Plant Biology

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   A Phytophthora effector recruits a host cytoplasmic transacetylase into nuclear speckles to enhance plant susceptibility

   Haiyang Li et al.

   PsAvh52 modulates epigenetic modification to enhance the susceptibility of soybean to Phytophthora sojae infection.
2. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Effects of microcompartmentation on flux distribution and metabolic pools in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts

   Anika Küken et al.

   Mathematical models reveal that under the physiologically different conditions ambient and high CO2, two algal microcompartments are metabolically connected by facilitated transport.
3. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Carbon Fixation: Closing the circle

   Marylou C Machingura, James V Moroney

   In Chlamydomonas the different stages of the Calvin-Benson cycle take place in separate locations within the chloroplast.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   The chloroplast 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin functions as thioredoxin oxidase in redox regulation of chloroplast metabolism

   Mohamad-Javad Vaseghi et al.

   The chloroplast 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin is central player and missing link in the chloroplast thiol-disulfide redox regulatory network, and participates in oxidative inactivation of reductively activated enzymes in photosynthesis.
5. 1. Plant Biology

   The role of APETALA1 in petal number robustness

   Marie Monniaux et al.

   Variable petal number in Cardamine hirsuta is explained by regulatory changes in the MADS-box gene APETALA1 that relaxed its epistasis over mapped QTL in the C. hirsuta genome.
6. 1. Plant Biology

   LEAFY maintains apical stem cell activity during shoot development in the fern Ceratopteris richardii 

   Andrew RG Plackett et al.

   Transgenic analysis reveals a role for LEAFY in ferns that supports a trajectory from general to floral meristem-specific function as land plants evolved.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   The decoration of specialized metabolites influences stylar development

   Jiancai Li et al.

   Regulation of diterpene glycoside malonylation status influences stylar elongation through affecting auxin signaling in Nicotiana attenuata.
8. 1. Plant Biology

   A plant chitinase controls cortical infection thread progression and nitrogen-fixing symbiosis

   Anna Malolepszy et al.

   Lotus japonicus chitinase modulates the level of rhizobial Nod factor and thereby enables cortical infection and functional symbiosis in root nodules.
9. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   Blumenols as shoot markers of root symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

   Ming Wang et al.

   Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-induced hydroxy- and carboxyblumenol C glycosides accumulate in plant shoots and allow for facile high-throughput screening for functional plant-AMF associations.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    Anisotropic growth is achieved through the additive mechanical effect of material anisotropy and elastic asymmetry

    Firas Bou Daher et al.

    Growing upwards in the young seedling is controlled by two cooperative mechanical mechanisms: cellulose orientation in inner tissues and differential elasticity in epidermal cells.