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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October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

Digital imaging combined with genome-wide association mapping links loci to plant-pathogen interaction traits (Plant Phys.)

Resistance to plant pathogens is often studied as a qualitative trait than quantitative, focusing on the lesion size and pathogen numbers. However, resistance to generalist plant pathogens, such as Botrytis cinerea, is known to involve multiple genes. Fordyce et al. used high-throughput phenotyping…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

A gene‐stacking approach to overcome the trade‐off between drought stress tolerance and growth in Arabidopsis (Plant J)

In the face of increasing incidence of drought events, developing drought-tolerant plants becomes urgent…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

The xerobranching response represses lateral root formation when roots are not in contact with water (Curr. Biol. – $)

Roots navigate through the soil, foraging for water and nutrients. Orman-Ligeza et al. observed that…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

A plant chitinase controls cortical infection thread progression and nitrogen-fixing symbiosis (eLIFE)

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria produce species-specific chitin-like molecules, Nod factors, which induce nodule…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

Review – Cellular basis of growth in plants: geometry matters (COPB – $)

Plants exhibit various forms which are determined by the individual cells. The diversity of cell shapes…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

Rhizosphere microbiota structure alters to enable wilt resistance in tomato (Nature Biotech. – $)

Plants are frequently attacked by pathogens, but the pathogen-resistance is often attributed to the host.…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

Complete substitution of a secondary cell wall with primary cell wall in Arabidopsis (Nature Plants – $)

Plant cell walls are important for terrestrial lifestyle, providing support and directing the plant growth.…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

FERONIA receptor kinase contributes to plant immunity by suppressing jasmonic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana (Curr. Biol. – $)

Receptor-like kinase FERONIA plays important role in the regulation of plant growth as well as interactions…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

Abscisic acid-independent stomatal CO2 signal transduction pathway and convergence of CO2 and ABA signaling downstream of OST1 kinase (PNAS – $)

The global increase in CO2 concentrations results in the reduced opening of the stomata. Although reduction…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

The genetic architecture of colonization resistance in Brachypodium distachyon to non-adapted stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) isolates (PLOS Gen.)

The host range of a pathogen depends on its ability to overcome various plant defense barriers and successfully…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

The number of meiotic double-strand breaks influences crossover distribution in Arabidopsis (The Plant Cell)

The new genetic variation is generated by recombination of the chromosome during meiotic cell divisions.…

October 12, 2018/by Magdalena Julkowska

Modularity of genes involved in local adaptation to climate despite physical linkage (Genome Biol.)

Studying local adaptation is a tricky as the environmental parameters that we measure might affect the…

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