Author: Stefanie Wege ORCID: 0000-0002-7232-5889 [email protected] Affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, PRC, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond 5064, South Australia, Australia   Most…

The plant cell wall is vital for plant survival—it mediates defence against pathogens, provides structural stability and controls growth to produce final plant form. Plant cell walls are composite structures formed mainly from cellulose, hemicelluloses, and pectins, and the interactions of these components…

Ding et al. investigate the developmental genetics of corolla tube formation in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). The Plant Cell (2020). https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00471   By Baoqing Ding and Yao-Wu Yuan, University of Connecticut Background: About one third of all angiosperm species produce…

Cheng et al. demonstrate that a fully functional ROP fluorescent fusion protein marks future polarity sites 1–2 cell cycles ahead of growth. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00440.  By Xiaohang Cheng and Magdalena Bezanilla  Background: Unlike animals, plants can’t simply…

Dhineshkumar Thiruppathi 1,2  ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2018-3356 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri 63132 1Senior author 2Author for contact: [email protected] Seed (kernel) size affects evolutionary fitness and crop yield. In angiosperms, seed size…

Mother Nature has a way of keeping seemingly useless structures around millions of years. Such structures are likely to have a use that is not obvious, although they could also be remnants of the evolutionary past without extant function, or non-functional but harmless byproducts of a different adaptive…

María Jazmín Abraham-Juárez, Amanda Schrager-Lavelle et. al. explore how variation in a key floral regulator affects floral development, downstream gene expression and protein complex assembly in maize. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00300  by Jazmin Abraham-Juarez, Biology Department,…

Michael J. Skelly ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9024-0037 Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom [email protected] Plants have the remarkable ability to regenerate tissues and organs in response to wounding. This…