Plant Science Research Weekly

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

RECENT SUMMARIES

October 8, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: 3D electron microscopy for imaging organelles in plants and algae (Plant Physiol)

Have you noticed that the quality and resolution of cell images has been getting better and better? Weiner et al. review the recent advances in 3D electron microscopy (EM) technologies that have provided these strikingly beautiful and informative images. Like “classic” transmission EM, EM tomography…

October 8, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: Illuminating the hidden world of calcium ions in plants with a universe of indicators (Plant Physiol)

Calcium ions (Ca2+) are ubiquitous and essential signals, with a very steep concentration gradient from…

October 8, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: The long road to engineering durable disease resistance in wheat (Curr. Opin. Biotechnol.)

This review by Wulff and Krattinger is a beautifully written “must read”. As the title suggests,…

October 8, 2021/by Jesus Leon

Review: Cycling in a crowd: coordination of plant cell division, growth and cell fate (Plant Cell)

Unlike animal cells, plant cells cannot migrate due to the presence of interconnected rigid cell walls,…

October 8, 2021/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Seed biologists beware: End-of-trial estimation of initial viability may be error-prone (preprints)

Assessing the viability of ungerminated seeds at the end of a trial is a common practice in seed germination…

October 8, 2021/by Mary Williams

Ten simple rules for choosing a PhD supervisor (PLOS Comput. Biol.)

Choosing a PhD supervisor is one of the most important and difficult decisions of an academic career.…

October 8, 2021/by Mary Williams

Lessons on textile history and fibre durability from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian flax yarn (Nature Plants)

“Food, fuel, and fiber” sometimes is used to describe our utter dependence on plants, but often,…

September 24, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: Fifteen compelling open questions in plant cell biology (Plant Cell)

As part of The Plant Cell’s upcoming celebration of plant cell biology, Roeder et al. write about fifteen…

September 24, 2021/by Mary Williams

Review: Bryophytes as model systems for studying evolutionary cell and developmental biology (Plant Cell)

The development of Arabidopsis as a model system greatly advanced the field of plant cell biology by…

September 24, 2021/by Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra

Opinion: Seeds as natural capital (Trends Plant Sci)($)

Plants are increasingly being recognized for their contributions to human wellbeing. However, most attention…

September 24, 2021/by Michela Osnato

Florigen sequestration in cellular membranes modulates temperature-responsive flowering (Science)($)

The existence of the FLORIGEN – a mobile floral activator produced in the leaf and transported to the…

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…

Browse all Plant Science Research Weekly

ABOUT

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.

Read the Current Edition

Subscribe to RSS Feed

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.

Plant Science Research Weekly

RECENT SUMMARIES

Review: 3D electron microscopy for imaging organelles in plants and algae (Plant Physiol)

Review: Illuminating the hidden world of calcium ions in plants with a universe of indicators (Plant Physiol)

Review: The long road to engineering durable disease resistance in wheat (Curr. Opin. Biotechnol.)

Review: Cycling in a crowd: coordination of plant cell division, growth and cell fate (Plant Cell)

Seed biologists beware: End-of-trial estimation of initial viability may be error-prone (preprints)

Ten simple rules for choosing a PhD supervisor (PLOS Comput. Biol.)

Lessons on textile history and fibre durability from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian flax yarn (Nature Plants)

Review: Fifteen compelling open questions in plant cell biology (Plant Cell)

Review: Bryophytes as model systems for studying evolutionary cell and developmental biology (Plant Cell)

Opinion: Seeds as natural capital (Trends Plant Sci)($)

Florigen sequestration in cellular membranes modulates temperature-responsive flowering (Science)($)

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

ABOUT

Mary Williams, Editor

Categories

Subscribe to the Plant Science Research Weekly

About ASPB

Member Services

Awards & Funding

Meetings & Events

Publications & News

About Plantae

Subscribe to the Plant Science Research Weekly

Plant Science Research Weekly

RECENT SUMMARIES

ABOUT

Mary Williams, Editor

Categories

Tags

Subscribe to the Plant Science Research Weekly