Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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September 10, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: Root plasticity under abiotic stress (Plant Physiol.)

For millennia, humans have selected desirable traits in the above-ground part of plants, but below-ground traits have been only indirectly selected for. Thus, roots are ripe for optimization, and hold particular promise in efforts to make crops more resilient and efficient. This Update, by Karlova et…

September 10, 2021/by Mary Williams

Plants People Planet Special Issue: Mycorrhizas for a changing world

Plants People Planet is a relatively young journal that launched in 2019. It’s aim is to explore aspects…

September 10, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: Evolutionary innovations driving abiotic stress tolerance in C4 grasses and cereals (Plant Cell)

Grasses fall into two clades, the more temperate BOP clade of C3 grasses (Bambusoideae, Oryzoideae, and…

September 10, 2021/by Michela Osnato

TEM1 combinatorially binds to FLOWERING LOCUS T and recruits a Polycomb factor to repress the floral transition in Arabidopsis (PNAS)

Gene expression is primarily controlled by transcriptional regulatory proteins able to recognize and…

September 10, 2021/by Arun Shanker

Potential evidence for transgenerational epigenetic memory in Arabidopsis thaliana following spaceflight (Commun. Biol.)

Transgenerational memory can occur through epigenetic regulation of gene expression (for example through…

September 10, 2021/by Mary Williams

SHOOT: Phylogenetic gene search and ortholog inference (bioRxiv)

BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is more than 30 years old, and most readers have probably had…

August 27, 2021/by Mary Williams

Structural and biochemical analyses of concanavalin A circular permutation (Plant Cell)

If you have heard of concanavalin A (ConA), it probably is because it is a widely-used reagent in carbohydrate…

August 27, 2021/by Pavithran Narayanan

Review: Alternative splicing as conserved mechanism to regulate CDPKs? ($) (TIPS)

Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs/CPKs) are an interesting class of proteins present in plants,…

August 27, 2021/by Jesus Leon

Plant PIEZO homologs modulate vacuole morphology during tip growth (Science)

The ability to perceive and respond to mechanical stimuli and forces, such as gravity or touch, is an…

August 27, 2021/by Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo

The secret to leaf forever: Mechanisms controlling simple leaf development (Nature Plants)

The final shape of a leaf is a consequence of differential growth at its margins. Simple (or lightly…

August 27, 2021/by Mary Williams

A slicing mechanism facilitates host entry by plant-pathogenic Phytophthora (Nature Microbiol)

A plant has many layers of defense against a pathogen. One of the first challenges a pathogen faces is…

August 27, 2021/by Mary Williams

Relevance of hop terroir for beer flavor (J. Inst. Brew.)

Beer is a simple beverage, basically fermented barley sugars. But recently, it’s been all about the…

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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.

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RECENT SUMMARIES

Review: Root plasticity under abiotic stress (Plant Physiol.)

Plants People Planet Special Issue: Mycorrhizas for a changing world

Review: Evolutionary innovations driving abiotic stress tolerance in C4 grasses and cereals (Plant Cell)

TEM1 combinatorially binds to FLOWERING LOCUS T and recruits a Polycomb factor to repress the floral transition in Arabidopsis (PNAS)

Potential evidence for transgenerational epigenetic memory in Arabidopsis thaliana following spaceflight (Commun. Biol.)

SHOOT: Phylogenetic gene search and ortholog inference (bioRxiv)

Structural and biochemical analyses of concanavalin A circular permutation (Plant Cell)

Review: Alternative splicing as conserved mechanism to regulate CDPKs? ($) (TIPS)

Plant PIEZO homologs modulate vacuole morphology during tip growth (Science)

The secret to leaf forever: Mechanisms controlling simple leaf development (Nature Plants)

A slicing mechanism facilitates host entry by plant-pathogenic Phytophthora (Nature Microbiol)

Relevance of hop terroir for beer flavor (J. Inst. Brew.)

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