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A Breakthrough in Monocot Transformation Methods
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In Brief
IN BRIEF by Nancy Hofmann nhoffman@aspb.org
The ability to generate transgenic plants without regard to cultivar or genotype can be considered a holy grail of cereal crop transformation. Despite years of effort, it has been remarkably difficult to develop efficient methods for transformation of…
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Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors, September 2016
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author Profiles0 Comments
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Recently, we’ve been profiling first authors of Plant Cell papers that are selected for In Brief summaries. Here are the first-author profiles from the September issue of The Plant Cell.
Inmaculada Couso, featured first author of Synergism between inositol polyphosphates and TOR kinase signaling…
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Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors, August 2016
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Recently, we’ve been profiling first authors of Plant Cell papers that are selected for In Brief summaries. Here are the first-author profiles from the August issue of The Plant Cell.
Aman Y. Husbands and Vasudha Aggarwal, featured first authors of In Planta Single-Molecule Pull-down (SiMPull)…
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Examination of Protein Complexes Gets SiMPull
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefIN BRIEF by Jennifer Mach jmach@aspb.org
Assessing protein-protein interactions remains a fundamental challenge for plant biologists. Current methods such as coimmunoprecipitation (co-IP), yeast two-hybrid, bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC), and others can produce artifacts and also yield…
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Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors, July 2016
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesRecently, we’ve been profiling first authors of Plant Cell papers that are selected for In Brief summaries. Here are the first-author profiles from the July issue of The Plant Cell.
Fangwei Gu, featured first author of Arabidopsis CSLD5 functions in cell plate formation in a cell cycle-dependent manner
Current…
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Divide and Conquer: Introducing a Novel Player in Cell Plate Formation
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefIN BRIEF by Kathleen L. Farquharson kfarquharson@aspb.org
Polysaccharide-rich cell walls are a distinguishing feature of plants that influence many aspects of growth and development, including cell division. Whereas contractile rings pinch dividing cells into two daughter cells in other eukaryotes,…
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Invisible No Longer: Peptidoglycan in Moss Chloroplasts
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefIN BRIEF by Nancy Hofmann nhofmann@aspb.org
Most bacteria have a peptidoglycan layer between the inner and outer membranes (reviewed in Typas et al., 2012). The cyanobacterial endosymbiont that gave rise to plastids would have contained such a peptidoglycan wall including d-amino acids. Indeed, peptidoglycan…
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Shape-Shifters: How Strigolactone Signaling Helps Shape the Shoot
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefIN BRIEF by Jennifer Lockhart jlockhart@aspb.org
When a deer eats the primary shoot of a plant, this can activate a nearby dormant axillary bud, causing it to form a secondary shoot. Genetic and environmental factors also affect shoot architecture, which strongly influences crop productivity. Changes…
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Ticket to Ride: tRNA-Related Sequences and Systemic Movement of mRNAs
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell: In BriefIN BRIEF by Jennifer Mach jmach@aspb.org
Movement of macromolecules through the plant phloem provides a mechanism for long-distance signaling that plants use in development, disease resistance, and other adaptive responses (reviewed in Spiegelman et al., 2013). For example, full-length RNAs, such…