Kong et al. explore how phototropins regulate actin filaments associated with chloroplasts and unveil CHUP1 as a type of actin nucleator. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad320 Sam-Geun Kong Kongju National University, Gongju Korea Background: Chloroplasts dynamically adjust their intracellular…

Ren, Gou, Zhuo, Chen et al. revealed that a DNA methylation reader complex recruits an effector protein to regulate variant-specific 45S rRNA silencing. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad313 By Weiqiang Qian, Peking University Background: Eukaryotic genomes harbor thousands of 45S ribosomal…

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Dai, Song, Xu et al. identify Ycf51 as a photosystem I assembly factor in cyanobacteria https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad330 By Guo-Zheng Dai, Central China Normal University Question: Background: While the mechanisms of photosystem II biogenesis and the auxiliary proteins involved are well…

Zhou et al. investigated pollen tube integrity maintenance mechanisms in maize. The Plant Cell (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad324 By Liang-Zi Zhou and Thomas Dresselhaus Background: As sperm cell transporting vehicles, pollen tubes of flowering plants grow through the transmitting tissues…

Bradamante et al. investigate the heterogeneity of stem cells of the shoot apical meristem https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad295 By Vu Nguyen, Gabriele Bradamante, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid and Ruben Gutzat Background: In plants, stem cells in the shoot apical meristem (SAM) produce new organs…

Lee, Liu, Kim et al. demonstrate that a plant m6A reader dampens stress responses. By Keun Pyo Lee, Kaiwei Liu, Eun Yu Kim, and Chanhong Kim CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad300 Background:…

Lesch et al. reveal that the mitochondrial RNA editing factor PPR78 of Physcomitrium patens is conserved among mosses despite the loss of its two known C-to-U editing sites due to the additional editing target ccmFNeU1465RC.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad292 By Elena Lesch, Volker Knoop…