Seed size controlling signal transduction pathway identified
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWu and Cai et al. reveal that the receptor-like kinase ERECTA regulates seed size in Arabidopsis.
Xuedan Wu and Wenqiang Tang
Institution College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University
Background: Background: Seed development begins with double fertilization. Double fertilization releases…
The secret sex life of plants: the AP complexes and the building of the pollen cell wall
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLiu et al. explore the role of adaptins in plant development.
Chan Liu*1 and Marisa Otegui*2
*1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
*2Department of Botany and Center for Quantitative Cell…
A mechanism that precisely guides pollen tube growth
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellYang et al. investigate the role of the phospholipid flippase ALA3 in pollen tube guidance in Arabidopsis.
Background: In flowering plants, pollen tube guidance regulates the rapid growth and timely targeting of the pollen tube to the ovule in the pistil during sexual reproduction, when signaling…
Germination and seedling establishment – Let’s get this par-‘T’ started!
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellNiehaus et al. explore the nucleotide metabolome of germinating seeds
By Markus Niehaus1, Henryk Straube1 and Marco Herde1
1Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants
Background: All living organisms, including plants, possess DNA and rely on…
Improving water use efficiency in maize
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBlankenagel et al. discover a major link between variation in water use efficiency and carbon isotope discrimination
By Sonja Blankenagel, Stella Eggels, and Viktoriya Avramova
Plant Breeding, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich
Background: Growing crops with high…
Unraveling Ammonium Transporter-Mediated Nitrogen Transfer in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellJing Hui et al. identified ZmAMT3;1 as a mycorrhiza-specific ammonium transporter that transfers ammonium from fungi to plants across the plant–fungus interface and enhances nitrogen acquisition in maize. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac225
By Jing Hui and Lixing Yuan, China Agricultural…
Live and let die: Unexpected BOTRYTIS SENSITIVE1 gene activation by a T-DNA
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellUsing new experimental tools, Cui et al. identified a surprising role for the BOS1 transcription factor in the regulation of programmed cell death. Plant Cell. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac206
Authors: F. Cui, M. Brosché, and K. Overmyer
Affiliations: FC- Zhejiang A&F University,…
A tetratricopeptide repeat protein promotes heading in rice
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhang et al. discover how a tetratricopeptide repeat protein promotes heading by facilitating florigen transport in rice
Background: Hd3a and RFT1 are mobile flowering signals that promote the floral transition in rice and were proposed to function as florigens that play major roles under short-day…
To repress or to activate: that is what defines leaf shape
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBy Hui Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Wang and colleagues explore how two WUSCHEL-like transcription factors affect leaf blade outgrowth in Medicago truncatula and Nicotiana sylvestris
Background: Members of the plant-specific…