Plant Biology

Plant Biology

eLife reviews plant biology research including development, epigenetics, genomics, signalling, metabolism and plant-microbe interactions. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
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Latest articles

    1. Plant Biology

    Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts

    Wojciech Wietrzynski, Lorenz Lamm ... Benjamin D Engel
    Cryo-electron tomography reveals plant photosynthetic membranes with single-complex precision, supporting a simple two-domain model of membrane organization.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Plant Biology

    Short heat shock factor A2 confers heat sensitivity in Arabidopsis: Insights into heat resistance and growth balance

    Wanxia Chen, Jiaqi Zhao ... Xiaoting Qi
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    1. Plant Biology

    An increase of NPY1 expression leads to inhibitory phosphorylation of PIN-FORMED (PIN) proteins and suppression of pinoid (pid) null mutants

    Michael Mudgett, Zhouxin Shen ... Yunde Zhao
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    1. Plant Biology

    Rice stripe virus utilizes an Laodelphax striatellus salivary carbonic anhydrase to facilitate plant infection by direct molecular interaction

    Jing Zhao, Xiangyi Meng ... Lili Zhang
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    1. Plant Biology

    Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations

    Marcia Puig-Lluch, Mary Williams ... Patricia Baldrich
    The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attendees.
    1. Plant Biology

    Structure-guided secretome analysis of gall-forming microbes offers insights into effector diversity and evolution

    Soham Mukhopadhyay, Muhammad Asim Javed ... Edel Pérez-López
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    • Important
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    1. Plant Biology

    Life-cycle-related gene expression patterns in the brown algae

    Pélagie Ratchinski, Olivier Godfroy ... J Mark Cock
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Strip cropping shows promising increases in ground beetle community diversity compared to monocultures

    Luuk Croijmans, Fogelina Cuperus ... Erik H Poelman
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    1. Plant Biology

    Symbiosis: How plants pick their friends

    Estelle Grundy, Michael Udvardi
    A protein called RIN4 has a central role in helping legumes such as soybean and the bacteria rhizobia to develop a mutually beneficial relationship.
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    1. Plant Biology

    Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula

    Morgane Batzenschlager, Beatrice Lace ... Thomas Ott
    Imaging deep root tissues with a combination of cell-cycle reporters reveals that a cortical cell file traversed by symbiotic bacteria exhibits reduced proliferative potential and enters a prolonged G2 phase.
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Highlights

    1. Plant Biology

    Making conferences more inclusive

    Marcia Puig-Lluch, Mary Williams ... Patricia Baldrich
    1. Plant Biology

    Pectin and the plant cell wall

    David Biermann, Sebastian Wolf
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Looking below the surface in plants

    Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa

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  1. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
    University of Freiburg, Germany
  2. Meredith C Schuman
    University of Zurich, Switzerland
  3. Detlef Weigel
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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