Category: Research

Hui-Yang Xu, first author of The MAPK kinase kinase GmMEKK1 regulates cell death and defense responses Current Position: Education Counselor, Zhejiang Post and Telecommunication College, Shaoxing, China. Education: MS in Plant Genetics from Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China Non-scientific…

(From a press release written in Chinese - original here) On September 10th , The Plant Cell published a research paper entitled Maize Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase1 Degrades Oxalate and Affects the Seed Metabolome and Nutritional Quality by the Wu Yongrui Research Group of the Institute of Plant and Plant…

Qian Zhang, first author of Blue light regulates secondary cell wall thickening via MYC2/MYC4 activation of the NST1-directed transcriptional network in Arabidopsis Current Position: PhD candidate. National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics ＆ CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences,…

Priya Voothuluru, first author of An in vivo imaging assay detects spatial variability in glucose release from plant roots Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Education: Ph.D. University of Missouri 2012 Non-scientific interests:…

The great strides we’ve made in understanding how plants perceive their environment, from light to pathogens to nutrients, haven't been matched with an understanding of what they do with all that information; how do so many inputs get integrated into a single or few responses? And how does the information…

Of course plants need to communicate between their different parts, and our understanding of these crucial signals has been advancing rapidly. This issue of Plant Cell Physiology includes a set of papers highlighting recent findings. A meeting report by Kiba on the Integrative Graduate Education and…

Zinc is an important micronutrient for plants and people. To better understand Zn uptake and homeostasis, Sinclair et al. used a transcriptomic approach to identify genes abnormally expressed in zinc-transporter mutants (hma2 hma4). In these mutants, Zn accumulates in roots but isn’t effectively transported…

Polyamines including spermine and spermidine are present in all eukaryotes and have diverse roles. In plants they have been implicated in responses ranging from abiotic and biotic stresses to grain filling. Tao et al. examined the function of OsPMS1, encoding a spermine synthase, through genetic methods…