Rice Leaf Erectness Tied to Phosphorus Efficiency
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellRuan et al. discover a protein module that regulates rice leaf inclination in response to soil Pi availability. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00738
Background: As an essential element for plant growth, phosphorus (P) is taken up by plant roots as inorganic Pi (Pi) from the soil solution.…
A New Player In Plant Respose to Far-red Light
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhang et al. discover a protein that interacts with the photoreceptor phyA and plays a role in plant response to far-red light. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00677
By Shaoman Zhang, Cong Li and Jigang Li
Background: Far-red (FR) light, corresponding to 700- to 750- nm wavelengths…
How Plants Generate Circadian Rhythms in Transcription
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMa et al. investigate a protein complex that controls steady-state mRNA circadian oscillations https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00052
By Yuan Ma, Sergio Gil, Klaus D. Grasser and Paloma Mas
Background: Circadian clocks are internal time-keeping mechanisms that help organisms to adapt to the…
B-GATAs Fine Tune Greening
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBastakis et al. investigate control of the greening process in Arabidopsis https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00947.
By Emmanouil Bastakis
Background: The greening of the plants is based on the synthesis and accumulation of the chlorophylls, which takes place in chloroplasts. Chlorophylls capture…
Protein Editing for Multi-Tasking
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZauner et al. investigate the mechanism of protein re-purposing. The Plant Cell (2018). https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00963.
By Florian B. Zauner, Elfriede Dall and Hans Brandstetter
Background: Plants cannot run away from herbivores, drought, or heat. To withstand adverse conditions, plants have…
TEOSINTE BRANCHED1 and Wheat Inflorescence Architecture
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDixon et al. (2018) investigate the regulation of wheat inflorescence architecture by TEOSINTE BRANCHED1. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00961
Background: Grass inflorescences are composed of many seed-producing flowers (or florets) that are arranged on branches called spikelets. The number…
A new mechanism for plant immune pathways discovered by genetics
Blog, The Plant Cell: NewsSource: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Published: 2018-07-05 http://www.cas.cn/syky/201807/t20180704_4657121.shtml (Translation by Google Translate)
Plants sense the presence of pathogens through pattern recognition receptors (PRRs ) located on the surface of the cell membrane to…
Summer fun: how plants beat the heat
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: News
By Adam Phillips. Reprinted from It Ain't Magic, The RIKEN Global Communications Team https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off-the-press/plants-beat-heat
It seems like I’ve been writing a lot about plants recently. The truth is that I hardly have enough time to write about all the cool plant…
Chen Mingsheng's research team found an evolutionary trend of genes fleeing the centromere region
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: NewsArticle source: http://theworldseeds.cn/index.php?p=152804 (Translated by Google Translate)
The centromere and its surroundings are the fastest-evolving and most complex areas of the plant genome. The centromere and near centromere regions not only undergo rapid sequence changes and structural remodeling,…