Plant Biology

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Root cap cell corpse clearance limits microbial colonization in Arabidopsis thaliana

   Nyasha M Charura, Ernesto Llamas ... Alga Zuccaro
2. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Structure and evolution of alanine/serine decarboxylases and the engineering of theanine production

   Hao Wang, Biying Zhu ... Zhaoliang Zhang

   Comparative structural analysis and biochemical characterization unraveled the mechanisms behind enzymatic substrate selectivity, leading to an amplified theanine yield through active mutant protein screening, thus refining strategies for theanine production.
3. 1. Plant Biology

   OsNF-YB7 inactivates OsGLK1 to inhibit chlorophyll biosynthesis in rice embryo

   Zongju Yang, Tianqi Bai ... Chen Chen

   OsNF-YB7, an ortholog of Arabidopsis LEC1, is a negative regulator of Chl biosynthesis in rice embryos by interacting with OsGLK1 to inhibit the transactivity of OsGLK1.
4. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Autophagosome development and chloroplast segmentation occur synchronously for piecemeal degradation of chloroplasts

   Masanori Izumi, Sakuya Nakamura ... Shinya Hagihara
5. 1. Plant Biology

   Arabidopsis SDG proteins mediate Polycomb removal and transcription-coupled H3K36 methylation for gene activation

   Yicong Wang, Masato Abe ... Nobutoshi Yamaguchi
6. 1. Plant Biology

   Pectin methylesterase activity is required for RALF1 peptide signalling output

   Ann-Kathrin Rößling, Kai Dünser ... Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
7. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
   2. Plant Biology

   Structure of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase from the model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

   Théo Le Moigne, Martina Santoni ... Julien Henri
8. 1. Plant Biology

   Unraveling the role of urea hydrolysis in salt stress response during seed germination and seedling growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

   Yuanyuan Bu, Xingye Dong ... Shenkui Liu

   Salt stress triggers excessive hydrolysis of arginine-derived urea in Arabidopsis thaliana, raising cytoplasmic pH and inhibiting seed germination and seedling growth, providing new insights into the relationship between seed nitrogen mobilization and seed germination inhibition.
9. 1. Plant Biology

   Seed Germination: Coping with salt stress

   Xiaoyan Liang, Caifu Jiang

   Salt stress delays seed germination in plants by increasing the hydrolysis of arginine-derived urea.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    Structural basis for molecular assembly of fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins in a diatom photosystem I supercomplex

    Koji Kato, Yoshiki Nakajima ... Ryo Nagao