Category: The Plant Cell: In a Nutshell

Chu et al. demonstrate that H2O2 inhibits the nitrate-promoted nuclear localization of NLP7 in plants. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab165 By XiaoQian Chu, Jia-Gang Wang and Ming-Yi Bai Background: Nitrate is both an essential macronutrient for plants and a critical signaling molecule…

Chen et al. uncover the effects of a pectate lyase-like gene on cell wall mechanics and cell pressurization in guard cells. The Plant Cell (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab161  By Yintong Chen and Charles T. Anderson Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University…

Hou et al. explore the role of the HOPS/CORVET complex in plant reproduction Saiying Hou, Sheng Zhong and Li-Jia Qu State Key Laboratory for Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic…

Nonis et al. explore the circular permutation of the common sugar-binding protein ConA https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab130  by Samuel Nonis and Joshua Mylne* (The University of Western Australia; *,current address, Curtin University)  Background: Jack bean concanavalin A (conA) is a sugar-binding…

Stuart et al. identify the barley Viridis-k gene and assign a specific function for a C-type ferredoxin as the long-sought electron donor for the cyclase enzyme in chlorophyll biosynthesis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab150 Background: Chlorophyll is the green color of plants. It is made in several…

Pedroza-Garcia report that the necessity for DNA damage response kinases under non-stress conditions is higher in maize than in Arabidopsis, indicating that the mechanisms maintaining genome integrity may be more important for vegetative and reproductive development than previously thought. Plant Cell…

Zupok et al. demonstrate that photosynthesis genes encoded on the chloroplast genome can establish hybridization barriers. Plant Cell. (2021)  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab155 By Arkadiusz Zupok, Danijela Kozul and Stephan Greiner, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam/Golm,…

Furuya et al. identify BEH3 as a stabilizer in the cambium in Arabidopsis thaliana By Tomoyuki Furuyaa,b  and Yuki Kondoa,b. a Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan b Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Background: Just like trees, plants like Arabidopsis…