Plant Biology

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1. 1. Plant Biology

   Expression of a CO₂-permeable aquaporin enhances mesophyll conductance in the C₄ species Setaria viridis

   Maria Ermakova et al.

   The SiPIP2;7 aquaporin is a functional CO₂ pore that can be used to improve CO₂ diffusion at the interface between the airspace and leaf mesophyll which limits C₄ photosynthesis.
2. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   Wild cereal grain consumption among Early Holocene foragers of the Balkans predates the arrival of agriculture

   Emanuela Cristiani et al.
3. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Plant Biology

   Histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin

   Jaemyung Choi et al.
4. 1. Plant Biology

   Functional diversification gave rise to allelic specialization in a rice NLR immune receptor pair

   Juan Carlos De la Concepcion et al.

   Biochemical and in planta studies reveal how a rice immune receptor pair has coevolved to deliver immune responses, an important step towards understanding and engineering bespoke resistance to crop pathogens that threaten food security.
5. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Control of Arabidopsis shoot stem cell homeostasis by two antagonistic CLE peptide signalling pathways

   Jenia Schlegel et al.

   Plant meristem size and shape is controlled by two intertwined regional feedback signals that are mediated by secreted peptides.
6. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   A coupled mechano-biochemical model for cell polarity guided anisotropic root growth

   Marco Marconi et al.
7. 1. Plant Biology

   A novel bivalent chromatin associates with rapid induction of camalexin biosynthesis genes in response to a pathogen signal in Arabidopsis

   Kangmei Zhao et al.

   A previously uncharacterized type of bivalent chromatin plays an important role controlling the timely induction of genes involved in making a potent defense metabolite upon a pathogen signal in Arabidopsis.
8. 1. Plant Biology

   SUMOylation contributes to proteostasis of the chloroplast protein import receptor TOC159 during early development

   Sonia Accossato et al.

   SUMOylation contributes to the fine-tuning of the proteostatic equilibrium of essential chloroplast protein import receptor TOC159 at early plant development.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Crosstalk between the chloroplast protein import and SUMO systems revealed through genetic and molecular investigation in Arabidopsis

   Samuel James Watson et al.

   The small ubiquitin-like modifier system directly regulates components of the chloroplast protein import apparatus, that is, TOC proteins, to control chloroplast biogenesis and plant development.
10. 1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Members of the ELMOD protein family specify formation of distinct aperture domains on the Arabidopsis pollen surface

    Yuan Zhou et al.

    Pollen aperture patterning in Arabidopsis is controlled by members of the ELMOD protein family, whose expression levels in developing pollen lineage are tightly regulated.