Plant Biology

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1. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Evolutionarily unique mechanistic framework of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants

   Madhumitha Narasimhan et al.
2. 1. Plant Biology

   An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species

   Hiroaki Adachi et al.

   The MADA motif is functionally conserved across NLRs from distantly related plants and has degenerated in sensor NLRs over evolutionary time.
3. 1. Plant Biology

   Homeostasis of branched-chain amino acids is critical for the activity of TOR signaling in Arabidopsis

   Pengfei Cao et al.

   Despite BCAAs being de novo-synthesized in chloroplasts, TOR activation by BCAAs is conserved in plants and triggers a re-organization of actin and actin-associated endomembranes.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Compensatory sequence variation between trans-species small RNAs and their target sites

   Nathan R Johnson et al.

   Superfamilies of trans-species small RNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta have sequence variation that correspond to synonymous site variation in host plant target mRNAs.
5. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Plant Biology

   The MADS-box transcription factor PHERES1 controls imprinting in the endosperm by binding to domesticated transposons

   Rita A Batista et al.

   Jumping of transposable elements provides DNA-binding sites for the MADS-box transcription factor PHERES1, allowing the regulation of imprinted genes and other key endosperm development genes.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Asymmetrical diversification of the receptor-ligand interaction controlling self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis

   Maxime Chantreau et al.

   In-planta ancestral protein resurrection of the female determinant of self-incompatibility specificity in Arabidopsis halleri demonstrates that two allelic variants currently segregating as distinct receptor-ligand combinations diverged through an asymmetrical process.
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Evolution of C4 photosynthesis predicted by constraint-based modelling

   Mary-Ann Blätke, Andrea Bräutigam

   Constraint-based modelling predicts C4 photosynthesis evolves under resource limitation from an ancestral ground state of C3 photosynthesis and attributes divergent metabolic routes in extant C4 subtypes to light.
8. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Coordination of tissue cell polarity by auxin transport and signaling

   Carla Verna et al.

   GNOM controls both auxin transport and auxin signaling to coordinate tissue cell polarity during vein patterning in plants.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   From plasmodesma geometry to effective symplasmic permeability through biophysical modelling

   Eva E Deinum et al.
10. 1. Plant Biology

    Dynamic ubiquitination determines transcriptional activity of the plant immune coactivator NPR1

    Michael J Skelly et al.

    Expression of plant immune genes is controlled by the opposing actions of ubiquitin ligases and deubiquitinases that modify the master coactivator NPR1, thereby regulating its intrinsic transcriptional activity.