Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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June 17, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

Review: Molecular regulators of nitrate response in plants (Curr. Biol.)

Nitrate is the major form of nitrogen used by plants in an aerobic crop cultivation scenario. Lamig et al. review recent additions to the already vast knowledge of nitrate signaling. A first line of regulation concerns nitrate uptake through post-transcriptional and post-translational regulation of nitrate…

June 17, 2022/by Kamal Kumar Malukani

Upstream ORFs check undesired leaky protein translation and buffer noise (Nature Plants)

During my research journey, I have come across a handful of genes that are hard to express. Sometimes,…

June 17, 2022/by Rory Burke

KIL1 terminates fertility in maize by controlling silk senescence (Plant Cell)

Each plant species has a defined window of time during which flowers can be pollinated in order to trigger…

June 17, 2022/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route to vitamin D sufficiency (Nature Plants)

Vitamin D deficiency in humans is correlated with malfunction of the immune system and inflammation together…

May 27, 2022/by Jiawen Chen

Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Nature Genetics)

The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a useful model system to study photosynthetic organisms,…

May 27, 2022/by Lekshmy Sathee

CLAVATA3/ESR-related 2 peptides regulate root sucrose level and root/shoot ratio in Arabidopsis (Plant Physiol)

Roots are dependent on shoot-produced sucrose for energy associated with growth and nutrient uptake.…

May 27, 2022/by Rory Burke

Robust transcriptional indicators of immune cell death revealed by spatio-temporal transcriptome analyses (Mol Plant)

Many plants trigger a form of cell death, known as the hypersensitive response (HR), immediately upon…

May 27, 2022/by Rory Burke

Spermine inhibits PAMP ROS and Ca2+ burst and reshapes the transcriptional landscape of PAMP-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis (bioRxiv)

Polyamines are endogenous cationic amines that have been shown to regulate a plethora of biological processes…

May 27, 2022/by Eva Marie Gomez Alverez

State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major crops (Nature Plants)

Landraces are local cultivars developed by traditional agricultural methods. Landraces not only represent…

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,…

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…

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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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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: Molecular regulators of nitrate response in plants (Curr. Biol.)

Upstream ORFs check undesired leaky protein translation and buffer noise (Nature Plants)

KIL1 terminates fertility in maize by controlling silk senescence (Plant Cell)

Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route to vitamin D sufficiency (Nature Plants)

Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Nature Genetics)

CLAVATA3/ESR-related 2 peptides regulate root sucrose level and root/shoot ratio in Arabidopsis (Plant Physiol)

Robust transcriptional indicators of immune cell death revealed by spatio-temporal transcriptome analyses (Mol Plant)

Spermine inhibits PAMP ROS and Ca2+ burst and reshapes the transcriptional landscape of PAMP-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis (bioRxiv)

State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major crops (Nature Plants)

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)

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