Category: The Plant Cell: In a Nutshell

Huang and Sun explore how germline fate is suppressed in vegetative cells but not in sperm cells of pollen. By Xiaorong Huang and Meng-Xiang Sun College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China Background: The microspore divides asymmetrically…

Gordon et al. report that knock-out of a recently discovered enzyme for salicinoid biosynthesis in poplar leads to changes in salicylic acid and jasmonic acid metabolism and has unexpected effects on growth.. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac135 By Peter Constabel and Harley Gordon Background:…

Wang et al. identify three OsMYB36s that redundantly regulate Casparian strip formation. Jixing Xia; College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, China Background: The Casparian strip (CS) is a ring-like lignin-rich structure in the anticlinal cell wall between endodermal cells…

By Mária Šimášková, Norbert Brugière, and Moritz K. Nowack VIB Center of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium; Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, Iowa, US  Mária Šimášková and colleagues increase seed yield in maize by modulating the activity of the transcription factor KIL1  Background:…

Yang and Zhao et al. examine the control of seed germination at the chromatin level. Zhe Wu and Deyue Yang, Key Laboratory of Molecular Design for Plant Cell Factory of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute of Plant and Food Science, Department of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern…

Profs. Stanislaw Karpinski and Ron Mittler teams discovered Network Acquired Acclimation. By Magdalena Szechyńska-Hebda, Ron Mittler, and Stanisław Karpiński Background: An injured leaf (e.g., by insect herbivory or excess light) generates electric signals (ES) that spread to tissues, leaves,…

Liu et al. identify a monocot-specific splicing factor that elucidates a link between splicing and plant development through strigolactone signaling. By Tianzhen Liu, Qibin Lin National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy…

Huang et al. unravel the roles of ethylene in tomato fruit growth and ripening.  Background: Fruit development is an intriguing evolutionary strategy that functions in both seed protection and seed dispersal. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has long been used as a model system to uncover mechanisms…