Shedding light on Arabidopsis seed oil biosynthesis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDeslandes-Hérold et al. explore the integration of the PRK/Rubisco shunt into green embryo photosynthesis and metabolism.
Gabriel Deslandes-Hérold, Melanie R. Abt, and Samuel C. Zeeman, ETH Zurich
Background: Light promotes the accumulation of storage lipids during development of oilseeds with…
Helping out a neighbor: What FAMA tells us about specialization among stomatal genes across different species
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellAuthor et al. explore the genes involved in making stomata in a temperate grass.
Katelyn Hansen-McKown and Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institution.
Background: Plants are essential players in global carbon and water…
Endosperm cellularization and dehydration tolerance in the embryo
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellXu, Sato, et al. explore the longstanding mystery of why endosperm cellularization is essential for embryo survival and reveal a connection to dehydration responses.
Background: In most angiosperms, the endosperm initiates as a coenocyte and starts to cellularize after a defined number of nuclear…
Lignin chemistry is fine-tuned on the nanoscale by different combinations of LACCASES
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBlaschek et al. explore the spatial control of lignin chemistry.
Leonard Blaschek1 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, Umeå…
MtNRT2.1 controls root nodule formation in response to the ambient nitrate concentration
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLuo et al. investigate how nitrate transporters direct root nodule formation in a legume.
By Zhenpeng Luo & Fang Xie
CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Background: Nitrogen…
How EXECUTER1 executes chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling in response to singlet oxygen
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLi et al. identify the signaling pathway regulated by the chloroplast-localized protein EXECUTER1 in response to singlet oxygen.
Background: In response to developmental and environmental cues such as changing light intensity, plastids/chloroplasts produce and emit signals such as singlet oxygen,…
Truncated organellar C-to-U RNA editing enzyme requires active site complementation
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellToma-Fukai and Sawada et al. provide insight into the activation mechanism of the DYW1-like deaminase.
By Sachiko Toma-Fukai1,2 Mizuki Takenaka3 and Toshiyuki Shimizu1
1 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
2 Present…
Plastid Nucleoside Kinase 1 (PNK1) phosphorylates inosine to inosine monophosphate, involving in the feedback control of purine de novo synthesis in Arabidopsis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellChen et al. identify a nucleoside kinase that is highly conserved in plants and green algae.
By Xiaoguang Chen and Claus-Peter Witte. Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany.
Background: Nucleotides…
Microtubule control during stomatal movement
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWang et al. investigate the function of SPR1 in ABA-induced stomatal closure
By Pan Wang and Sijia Qi
State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; Department of Plant Sciences, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Background: Drought…