Niehaus et al. explore the nucleotide metabolome of germinating seeds By Markus Niehaus1, Henryk Straube1 and Marco Herde1 1Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants Background: All living organisms, including plants, possess DNA and rely on the active synthesis of its building blocks, called deoxyribonucleotides (A,G,C and T). DNA is made […]
Blankenagel et al. discover a major link between variation in water use efficiency and carbon isotope discrimination By Sonja Blankenagel, Stella Eggels, and Viktoriya Avramova Plant Breeding, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich Background: Growing crops with high water use efficiency can lower the requirement for irrigation and precipitation in this era […]
Jing Hui et al. identified ZmAMT3;1 as a mycorrhiza-specific ammonium transporter that transfers ammonium from fungi to plants across the plant–fungus interface and enhances nitrogen acquisition in maize. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac225 By Jing Hui and Lixing Yuan, China Agricultural University Background: More than 80% of vascular plants can form symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi […]
Using new experimental tools, Cui et al. identified a surprising role for the BOS1 transcription factor in the regulation of programmed cell death. Plant Cell. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac206 Authors: F. Cui, M. Brosché, and K. Overmyer Affiliations: FC- Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China; MB, KO- University of Helsinki, Finland Background: Programmed cell death (PCD) is essential […]
Zhang et al. discover how a tetratricopeptide repeat protein promotes heading by facilitating florigen transport in rice Background: Hd3a and RFT1 are mobile flowering signals that promote the floral transition in rice and were proposed to function as florigens that play major roles under short-day conditions (SDs) and long-day conditions (LDs), respectively. Hd3a and RFT1 […]
By Hui Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Wang and colleagues explore how two WUSCHEL-like transcription factors affect leaf blade outgrowth in Medicago truncatula and Nicotiana sylvestris Background: Members of the plant-specific WOX family of transcription factors are key regulators of meristem maintenance and lateral organ development. We have […]
Palos et al. identify thousands of new long intergenic noncoding RNAs using public data. By Kyle Palos and Andrew Nelson Background: All plants have thousands of genes in their genomes that contribute to plant form and function. While the functional “end-state” of many of these genes are proteins, some genes produce RNAs that never produce […]
Redkar et al. demonstrate that the wilt-inducing fungus Fusarium oxysporum secretes a set of proteins that allow it to colonize the roots of a wide array of plant species. The Plant Cell (2022). By Amey Redkar1 and Antonio Di Pietro2. Illustration by Dr. Lindsay Erndwein 1Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, […]
Tang et al. explore the molecular basis of cambium development at the post-transcriptional level in Populus. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac178 By Xianfeng Tang1, Quanzi Li2, and Gongke Zhou3 1 Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2 State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry. 3 College of Landscape Architecture […]