Plant Biology

Latest articles

1. 1. Plant Biology

   Building customizable auto-luminescent luciferase-based reporters in plants

   Arjun Khakhar et al.
2. 1. Plant Biology

   UBP12 and UBP13 negatively regulate the activity of the ubiquitin-dependent peptidases DA1, DAR1 and DAR2

   Hannes Vanhaeren et al.
3. 1. Plant Biology

   A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat

   Nikolai M Adamski et al.

   The development of genomic tools and publicly available resources in polyploid wheat provides a framework to understand biologically important traits in crops with large genomes.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   CCR4, a RNA decay factor, is hijacked by a plant cytorhabdovirus phosphoprotein to facilitate virus replication

   Zhen-Jia Zhang et al.
5. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Adaptation of hydroxymethylbutenyl diphosphate reductase enables volatile isoprenoid production

   Mareike Bongers et al.

   Differences in HDR product preference present a novel mechanism in plants to control substrate availability for short- and long-chain isoprenoids.
6. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions

   Michael J Prigge et al.

   Genetic analyses reveal that the TIR1/AFB auxin receptors have broadly overlapping functions throughout plant development, but that the AFB1 receptor has a specialized role in a rapid auxin response.
7. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Reticulon proteins modulate autophagy of the endoplasmic reticulum in maize endosperm

   Xiaoguo Zhang et al.

   Plant reticulons bind Atg8 under ER stress to promote reticulophagy and ameliorate ER stress in the maize endosperm.
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   Determining the scale at which variation in a single gene changes population yields

   Erica McGale et al.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Evolutionarily unique mechanistic framework of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants

   Madhumitha Narasimhan et al.

   The examination of the ultra-structure and in vivo dynamics of endocytosis in plants reveal plants unique actin-independent, clathrin-mediated endocytosis mechanisms to overcome their unique physiological properties.
10. 1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Microscopy: Looking below the surface in plants

    Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa

    A new way to culture and image flowers is uncovering the processes that take place in reproductive cells buried deep in plants.