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*** You can find new articles posted in advance of final issues here. The new website is still under construction and will be formally launched in January 2021. *** ASPB is pleased to usher in a new era in the publication of our Society journals, Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, with the transfer…

Plantae Presents – Gustavo MacIntosh and Jyothi Vaddasery Recorded Wednesday November 4  10am EST Gustavo MacIntosh: Colonization strategies and resistance responses in soybean-soybean aphid interactions Gustavo MacIntosh joined Iowa State University in August 2003 and he is now a…

Elisa Dell’Aglio Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon Lyon, France elisa.dell-aglio@insa-lyon.fr  The ascomycete Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh) is a powdery mildew causal agent, specifically adapted to barley (Hordeum vulgare), wheat (Triticum aestivum, Triticum turgidum)…

Luo et al. demonstrate that ectopic expression of silky3, a novel transcriptional regulator, causes pleiotropic developmental defects in maize inflorescences.. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00043 By Haishan Luo, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China Background: Inflorescence…

Plant Direct has published its first Registered Report What is a registered report? Registered Reports are a type of article where a study proposal is peer-reviewed before the research is undertaken. Registered Reports bring many positive outcomes. By providing external validation of the study…

Name Marc Somssich Affiliation University of Melbourne ORCiD 0000-0001-5092-6168 marc.somssich@unimelb.edu.au Lignification of cell walls is a pivotal process in plant life. Lignin is a biopolymer that provides additional stability to secondary cell walls (SCWs), enables vascular cells to…

Plant floral organ development is orchestrated by master regulatory genes that control the differentiation of meristem tissue. According to the ABC(DE) model of flower development (Bowman et al., 1989; nicely summarized by Irish, 2017), different floral organs form in concentric whorls (verticils) in…

Amna Mhamdi Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, and VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Address correspondence to amna.mhamdi@psb.ugent.be Stress signals trigger systemic signaling and acclimation. The propagation of reactive oxygen species…