This week we have a short edition as the editor and many of the contributors have been busy at the Plant Biology meeting in Montréal, Canada. This was a hugely successful conference by all accounts. You can get a glimpse of it from the level of activity on Twitter – see #PlantBio18. Besides great scientific […]
Said Hafidh, first author of Dynamics of Nicotiana tabacum pollen sequestrome defined by subcellular coupled omics Current Position: Research fellow, Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Prague Education: BSc and PhD at the University of Leicester (2002-2009) Non-scientific Interests: Cycling, football, micro photograph, music (house/afro beat/drums), a good PHO BO, road trips and part time hiking. Brief bio: […]
Jing Wang, first author of AnnAt1 and AnnAt2 regulate Arabidopsis primary root growth in response to sugar Current Position: Ph.D candidate in University of Texas Education: Master of Science in Shandong University, China Non-scientific Interests: Cooking, hiking and traveling Brief bio: Sugar serves as carbon sources, energy suppliers and signals just like plant hormones to regulate plant […]
Lin Zhang, first author of Nucleus-encoded Protein BFA1 Promotes Efficient Assembly of the Chloroplast ATP Synthase Coupling Factor 1 Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Education: PhD in Developmental Biology at the Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Non-scientific […]
Commentary by Trevor H. Yeats and Raimund Nagel Saffron is produced from the stigmas and styles of Crocus sativus flowers and is one of the most expensive spices. In C. sativus, both stigma and style are intensely crimson red in color due to the presence of three major classes of apocarotenoids: crocins, picrocrocin, and safranal. […]
Yuanyuan Zhang, first author of OsATX1 Interacts with Heavy Metal P1B-type ATPases and Affects Cu Transport and Distribution in Rice Current Position: PhD student in the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China. Education: PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University. BS in […]
Camelina sativa is a member of the Brassicaceae family that is grown as an oilseed crop. It has summer and winter flowering biotypes, the latter of which requires vernalization to induce flowering. These two biotypes allow for double-cropping, and the winter-flowering biotype can also be used as a cover crop. To investigate the genetic basis […]
Brachypodium distachyon is an annual C3 grass that has become an important model species. Scholthof et al. review the genetic tools and resources (sequences and mutants) as well as robust protocols for transformation that have been developed for it. The presence of wild and perennial species within the Brachypodium genus provides additional value. The authors […]
The Arabidopsis genome encodes nine Argonaute proteins and an AGO pseudogene. The nine functional proteins fall into three clades based on sequence. Ma and Zhang update what we know about these proteins. It turns out, the simple assumptions made early on have not entirely been borne out. For example, AGO1 helps miRNAs carry out their […]