Plant Biology

Plant Biology

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Latest articles

    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
    The molecular mechanisms of FCPI assembly and selective binding are revealed through comparison of PSI-FCPI structures in two diatom species.
    1. Plant Biology

    Interdependence of plasma membrane nanoscale dynamics of a kinase and its cognate substrate underlies Arabidopsis response to viral infection

    Marie-Dominique Jolivet, Anne-Flore Deroubaix ... Véronique Germain
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2 Updated
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Root-specific theanine metabolism and regulation at the single-cell level in tea plants (Camellia sinensis)

    Shijia Lin, Yiwen Zhang ... Zhaoliang Zhang
    A single-cell RNA sequencing reveals cell heterogeneity of secondary metabolism in tea plant root and a proposed model in which the theanine biosynthesis pathway occurs via multicellular compartmentation.
    1. Plant Biology

    Pectin methylesterase activity is required for RALF1 peptide signalling output

    Ann-Kathrin Rößling, Kai Dünser ... Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
    The methylation status of pectin acts as a critical signalling scaffold for RALF peptides, linking extracellular matrix dynamics to peptide hormone-mediated regulation of plant root growth.
    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
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    Reviewed Preprint v2 Updated
    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.
    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.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

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

    Masanori Izumi, Sakuya Nakamura ... Shinya Hagihara
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    Reviewed Preprint v2 Updated

Highlights

    1. Plant Biology

    Pectin and the plant cell wall

    David Biermann, Sebastian Wolf
    1. Plant Biology

    Hitting pause on the cell cycle

    Thomas Eekhout, Lieven De Veylder

Senior editors

  1. Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
    University of Freiburg, Germany
  2. Sergio Rasmann
    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  3. Detlef Weigel
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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