Category: The Plant Cell

Dai et al. demonstrate the key function of a non-coding RNA delicately regulating cucumber fruit–leaf relationship By The research group led by Prof. Minmin Miao from Yangzhou University Background: For fruit-bearing crops, plants must allocate photosynthate from leaves to fruits. Most…

Ai and Li et al. explore the mechanism by which an RNA-binding protein regulates plant immunity. By Gan Ai1,3, Tianli Li 1,3, Hai Zhu1, Xiaohua Dong1, Xiaowei Fu1, Chuyan Xia1, Weiye Pan1, Maofeng Jing1, Danyu Shen1, Ai Xia1, Brett M. Tyler2, Daolong Dou1* 1College of Plant Protection, Academy…

Daewon Kim, first author of "The Raf-like MAPKKK INTEGRIN-LINKED KINASE 5 regulates purinergic receptor-mediated innate immunity in Arabidopsis" Current position: Research Scientist in Dr. Gary Stacey’ Lab, Division of Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri-Columbia Education: Ph.D.…

Park H.J., Gamez-Arjona F., et al. show how plants reset the time of flowering under salinity stress. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac289 Background: For plants, extremes in the cardinal conditions of light, temperature, nutrients and water availability are major drivers of natural selection.…

Tan et al. identify a type of ABA-activated Ca2+ channels for ABA-specific cytosolic Ca2+ signaling and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. Yan-Qiu Tan, Yang Yang, Meijun Zhu, and Yong-Fei Wang National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences,…

Lorenzo et al. develop a system that uses gene editing to target multiple members of redundant gene families. Christian Damian Lorenzo(1,2), Kevin Debray(1,2) and Dirk Inzé(1,2) 1 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium 2 Center for Plant…

Hu et al. investigate the enzymatic mechanism used by peptide asparaginyl ligases for activation and substrate recognition. The Plant Cell (2022) By Side Hu, Abbas El Sahili and Julien Lescar Background: Proteases, protein scissors that cut proteins into smaller pieces, can be found almost everywhere…

Mickaël DURAND, first author of "The Arabidopsis transcription factor NLP2 regulates early nitrate responses and integrates nitrate assimilation with energy and carbon skeleton supply" Curent Position: Associate professor, Plant Biomolecules and Biotechnology lab, Université de Tours, France Education:…