Plant Biology

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1. 1. Plant Biology

   Temporal network analysis identifies early physiological and transcriptomic indicators of mild drought in Brassica rapa

   Kathleen Greenham et al.
2. 1. Plant Biology

   A lectin receptor kinase as a potential sensor for extracellular nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in Arabidopsis thaliana

   Chenggang Wang et al.

   Genetic and biochemical analyses demonstrate that cell-surface lectin receptors can potentially function as extracellular NAD⁺-binding receptors and provide direct evidence for extracellular NAD⁺ being a bona fide endogenous signaling molecule in plants.
3. 1. Plant Biology

   Lipid transfer from plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi

   Andreas Keymer et al.

   Identification of two arbuscular mycorrhiza-specific lipid biosynthesis mutants and fatty acid transfer experiments reveal that host plant lipids are transferred to symbiotic fungi and needed for their development.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Structural basis for plant plasma membrane protein dynamics and organization into functional nanodomains

   Julien Gronnier et al.

   Unprecedented resolution of the molecular mechanisms of plant membrane protein anchoring involving phospholipids and sterols reveals the control of spatio-temporal segregation into plasma membrane nanodomains.
5. 1. Plant Biology

   ATP sensing in living plant cells reveals tissue gradients and stress dynamics of energy physiology

   Valentina De Col et al.

   The monitoring of ATP dynamics in living plants using fluorescent protein biosensor provides evidence for the complex relationship between cellular energy status and growth.
6. 1. Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   The genome and phenome of the green alga Chloroidium sp. UTEX 3007 reveal adaptive traits for desert acclimatization

   David R Nelson et al.

   Euryhaline green algae utilise intracellular osmoprotectant modulation and specialised redox enzyme networks to successfully inhabit a desert coastline.
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Topological analysis of multicellular complexity in the plant hypocotyl

   Matthew DB Jackson et al.

   The use of network science to quantify the properties of global cellular organization in the plant hypocotyl identifies higher-order properties and plasticity in epidermal cell patterning.
8. 1. Developmental Biology and Stem Cells
   2. Plant Biology

   Live tracking of moving samples in confocal microscopy for vertically grown roots

   Daniel von Wangenheim et al.

   A set of tools to image and track growing plant roots in optimized growing conditions within a vertical stage confocal microscope will open up new possibilities in research of root development.
9. 1. Genes and Chromosomes
   2. Plant Biology

   The MBD7 complex promotes expression of methylated transgenes without significantly altering their methylation status

   Dongming Li et al.

   The METHYL-CpG-BINDING DOMAIN 7 (MBD7) complex promotes the activation (rather than repression) of transgenes that undergo DNA methylation and it does so without significantly altering their methylation status, placing this complex downstream of DNA methylation.
10. 1. Biochemistry
    2. Plant Biology

    RISC-interacting clearing 3’- 5’ exoribonucleases (RICEs) degrade uridylated cleavage fragments to maintain functional RISC in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Zhonghui Zhang et al.

    AGO protein-interacting exoribonucleases clear RNA induced silencing complex (RISC)-resulting 5' cleavage products in time to recycle RISC and miRNAs.