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Our April 2024 issue is now fully online. Browse its content here:
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New Review: The origin of a land flora
about the evolutionary transition from charophycean algae to embryophytes, from genomics and fossil records, with a focus on the progressive assembly of the embryophyte genetic innovations during terrestrialization.
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New Letter: "Calcium dynamics during trap closure visualized in transgenic Venus flytrap"
A transgenic Venus flytrap expressing a fluorescent calcium sensor allows real-time live quantification of calcium waves triggered by sensory hair movement.
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I got asked by a friend to come up with 5 common mistakes that authors make with their papers. So here goes:
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Identifying and tagging urban plants with names written in chalk, directly on the sidewalk. So many aspects to love about this project!
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"The lost art of looking at plants" Favourite excerpt: "...geneticists need to brush up on their botany skills"
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Today, the European Commission officially proposed to upgrade its rules from 2001 : gene edited plants with fewer than 20 edits will be exempt from GMO legislation in Europe in the future. Finally.
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Detlef Weigel in the first talk at
#ipmb2018
in Montpellier estimates that there are 20 billion spontaneous natural mutations every generation in a small field of wheat. But if you make a single mutation with CRISPR, your plant is GMO and must be regulated (recent ECJ decision).
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New Review: "Technology-enabled great leap in deciphering plant genomes"
Analysis of 3,517 de novo assemblies from 1,575 plant species sequenced since 2000, including 793 newly sequenced species in the past three years, and a new database.
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The December issue is here on time for Christmas !
Novel crop transformation techs, origin of land flora, chloroplast editing, plant resurrection from herbaria, cucurbit architecture, maize roots, chromatin, stomata, brassinosteroids, SWI/SNF, TPLATE...
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New Editorial: "EU rethinks genome editing"
The proposal by the European Commission for new rules on gene-edited plants aims to align legislation with new developments in biotechnology. Yet concerns remain that have to do not only with biology.
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New Perspective: "Multiple mechanisms behind plant bending"
Plants need to bend their organs. It is a complex process, and the different mechanisms involved are discussed in the light of recent findings about genes, signalling, modeling and biomechanics.
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New Article: "Haplotype-resolved genomes of wild octoploid progenitors illuminate genomic diversifications from wild relatives to cultivated strawberry"
High-quality genomes reveal the origin and genomic diversifications of octoploid strawberries.
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More than just a fun read: an autobiographical piece by Luis Herrera-Estrella, first author of the first paper on the first transgenic plant expressing a foreign gene:
"while entering the washroom, I bumped into Prof. van Montagu".
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We wish we could use gifs for our covers, then this from
@DvonWangenheim
would be February.
"Early developmental plasticity of lateral roots in response to asymmetric water availability"
(free-to-read link not ready yet, sorry)
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New Article: "Foliar application of clay-delivered RNA interference for whitefly control"
The sprayed dsRNA, carried on clay particles or BioClay, makes its way to the vasculature of plants and is taken up by whiteflies during feeding.
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Our editors write:
- Plant carnivory: Triggered by phosphorous deficiency
A weird tropical plant, Triphyophyllum peltatum, which is a facultative carnivore, recently described in
@NewPhyt
!
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New Brief Communication: "Multiplexed heritable gene editing using RNA viruses and mobile single guide RNAs"
"The method reduces the need for tissue culture—a current bottleneck in plant gene editing."
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Your growth chamber settings are wrong: "Molecular basis of flowering under natural long-day conditions in Arabidopsis" with News&Views: "Rediscovering natural flowering"
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New Article: "A molecular framework underlying the compound leaf pattern of Medicago truncatula"
With N&V: "Keeping leaves in shape"
"A novel regulatory mechanism controlling leaflet formation has been identified in Medicago"
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New Letter: "The evolutionary innovation of root suberin lamellae contributed to the rise of seed plants"
A water-impermeable barrier, the suberin lamellae, first evolved in the common ancestor of seed plants & contributed to their evolutionary success.
