Keep your mouth open––the Xanthomonas effector XopS prevents stomatal closing to facilitate bacterial entry into leaves
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBy Margot Raffeiner and Frederik Börnke (Leibniz-Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops)
Background: Like other organisms, plants defend themselves against pathogens by activating immune responses. One of the first lines of plant immunity is to block the entry of bacteria into the leaf through…
Lifan Sun: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Lifan Sun, first author of "TOUCH 3 and CALMODULIN 1/4/6 cooperate with calcium-dependent protein kinases to trigger calcium-dependent activation of CAM-BINDING PROTEIN 60-LIKE G and regulate fungal resistance in plants"
Current Position: Research Assistant, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy…
A link between RNA processing and plant immunity
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellPeng, D. Guo, Y. Guo, et al.
Shui Wang, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
Background: Immune receptors recognize invading microorganisms and activate immune responses. There are two types of immune systems, innate immunity and adaptive immunity. In animals,…
Yue Niu: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Yue Niu, co-first author of “The phospholipid flippase ALA3 regulates pollen tube growth and guidance in Arabidopsis"
Current Position: Associate professor in School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University.
Education: Ph.D. in School of Life Sciences with Prof. Guochang Zheng (Academician of CAS)…
Yang Yang: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Yang Yang, the first author of “The phospholipid flippase ALA3 regulates pollen tube growth and guidance in Arabidopsis”
Current Position: Postdoctor in the School of Ecology, Lanzhou University
Education: Ph.D. in School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University
Non-scientific Interests: music,…
How do legumes decide where to get nitrogen––from the soil or from nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMisawa, Ito, et al. explore how nitrate transporters and NIN-like protein transcription factors repress nodulation in the presence of exogenous nitrate.
Momoyo Ito, Takuya Suzaki
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Background
Through…
Making mucilage: A key transcriptional regulatory module regulating rhamnogalacturonan I biosynthesis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellXu et al. identify a key transcriptional regulatory module involved in biosynthesis of the pectic polysaccharide rhamnogalacturonan I in the mucilage surrounding the Arabidopsis seed. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac011
Background: Pectin is a complex cell wall polysaccharide that plays important…
A chromatin remodeler: its role as transcriptional repressor in plant immunity
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellKang et al. (2022) show that Arabidopsis CHROMATIN REMODELING 19 represses transcription and functions in plant defenses against pathogens. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab318
by Huijia Kang and Yan Zhu, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University.
Background: Plants induce defenses in response…
Microalgae concentrate CO2 to ameliorate oxidative stress
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellChoi et al. report that the Chlamydomonas bZIP transcription factor BLZ8 induces the carbon-concentrating mechanism to provide an electron sink pathway, reducing reactive oxygen species production under oxidative stress conditions. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab293
By Bae Young Choi,…