Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Annika Brünje
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesAnnika Brünje, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: PhD student, Plant Physiology, University of Münster
Education: Master of Science, Biology, University of Bochum
Non-scientific Interests: Good books and…
Nuclear Positioning Requires a Tug-of-War Between Kinesin Motors
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefThe microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton is a dynamic network of self-assembling highways that, together with the help of motor proteins, promotes intracellular transport and the formation of magnificent structures such as the preprophase band, mitotic spindle, and phragmoplast (Nebenführ and Dixit, 2018). …
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Minna Koskela
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesMinna Koskela, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: PhD student, Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku
Education: Master of Science, Biochemistry, University of Helsinki
Non-scientific Interests: PC…
A pretty plant of summer produces a promising anti-diabetes compound
Blog, The Plant CellDiscovery of the biosynthetic pathway of a plant metabolite lays the groundwork for its use as an anti-diabetes drug
Roughly half of the western medicines used today were derived from naturally occurring plant metabolites. Plants produce over 200,000 of these specialized metabolites, but identifying…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Sandra Irmisch
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesSandra Irmisch, first author of Discovery of UDP-Glycosyltransferases and BAHD-Acyltransferases in the Biosynthesis of the Anti-Diabetic Plant Metabolite Montbretin A
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Joerg Bohlmann, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia,…
Advances in the analysis of the molecular mechanism of rice tiller angle regulation in genetic development
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: NewsSource: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Date: 2018-06-22 【 Title : Xiaozhong University 】(Translated from the original Chinese by Google)
The angle of tillering is the angle between the tiller and the main stem of the grass family and is closely related to the crop population.…
Moonlighting NAD+ Malate Dehydrogenase is Essential for Chloroplast Biogenesis
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefSome proteins are put to work in more than one job, in a form of evolutionary improvization. They are often described as "moonlighting" proteins, referring to the practice of people taking a second job, typically after dark, to help pay the bills. A classic example of a moonlighting protein is the…
Plant Cell Editor Profile: Blake Meyers
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesBy Alex Harkess and Margaret Frank
While working on very small RNA molecules, Blake Meyers tackles some of the biggest problems in plant biology. Blake has spent much of his academic career generating and sifting through billions of sequence reads to ask a deceptively simple question: what do small…
Critical plant gene takes unexpected detour that could boost biofuel yields
Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: News
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 15, 2018 - For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function--produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to human diets.
But for Wellington Muchero, Meng Xie and their colleagues, this enzyme does more than advertised.…