Plant Biology

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1. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Evolution of a plant gene cluster in Solanaceae and emergence of metabolic diversity

   Pengxiang Fan et al.
2. 1. Plant Biology

   Lack of evidence for associative learning in pea plants

   Kasey Markel

   A fully blinded replication of the most convincing report of associative learning in plants failed to reproduce the phenomenon.
3. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Oomycete small RNAs bind to the plant RNA-induced silencing complex for virulence

   Florian Dunker et al.

   Small RNAs of distantly related plant pathogens, such as fungi and oomycetes, hijack the plant RNA-induced silencing complex to favor host infection.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   FRET kinase sensor development reveals SnRK2/OST1 activation by ABA but not by MeJA and high CO₂ during stomatal closure

   Li Zhang et al.

   Development of a real-time SnRK2 kinase FRET reporter reveals rapid SnRK2 activation by ABA, but not by Methyl-Jasmonate or elevated CO2, while directly demonstrating basal SnRK2 activity in guard cells.
5. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Temporal integration of auxin information for the regulation of patterning

   Carlos S Galvan-Ampudia et al.

   Rhythmic centrifugal waves of auxin traveling through the tissue provides high definition positional information to cells that is not only spatial but also temporal.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Independent evolution of ancestral and novel defenses in a genus of toxic plants (Erysimum, Brassicaceae)

   Tobias Züst et al.

   A gain-of-function in a new chemical defense resulted in no trade-offs and and independent evolution between novel and ancestral defenses, suggesting low redundancy among different defensive chemicals.
7. 1. Plant Biology

   Building customizable auto-luminescent luciferase-based reporters in plants

   Arjun Khakhar et al.

   A fungal bioluminescence pathway can be reconstituted in planta to create luminescence in many plant species without external substrate addition, and be used to design customizable reporters of gene-expression.
8. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Direct ETTIN-auxin interaction controls chromatin states in gynoecium development

   André Kuhn et al.

   Auxin binding to the ETTIN transcription factor disrupts the interaction between ETT and a TPL/TPR co-repressor and subsequently affects chromatin dynamics to ensure proper gynoecium development.
9. 1. Plant Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Charting the native architecture of Chlamydomonas thylakoid membranes with single-molecule precision

   Wojciech Wietrzynski et al.

   In situ cryo-electron tomography resolves individual photosynthetic complexes within native thylakoid membranes, revealing how thylakoid architecture sorts proteins into discrete membrane domains.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    The biogenesis of CLEL peptides involves several processing events in consecutive compartments of the secretory pathway

    Nils Stührwohldt et al.

    Step-wise processing of plant peptide hormone precursors by subtilisin-like proteinases in consecutive compartments of the secretory pathway is required for formation and secretion of the bioactive peptides.