Increasing risks of multiple breadbasket failure under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming (Ag Systems)
Plant Science Research WeeklyCrop yields are vulnerable to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation. Here, Gaupp et al. model the projected crop yields at 1.5 versus 2.0 degrees of additional warming, as part of the HAPPI experiment (perhaps a misnomer: Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts).…
Perspective: Challenging battles of plants with phloem-feeding insects and prokaryotic pathogens (PNAS)
Plant Science Research WeeklyMuch of our understanding of plant defense response is built upon the responses that occur in leaves. Many pathogens colonize the phloem system, which is both nutrient-rich and provides an easy conduit for spreading through systemically through the plant body. These phloem-inhabiting prokaryotic pathogens…
Unraveling cis and trans regulatory evolution during cotton domestication (Nature Comms)
Plant Science Research WeeklyPolyploidization leads to a myriad of changes in gene expression and organization of genomes and can supply the material for speciation, adaptation, and morphological innovation. The most cultivated cotton species, Gossypium hirsutum, is an allotetraploid species (AD genome) containing two subgenomes…
NONSTOP GLUMES 1 regulates spikelet development in rice (Plant Cell)
Plant Science Research WeeklyRecently, several genes affecting rice architecture have been identified that may increase yields by increasing the number of grains formed, but as yet the genetic control of rice inflorescence architecture and organ identity is still being worked out. Zhuang et al. identified mutants of the NONSTOP…
Review. Brassinosteroids: Multi-dimensional regulators of plant growth, development, and stress responses (Plant Cell)
Plant Science Research WeeklyIt’s been fifty years since the existence of brassinosteroids was shown, and about thirty since the awesome power of Arabidopsis genetics started to reveal the genes involved in its synthesis, perception and signaling. Nolan et al. review the highlights of brassinosteroid research and also more recent…
Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Shauni McGregor
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesShauni McGregor, co-first author of A PXY-Mediated Transcriptional Network Integrates Signaling Mechanisms to Control Vascular Development in Arabidopsis
Current Position: PhD student and the University of Sheffield
Education: BSc in Biological Sciences and MScR in developmental plant genetics from…
Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Margot Smit
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesMargot Smit, co-first author of A PXY-Mediated Transcriptional Network Integrates Signaling Mechanisms to Control Vascular Development in Arabidopsis
Current Position: HHMI postdoc in the group of Prof. Dr. Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University Department of Biology
Education: MSc in Biotechnology…
Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Zhen Wang
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesZhen Wang, co-first author of Two Chloroplast Proteins Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Resistance Through Separate Pathways
Current Position: Research Associate, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Education: Ph.D. in Genetics, Shanghai Institutes for Biological…
Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Yechun Hong
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesYechun Hong, co-first author of Two Chloroplast Proteins Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Resistance Through Separate Pathways
Current position: Ph.D. student, Shanghai center for plant stress biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education: B.S., School of life science, Sun Yat-Sen University
Non-scientific…