What We’re Reading This Week

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

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June 22, 2018/by Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos

Review: The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice ($) (Nat. Rev. Genetics)

Rice is one of the major staple crops in the world as it is an essential component of diets and livelihoods. Populations in poor regions that are highly dependent on rice (Africa and South Asia) will increase dramatically by 2050, revealing the urgent need to find tools to prevent a future humanitarian…

June 22, 2018/by Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos

Review: Overview of attitudes towards genetically engineered food ($) (Annu. Rev. Nutrition)

The appearance and growing importance of genetically engineered (GE) food, and the extensive resistance…

June 22, 2018/by Julia Miller

Novel energy transfer pathway between light-harvesting complexes and photosystem I core identified through structural studies ($)

Plants must regulate the harvesting of light to maintain proper energy fluxes though photosystem I (PSI)…

June 22, 2018/by Mary Williams

A 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase functions as a transcriptional repressor in Populus

Here’s a fascinating story; starting with an association study, Xie et al. found that a protein previously…

June 22, 2018/by Arif Ashraf

The 6xABRE synthetic promoter enables the spatiotemporal analysis of ABA-mediated transcriptional regulation (Plant Physiol)

Abscisic acid (ABA) is known as stress hormone. Apart from its role in plant growth and development,…

June 22, 2018/by Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos

A molecular rheostat adjusts auxin flux to promote root protophloem differentiation ($)

In plant development, auxin serves as a concentration-dependent signal that regulates cell differentiation,…

June 22, 2018/by Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos

Feedback regulation of COOLAIR expression controls seed dormancy and flowering time ($)

FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) are proteins required for seasonal sensing in plants.…

June 22, 2018/by Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos

The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs ($)

Patrut et al. report that 8 of the 13 oldest and 5 of the 6 largest African Baobab (Adansonia digitata…

June 22, 2018/by Mary Williams

Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems ($) (Science)

Plant scientists are familiar with the steep drop in photosynthetic activity when plants are illuminated…

June 15, 2018/by Elisa Dell'Aglio

P-HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVATE DIOXYGENASE from Medicago sativa Is Involved in Vitamin E Biosynthesis and Abscisic Acid-Mediated Seed Germination (OA)

Sci. Rep. Vitamin E has been shown to scavenge singlet oxygen, reduce lipid oxidation by-products and…

June 15, 2018/by Elisa Dell'Aglio

Aldehyde Dehydrogenases Function in the Homeostasis of Pyridine Nucleotides in Arabidopsis thaliana (OA)

Sci. Rep. Aldehyde dehydrogenase enzymes (ALDHs) are very common proteins involved in the oxidation of…

June 15, 2018/by Elisa Dell'Aglio

A Lectin Receptor Kinase as a Potential Sensor for Extracellular Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide in Arabidopsis thaliana (OA)

eLife Besides its role as an enzyme cofactor, NAD is also a plant signaling molecule. In particular,…

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