Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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September 25, 2020/by Mary Williams

Review: The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development (New Phytol.)

Bryophytes and vascular plants share a land plant as a common ancestor, but they have evolved independently for more than 400 million years. Recent genomic studies of model bryophytes, particularly mosses and liverworts, have provided insights into this ancient common ancestor. Here, Frangedakis et al.…

September 25, 2020/by Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo

Review: La vie en roses, lilies, and other flowers: the floral microbiome (Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.)

Beyond their beautiful colors, fragrances and shapes, flowers also can host a great variety of life forms.…

September 25, 2020/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Review: The pleurogram, an under-investigated functional trait in seeds (Ann. Bot.)

The pleurogram is a depression on both sides of the seeds of some Fabaceae species. Surprisingly, although…

September 25, 2020/by Mary Williams

Opinion. We have been in lockdown, but deforestation has not (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA)

Douglas Daly is the B. A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany, Institute of Systematic Botany at the…

September 25, 2020/by Min May Wong

A cross-kingdom conserved ER-phagy receptor maintains ER homeostasis during stress (eLIFE)

Quality control of the protein folding mechanism in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which selectively…

September 25, 2020/by Vijaya Batthula

POME: Quantitative and dynamic cell polarity tracking pipeline (bioRxiv)

Many proteins polarize in the cell creating a subcellular niche for various functions. Asymmetric distribution…

September 25, 2020/by Michela Osnato

A peptide pair coordinates regular ovule initiation patterns with seed number and fruit size (Curr. Biol.)

In Arabidopsis pistils, ovule primordia differentiate from the placenta - meristematic tissue within…

September 25, 2020/by Tatsuya Nobori

Coordination of microbe-host homeostasis via a crosstalk with plant innate immunity (Research Square)

In nature, roots are colonized by commensal bacteria that do not seem to influence host traits. Recently,…

September 18, 2020/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Review: Trade‐off between seed dispersal in space and time (Ecol. Lett.)

Seeds can be dispersed in space (i.e., away from their mother plants) or time (i.e., delayed germination…

September 18, 2020/by Sunita Pathak

Review: Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health (Nat. Rev. Microbiol)

The association of plants with communities of beneficial microbes, called plant microbiota, has…

September 18, 2020/by Vijaya Batthula

A prion-like domain in ELF3 functions as a thermosensor in Arabidopsis (Nature)

As sessile organisms, sensing the external conditions is critical for plants to complete their life cycle…

September 18, 2020/by Michela Osnato

KIN10 promotes stomatal development through stabilization of the SPEECHLESS transcription factor (Nat. Commun.)

Plants communicate with the environment through stomata (i.e., pores found on leaf surfaces) and…

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Plant Science Research Weekly

RECENT SUMMARIES

Review: The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development (New Phytol.)

Review: La vie en roses, lilies, and other flowers: the floral microbiome (Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.)

Review: The pleurogram, an under-investigated functional trait in seeds (Ann. Bot.)

Opinion. We have been in lockdown, but deforestation has not (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA)

A cross-kingdom conserved ER-phagy receptor maintains ER homeostasis during stress (eLIFE)

POME: Quantitative and dynamic cell polarity tracking pipeline (bioRxiv)

A peptide pair coordinates regular ovule initiation patterns with seed number and fruit size (Curr. Biol.)

Coordination of microbe-host homeostasis via a crosstalk with plant innate immunity (Research Square)

Review: Trade‐off between seed dispersal in space and time (Ecol. Lett.)

Review: Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health (Nat. Rev. Microbiol)

A prion-like domain in ELF3 functions as a thermosensor in Arabidopsis (Nature)

KIN10 promotes stomatal development through stabilization of the SPEECHLESS transcription factor (Nat. Commun.)

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