Entries by Mary Williams

Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Laura Arribas-Hernández

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Laura Arribas-Hernández, featured first author of An m6A-YTH Module Controls Developmental Timing and Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen. Education: PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen (2015), BS and MS in Biology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2011), BS in Telecommunication Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Non-scientific Interests: […]

ASPB: Evolving in a Digital Age

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BY THE ASPB DIGITAL TEAM Some of you may remember when academic correspondence took place by post. Authors sent manuscripts by mail to journals, which passed them on to reviewers, whose comments were ultimately returned to the authors, who then started the process again with a revised manuscript. ASPB published annually a printed membership directory […]

Review: Organization out of disorder – liquid-liquid phase separation in plants (COPB)

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Within cells there are vast numbers of different activities and processes occurring simultaneously. In eukaryotic cells, some of these processes are segregated into distinct membrane-bound compartments. Cuevas-Velazquez and Dinneny review how membraneless compartments also contribute to subcellular organization, with a focus on those predominantly found in the green lineage including pyrenoids and photobodies. The authors […]

Decoys untangle complicated redundancy and reveal targets of circadian clock F-box proteins (Plant Physiol)

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The processing of the circadian clock requires that regulatory proteins are ubiquitinated and degraded, through their interactions with F-box proteins. Lee et al. used a decoy strategy to characterize the targets of three related F-box proteins involved in clock function, ZTL, LKP2 and FKF1, which genetic studies have indicated have partially diverged, partially redundant activities. […]

Review: Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations ($) (Science)

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Obtaining the high yields needed to feed the human population depends on the application of nitrogen-containing fertilizers to non-leguminous crops, yet the production of these compounds consumes 1 – 2% of global energy output. Plant scientists are familiar with the conversion of  N2  to NH3 by nirogenase (in free-living and symbiotic bacteria), as well as […]

Review: Entering the next dimension – plant genomes in 3D (Trends Plant Sci)

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The three-dimensional arrangement of DNA within the nucleus clearly affects gene expression, but its contribution remains relatively unexplored as compared to other factors. Sotelo-Silveira et al. review new chromosome conformation capture (3C) and derived techniques for assessing genomes in 3D, as well as the corresponding biological consequences of the 3D layout. Because understanding nuclear architecture […]

What We’re Reading: June 1st

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Review: Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations ($) Obtaining the high yields needed to feed the human population depends on the application of nitrogen-containing fertilizers to non-leguminous crops, yet the production of these compounds consumes 1 – 2% of global energy output. Plant scientists are familiar with the conversion of N2 to NH3 from by nitrogenase […]

NLR mutations suppressing immune hybrid incompatibility (Plant Physiol)

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Hybrid incompatibility (HI) is effectively the opposite of hybrid vigor, and indicates a deleterious effect arising from the combination of two genomes.  Because of reduced fitness of the hybrids, HI can be considered as contributing towards speciation. In Arabidopsis thaliana, HI has been recognized in crosses between some accessions including between Landsberg (Ler) and Kashmir-2 […]