Allelic shift in cis-elements of the transcription factor gene RAP2.12 underlies adaptation associated with humidity in Arabidopsis thaliana (Science Adv)
Plant Science Research WeeklyTo better understand plant responses to different environments, Lou et al. compared Arabidopsis thaliana accessions derived from Sichuan (high precipitation/regular flooding) and Tibet (arid) to isolate genetic adaptations towards flooding stress. The two accessions showed divergent phenotypes: the Sichuan…
URM Plant Scientist Highlights - Dawn Nagel (she/her)
BlogDawn Nagel (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UC Riverside. She has been a faculty member at UCR since 2016. Dawn was born and raised in Guyana as the youngest of three children. As an undergraduate, she studied general biology…
URM Plant Scientist Highlights - Thelma Madzima (she/her)
BlogDr. Thelma Madzima (she/her) is one of very few Black faculty in the USA who are plant molecular biologists. Originally from Zimbabwe, Thelma immigrated to the US at the age of 17 to attend college. She received her B.S. in Plant Science and Plant Biotechnology from Fort Valley State University, a historically…
Maintaining membrane integrity in the face of abiotic stress
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellRuiz-López & Pérez-Sancho et al describe a mechanism that control the homeostasis of diacylglycerol at the plasma membrane in plants after abiotic stress. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab122
Miguel Ángel Botella Mesa – IHSM-UMA-CSIC, Málaga, Spain
Jessica Pérez Sancho…
How a Mangrove tree can help to improve the salt tolerance of Arabidopsis and Rice
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchAffiliation: University of Melbourne
ORCiD: 0000-0001-5092-6168
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Mangrove trees live and thrive in intertidal zones, where they are regularly inundated with salt water. To survive such harsh environmental conditions, they have evolved several features to improve…
The fat of the land: cuticle formation in terrestrial plants
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchMadeleine Seale
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8924-3943
In a world surrounded by a vast expanse of gaseous air, water is constantly evaporating from aqueous sources…
A high-five for high light protection
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchKasper van Gelderen
Utrecht University
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Plants cannot live without light, but they also cannot live with too much light. Beyond a certain threshold, a high light intensity will damage the photosynthetic apparatus directly. Furthermore, high light leads to the production of reactive…
Extrapolating physiological response to drought through step-by-step analysis of water potential
Blog, Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchGuillaume Charrier
Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Water potential (Ψ) defines the energy required to move water between the different compartments of a closed system. Water flows passively in the direction of decreasing…
How to Eat One’s Feelings: Autophagy and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefMoving around taught me two essential skills, only one being relevant here: how to put up wallpaper, and how critical it is to label boxes to help the moving company drop them at their intended location. Now think of a cell: the boxes are vesicles, their contents are proteins and metabolites, and the…