JGI Plant Gene Atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom
Plant Science Research WeeklyFunctional genomic studies across plants are incomplete without deciphering the putative gene functions in model as well as non-model plants. With an aim to facilitate gene function identification and cross-species expression analysis, Sreedasyam et al. describe the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Plant…
Plant Science Research Weekly: Sept. 1, 2023
WWR Full PostPerspective: How flower development genes were identified using forward genetic screens in Arabidopsis thaliana
If you weren’t around in the '80s, you missed some great times; the music, the fashion, the flower genetics! This historical perspective article by David Smythe nicely sums up those heady…
Carbon trafficking in green algae
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHuang and Krishnan et al. investigate photoassimilate export in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
By Weichao Huang1 and Arthur Grossman2
1Current position: Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China
1Previous position: Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie…
Sending out a salt-related SOS: transcriptional regulation of salt stress responses
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLu et al. explore the roles of a Mediator complex subunit and a WRKY transcription factor in regulating the salt-responsive gene SOS1.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad105
Background: Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that severely affects plant growth and development. Plants…
Cryptophyte PSI–LHCI supercomplexes: understanding the structural diversity and evolution of PSI–LHCI in the red lineage
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhao, Wang, Li, et al. explore how the photosynthetic apparatus evolved in the cryptophyte Chroomonas placoidea, which is related to red algae.
Long-Sheng Zhao1 and Lu-Ning Liu2.
1State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
2Institute of Systems, Molecular…
The importance of being in the right place to respond to light cues
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLopez Vazquez et al explore the importance of protein sub-cellular localization by determining how a protein modulating light responses gets to the right place within the cell.
Christian Fankhauser, Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Génopode Building, University of…
Interdependence of subunits of the m6A methyltransferase complex
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLisha Shen uncovers unique functional interdependence at the post-translational level among individual components of the Arabidopsis m6A methyltransferase complex.
By Lisha Shen, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Background:…
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of RxLR effectors into plant cells
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWang et al. discover that Phytophthora infestans RxLR effectors enter host plant cells via clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
By Haixia Wang1, Petra C Boevink2, Paul RJ Birch1,2
1Division of Plant Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, @James Hutton Institute, Errol Road, Invergowrie,…
Review: Strigolactones integrate metabolic and nutritional signals
Plant Science Research WeeklyStrigolactones are a class of hormones first identified in the 1960s as components of root exudates that promote germination of parasitic Striga seeds, and later as a promoter of associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Strigolactones also have endogenous roles within plants, for example as regulators…