SoyOmics: A new tool to explore the transcriptome dynamics of soybean
Plant Science Research WeeklySoybean, originally domesticated in China, is widely recognized for its high protein and oil content, making it a crucial crop for human consumption, animal feed, and biofuel production. Despite its economic and agricultural significance, research tools and genomic resources for soybean have lagged behind…
Pros and cons of various popular RNA sequencing methods
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLiu and Zhu et al. systematically compare various methods for investigating transcription.
The Plant Cell: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad237
By M. Liu and Z. Dong
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Adaptation and Molecular Design, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Editing,…
Arabidopsis long non-coding RNAs: an orchestrated hubbub
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellKornienko et al. discover that Arabidopsis genome is full of long-non-coding RNAs that show their expression only in specific tissues and plants from different geographic origins because of differences in epigenetic silencing of these genes.
Plant Cell - https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad233
By Aleksandra…
Exploring the evolution of immunity responses in Brassicaceae
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWinkelmüller, Entila, Anver et al. uncover the considerable variation in gene expression patterns in closely related Brassicaceae species during pattern triggered immunity. Plant Cell
By Thomas M. Winkelmüller, Frederickson D. Entila, Shajahan Anver, and Kenichi Tsuda
Background: Plants…