Plant Biology

Plant Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Plant Biology

    Rapid translocation of NGR proteins driving polarization of PIN-activating D6 protein kinase during root gravitropism

    Ivan Kulich, Julia Schmid ... Jiří Friml
    Negative Gravitropic Response of roots (NGRs), pivotal for root gravitropic bending, are indispensable for the gravity-induced translocation of D6 protein kinase, a key regulator of PIN3 auxin efflux carrier activity.
    1. Plant Biology

    The structural repertoire of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici effectors revealed by experimental and computational studies

    Daniel S Yu, Megan A Outram ... Simon J Williams
    Computational and experimental structural biology reveals the structural repertoire of effector proteins produced by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici during infection of tomato.
    1. Ecology
    2. Plant Biology

    High-resolution kinetics of herbivore-induced plant volatile transfer reveal clocked response patterns in neighboring plants

    Jamie Mitchel Waterman, Tristan Michael Cofer ... Matthias Erb
    Real-time volatile emission kinetics reveal stress volatiles emitted from herbivore-damaged plants can sequentially prime and induce defense responses in undamaged plants following distinct temporal patterns.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Developmental patterning function of GNOM ARF-GEF mediated from the cell periphery

    Maciek Adamowski, Ivana Matijević, Jiří Friml
    The plant developmental regulator GNOM performs its unique function from the cell periphery, through sequence features present in all its domains, and not by the control of endocytosis.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    A translation proofreader of archaeal origin imparts multi-aldehyde stress tolerance to land plants

    Pradeep Kumar, Ankit Roy ... Rajan Sankaranarayanan
    Genetic, biochemical, and bioinformatic analyses reveal how expanding metabolic repertoire interferes with fundamental processes like protein synthesis inside cells and the role of D-aminoacyl-tRNA deacylase2 in protecting these processes during terrestrialisation.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of male-biased genes in a dioecious flowering plant

    Lei Zhao, Wei Zhou ... Hong-Tao Li
    Computational analyses, for the first time in plants, reveal how male-biased genes evolve faster than female-biased and unbiased genes.
    1. Plant Biology

    The tRNA thiolation-mediated translational control is essential for plant immunity

    Xueao Zheng, Hanchen Chen ... Shunping Yan
    The transfer RNA thiolation modification is required for the efficient translation of the master immune regulator NPR1 in plants.

Highlights

    1. Plant Biology

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    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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