Entries by Mary Williams

Li Zichao, research group of China Agricultural University, made new progress in the research on drought resistance mechanism of water and upland rice

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Press release from The World of Seeds, translated by Google Translate Rice and upland rice are two ecological types of Asian cultivated rice that are differentiated under different water conditions, and their drought resistance is significantly different. Therefore, mining the drought-resistant genes of upland rice cultivars and studying their molecular mechanisms is of great significance […]

New insights in cell death in plants might generate new leads for weed control

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Source: SeedQuest Some plants like the giant sequoia trees can grow into the “Largest Living Things on Earth”. Ironically, most of a tree’s biomass is actually not alive, but is formed by persistent cell corpses that are collectively called wood. Wood development is terminated by a tightly controlled cell death process of the individual cell […]

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Peter M Kopittke

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Peter M Kopittke, first author of Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy as a technique for imaging of elements in plants Current Position: Associate Professor in Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia Education: PhD in Soil Science, Graduate Certificate in Education Non-scientific Interests: Nil Brief bio: After graduating from my PhD, I was […]

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Eigo Ando

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Eigo Ando, first author of Red light-induced phosphorylation of PM H+-ATPase in stomatal guard cells of Arabidopsis thaliana Current position: Ph.D. Student, graduating in October 2018 Education: B.S. (2012): Division of Biological Science, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan; M.S. (2014): Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan Non-scientific interests: Reading, […]

The mysterious Pilostyles is a plant within a plant

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  Pilostyles are only visible when their fruit and flowers erupt out of their host plants. The Conversation/Wikipedia Steve Wylie; Jen Mccomb, and Kevin Thiele, University of Western Australia In 1946, forestry officer Charles Hamilton found something unusual on a shrubby native pea plant growing in Mundaring, near Perth. The pea had strange knobs on […]

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Abdellatif Bahaji

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Abdellatif Bahaji, first author of Plastidial phosphoglucose isomerase is an important determinant of seed yield through involvement in gibberellin-mediated reproductive development and biosynthesis of storage reserves in Arabidopsis Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, Navarra, Spain Education: PhD in Plant biology, Department of Plant Physiology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Non-scientific Interests: […]

Predominant Golgi-residency of the plant K/HDEL receptor is essential for its function in mediating ER retention (Plant Cell)

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Cells use a sophisticated sorting system to ensure that proteins get to the proper destination. Proteins that are supposed to stay in the ER carry special tags (KDEL or HDEL, recognized by the ERD2 receptor) that prevent them from being swept along with other proteins out of the ER and into the Golgi. Silva-Alvim et […]

Footprints of parasitism in the genome of the parasitic flowering plant Cuscuta campestris (Nature Comms)

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Even without knowing a lot about parasitic plants, you can probably guess some of the insights that come from the first parasitic plant genomic sequence. Because parasitic plants get their nutrients from another organism (functionally, they become heterotrophic), you might expect they would gradually lose the genes needed for nutrient uptake and for photosynthesis. You […]