Entries by Priyanka Babuta

PLETHORA-autophagy fine tunes ROS to enable de novo root regeneration

/in /by

Autophagy (or “self-eating”) is a conserved quality-check pathway that degrades and recycles damaged components of the cell to restore cellular homeostasis. In plants, autophagy has been studied during wound responses, but it is less clear how it particpates in de novo organ regeneration. In a recent study, Ganguly et al. studied the role of autophagy […]

Pollination before flowers: Infrared as ancient pollination cue

/in /by

When we talk of pollination, we often imagine colorful flowers and scents that attract insects to the flowers. However, flowers are a hallmark of angiosperms. How cone-bearing gymnosperms attract their pollinators has been a long-standing question. In a recent study, Valencia-Montoya et al. investigated how cycads, one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants, […]