Post-transcriptional regulation of nutrient transporters
Author: Stefanie Wege
ORCID: 0000-0002-7232-5889
stefanie.wege@adelaide.edu.au
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
Most…
Maize RNA Polymerase III Subunit NRPC2: New Kid on the Kernel Development Block
Dhineshkumar Thiruppathi 1,2
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2018-3356
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center,
Saint Louis, Missouri 63132
1Senior author
2Author for contact: dthiruppathi@danforthcenter.org
Seed (kernel) size affects evolutionary fitness and crop yield. In angiosperms, seed size…
Keeping a lid on shoot regeneration: SIZ1 suppresses wound-induced developmental reprogramming
Michael J. Skelly
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9024-0037
Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom
M.Skelly@ed.ac.uk
Plants have the remarkable ability to regenerate tissues and organs in response to wounding. This…
Terpenes in cannabis: Solving the puzzle of how to predict taste and smell
Marc-Sven Roell1
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2714-8729
1Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
marc-sven.roell@hhu.de
Cannabis sativa (cannabis) is the cornerstone of the multi-billion-dollar legal marijuana industry.…
The photobiology paradox resolved: photoreceptors drive photosynthesis and vice-versa
Charlotte Gommers, Assistant Features Editor
charlotte.gommers@wur.nl
For a long time, the study of light fueled two independent fields of plant sciences. On the one hand, light energy is absorbed in the chloroplasts, to drive sugar production via photosynthesis. On the other hand, light is an…
True Blue: How Cry1 Inhibits Phototropism in Green Seedlings
Kasper van Gelderen
Plant Ecophysiology, Dept. of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The study of plant movement towards light, also called phototropism, has a venerable history with giants such as Charles Darwin and Frits Went involved in its study, which…
Functional principal component analysis: a robust method for time-series phenotypic data
Molecular breeding relies on careful assessment of phenotypic traits linked to DNA markers so that causal genes can be identified and desirable crop alleles selected. Over the past decade, DNA markers have become abundant with the rapid advancement of next-generation sequencing technology, including…
Sensing Attack: The Role of Wall-associated Kinases in Plant Pathogen Responses
Sam Amsbury
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield, UK
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2767-9768
s.amsbury@sheffield.ac.uk
The physical and chemical barrier provided by the cell wall is one of the first lines of defence for plants against pathogen attack. Plant cell walls provide physical protection…
State Transition Regulation in Chlamydomonas
Ananya Mukherjee
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806
amukherjee3@unl.edu
Photosynthetic organisms often face fluctuations in light quality and quantity. Green plants and algae have built-in mechanisms that allow them to adapt to such changes. One…