Highly Diverse Plant Immune Receptors Form a Species-wide Reservoir of New Recognition Specificities
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellPrigozhin and Krasileva identify highly variable NLR subfamilies responsible for the generation of new immune receptor specificities. The Plant Cell (2021)
By Daniil M. Prigozhin1 and Ksenia V. Krasileva2
1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2University of California Berkeley
Background:…
The Battle Between Modifications on Chromatin
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDong, LeBlanc, Poulet et al. investigate genomic stability in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2020) https://bit.ly/3nhgdQ5
By Jie Dong, Chantal LeBlanc, Axel Poulet, and Yannick Jacob
Background: DNA is the genetic material used by all living organisms on Earth. The faithful replication of DNA…
Changing the Shape of the Apex via Cell-size Regulation
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWang et al. demonstrate that Arabidopsis SAUR17 promotes apical hook development and closed cotyledons in the dark by protecting the cell-expansion inhibitor PP2C-D1. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00283
By Jiajun Wang, Ning Sun, Fangfang Zhang, Renbo Yu, Haodong Chen,…
SUMOylation and the Regulation of Aluminum Resistance
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellFang and Zhang et al. show that SUMOylation and deSUMOylation regulate the stability of a transcription factor, thereby influencing aluminum resistance in Arabidopsis. Descriptive paragraph. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00687
Background: Aluminum (Al) is a primary constraint for crop…
Sometimes “jammed paper” can be a good thing: functional interactions between pectins and cellulose in the plant cell wall
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDu et al. explore how pectins interact with cellulose in the plant cell wall.
Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00252
By Juan Du1 and Charles T. Anderson2,3
1Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu…
Plant Metabolic Redox Dynamics–Live!
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellSteinbeck et al. investigate in vivo NAD redox dynamics in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00241
By Janina Steinbeck and Markus Schwarzländer
Background: All organisms rely on their cellular metabolism to live, develop, grow, and procreate. Metabolism provides the energy,…
A Geminivirus Exploits the Host Machinery to Inhibit Methylation-mediated Defense Responses
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellChen et al. uncover a strategy used by a DNA geminivirus to exploit the host machinery in order to inhibit methylation-mediated defense responses when establishing infection. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00249.
Background: Geminiviruses belong to one of the largest and most…