Bin Hu is featured first author of Expression of the Nitrate Transporter Gene OsNRT1.1A/OsNPF6.3 Confers High Yield and Early Maturation in Rice Current Position: Associate Professor, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: Ph.D in Genetics at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Non-scientific Interests: Reading, running, […]
Metabolomics, like the other high throughput omics platforms, provides a snapshot of metabolites in response to a condition or in a cell, tissue, organ, or entire organism. In this review effort the author has cataloged all relevant tools, databases and softwares that were published in 2016-2017 for the metabolomics community. The review summarizes > 85 […]
Plasma membrane lipids including phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIPs) are often depicted as forming a featureless plane that serves mainly as a barrier, but in reality they show considerable spatial diversity. PIPs contribute to anchoring and positioning proteins and protein networks, so there is much to be learned by mapping their dynamic distributions. Stanislas et al. used […]
Proteomics, like metabolomics research, depends on the mass-spectrometry tools. Data processing, protein annotation, statistical and data analysis, as well as visualization are often the hurdles in obtaining meaningful biological insights from high throughput datasets. To this end, the author has summarized all open source community resources, software tools, and databases that surfaced in 2016-2017 and […]
This week’s edition is guest edited by Arif Ashraf (@aribidopsis), a graduate student of United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Japan and Graduate student ambassador of American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). His research interest is understanding the hormonal interplay in primary root development of Arabidopsis thaliana. He blogs about plant science at www.aribidopsis.com. Review: The pivotal […]
The inaugural class of ASPB Conviron Scholars are wrapping up their virtual course, which included discussions and exercises on various aspects of professional development, from communication to leadership. As part of the course, they were asked to write a blog post and do some sort of independent project to illustrate or explain a facet of plant science to the […]
Guest Editor: Dr. Isabel Mendoza Isabel is a plant biologist from Spain that got her PhD on (Plant) Biotechnology in 2013 with a study about secondary metabolism in spike lavender. Since then she has changed her career path a bit into R&D and innovation management and science communication. However, plant science is still her “secret […]
In this interesting review, Roeder describes the importance of stochasticity in plant development. She starts off with an explanation: “A process that can be analyzed statistically but not predicted precisely is stochastic. Stochasticity does not imply the absence of regulation, just that the regulation does not cause an exactly determined output in all cases.” She […]
One of the best characterized plant-bacteria interactions is that between legumes and rhizobia. This review by Poole et al. explores rhizobia in their non-plant associated state (as saprophytes that derive energy and nutrients from organic matter in the soil), through the complex signals that lead to their attraction and attachment to the root, and finally […]