Hi @anavalladares @CPFreed @LauraMejia92 @rah107 @CPFreed@Humberto_Herrera, thank you so much for making up the fantastic infographics for FOPD! I am making up this post to compile them and what the social media text will look like. I will make up an article with all of them in Open Forum…

Lena Maria Müller Boyce Thompson Institute [email protected] Plants are in constant contact with millions of microbes, which can be pathogenic or establish mutualistic interactions with the plant. One well-studied mutualistic interaction is the nodulation symbiosis of legumes with nitrogen-fixing…

Hüther et al. develop a new pipeline to extract phenotypic traits from plant pictures with minimal supervision from the user. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00318 By Patrick Hüther, Niklas Schandry, Katharina Jandrasits, Ilja Bezrukov and Claude Becker Background: To understand…

Liu et al. investigate the diverse roles of the salicylic acid receptors NPR1, NPR3 and NPR4 in local and long-range plant immunity. The Plant Cell (2020).  https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00499 By Yanan Liu1,2, Tongjun Sun2,3 and Yuelin Zhang2 (1 College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural…

Guillaume Charrier Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. [email protected] Water potential (Ψ) defines the energy required to move water between the different compartments of a closed system. Water flows passively in the direction of decreasing…

Moving around taught me two essential skills, only one being relevant here: how to put up wallpaper, and how critical it is to label boxes to help the moving company drop them at their intended location. Now think of a cell: the boxes are vesicles, their contents are proteins and metabolites, and the…

Zhi Li, Andan Zhu, et al. compare inbred and hybrid lines to explore how daily changes in metabolic pathways affect hybrid vigor. The Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00320  Background: Heterosis or hybrid vigor refers to the superior growth or fitness in the hybrid progeny compared to one…

Liu et al., generate a novel collection of mutants impaired in PI3P biosynthesis and discovered new features and functions of this phosphoinositide in intracellular trafficking. The Plant Cell (2020). https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00285 By Richard S. Marshall and Richard D. Vierstra, Washington University,…