Kyung, Jeon et al. investigated the nature of the molecular mechanism by which winter cold accelerates flowering and discovered that circadian clock regulators are involved. By Jinseul Kyung and Myeongjune Jeon; School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea Background: Appropriate timing of reproduction is essential for the survival of all living organisms, […]
Longkumer et al. explore how plant growth is regulated during drought. Paul E. Verslues and Toshisangba Longkumer, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN Background: Plants can deliberately slow down their growth in response to even a small decrease in water availability. This can help plants prepare for further drying, but can […]
Huang, Chen and colleagues take advantage of a partial duplicated gene to compare the functions of the partial duplicate and its parental copy. By Yuan Huang, Jiahui Chen, Shengqian Xia and Manyuan Long, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA Background: The origin of novel genes contributes to evolutionary innovation. Gene […]
Chang et al. discover the role of an evolutionarily conserved splicing factor in regulating temperature-responsive flowering in Arabidopsis. Background: Eukaryotic genes contain non-coding sequences termed introns that intervene between coding sequences. After being transcribed into pre-mRNA, these sequences must be spliced out properly by a protein-RNA macrocomplex called the spliceosome. At the beginning of spliceosome […]
Li et al. found that SOG1, a functional homolog of mammalian p53, protects radicle growth when seeds accumulate DNA damage. By Jinchao Li and Weiqiang Qian, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research and School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Background: DNA bases can be oxidized by reactive oxygen species […]
Groen et al. investigate the genes and traits under selection when rice experiences drought. By Simon C. “Niels” Groen a,b and Amelia Henryc a Institute of Integrative Genome Biology and Department of Nematology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA; b Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New […]
Chang et al. discover the phenotypic consequences of different isoforms of Coat Protein Complex II genes in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Background: Vesicles that form on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and are bound for the Golgi apparatus are coated in a complex of proteins known as Coat Protein Complex II (COPII). COPII proteins are highly […]
Noack et al. provide insight into the biosynthesis of an important plasma membrane lipid. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab135 Lise Noack and Yvon Jaillais Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, F-69342, Lyon, France Background: The inside of the cell is delimited from the outside by a membrane, […]
Joke De Jaeger-Braet & Arp Schnittger, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, Department of Developmental Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany De Jaeger-Braet and colleagues explore the effects of high temperatures on meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis. Background: One of the hidden, yet far-reaching consequences of the current climate change crisis is an alteration of how particular […]