
Intracellular neighborhood watch - mitochondria help the endoplasmic reticulum to cope with reductive stress
Fuchs et al. report that reductive stress triggers retrograde signaling to safeguard the endoplasmic reticulum by boosting mitochondrial respiratory capacity. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac017
By Philippe Fuchs, Markus Schwarzländer
Background: A strict division into specialized…

Isoform specificity in plant COPII gene families
Chang et al. discover the phenotypic consequences of different isoforms of Coat Protein Complex II genes in the moss Physcomitrium patens.
Background: Vesicles that form on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and are bound for the Golgi apparatus are coated in a complex of proteins known as Coat Protein…

Lipid Droplet Biogenesis in Plants: LDIP is a Linchpin
Pyc and Gidda et al. investigate the role of the lipid droplet biogenetic protein LDIP. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab179
Michal Pyc, John Dyer and Robert Mullen, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, U.S. Department of Agriculture,…