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New Brief Comm: "Transgene-free genome editing of vegetatively propagated and perennial plant species in the T0 generation via a co-editing strategy"
Potent genome editing toolkit to generate transgene-free genome-edited plants in the T0 generation.
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Wow.
"Learning to Love G.M.O.s" in the
@NYTimes
Overblown fears have turned the public against genetically modified food. But the potential benefits have never been greater.
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Analyses of data from 946 farms in France showed that reducing pesticide rarely decreased productivity.
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New Article: "RALF22 has a structural and signalling role in root hair cell wall assembly"
RALF22: structural component organizing cell wall architecture + feedback signalling molecule that regulates this process depending on its interaction partners.
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Our editors write:
- Predator manipulation by volatiles
About
@CurrentBiology
When attacked by herbivorous mites, plants recruit predator mites situated at the top of the plant, to rapidly move downward to the damaged leaves.
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News&Views: "Microbiome-mediated immunity: Disease resistance through M genes"
A comment on this paper:
After R(esistance) and S(usceptibility) genes, here come the M(icrobiome) genes.
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We're hiring! Fancy joining our editorial team as an Associate or Senior Editor?
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New 2018 article: "Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding"
@DrHikov
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New Article: "Local auxin biosynthesis is required for root regeneration after wounding" by
@efronilab
, free to read at
Auxin transport vs auxin local biosynthesis after root tip is cut and regenerates.
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New Article: "‘White gold’ guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from AD 1000"
&
Preserved maize remains tell the story of seabird guano use in agriculture along the arid Pacific coast of Chile.
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New Article: "Redesigning the tomato fruit shape for mechanized production"
FS8.1 controls the elongated fruit shape and crush resistance of processing tomatoes & provides a potential route to rapidly customize machine-harvestable fresh-market tomatoes.
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New Article (Open Access, as are all genome papers), and a first: "Fern genomes [Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata] elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses" With News&Views "Fern genomes finally here"
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We (and I suppose many other journals) do not request correct formatting on the first submission. Science first, appearance later. We were researchers before becoming editors and still remember the pain of reformatting 10x the same manuscript. No more.
Dear Journal Editors,
Why do we need all the crazy formatting rules just to submit a paper? Why can’t manuscripts be formatted to your esoteric format after they are accepted?
Sincerely,
Everyone who has ever submitted a manuscript
#AcademicTwitter
#phdlife
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3. They assume readers will read the text; they don't! Readers look at the figures first and often don't go any further, so tell the story of the paper with the figures.
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New Letter: "DNA damage triggers reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in Physcomitrella"
This developmental pathway requires the DNA damage sensor ATR kinase and the STEM-CELL INDUCING FACTORs (STEMINs).
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New Letter: "Highly efficient DNA-free plant genome editing using virally delivered CRISPR–Cas9"
With News&Views: "Editing through infection"
"to achieve single, multiplex mutagenesis and chromosome deletions at high frequency"
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Another nice Tansley Insight in the pages of our colleagues at
@NewPhyt
:
"Demystifying the Venus flytrap action potential"
"All plants are electrically excitable, but only few are known to fire a well-defined, all-or-nothing action potential."
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New Article: "Parallel evolution of cannabinoid biosynthesis"
With N&V: "Turning a new leaf on cannabinoids"
An alternative set of enzymes for cannabinoid biosynthesis from the South African plant Helichrysum umbraculigerum.
Finally out! Our new paper on parallel evolution of cannabinoid biosynthesis in non-cannabis plant!
@NaturePlants
@AsaphAharoni
@L_de_Haro
@PaulaBerman
#cannabinoids
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New: "Multiplexed single-cell 3D spatial gene expression analysis in plant tissue using PHYTOMap"
Multiplexed fluorescence in situ hybridization for single-cell & spatial gene expression in whole-mount plant tissue, no transgene & low cost.
