Huijie Liu: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesHuijie Liu, co-first author of "N4-acetylation of cytidine in (m)RNA plays essential roles in plants"
Current position: Ph.D. candidate, Nanjing Agricultural University
Education: Master, Hangzhou Normal University
Non-scientific Interests: traveling and watching movies
Brief bio:
In 2022,…
TaGSK3 regulates the Green Revolution Protein Rht-B1b to reduce wheat plant height
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDong, Li, et al. explore the mechanisms regulating a Green Revolution protein that acts to reduce plant height
Huixue Dong1,2,3, Danping Li1,3, Ruizhen Yang1, Lichao Zhang1, Yunwei Zhang1, Xu Liu1, Xiuying Kong1,*, and Jiaqiang Sun1,*
State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Breeding,…
Phosphate uptake in maize
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWang, Yuan, et al. explore the regulatory connection between phosphorus nutrient homeostasis and vegetative-reproductive development in maize.
Background: Phosphorus is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. To cope with phosphorus limitation, plants have evolved sophisticated…
A new regulatory module controls chlorophyll catabolism in bananas under high temperature
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWei et al. discover a new transcriptional and post-translational regulatory module, MaBAH1-MaMYB60, that regulates chlorophyll catabolism and green ripening in bananas under high temperature.
By Wei Wei, Yingying Yang, Prakash Lakshmanan, Jianfei Kuang, Wangjin Lu, Xuequn Pang, Jianye Chen and Wei…
Review: CRISPR/Cas-mediated plant genome editing, a decade after implementation
Plant Science Research WeeklyI’ll be honest, I was surprised to see “a decade after implementation” in this title, but indeed, the first publication describing CRISPR/Cas in plants was in 2013. We’ve learned a lot in the past 10 years and the technology provides many opportunities, but challenges remain, both of which are…
Plant Physiology Focus Issue: Fruit Crops
Plant Science Research WeeklyJuly brings delicious fruit harvests in the Northern Hemisphere, and a very special focus issue of Plant Physiology. I particularly like this issue because of the wide variety of species covered, starting with apple, banana, blueberry, cherry, citrus, and so on. It’s a nice departure from our usual…
Brassinosteroid coordinates cell layer interactions via cell wall and tissue mechanics
Plant Science Research WeeklyOrganismal growth requires extensive coordination between cells and tissues with different identities, and this is particularly important for plants with their rigid cell walls and lack of cell motility. A key mechanism for tissue coordination involving brassinosteroids has been identified by Kelly-Bellow…
RHO GTPase of plants regulates polarized cell growth and cell division orientation during morphogenesis
Plant Science Research WeeklyPrecise spatial control of cell division and cell growth is necessary to produce the specific cellular organizations demanded by the complex tissues and organs of morphologically complex organisms One of many factors that guide cell division/growth is cell polarity, of which RHO GTPase-type proteins…
Light and sucrose signaling converge at TOR kinase to control plant development
Plant Science Research WeeklyDifferent photoreceptors (mainly phytochromes and cryptochromes) perceive light, which acts as a signal for controlling plant growth and development. Similarly, light is absorbed by chlorophylls (and carotenoids) for generating energy via photosynthesis. In search of a link between these two light-mediated…