Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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November 18, 2022/by Mary Williams

How to maximize the moment as a junior faculty

On the academic job hunt? Bookmark this article, which provides valuable information about what to do when your search is successful. The time between getting an offer and accepting it is the most critical time for you to negotiate to get the resources you need, such as space, equipment, institutional…

November 18, 2022/by Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo

Interactions of plant RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED PROTEINS

RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED (RBR) is the plant homolog of the metazoan Retinoblastoma protein (pRB) tumor…

November 18, 2022/by Mary Williams

Hydraulic failure as a primary driver of xylem network evolution in early vascular plants (Science)

The earliest terrestrial plants had relatively small, simple forms. The evolution of water-conducting…

November 18, 2022/by Ángel Vergara Cruces

To stripe or not to stripe in monkeyflower leaves

In biology nothing makes sense but in the light of evolution. However, understanding how new traits can…

November 18, 2022/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

Increading Fe and Zn concentrations in wheat flour

Human malnutrition results from the lack of essential mineral micronutrients. In particular, iron deficiency…

November 18, 2022/by Mary Williams

Preferential egg cell fertilization Arabidopsis double fertilization

Double fertilization, in which one sperm cell fertilizes the egg cell to form the embryo, and another…

November 18, 2022/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Simulated climate warming decreases fruit number but increases seed mass

There is a growing number of studies showing the effects of rising temperatures on different aspects…

November 18, 2022/by Mary Williams

Productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice

Modern rice is descended from a perennial grass, which through millennia of selection evolved into an…

November 18, 2022/by Mary Williams

Arabidopsis Framework Model version 2 predicts the effects of circadian clock misregulation

Experimental or "wet lab" biologists look at data, develop a hypothesis to explain it, test the hypothesis,…

November 4, 2022/by Mary Williams

Update: Plant energy expenses: How to stretch the C budget (Plant Physiol)

Balancing the books means making sure that expenses don’t exceed income. In terms of a plant’s energy…

November 4, 2022/by Mary Williams

Review: The cell biology of primary cell walls during salt stress (Plant Cell)

Salt is a massive problem for most land plants. At the macroscopic level, excess soil salinity can cause…

November 4, 2022/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

Nitrogen-dependent binding of the transcription factor PBF1 contributes to the balance of protein and carbohydrate storage in maize endosperm (Plant Cell)

The majority of maize endosperm is made of starch (70%) and proteins (10%) and their biosynthesis is…

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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.