Plant Science Research Weekly

A weekly plant science research roundup curated and summarized by our Plantae Editors and Fellows

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August 12, 2022/by Mary Williams

Special issue on Grasses (Science)

“Grassy biomes—from the steppes of Mongolia to the savannas of Tanzania— are predicted to be the ecosystems hardest hit by the ongoing climate and land use crises,” begins a Perspective by Strömberg and Staver in the August 4, 2022 Science special issue on Grasses that raises awareness of the…

August 12, 2022/by Jiawen Chen

Review: Deep origin and gradual evolution of transporting tissues: Perspectives from across the land plants (Plant Physiol)

The development of vascular plants (tracheophytes) was a major innovation during the evolution of land…

August 12, 2022/by Mary Williams

Review: Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling (Curr. Opin. Plant Biol.)

The plasma membrane (PM) is a critical interface between the cell and its environment and serves crucial…

August 12, 2022/by Mary Williams

Spatial resolution of an integrated C4+CAM photosynthetic metabolism (Sci. Advances)

C4 and CAM are both photosynthetic strategies that concentrate CO2 upstream of RuBisCO, somewhat uncoupling…

August 12, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

DREB1C is a regulator of nitrogen use efficiency and flowering time in rice (Science)

To improve the profitability and sustainability of agriculture, there has been an extensive quest to…

August 12, 2022/by Benjamin Jin

Increasing the resilience of plant immunity to a warming climate (Nature)

Plants demonstrate increased susceptibility to pathogens upon exposure to heat stress, apparently due…

August 12, 2022/by Kamal Kumar Malukani

Removing one wheat protein kinase provides resistance to rust fungi (Cell)

Tolerance against a pathogen can be achieved by either overexpressing a resistance-related gene, or removing…

July 29, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

ABA-INSENSITIVE1 activates ammonium transporter AMT1 in an ABA dependent manner (Plant Physiol)

To avoid ammonium toxicity, the ammonium transporters (AMTs) are tightly regulated by phosphorylation-dependent…

July 29, 2022/by Benjamin Jin

A robust mechanism for resetting juvenility during each generation in Arabidopsis (Nature Plants)

Proper development requires an aging program that is regulated throughout the entire lifespan of an organism…

July 29, 2022/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

Improving bread wheat yield through modulating an unselected AP2/ERF gene (Nature Plants)

Climate emergency and the increase of human population are challenges for human food security. Plant…

July 29, 2022/by Benjamin Jin

Allelic shift in cis-elements of the transcription factor gene RAP2.12 underlies adaptation associated with humidity in Arabidopsis thaliana (Science Adv)

To better understand plant responses to different environments, Lou et al. compared Arabidopsis thaliana…

July 29, 2022/by Kamal Kumar Malukani

Modern agriculture practices negatively affect functions of beneficial plant microbes (Nature Ecol. Evol.)

Are modern agricultural practices good for the environment? Or at least for the crops? If we look at…

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Plant Science Research Weekly

RECENT SUMMARIES

Special issue on Grasses (Science)

Review: Deep origin and gradual evolution of transporting tissues: Perspectives from across the land plants (Plant Physiol)

Review: Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling (Curr. Opin. Plant Biol.)

Spatial resolution of an integrated C4+CAM photosynthetic metabolism (Sci. Advances)

DREB1C is a regulator of nitrogen use efficiency and flowering time in rice (Science)

Increasing the resilience of plant immunity to a warming climate (Nature)

Removing one wheat protein kinase provides resistance to rust fungi (Cell)

ABA-INSENSITIVE1 activates ammonium transporter AMT1 in an ABA dependent manner (Plant Physiol)

A robust mechanism for resetting juvenility during each generation in Arabidopsis (Nature Plants)

Improving bread wheat yield through modulating an unselected AP2/ERF gene (Nature Plants)

Allelic shift in cis-elements of the transcription factor gene RAP2.12 underlies adaptation associated with humidity in Arabidopsis thaliana (Science Adv)

Modern agriculture practices negatively affect functions of beneficial plant microbes (Nature Ecol. Evol.)

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