Category: The Plant Cell

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:…

Zhu et al. showed that the transcription factors ARR10, ARR12, and ARR18 specify cell fate of the embryo sac cell in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2022). By Mingsong Zhu and Xiaoping Gou Mingsong Zhu, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life…

Xu et al. discover BRITTLE CULM16, which is involved in GPI anchor lipid remodeling and regulates cell wall biomechanics  Zuopeng Xu1, Yihua Zhou2, Baocai Zhang2 1 College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China 2 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Innovative…

Ménard et al. examine the properties of lignin in the plant vasculature. Delphine Ménard1,2 and Edouard Pesquet1,2,3 1 Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Plant Physiology,…