
Pros and cons of various popular RNA sequencing methods
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLiu and Zhu et al. systematically compare various methods for investigating transcription.
The Plant Cell: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad237
By M. Liu and Z. Dong
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Adaptation and Molecular Design, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Editing,…

Nuclear pore and nucleoskeleton continuum
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMermet et al. identify a protein that provides a continuum between the nucleoskeleton and the nuclear pore complex basket via short peptide motifs.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad236
Christophe Tatout and Aline Probst
iGReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, 63001 Clermont-Ferrand,…

Autophagy regulation by HLS1-mediated acetylation
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHuang et al. explore the molecular mechanism underlying the regulation of autophagy by HLS1.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad252
By Li Huang, Xing Wen, Lian Jin, Huihui Han, and Hongwei Guo
New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Institute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology,…

Establishment of regeneration capability of callus cells
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellXu et al. demonstrate the transcriptional regulatory steps responsible for establishing the regenerating capability of callus during Arabidopsis regeneration.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad255
By Chongyi Xu1, Pengjie Chang1,2, Shiqi Guo1,2, Xiaona Yang1,2, Xinchun Liu1,2, Baofeng Sui1,2,…

How do root hairs keep their tubular shape?
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHirano et al. uncover the secretion route for root hair shank hardening in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad240
By T. Hirano, K. Ebine, T. Ueda, T. Higaki, T. W.-Nakayama, H. Konno, H. T.-Imamura, and M. H. Sato
Background: Root hairs are rapidly growing…

Microtubule-associated proteins regulate tomato fruit shape
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBao et al. reveal how microtubule-associated proteins regulate tomato fruit shape formation from a cell biology perspective.
Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad231
Zhiru Bao and Pengwei Wang
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops,…

Stepwise cell fate establishment in the rice stem
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellTsuda et al. investigate the temporal order of cell fate establishment during stem development in rice.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad241
By Katsutoshi Tsuda
Background: The stem, which consists of nodes and internodes, is an axis of the shoot that physically supports lateral organs such…

Key factors that interactively regulate maize endosperm development
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWu et al. explore how three key transcription factors co-regulate gene networks and the regulatory landscape associated with endosperm development and seed phenotype in maize.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad247
Hao Wu1,2 and Philip W. Becraft1,3
Iowa State University, Genetics, Development…

Variegated grape berries enlighten us about plant radiation responses
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhang et al. identify a regulatory hub in grapevine controlling divergent specialized metabolic pathways as part of the light/UV radiation response.
Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad228
By José Tomás Matus and Chen Zhang
Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio),…