Génopode Building, University of…
Literature Tools for Researchers
Blog, Careers, EducationSearch engines, databases, and literature searches, oh my!
Finding and managing references is a complex task. Luckily there are a number of digital tools that can help this task. In this infographic, ASPB Plantae Fellow Ángel Vergara Cruces presents a series of articles to find, access, organize…
Plantae Presents: Building up the Next Generation of Scientists
Blog, Education, Plantae WebinarsPlantae Presents: Building up the Next Generation of Scientists
Featuring Abimbola Owoseni and Sophien Kamoun
When: Tuesday, August 29, 2023, at
02:00 PM WAT | 9:00 AM EDT | 2:00 PM BST | 9:00 PM Beijing
About this Webinar
Cultivating the next generation of scientists is crucial for the continuous…
Interdependence of subunits of the m6A methyltransferase complex
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLisha Shen uncovers unique functional interdependence at the post-translational level among individual components of the Arabidopsis m6A methyltransferase complex.
By Lisha Shen, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Background:…
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of RxLR effectors into plant cells
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWang et al. discover that Phytophthora infestans RxLR effectors enter host plant cells via clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
By Haixia Wang1, Petra C Boevink2, Paul RJ Birch1,2
1Division of Plant Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, @James Hutton Institute, Errol Road, Invergowrie,…