Entries by Plant Cell

Cell wall-loosening agents control fruit softening in tomato

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Su et al. identify two cell wall-loosening agents that synergistically regulate tomato fruit softening. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad291 By Guanqing Su1, Yanna Shi1, 2, 3 1College of Agriculture & Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China 2Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Integrative Biology, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, 310058, China 3The State Agriculture Ministry Laboratory […]

A key player in glutamate export from Arabidopsis chloroplasts

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The et al. identified a chloroplast glutamate exporter in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell (2023). By Samantha The and Mechthild Tegeder, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad310 Background: Plants produce amino acids in chloroplasts, and membrane transporters are needed to move these amino acids to the cytosol. In the […]

MdBPC2 regulates apple growth

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Zhao et al. discovered that MdYUC2a and MdYUC6b are targets of H3K27me3 modification mediated by MdBPC2-MdLHP1, which regulates auxin biosynthesis during apple growth. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad297 Haiyan Zhao, Shuyuan Wan, Yanni Huang, Xiaoqiang Li, Tiantian Jiao, Zhijun Zhang, Baiquan Ma, Lingcheng Zhu, Fengwang Ma, Mingjun Li. State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency/Shaanxi Key Laboratory […]

Examination of the plant cytokinesis machinery reveals the rules of cellular asymmetry

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Schmidt-Marcec, Parish and colleagues characterize members of the MACERATOR (MACET) family of proteins in the context of cell division.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad304  By Sharol Schmidt-Marcec, Alyssa Parish, Tetyana Smertenko, Matthew Hickey, Bernard M.A.G. Piette, Andrei Smertenko Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA99164, USA; Department of Mathematics, Durham University, Durham UK Background: The success of […]

Mechanisms underlying transposable element load variation in Arabidopsis

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Jiang et al. explore the mechanisms underlying transposable element load variation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad296 By Juan Jiang (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Ya-Long Guo (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Background: Genetic load refers to accumulated deleterious mutations that could reduce organism fitness. Range expansion promotes adaptation […]

Thermoprotection by a metacaspase

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Zhou et al. examine the fundamental functions of metacaspases in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad289 By Yong Zou, Adrian N. Dauphinee, Simon Stael and Peter V. Bozhkov Department of Molecular Sciences, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, Uppsala, Sweden Background: Metacaspases are a large class of […]

Things to do before you die: The bucket list of a plant cell

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Wang, Bollier, Buono, et al. catalog the cellular processes that occur during programmed cell death in plants. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad308 Jie Wang, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, China Moritz K. Nowack, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium Background: Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically controlled process causing the targeted death […]

TaGW2 regulates drought tolerance in wheat

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Li, Zhang, Liu et al. demonstrate that the E3 ligase TaGW2 enhances wheat drought tolerance by promoting the degradation of the transcription factor TaARR12. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad307 By Shumin Li, Zhensheng Kang and Hude Mao State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China. Background: Drought limits crop yield, […]

RNA composition of Processing Bodies

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Liu et al. explore the RNAs present in processing bodies, a cytoplasmic subcellular condensate.  Andriani Mentzelopoulou Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Heraklion, Greece  Panagiotis Moschou Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for […]