Plant Biology

Plant Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Plant Biology

    Making plant tissue accessible for cryo-electron tomography

    Matthias Pöge, Marcel Dickmanns ... Wolfgang Baumeister
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    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
    Dynamic lateral diffusion of the kinase and its substrate in the plasma membrane are crucial for a proper signaling response.
    1. Plant Biology

    Targeted and random mutagenesis of cassava brown streak disease susceptibility factors reveal molecular determinants of disease severity

    ZJ Daniel Lin, Myia K Stanton ... Rebecca S Bart
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    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Plant Biology

    The rhizobial effector NopT targets Nod factor receptors to regulate symbiosis in Lotus japonicus

    Hanbin Bao, Yanan Wang ... Yangrong Cao
    The rhizobial effector NopT and two Nod factor receptors of Lotus japonicus, NFR1 and NFR5, mutually interact to precisely regulate rhizobial symbiosis.
    1. Plant Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase from the model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Théo Le Moigne, Martina Santoni ... Julien Henri
    Crystallography, molecular dynamics simulations, and biochemical analyses of Calvin-Benson-Bassham sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase) from the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii identify a redox module that controls oligomeric states for the activation of the enzyme.
    1. Plant Biology

    Natural variation in salt-induced changes in root:shoot ratio reveals SR3G as a negative regulator of root suberization and salt resilience in Arabidopsis

    Maryam Rahmati Ishka, Hayley Sussman ... Magdalena M Julkowska
    Salt stress disrupts root-shoot growth coordination through SR3G, a negative regulator of salt tolerance, that affects shoot growth, root suberization, and sodium accumulation, revealing new targets for environmental resilience.
    1. Plant Biology

    Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts

    Wojciech Wietrzynski, Lorenz Lamm ... Benjamin D Engel
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Plant Biology

    Diverse Genotype-by-Weather Interactions in Switchgrass

    Alice H MacQueen, Li Zhang ... Thomas E Juenger
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    ATG6 interacting with NPR1 increases Arabidopsis thaliana resistance to Pst DC3000/avrRps4 by increasing its nuclear accumulation and stability

    Baihong Zhang, Shuqin Huang ... Wenli Chen
    ATG6 interacting with NPR1 increases Arabidopsis thaliana resistance to Pst DC3000/avrRps4.
    1. Plant Biology

    Structure-guided secretome analysis of gall-forming microbes offers insights into effector diversity and evolution

    Soham Mukhopadhyay, Muhammad Asim Javed ... Edel Pérez-López
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Plant Biology

    Pectin and the plant cell wall

    David Biermann, Sebastian Wolf
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Looking below the surface in plants

    Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa
    1. Plant Biology

    Hitting pause on the cell cycle

    Thomas Eekhout, Lieven De Veylder

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    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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    University of Zurich, Switzerland
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    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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