Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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January 27, 2023/by Mary Williams

Running a sustainable, values-drivenresearch group in the next generation

This is a fantastic article to help new, future, and even current lab heads think about their postures, priorities, and practices. It was developed through a workshop held during the Arabidopsis meeting, originally scheduled for 2020 but held online in 2021 and run by several scientists who recently…

January 27, 2023/by Abdulkabir Abdulmalik

Special issue: Rubisco and its regulation

Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase) catalyzes the fixation of atmospheric carbon from CO2…

January 27, 2023/by Andrea Gómez-Felipe

Genome editing: An update on global policies and perceptions

The CRISPR/Cas system has become a popular genome editing (GEd) method in animals and plants, which allows…

January 27, 2023/by Lekshmy Sathee

Review: Not only turgor can shape plant growth!

Cell wall tensile stress and turgor pressure are two important determinants of cell growth. Turgor pressure…

January 27, 2023/by Rajarshi Sanyal

A paternal perspective on maternal inheritance

Nuclear DNA is inherited from both parents during sexual reproduction, but organellar DNA is (usually)…

January 27, 2023/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

The rice Rc gene affects seed survival under dry storage

One of the current challenges in seed conservation is identifying the genetic basis that defines how…

January 27, 2023/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

De-extinction of plants from herbarium specimens

Many plants have gone extinct in their natural habitat, but persist as samples preserved in herbaria…

January 27, 2023/by Idowu Obisesan

A novel CLAVATA1 mutation causes multilocularity in Brassica rapa

The CLAVATA1 receptor-like kinase and its ligand CLAVATA3 (CLV3) are associated with the CLAVATA-WUSCHEL…

January 27, 2023/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

TOR couples energy to oxygen sensing to modulate hypoxic gene expression

Floods limit plant oxygen availability, impacting their growth and productivity. In hypoxia, the ERF-VII…

January 27, 2023/by Kumanan Govaichelvan

Overcoming arsenic stress using iron-oxide doped rice biochar

Arsenic (As) contamination in soil influences the physio-chemical properties of plants. Majumdar et al.…

January 27, 2023/by Laura Turchi

Boosting plant disease resistance through epigenetics

Increasing plant resistance to specific pathogens through genome editing is a very active branch of crop…

January 27, 2023/by Arpita Yadav

Weeding the witchweed by changing strigolactone biosynthesis in maize

Striga, commonly known as witchweed, compromises the yield of maize (Zea mays) especially in Africa.…

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Each week, the Plantae editors select new plant science research articles to highlight. The short summaries describe the question addressed and key findings, with links to the article.

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Mary Williams, Editor

As Plantae Editor, Mary works tirelessly to ensure that our team is creating interesting and valuable content for the community. Mary pursued a traditional academic path (BS in Biochemistry at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology at Rockefeller, Postdoc in Plant Science at Berkeley); her research focused on transcriptional regulation, root development, and phosphoinositide signaling.