See thread 🔽
Our PHYTOMap paper (w/
@JoeEcker
@ry_lister
@molivarina
) has now been published in
@NaturePlants
🌱🧬🔬
Multiplexed single-cell 3D spatial gene expression analysis in plant tissue using PHYTOMap
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Evolution of maize cobs from Mexico - the one on the left is 5000 years old.
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New Perspective: "Are cereal grasses a single genetic system?"
30 years of genetic and genomic research in cereal crops. Genome sequences have revealed common evolutionary patterns and differences between species and will support applications in breeding.
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New Review: "Plant cell polarity as the nexus of tissue mechanics and morphogenesis"
@vera_gorelova
,
@JorisSprakel
and I share our thoughts on how plant cell polarity may connect tissue mechanics and morphogenesis in
@NaturePlants
. We hope this synthesis will add a useful perspective to the wonderful field of mechanobiology
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New Review: "The cell surface is the place to be for brassinosteroid perception and responses"
... summarizes what is known about the multi-layered interaction network that fine-tunes the activity and dynamics of BR receptor BRI1 at the cell surface.
The latest review from our team.
@cha_dlslle
, Greg, and I summarized a part of cell biological aspects of BRI1 receptor and BR signaling. We enjoyed a lot to trace the long history of BR research! We hope you enjoy this review.
@CNRS
@LRSV_Toulouse
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We are hiring!
Yes it's true. We are looking for someone to join our team of editors. Ideally with postdoc and/or editorial experience (but not essential). Intellectually challenging and you need to love plants.
#PlantSci
#PlantsScience
#PlantSciJobs
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New Letter: Serotonin, a well-known neurotransmitter in animals, is also produced by plants. In rice, biosynthesis of serotonin through CYP71A1 increases the susceptibility of plants, by promoting the growth of destructive insects
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Open Access at
@Nature
: "Reducing brassinosteroid signalling enhances grain yield in semi-dwarf wheat"
Semi-dwarf wheat without the problems linked with Green Revolution GA genes (low nitrogen-use efficiency and need for high amounts of N fertilizer).
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New Article: "Boosting plant genome editing with a versatile CRISPR-Combo system"
With associated News&Views: "Gene editing: Make it a Combo"
...combining genome editing with gene activation using a single Cas9 protein mono/dicots
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"Horizontal genome transfer by cell-to-cell travel of whole organelles"
"We show that during proliferation of wound-induced callus, plastids dedifferentiate into small, highly motile, amoeboid organelles [that] move into neighboring cells."
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Congratulations Dame Caroline! Whose work's "profound importance not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole". "A strong advocate for women in science, an enthusiastic role model and mentor", and a thoroughly nice person.
Dame Caroline Dean
@CarolineDeanLab
@JohnInnesCentre
to receive the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for her groundbreaking work on epigenetic memory. Congratulations, Caroline!
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New Article: "Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties"
With News & Views: "Precision microbiome: Exploitation of the microbiome for crop breeding"
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New Article: "Transient reprogramming of crop plants for agronomic performance"
With an accompanying News & Views: "Crop engineering: Tunable crops are just a spray away"
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New Letter: "A SOSEKI-based coordinate system interprets global polarity cues in Arabidopsis" by
@dolfweijers
at
"The protein was named SOSEKI1 (Japanese for ‘cornerstone’) for this unique corner localization pattern"
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Dual colour cherry tree blooming in Strasbourg - an amazing graft that becomes clearly visible only during a few weeks of Spring.
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New Article: "Ca2+/calmodulin-mediated desensitization of glutamate receptors shapes plant systemic wound signalling and anti-herbivore defence"
Negative feedback loop in the orchestration of plant systemic wound responses.
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New Article: "Multi-Knock—a multi-targeted genome-scale CRISPR toolbox to overcome functional redundancy in plants"
With associated Research Briefing: "A genome-scale CRISPR tool for targeting multiple gene family members at once"
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New Article: "Mobile TERMINAL FLOWER1 determines seed size in Arabidopsis"
A new role for flowering time / inflorescence meristem identity gene TFL1. Now involved in seed size determination through regulating the timing of endosperm cellularization.
