Yuan Zhang, first author of "Cyanobacterial Photosystem II reaction center design in tobacco chloroplasts increases biomass in low light" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) Education: Ph.D. in Microbiology…

Fang et al. investigate how TZP modulates Arabidopsis seedling growth in response to red light and long days. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac236  By Weiwei Fang and Eirini Kaiserli, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Background: Plants sense, respond and adapt to the environment by changing…

Zhang, Tian, et al. examine strigolactone signaling in cotton fiber development https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac270  Guanghui Xiao and Yuzhou Zhang College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, Yangling,…

This is a fantastic article to help new, future, and even current lab heads think about their postures, priorities, and practices. It was developed through a workshop held during the Arabidopsis meeting, originally scheduled for 2020 but held online in 2021 and run by several scientists who recently…

Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase) catalyzes the fixation of atmospheric carbon from CO2 to molecules used for biosynthesis and energy production. Several studies have focused on understanding the nature, complexity, activity, and regulation of Rubisco due to its key role in the production…

The CRISPR/Cas system has become a popular genome editing (GEd) method in animals and plants, which allows very fine alterations in target genes and avoids the concerns that accompany introducing genes from other organisms. To improve food security and accelerate breeding. this technology has been applied…

Cell wall tensile stress and turgor pressure are two important determinants of cell growth. Turgor pressure has been regarded as a passive contributor, however recent evidence reviewed by Ali et al. suggests that turgor is an emergent property that determines growth. Wall stress and turgor pressure are…

Nuclear DNA is inherited from both parents during sexual reproduction, but organellar DNA is (usually) exclusively received from the mother. However, stable biparental inheritance of organellar DNA has also been reported in plants and animals but its molecular mechanism is unknown. Using quantitative…