Author: Stefanie Wege [email protected] ORCID: 0000-0002-7232-5889 Affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Plant Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond 5064, South Australia, Australia The organic compound malate has a large impact on the taste of many of our most […]
Greer et al. explore the role of SEIPIN in packaging oils into lipid droplets. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00771 By Yingqi Cai, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Biology, Upton, NY 11973 Kent D. Chapman, University of North Texas, BioDiscovery Institute, Denton, TX 76203 USA Background: All organisms store energy as fats. In plants this process is mostly […]
Zheng et al. demonstrate how monocot plants sense karrikin, a smoke-derived chemical. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00123 By J Zheng, K Hong, L Zeng, S Kang and G Xiong Background: Seedling emergence in rice depends mainly on mesocotyl elongation, which is precisely regulated by the integration of developmental signals and environmental stimuli. Karrikins are small molecules found […]
Martin-Avila et al. use synthetic biology to improve photosynthesis in tobacco by swapping out the endogenous small subunits of Rubisco for one coming from potato, among other things. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00288 By Spencer Whitney, Elena Martin-Avila, Sally Buck, Timothy Rhodes, Robert Sharwood (The Australian National University), Maxim Kapralov (Newcastle University, UK) and Lynnette Dirk (University […]
Guo et al. demonstrate how perceived developmental signals modulate cytokinin homeostasis to shape the rice inflorescence. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00351. By Tao Guo, Zi-Qi Lu, Jun-Xiang Shan, Wang-Wei Ye, Nai-Qian Dong, Hong-Xuan Lin Background: Rice is one of the most important staple cereal crops worldwide, as it feeds more than half the world’s population. […]
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McLoughlin et al. uncover the critical roles of autophagy in recycling amino acids and nitrogen-rich nucleotides, adjusting respiratory substrates, and the retention of assimilated nitrogen in maize during fixed-carbon starvation. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00226 Background: Autophagy is a central recycling system that helps remove unnecessary or damaged intracellular material, including organelles, protein complexes, lipid […]
Oldenkott et al. use evolution to their advantage by testing whether independently evolved RNA editors can reciprocally correct the errors of organellar transcripts. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00311. By Bastian Oldenkott and Mareike Schallenberg-Rüdinger, IZMB, University of Bonn, Germany Background: Plant cells contain three genomes. Aside from the nuclear genome, mitochondria and chloroplasts also contain […]
Wei Zhang ORCID: 0000-0002-5092-643X Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, 1712 Claflin Road, Throckmorton Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA [email protected] Nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins serve as intracellular immune receptors in plants to recognize different types of effectors delivered by pathogens from all kingdoms. NLR genes form the largest plant disease resistance (R) […]