The Plant Cell: In a Nutshell

Ruiz-Solaní et al. examine how a cysteine protease interacts with stress granules, a type of membrane-less condensate, under heat stress and aging By Nerea Ruiz-Solaní1,2, Laia Armengot1,2 and Núria S. Coll1,3 1 Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Bellaterra…

Wang et al. investigate role of the DCP5-SSF complex in the nucleus https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad151 Wanyi Wang, Chuanhong Wang, Yunhe Wang, Jing Ma. The National Engineering Lab of Crop Stress Resistance Breeding, the School of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University. Background:…

Bélanger et al. investigate the silencing of nuclear genes mediated by chloroplast double-stranded RNA transgenes The Plant Cell (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad165 By Sébastien Bélanger Background: Plants have three genomes: the nuclear, the mitochondrial and the chloroplast…

Cong Liu, Jianzhong Lin, and Xuanming Liu and colleagues show that the protein phosphatase PC1 dephosphorylates and deactivates CatC to negatively regulate H2O2 homeostasis and salt tolerance in rice. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad167 By Cong Liu, Jianzhong Lin, and Xuanming Liu Background:…

Siao et al. demonstrate that single phosphorylation on a protein alters root behavior in Arabidopsis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad141 By Wei Siao and Eugenia Russinova, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology Background: Plant roots react to their environment by using hormone signaling…

Zhang and Jian et al. reveal an epigenetic regulatory mechanism underlying gibberellin signaling-mediated flowering. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad166 By Chunyu Zhang and Xingliang Hou; South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China  Background: The timing…

Image credit for featured image: Gilles Pantin   Westgeest et al. use a high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to explore the connection between leaf starch and stomatal opening https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad158 Adrianus J. Westgeest and Florent Pantin, L’Institut Agro, Montpellier,…

Wang et al. discovered how plants dynamically respond to cold stress mediated by the E3 ligases PUB25 and PUB26. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad159 By Xi Wang1, Xiaoyan Zhang1, Chunpeng Song3, Zhizhong Gong1,2, Shuhua Yang1 and Yanglin Ding1 1State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental…