Flowering Under Stress
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellPark H.J., Gamez-Arjona F., et al. show how plants reset the time of flowering under salinity stress. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac289
Background: For plants, extremes in the cardinal conditions of light, temperature, nutrients and water availability are major drivers of natural selection.…
Abscisic acid–activated calcium channels limit transpirational water loss
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellTan et al. identify a type of ABA-activated Ca2+ channels for ABA-specific cytosolic Ca2+ signaling and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis.
Yan-Qiu Tan, Yang Yang, Meijun Zhu, and Yong-Fei Wang
National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences,…
BREEDIT, a first step towards breeding by gene editing
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLorenzo et al. develop a system that uses gene editing to target multiple members of redundant gene families.
Christian Damian Lorenzo(1,2), Kevin Debray(1,2) and Dirk Inzé(1,2)
1 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium
2 Center for Plant…
Substrate recognition by asparaginyl peptide ligases becomes crystal clear
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHu et al. investigate the enzymatic mechanism used by peptide asparaginyl ligases for activation and substrate recognition. The Plant Cell (2022)
By Side Hu, Abbas El Sahili and Julien Lescar
Background: Proteases, protein scissors that cut proteins into smaller pieces, can be found almost everywhere…
The type-B response regulators ARR10, ARR12 and ARR18 specify the central cell in Arabidopsis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhu et al. showed that the transcription factors ARR10, ARR12, and ARR18 specify cell fate of the embryo sac cell in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2022).
By Mingsong Zhu and Xiaoping Gou
Mingsong Zhu, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life…
GPI lipid remodeling endows proteins with cell surface anchoring and affects cell wall biosynthesis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellXu et al. discover BRITTLE CULM16, which is involved in GPI anchor lipid remodeling and regulates cell wall biomechanics
Zuopeng Xu1, Yihua Zhou2, Baocai Zhang2
1 College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
2 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Innovative…
Specific lignin chemistries tune the hydraulic and biomechanical properties of each plant sap conduction pipe to resist/recover from drought
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMénard et al. examine the properties of lignin in the plant vasculature.
Delphine Ménard1,2 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,…
ADP-ribosylation and plant immunity
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellYoon, Middleditch, and Rikkerink explore how a Pseudomonas syringae ADP-ribosyl transferase effector modifies RPM1-INTERACTING PROTEIN4 to activate the host R protein RPM1 in disease resistance.
Minsoo Yoon, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand
Background:…
The genetic basis of nitrogen responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellElla Katz1 and Dan J. Kliebenstein1,2.
1Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
2DynaMo Center of Excellence, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Background: Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth and development. Nitrogen availability and form…