Plant Physiology

Viruses have small genomes with limited protein-coding capacities. To compensate for this, viruses modulate plant gene expression and co-opt host factors to support their replication, cell-to-cell movement, and systemic movement. Modulation of host gene expression can lead to the development of disease…

Stomata respond to changes in the light environment through multiple mechanisms that jointly regulate the tradeoff between carbon assimilation and water loss. The rapid and highly sensitive widening of stomatal aperture in response to low-fluence blue light is present in most vascular plant groups but…

Guillaume Charrier Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. [email protected] Water potential (Ψ) defines the energy required to move water between the different compartments of a closed system. Water flows passively in the direction of decreasing…

Charles Copeland1 1Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany ORCID: 0000-0001-8535-8615 [email protected]   As plants grow, they produce new organs such as leaves, lateral roots, and flowers. Plant development…

Maria Betsabe Mantilla-Perez, first author of Towards "smart canopy" sorghum: discovery of the genetic control of leaf angle across layers Current Position: Principal Wheat Breeder at Bayer Crop Science, USA Non-Scientific Interest: travelling, dancing, and outdoor activities. Brief Bio: I am…

Elisa Dell’Aglio Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon Lyon, France [email protected]  The ascomycete Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh) is a powdery mildew causal agent, specifically adapted to barley (Hordeum vulgare), wheat (Triticum aestivum, Triticum turgidum)…

Name Marc Somssich Affiliation University of Melbourne ORCiD 0000-0001-5092-6168 [email protected] Lignification of cell walls is a pivotal process in plant life. Lignin is a biopolymer that provides additional stability to secondary cell walls (SCWs), enables vascular cells to…

Amna Mhamdi Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, and VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Address correspondence to [email protected] Stress signals trigger systemic signaling and acclimation. The propagation of reactive oxygen species…