Storage and remobilization of sugar molecules play important roles for the growth and survival of living organisms. Besides a few exceptions, animals store carbohydrates in the form of soluble glycogen while green plants and algae bank glucans as insoluble starch. Starch forms the basis of human nutrition and constitutes a renewable raw material for industry […]
Sun et al. found that Arabidopsis LUNAPARK, a protein evolutionarily conserved in eukaryotes, is an E3 ligase that promotes the degradation of ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE3, an ER fusogen. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc. 18.00937 By Jiaqi Sun, Hugo Zheng, Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, H3A 1B1, Quebec, Canada Background: Plant cells have […]
Dhineshkumar Thiruppathi 1,2 ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2018-3356 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri 63132 1Lead author 2Author for contact: [email protected] The phytohormone auxin plays a major part in nearly every plant process, including growth and development. Auxin performs these functions, in part, by eliciting context-specific nuclear responses mediated by a signaling network (Leyser, 2018). […]
Charles Copeland1 [email protected] 1Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany Plants rely on a complex innate immune system to recognize and respond to potential pathogens in their environment (Jones and Dangl, 2006). Activation of immune responses generally prevents infection; however, immune response activation is also detrimental for […]
Panda et al. use third-generation sequencing to examine the transcriptome of genomic regions that do not encode genes. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00115 By Kaushik Panda – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and R Keith Slotkin – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and University of Missouri Background: In spite of making up only a small percentage of […]
By Marcelo Lattarulo Campos [email protected] Integrative Plant Research Laboratory, Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá/MT, Brazil. A fundamental tenet of any immune system is the ability to detect the presence of harmful agents and then activate proper defense responses. In plants, the first layer of immunity is […]
Gonzalez Solis et al. describe the metabolic, cellular, and physiological consequences of the complete loss of regulation of sphingolipid biosynthesis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00015 By Ariadna Gonzalez Solis and Edgar B. Cahoon Background: Glycosphingolipids are molecules with backbones derived from serine and palmitoyl-CoA that are essential for endomembrane and plasma membrane function. The sphingolipid biosynthetic intermediates […]
Wang et al. demonstrate that BRs play important roles in seedling development and survival during the initial emergence of seedlings from subterranean darkness into sunlight. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00057. By Lingyan Wang,Yanchen Tian, Wen Shi, Min Fan and Ming-Yi Bai, The Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School […]
Meisha Holloway-Phillips Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland [email protected] The slogan, ‘more crop per drop’, which was popularised in the early 2000s, depicts the need to improve the productivity of crops for the same water inputs (Kijne et al., 2003). Whilst the approaches by which this could be achieved have evolved and expanded, […]