Plant Biology

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1. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   A new role for histone demethylases in the maintenance of plant genome integrity

   Javier Antunez-Sanchez et al.
2. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Parallel global profiling of plant TOR dynamics reveals a conserved role for LARP1 in translation

   M Regina Scarpin et al.

   Plants and humans use a shared mechanism, the eukaryotic metabolic sensor TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN protein kinase and its substrate, an RNA-binding protein called LARP1, to coordinate post-transcriptional gene expression.
3. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Photosynthetic sea slugs induce protective changes to the light reactions of the chloroplasts they steal from algae

   Vesa Havurinne, Esa Tyystjärvi
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   A virus-encoded protein suppresses methylation of the viral genome through its interaction with AGO4 in the Cajal body

   Liping Wang et al.

   The Cajal body is essential for plants to deploy antiviral DNA methylation.
5. 1. Plant Biology

   Phosphatidylcholines from Pieris brassicae eggs activate an immune response in Arabidopsis

   Elia Stahl et al.

   Plants detect the presence of phospholipids in eggs from a herbivorous insect and trigger innate immunity.
6. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   Natural variation in autumn expression is the major adaptive determinant distinguishing Arabidopsis FLC haplotypes

   Jo Hepworth et al.

   Variation in autumnal expression from starting expression levels and initial cold-down-regulation, rather than epigenetic silencing, is the major field variable conferred by worldwide haplotypes of the floral repressor gene, FLC.
7. 1. Plant Biology

   Photosynthesis without β-carotene

   Pengqi Xu et al.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   A cross-kingdom conserved ER-phagy receptor maintains endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis during stress

   Madlen Stephani et al.

   C53 bridges selective autophagy with ribosome-associated quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum.
9. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   Comment on 'Lack of evidence for associative learning in pea plants'

   Monica Gagliano et al.

   We are writing to comment on the article by Markel, 2020, which reports an unsuccessful attempt to replicate our finding of associative learning in plants.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    Response to comment on 'Lack of evidence for associative learning in pea plants'

    Kasey Markel

    I am writing to respond to the comment by Gagliano et al. on my article about associative learning in plants (Markel, 2020).