BASS Fishing: Genetic Screen Uncovers a New Transporter in Photorespiration
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South et al. discover a new transporter involved in photorespiration http://www.plantcell.org/content/29/4/808.abstract.
Photosynthesis uses solar energy to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into sugars that provide the energy and chemical building blocks for plant growth. A key enzyme in photosynthesis…
Intricacies of Transcription Elongation
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellAntosz et al. provide insight into the complex process of transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II http://www.plantcell.org/content/29/4/854.abstract
The genetic blueprint for the production of proteins is stored in the DNA of a plant cell. In a first step, the enzyme RNA polymerase II generates…
How Plants Sense Cold and Activate Cold Tolerance
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellKidokoro et al. investigate how plants sense cold and activate cold tolerance http://www.plantcell.org/content/29/4/760.abstract.
Cold stress can be just as lethal as heat stress. When a cell freezes, the water inside it expands as it turns to ice. This can cause the cell membrane to rupture and lead…
Division of labor during apical hook formation
The Plant Cell: In BriefSoon after dicots germinate, the hypocotyl arches into a hook-like structure that protects the shoot apical meristem as the seedling grows through the soil. Once the seedling emerges from the ground and senses light, the hypocotyl straightens. The asymmetric growth that results in apical hook formation…
Sabeeha Merchant, Editor-in-Chief
The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesAreas of expertise
Chlamydomonas, chloroplast biology, metabolic regulation, transcriptomics, proteomics, micronutrients.
Sabeeha Merchant is a Professor of Biochemistry and a member of the Molecular Biology Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed BS and PhD degrees…
Blake Meyers, Senior Editor
The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesAreas of expertise
Genomics, microRNAs, bioinformatics, epigenetics.
Blake Meyers is a member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, and a Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He completed his BA degree at the University of Chicago and his MS and PhD degrees at the…
Dan Kliebenstein, Senior Editor
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Areas of expertise
Metabolic regulation, secondary metabolism/natural products, statistical genetics, transcriptome and metabolome analysis, plant–biotic interactions.
Dan Kliebenstein is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He completed a BS degree at Iowa…
Joseph Kieber, Senior Editor
The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesAreas of expertise
Phyothormones, cytokinin, ethylene, auxin, cell wall, receptor-like kinases, genetics.
Joseph Kieber holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His group uses the model plants Arabidopsis…
Jean Greenberg, Senior Editor
The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesAreas of expertise
Disease resistance, cell death, plant pathogens.
Jean Greenberg is a Professor in the Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Dept. University of Chicago, Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, and Committee on Microbiology. Her work examines both sides of the plant-pathogen…