Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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January 24, 2020/by Mary Williams

Review. Small RNAs and extracellular vesicles: New mechanisms of cross-species communication and innovative tools for disease control (PLOS Pathogens)

We have only recently begun to appreciate the phenomenon of cross-species or cross-kingdom small RNA transfer, and its applications. Using examples from plants and animals, Cai et al. summarize how some pathogens have evolved the capacity to introduce small RNAs into their host to suppress host defense…

January 24, 2020/by Suresh Damodaran

Review: Harnessing atmospheric nitrogen for cereal crop production ($) (Curr. Opin. Biotechnol.)

Nitrogen demands for plant growth are accomplished through fertilizers or biological nitrogen fixation.…

January 24, 2020/by Alexander Bowles

Gene duplication accelerates the pace of protein gain and loss from plant organelles (Mol. Biol. Evol.)

Organelles, such as the chloroplast and nucleus, are structures with specific functions within a plant…

January 24, 2020/by Mary Williams

Mitochondrial fostering: the mitochondrial genome may play a role in plant orphan gene evolution (bioRxiv)

Orphan genes are those that are found in only a single species. In trying to understand the origin of…

January 24, 2020/by Alexander Bowles

The origin of land plants is rooted in two bursts of genomic novelty (Curr. Biol)

The transition of plants from water to land is one of the most momentous shifts in the history of life…

January 24, 2020/by Mary Williams

A single light-responsive sizer can control multiple-fission cycles in Chlamydomonas (Curr. Biol.)

How do cells know when it is time to divide? Helt et al. explore this question using the single-celled…

January 24, 2020/by Mary Williams

Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface (Nature)

Sometime around 1.8 to 2 billion years ago, complex eukaryotic cells appeared for the first time, providing…

January 24, 2020/by Suresh Damodaran

SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1-LIKE 5 promotes secondary phloem formation during radial stem growth (Plant J)

Plant tissues continue to develop postembryonically through proliferation at the shoot and root apical…

January 24, 2020/by Mary Williams

A proposed new classification scheme for fungal and oomycete pathogens based on carbohydrate-active enzymes (Front. Microbiol)

Filamentous pathogens (fungi and oomycetes) use a variety of tactics to obtain nutrients from plants.…

January 24, 2020/by Rebecca Hayes

Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics (Nature Comms)

Previously, crop-associated mycobiomes were thought to assemble largely under the control of deterministic…

January 24, 2020/by Mary Williams

From population to production: 50 years of scientific literature on how to feed the world (Global Food Security)

Tamburino et al. analyzed text from more than 12,000 research articles published in the past 50 years…

January 17, 2020/by Mary Williams

Review: Matrix redox physiology governs the regulation of plant mitochondrial metabolism through post-translational protein modifications

Mitochondrial metabolism provides ATP and reducing power to drive myriad reactions in the plant cell,…

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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.

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Plant Science Research Weekly

RECENT SUMMARIES

Review. Small RNAs and extracellular vesicles: New mechanisms of cross-species communication and innovative tools for disease control (PLOS Pathogens)

Review: Harnessing atmospheric nitrogen for cereal crop production ($) (Curr. Opin. Biotechnol.)

Gene duplication accelerates the pace of protein gain and loss from plant organelles (Mol. Biol. Evol.)

Mitochondrial fostering: the mitochondrial genome may play a role in plant orphan gene evolution (bioRxiv)

The origin of land plants is rooted in two bursts of genomic novelty (Curr. Biol)

A single light-responsive sizer can control multiple-fission cycles in Chlamydomonas (Curr. Biol.)

Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface (Nature)

SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1-LIKE 5 promotes secondary phloem formation during radial stem growth (Plant J)

A proposed new classification scheme for fungal and oomycete pathogens based on carbohydrate-active enzymes (Front. Microbiol)

Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics (Nature Comms)

From population to production: 50 years of scientific literature on how to feed the world (Global Food Security)

Review: Matrix redox physiology governs the regulation of plant mitochondrial metabolism through post-translational protein modifications

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