Minna Koskela, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana Current Position: PhD student, Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku Education: Master of Science, Biochemistry, University of Helsinki Non-scientific Interests: PC gaming, walks in nature Brief bio: Photosynthesis has fascinated me ever since I became a biochemistry student a […]
Discovery of the biosynthetic pathway of a plant metabolite lays the groundwork for its use as an anti-diabetes drug Roughly half of the western medicines used today were derived from naturally occurring plant metabolites. Plants produce over 200,000 of these specialized metabolites, but identifying medicinally useful ones is challenging, and obtaining sufficient quantities for human […]
Sandra Irmisch, first author of Discovery of UDP-Glycosyltransferases and BAHD-Acyltransferases in the Biosynthesis of the Anti-Diabetic Plant Metabolite Montbretin A Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Joerg Bohlmann, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada Education: PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Biochemistry, Jena, Germany; MSc in […]
29th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research Update: ICAR2018 is finished, we’re looking forward to ICAR2019 in Wuhan, China, and ICAR2020 in Seattle, USA. Suayib Üstün pulled together the data for the Twitter activity for #ICAR2018 – it’s interesting reading! As one person observed, you can see a clear pattern of circadian activity in the Tweets – see more […]
Sho Fujii, first author of Digalactosyldiacylglycerol is essential for organization of the membrane structure in etioplasts Current Position: Ph.D. student, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Education: Short-term Scholar, University of Michigan (2018); MS of Arts, The University of Tokyo (2016); BS of Liberal Arts, The University […]
Source: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Date: 2018-06-22 【 Title : Xiaozhong University 】(Translated from the original Chinese by Google) The angle of tillering is the angle between the tiller and the main stem of the grass family and is closely related to the crop population. The analysis of the molecular mechanism of rice […]
During seedling greening, chloroplasts are formed from proplastids. Liang and Zhu et al. used a combination of 3D electron tomography of cryo-fixed Arabidopsis cotyledons at various times after illumination to track their development. The fine structure images, accompanied by transcriptomic analysis and immunogold labelling studies, provide a detailed picture of the developmental changes that occur […]
Plants have many proteins found in the light-harvesting complex, whereas cyanobacteria have only the high-light-inducible proteins (Hlips). One-helix proteins (OHPs) are the plant homologs of Hlips, but their precise functions have been unclear. Hey and Grimm used genetic and biochemical approaches to explore OHP function in Arabidopsis. The two Arabidopsis OHPs, OHP1 and OHP2, heterodimerize […]
The angle at which leaves extend are held in a rice plant (tiller angle) affects the plant’s ability to intercept light and therefore potential yield. Genetic studies have identified a few genes involved in tiller angle, including the LAZY1 gene that encodes a protein involved in auxin transport. To identify other genes involved in this […]