Plant Science Research Weekly: April 29, 2022
Blog, WWR Full PostReview: Fire-released seed dormancy - a global synthesis
In 1991, Jon E. Keely wrote the first review about the role of fire as a dormancy-breaking cue in California's Mediterranean ecosystems. In this review, almost 30 years after Keely's work, Pausas and Lamont provide us with an updated and worldwide…
Plant Science Research Weekly: April 15, 2022
Blog, WWR Full PostSpecial issue: Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in land plants, Philosophical Transactions B
At some point, most biology students learn the term “dioecy” (two houses), which refers to the separation of male and female function into different individuals, a characteristic that is…
Plant Science Research Weekly: April 1, 2022
WWR Full PostChloroplast protein import determines plant proteostasis and retrograde signaling
The neurological condition Huntington’s disease is caused by mutated versions of the Huntingtin gene that encode expanded stretches of polyglutamine repeats, resulting in protein aggregation. However, despite the widespread…
Plant Science Research Weekly: March 18, 2022
WWR Full PostReview: A rulebook for peptide control of legume–microbe endosymbiosis
Symbiotic associations with bacterial or fungal partners enhance nutrient uptake for most plants, and recent years have uncovered the very sophisticated means by which these associations are established and controlled. Peptides…
Plant Science Research Weekly: March 4, 2022
Blog, WWR Full PostReview. Auxin canalization: From speculative models toward molecular players
The versatility of roles that the hormone auxin plays led Paque and Weijers to suggest a new meaning to the acronym IAA (originally- Indole Acetic Acid)- ‘Influences Almost Anything’. It is known that PIN-FORMED (PIN) auxin…
Plant Science Research Weekly: February 18th, 2022
WWR Full PostCarbon flux through photosynthesis and central carbon metabolism show distinct patterns between algae, C3, and C4 plants
Photosynthesis is an attractive target for improving crop yields, and tailoring downstream photosynthesis-associated metabolism is a relatively unexplored path for achieving this.…
Plant Science Research Weekly: February 4, 2022
Blog, WWR Full PostReview: The great diversity in kinds of seed dormancy: a revision of the Nikolaeva–Baskin classification system for primary seed dormancy ($)
In 1967, Marianna G. Nikolaeva presented the first detailed system to classify seed dormancy based on its causes and the conditions required to break it.…
Plant Science Research Weekly: January 21, 2022
Blog, WWR Full PostTT2 controls rice thermotolerance through SCT1-dependent alteration of wax biosynthesis
Global warming severely affects agricultural harvests, risking food security. To deal with heat stress, plants show different strategies. Indeed, heat increases intracellular Ca2+ levels to activate a heat shock…
Plant Science Research Weekly: January 7, 2022
Blog, WWR Full PostHappy New Year! Welcome to our latest edition of Plant Science Research Weekly, featuring contributions from several of our new cohort of Plantae Fellows, who will be helping us keep up with exciting developments in plant sciences. Enjoy!
The evolutionary advantage of losing genes after endosymbiosis
The…