Plant Science Research Weekly

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

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June 21, 2019/by Nathan Scinto-Madonich

A Transcription Factor, OsMADS57, Regulates Long-Distance Nitrate Transport and Root Elongation (Plant Phys.)

Nitrogen is a critical macronutrient for plant growth and reproduction, and it’s largely present as ammonium in flooded and acidic soils. However, structurally porous tissue in rice roots, called aerenchyma, transfer oxygen to the root system in flooded paddies, increasing nitrate abundance. Huang…

June 21, 2019/by Magdalena Julkowska

Breeding improves wheat productivity under contrasting agrochemical input levels (Nature Biotech.)

Wheat breeding programs are releasing new cultivars almost every year for improved yield potential. But…

June 21, 2019/by Suresh Damodaran

An Improved plant toolset for high-throughput recombineering (BioRxiv)

To determine the role of any gene of interest it is necessary to understand the spatiotemporal expression pattern.…

June 21, 2019/by Suresh Damodaran

Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading (Nature Plants)

Regulated transport of molecules from source to sink is essential for providing necessary molecules including…

June 21, 2019/by Mugdha Sabale

A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota (Science)

Plants have evolved to adapt to varied environmental niches. The ability to produce specialized metabolites…

June 21, 2019/by Magdalena Julkowska

A chloroplast-localized mitochondrial calcium uniporter transduces osmotic stress in Arabidopsis (Nature Plants)

Calcium and chloroplasts are both at the heart of the signal transduction during environmental stress.…

June 21, 2019/by Ana Valladares

QTL × environment interactions underlie adaptive divergence in switchgrass across a large latitudinal gradient (PNAS)

The main problem to elucidate the genetic basis in regards to a plant local adaptation is the geographic…

June 21, 2019/by Magdalena Julkowska

Paleogenomic insights into the origins of French grapevine diversity (Nature Plants)

The grapevine has it that some living varieties of Vitis vinifera were grown by the Romans, and maintained…

June 21, 2019/by Magdalena Julkowska

The tomato pan-genome uncovers new genes and a rare allele regulating fruit flavor (Nature Gen.)

The wide variety of shape and flavor in modern cultivated tomatoes is a result of introgressions from…

June 14, 2019/by Mary Williams

Review: N-degron pathway-mediated proteostasis in stress physiology (Annu Rev Plant Biol)

The rate of most biological processes is ultimately determined by protein activity levels, which…

June 14, 2019/by Francesca Resentini

Review: Plant immunity, refining the model (Trends in Plant Sci and Curr Opin Plant Biol)

Interactions between plants and microorganisms occur in many different ways and on many different levels.…

June 14, 2019/by Rebecca Hayes

Review: The challenges of delivering genetically modified crops with nutritional enhancement traits (Nature Plants) ($)

Despite the widespread success of genetically modified (GM) crops resistant to herbicides and insect…

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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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