Category: Research

Kaushik Panda, first author of Long-read cDNA Sequencing Enables a 'Gene-Like' Transcript Annotation of Transposable Elements Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate in the Slotkin Laboratory at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Education: Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics,…

Rajdeep Khangura, first author of Variation in maize chlorophyll biosynthesis alters plant architecture Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher in the group of Dr. Brian Dilkes, Department of Biochemistry and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Education:…

Melatonin is a highly conserved bioactive molecule present in all plant species. It is produced from serotonin through two consecutive enzymatic steps. Serotonin is converted into either N-acetylserotonin by serotonin N-acetyltransferase (SNAT) or into 5- methoxytryptamine by caffeic acid O-methyltransferase…

The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, authors who have received an editorial decline decision from any journal in the ASPB suite of titles will have the option to transfer their submissions to any other ASPB journal. ASPB publishes three…

Apart from its well-known function in Suc unloading, cell wall invertase (CWIN), an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of Suc into Fru and Glc, also plays a role in sugar signaling and plant development.  As an  example of CWIN playing a role in plant development, Liao et al. (10.1104/pp.20.00400)…

Cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin are the brick and mortar of the plant kingdom, and how they are laid has substantial impacts on plant morphology.  Plant cell shape is dictated by the interplay between turgor pressure and heterogeneity in cell wall composition, whereby localized cell wall loosening…

Eva Hellmann, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB2 1LR Cambridge, United Kingdom, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4591-2973 eva.hellmann@slcu.cam.ac.uk   Small secreted peptides (SSPs) are short peptides that function as messengers and regulate a variety of processes in plants…

Wang et al. demonstrate that BRs play important roles in seedling development and survival during the initial emergence of seedlings from subterranean darkness into sunlight. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00057. By Lingyan Wang,Yanchen Tian, Wen Shi, Min Fan and Ming-Yi Bai,…