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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Reticulon proteins modulate autophagy of the endoplasmic reticulum in maize endosperm

    Xiaoguo Zhang, Xinxin Ding ... Marisa S Otegui
    Plant reticulons bind Atg8 under ER stress to promote reticulophagy and ameliorate ER stress in the maize endosperm.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Evolutionarily unique mechanistic framework of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants

    Madhumitha Narasimhan, Alexander Johnson ... Jiří Friml
    The examination of the ultra-structure and in vivo dynamics of endocytosis in plants reveal plants unique actin-independent, clathrin-mediated endocytosis mechanisms to overcome their unique physiological properties.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Microscopy: Looking below the surface in plants

    Rui Wang, Anna A Dobritsa
    A new way to culture and image flowers is uncovering the processes that take place in reproductive cells buried deep in plants.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Imaging plant germline differentiation within Arabidopsis flowers by light sheet microscopy

    Sona Valuchova, Pavlina Mikulkova ... Karel Riha
    Light sheet microscopy was used to establish a method for live imaging of cellular events within Arabidopsis flower and for constructing a 3D model of flower at subcellular resolution.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Plant Reproduction: Shaping the genome of plants

    Ajeet Chaudhary, Rachele Tofanelli, Kay Schneitz
    Fertilization of an egg cell by more than one sperm cell can produce viable progeny in a flowering plant.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Selective egg cell polyspermy bypasses the triploid block

    Yanbo Mao, Alexander Gabel ... Rita Groß-Hardt
    A ménàge à trois introduces extra DNA only to plant embryos, thus skipping endosperm-induced seed hybridization barriers.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    From plasmodesma geometry to effective symplasmic permeability through biophysical modelling

    Eva E Deinum, Bela M Mulder, Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
    A new biophysical model enables the reconciliation of ultrastructural and tissue level measurements on parameters affecting intercellular communication, and provides novel functional insight into experimental findings.
    1. Plant Biology

    A cis-carotene derived apocarotenoid regulates etioplast and chloroplast development

    Christopher I Cazzonelli, Xin Hou ... Barry J Pogson
    Carotenoids are not just required as core components for plastid biogenesis, they can be cleaved into an apocarotenoid signal that regulates etioplast and chloroplast development during extended periods of darkness.
    1. Plant Biology

    An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species

    Hiroaki Adachi, Mauricio P Contreras ... Sophien Kamoun
    The MADA motif is functionally conserved across NLRs from distantly related plants and has degenerated in sensor NLRs over evolutionary time.
    1. Plant Biology

    Homeostasis of branched-chain amino acids is critical for the activity of TOR signaling in Arabidopsis

    Pengfei Cao, Sang-Jin Kim ... Federica Brandizzi
    Despite BCAAs being de novo-synthesized in chloroplasts, TOR activation by BCAAs is conserved in plants and triggers a re-organization of actin and actin-associated endomembranes.