Plant Biology

Plant Biology

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    1. Plant Biology

    RPG acts as a central determinant for infectosome formation and cellular polarization during intracellular rhizobial infections

    Beatrice Lace, Chao Su ... Thomas Ott
    Infectosomes enabling polar progression of infection threads in legume roots require the symbioisis-related RPG protein that functions as an organizer of these structures.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    The circadian clock controls temporal and spatial patterns of floral development in sunflower

    Carine M Marshall, Veronica L Thompson ... Stacey L Harmer
    The circadian clock acts with light response pathways to tightly synchronize daily rhythms in maturation of hundreds of florets in sunflower, promoting timely visits by pollinators and creating ring-like patterns on developing heads.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Floral Maturation: How the sunflower gets its rings

    Young-Joon Park, Pil Joon Seo
    The circadian clock may help to control the development patterns which allow the florets on a sunflower head to go through their final stages of maturation at precisely the right time.
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    1. Plant Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of Dunaliella photosystem II reveals conformational flexibility of stacked and unstacked supercomplexes

    Ido Caspy, Maria Fadeeva ... Nathan Nelson
    Photosystem II, the pigment-protein complex responsible for water oxidation in photosynthesis, was found to exist in two different core conformations with altered antennae connectivity.
    1. Plant Biology

    Mimicking genuine drought responses using a high throughput plate assay

    Stephen Gonzalez, Joseph Swift ... Joseph R. Ecker
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Plant Biology

    Seed Dispersal: Deciding when to move

    Lauren Sullivan
    Dandelion seeds respond to wet weather by closing their plumes, which reduces dispersal when wind conditions are poor.
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    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Plant Biology

    Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore

    Madeleine Seale, Oleksandr Zhdanov ... Naomi Nakayama
    The dandelion diaspore changes its shape depending on the moisture levels in the air, and this morphing enhances the dispersal potential of the seeds regardless of the weather conditions.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Opposite polarity programs regulate asymmetric subsidiary cell divisions in grasses

    Dan Zhang, Roxane P Spiegelhalder ... Michael T Raissig
    The formation of stomatal 'helper cells' (=subsidiary cells) in grasses requires two opposing polarity domains with diverse roles in establishing division asymmetry.

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    1. Plant Biology

    Hitting pause on the cell cycle

    Thomas Eekhout, Lieven De Veylder

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