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Water Pass: the aquaporin ZmPIP2:5 contributes to water transport at the gatekeeper cells

Magdalena M. Julkowska, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, ORCID: 0000-0002-4259-8296 Magdalena.Julkowska@kaust.edu.sa Water transport is essential for many physiological processes in vascular plants. One of the forces driving water transport across roots…

Molecular Snapshots of the AKT1-CIPK23 Complex Involved in K+ Uptake

Dhineshkumar Thiruppathi 1,2  ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2018-3356 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri 63132 1Lead author 2Author for contact: dthiruppathi@danforthcenter.org   Potassium (K+) is the most abundant intracellular cation in all living organisms…

Plants increase photosynthesis efficiency by lowering the proton gradient across the thylakoid membrane

Author: Stefanie Wege stefanie.wege@adelaide.edu.au ORCID: 0000-0002-7232-5889 Affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, PRC, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond 5064, South Australia, Australia   In…

A GDSL lipase is required for anther and pollen development

Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, 1712 Claflin Road, Throckmorton Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA weizhang17@ksu.edu Male fertility in angiosperms requires specific spatiotemporal gene expression patterns and cellular differentiation during male reproductive development (Wilson…

In the Search for the SWEETest Pear

If you close your eyes and think about the most delicious fruit you have ever tasted, it is likely that one specific characteristic will come to mind (and mouth!): its sweetness. Humans have a natural appreciation of plant sugars, and it is no surprise that enhanced sugar content is among the most desired…

Closing Gaps and Opening New Avenues During Megasporogenesis of Rice

The formation of the mature female gametophyte is one of the most complex processes in plants. It requires successive rounds of diploid mitosis, followed by meiosis and finally haploid mitosis, not to mention cell differentiation and cell degeneration in the multicellular gametophyte. Since the female…

Role of DnaK-DnaJ proteins in PSII repair

Ananya Mukherjee ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806 amukherjee3@unl.edu University of Nebraska Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588   Climate change is expected to make drought far more severe and frequent for plants all over the world (Bartlett et al., 2016). Drought affects yield, growth, and development…

From Fuzziness to Clarity: Regulation of DRP5B Ring Dynamics at the Chloroplast Division Site

Tianhu Sun ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2513-1387 Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 ts753@cornell.edu Plant cells harbor a varying number of chloroplasts and chloroplasts multiply by division to maintain the continuity…

Cell Wall Remodeling During Wood Development

Madeleine Seale Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom maddy.seale@plants.ox.ac.uk ORCID: 0000-0002-8924-3943 Wood formation occurs via radial proliferation of vascular cambium cells and the deposition of secondary cell wall layers…