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New Article: "An efficient CRISPR–Cas12a promoter editing system for crop improvement"
A promoter editing system for quantitative trait variations in rice. Examples with grain starch / seed size / plant height (through OsD18 promoter, a GA3ox gene).
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I've never seen so many cauliflowers in our Twitter timeline.
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New Article: "The root meristem is shaped by brassinosteroid control of cell geometry"
Morphometric, genetic and computer modelling analyses are combined to show how brassinosteroids control overall root meristem geometry and development.
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New Article: "Visualizing plant intracellular inorganic orthophosphate distribution"
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New Article: "Uncovering the transcriptional regulatory network involved in boosting wheat regeneration and transformation"
Low transformation efficiency in wheat: identification of two DOF transcription factors that can enhance regeneration in wheat.
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New OA Article: "Whole-mount smFISH allows combining RNA and protein quantification at cellular and subcellular resolution"
With Research Briefing: "Visualizing and counting single RNA molecules in intact plant tissues"
Our method to detect single-molecule RNAs combined with protein detection at the single-cell level in whole-mount plant tissues is published in
@NaturePlants
!!
@lihuazhao4
@meschichi
@SicardAdrien
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New Article: "Cellular dynamics of coenocytic endosperm development in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Cellular dynamics of coenocytic [=multinucleate] endosperm development in Arabidopsis & role of actin filaments in controlling final seed size.
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@Prof_GD_Foster
Hmmm. We can't seem to find this paper on our website. maybe we didn't look early enough!
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5. They rely too often on cliche during background. Nothing makes me want to stop reading a paper than being told that the population of the world is predicted to exceed 12 billion by the end of the century, (Other cliches are available; supply your own at will).
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New article: systemin was the first plant peptide hormone identified in 1991 in tomato. Twenty-seven years later, today in 2018, we finally know its receptor: "The systemin receptor SYR1 enhances resistance of tomato against herbivorous insects"
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"There are only 3 grand theories in biology (cell, gene, evolution). Two of these originated in the study of plants"
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New Article: "A spatiotemporal molecular switch governs plant asymmetric cell division"
BASL is a crucial regulator of stomatal development. BSL phosphatases are BASL binding partners and reveal the molecular mechanism of cell-fate asymmetry in stomata.
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New Letter "DELLA functions evolved by rewiring of associated transcriptional networks"
DELLA modulate dozens of TFs through direct physical interaction. This ability is conserved in land plants but with different biological effects in different lineages.
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New Article: "A non-canonical BZR/BES transcription factor regulates the development of haploid reproductive organs in Marchantia polymorpha"
With News & Views: "Reproductive development: An old mission revealed for BZRs"
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Really nice video abstract. There should be more of these.
VIDEO - How do plants use growth to measure temperature?
Plants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
@ReaLAntKour
@GEN_ISP_JIC
@CarolineDeanLab
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Recent Article: "Exogenous miRNAs induce post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants"
"miRNAs produced by plants act as signalling molecules affecting gene expression in other, nearby plants, enabling communication between them"
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Interesting alternative opinion on the recent rice DREB1C Science paper, and real questions. How to measure yield gains? What reference shall we use? Absolute or relative yield increase? Is there a standard for field trials? Can breeders and molecular biologists talk together?
A misleading paper in
@ScienceMagazine
just came out talking about how a single gene can increase rice yield by 41-68%. As a (wanna-be) plant breeder, I’m here to tell you why this study is misleading, and we can’t “solve” yield through single genes 🧵
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New perspective: "Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems"
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Also: "Want a Nobel Prize?….Don’t Study Plants."
@HowPlantsWork
and
"Nobel Prizes for Research in Plant Science: Past, Present and Future"
must read in
@sciencemagazine
: "Plant Biology and the Nobel Prize" by Hans Kende on how the
@NobelPrize
ignores the "first" discoveries made in plants.
