Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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May 13, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

Review: Protein phosphorylation “toggle switch” for plant iron balance (Trends Plant Sci)

Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation act as a switch regulating a multitude of protein properties, be it their activity, interaction with other proteins, stability, or even cellular localization. This review by Li et al. describs the many ways that protein phosphorylation contributes to iron…

May 13, 2022/by Orla Sherwood

A plant-specific module for homologous recombination repair (PNAS)

Damage to DNA occurs through exposure to environmental stresses in animal and plant kingdoms alike. While…

May 13, 2022/by Jiawen Chen

Xylan-based nanocompartments orchestrate plant vessel wall patterning (Nature Plants)

Xylem vessels have a distinct secondary cell wall (SCW) formation, where the metaxylem stage contains…

May 13, 2022/by Andrea Gómez-Felipe

Cytokinin–CLAVATA cross-talk is an ancient mechanism regulating shoot meristem homeostasis in land plants (PNAS)

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) maintains a small pool of pluripotent stem cells, which are the source…

May 13, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

N-mediated heading date-1 (Nhd1) regulates nitrogen uptake efficiency and root growth in rice (Plant Physiol)

In rice, the transcription factor N-mediated heading date-1 (Nhd1) activates the expression of Heading…

May 13, 2022/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

Anaerobiosis modulation of two phytoglobins in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), and their regulation by gibberellin and abscisic acid in aleurone cells (Plant Physiol. Biochem)

Barley seeds are anoxic, and during germination pathways are induced to allow energy to be obtained…

May 13, 2022/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Machine learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits (Appl. Veg. Sci.)

Knowing whether a given plant species forms a persistent soil seed bank is essential to understanding…

May 13, 2022/by Kamal Kumar Malukani

Fungal exopolysaccharide regulates plant-microbe interaction (Plant Cell)

The studies on the apoplastic interactions of plants and fungi often focus on the fungal cell-wall, but…

April 29, 2022/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Review: Fire-released seed dormancy – a global synthesis (Biol. Rev)

In 1991, Jon E. Keely wrote the first review about the role of fire as a dormancy-breaking cue in California's…

April 29, 2022/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Opinion. Seed traits and phylogenomics: prospects for the 21st century ($) (Seed Sci)

In August 2021, The International Seed Science Society hosted its 13th International Conference. The…

April 29, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

PDX1.1-dependent vitamin B6 synthesis alleviates ammonium toxicity-associated ROS production (Mol Plant)

Ammonium is a nitrogen form preferred by many plant species. However, high ammonium concentrations lead…

April 29, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

Nitrogen form dependent root foraging is regulated by auxin and brassinosteroid signaling (Plant Physiol.)

Root growth is highly sensitive to nitrogen (N), and affected by both the form and distribution of N.…

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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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RECENT SUMMARIES

Review: Protein phosphorylation “toggle switch” for plant iron balance (Trends Plant Sci)

A plant-specific module for homologous recombination repair (PNAS)

Xylan-based nanocompartments orchestrate plant vessel wall patterning (Nature Plants)

Cytokinin–CLAVATA cross-talk is an ancient mechanism regulating shoot meristem homeostasis in land plants (PNAS)

N-mediated heading date-1 (Nhd1) regulates nitrogen uptake efficiency and root growth in rice (Plant Physiol)

Anaerobiosis modulation of two phytoglobins in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), and their regulation by gibberellin and abscisic acid in aleurone cells (Plant Physiol. Biochem)

Machine learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits (Appl. Veg. Sci.)

Fungal exopolysaccharide regulates plant-microbe interaction (Plant Cell)

Review: Fire-released seed dormancy – a global synthesis (Biol. Rev)

Opinion. Seed traits and phylogenomics: prospects for the 21st century ($) (Seed Sci)

PDX1.1-dependent vitamin B6 synthesis alleviates ammonium toxicity-associated ROS production (Mol Plant)

Nitrogen form dependent root foraging is regulated by auxin and brassinosteroid signaling (Plant Physiol.)

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