Plant Biology

Latest articles

1. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Plant Biology

   Genomic basis for drought resistance in European beech forests threatened by climate change

   Markus Pfenninger et al.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Bacterial Blooms: The social life of cyanobacteria

   Conrad W Mullineaux, Annegret Wilde

   The cyanobacterium Synechocystis secretes a specific sulphated polysaccharide to form floating cell aggregates.
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   Genetic variation, environment and demography intersect to shape Arabidopsis defense metabolite variation across Europe

   Ella Katz et al.

   Measurements of specialized metabolites across a population of 800 natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions revealed different pressures and evolutionary processes that shaped their variation and distribution across Europe.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Biosynthesis of a sulfated exopolysaccharide, synechan, and bloom formation in the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

   Kaisei Maeda et al.

   A potentially useful cyanobacterial sulfated exopolysaccharide and its biosynthesis and regulation genes, which contribute to the laboratorial bloom formation, are elucidated for the first time among prokaryotes.
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   Plant Ecology: Getting the metabolites right

   Arthur Korte

   A study of almost 800 Arabidopsis thaliana plants from across Europe reveals how the environment and evolutionary pressures shape their metabolites.
6. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   Repression by the Arabidopsis TOPLESS corepressor requires association with the core mediator complex

   Alexander R Leydon et al.

   The TPL corepressor binds to the core mediator complex through MED21 to inhibit transcription while simultaneously priming repressed genes for rapid reactivation.
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   An ABA-GA bistable switch can account for natural variation in the variability of Arabidopsis seed germination time

   Katie Abley et al.

   Arabidopsis shows extensive genetic diversity in germination time distributions, which can be explained by the underlying ABA/GA network functioning as a noisy bistable switch.
8. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   Widespread premature transcription termination of Arabidopsis thaliana NLR genes by the spen protein FPA

   Matthew T Parker et al.

   The expression of Arabidopsis NLR immune response genes is modulated by premature transcription termination, and this has implications for understanding NLR regulation and evolutionary dynamics.
9. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Organ geometry channels reproductive cell fate in the Arabidopsis ovule primordium

   Elvira Hernandez-Lagana et al.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    Tuning self-renewal in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage by hormone and nutrient regulation of asymmetric cell division

    Yan Gong et al.

    Quantitative live-cell time-lapse imaging reveals that the spatial and temporal degree of cortical polarity domains reflects stem-cell division capacity in cells of the Arabidopsis plant leaf epidermis.