@PlantEvolution
@jnbserres
@edyong209
@DJ_Gibbs
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New Letter. We like the oak genome so much that we published a second paper about it. First it was & , and today it is "Oak genome reveals facets of long lifespan"
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[New] Directly produce transgenic seeds without regeneration with pollen magnetofection: News & Views: "Loopholes for smuggling DNA into pollen"
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New Letter: "Massive crossover suppression by CRISPR–Cas-mediated plant chromosome engineering"
Chromosome engineering to invert a 17.1 Mb fragment on chr. 2 in Arabidopsis: meiotic recombination could be suppressed in nearly the entire chromosome.
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New Article: "Active suppression of leaflet emergence as a mechanism of simple leaf development"
Can simple leaves become compound leaves? In Arabidopsis, a few TFs suppress leaflet initiation. Knocking them down leads to super-compound leaves.
The journey of making simple to compound to understand the beauty of simplicity!!
Controlling the foreverness!!
Finally our most awaited manuscript is out
@NaturePlants
@Monalisha_Rath9
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New Editorial: "Loving the alien"
Plants are different and amazingly diverse. We should not be embarrassed to study them independently of their many uses.
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New: "Specification of leaf dorsiventrality via a prepatterned binary readout of a uniform auxin input"
[Amazing] time-lapse confocal imaging, cell lineage tracing & molecular genetic analyses to trace the origin of polarity before primordium emergence.
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"The transcriptional landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana pattern-triggered immunity" at
@biorxivpreprint
- looks like a comprehensive transcriptome resource:
- 7 [D/P/M]AMPs
- 5 time points from 5 to 90 min
- 4 replicates
- WT or known receptor mutant
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New Article: "The F-box protein UFO controls flower development by redirecting the master transcription factor LEAFY to new cis-elements"
@Francois_Parcy
UFO unexpectedly acts as a transcriptional cofactor that drives LEAFY to new genomic locations.
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New Review: "Chromatin dynamics and RNA metabolism are double-edged swords for the maintenance of plant genome integrity"
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New Article: "The nearly complete genome of Ginkgo biloba illuminates gymnosperm evolution"
With News & Views: "The genome of Ginkgo biloba refined"
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4. They leave out the personal. A paper is the account of a journey of discovery that the authors have been on. If you say what YOU did and WHY it will be more engaging.
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New Article: "Sunflower pan-genome analysis shows that hybridization altered gene content and disease resistance"
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New Article: "Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis"
A sub-clade of NPF transporters orchestrates GA12 long-distance shoot-to-root translocation, where they induce endodermal suberin formation.
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An interesting review in Plant Communications about recent breakthroughs in CRISPR technology, that cites no less than 7 papers published in our pages!
"Precision breeding made real with CRISPR: illustration through genetic resistance to pathogens"
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New Perspective: "Is localized acquired resistance (LAR) the mechanism for effector-triggered disease resistance in plants?"
ETI could be a quarantining mechanism that prevents disease by inducing LAR, a strong defence response around the infected cells.
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New Article: "Quantifying impacts of enhancing photosynthesis on crop yield"
"Here, we developed a cross-scale modelling capability that connects leaf photosynthesis to crop yield in a manner that addresses the confounding factors."
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What is terribly fascinating is that, while the surface of Earth looks huge from a human size perspective, the vertical layer in which we can live (and where most life happens) is amazingly thin, 5-10 km. It is a short distance we could walk in one-two hours if it was horizontal.
“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
― Yuri Gagarin
View from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA.
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New Article: "An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis"
With News & Views: "Plant thermomorphogenesis: Warm days, relaxed RNA"
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New Article: "IRON MAN is a ubiquitous family of peptides that control iron transport in plants"
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Review: Recent progress in plant genome editing; new tools and future prospects
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New Perspective: "Genetic dissection of the auxin response network"
A case for a renewal of auxin genetic analyses using multiple mutants, despite the high redundancy in ARFs and Aux/IAAs.
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