The study reveals that a plant's current nutrient environment has a stronger influence on its traits than the nutrient environment of its ancestors, shedding light on how plants adapt and evolve under changing...
Tag - Arabidopsis
Dale Maylea
Modelling pollen competition
Identification of traits affecting pollen performance
Rachel Shekar
Plant computational model explains how leaf veins develop
Polar auxin transport dynamics control vein patterning.
The “social networks” of plant mitochondria
Plant mitochondria interact with each other using social networks to share crucial information for their proper functioning.
Joanna Chustecki
Iain Johnston
Global warming and earlier flowering: a thermogradient tunnel experiment
Winter annual Arabidopsis ecotypes have a distinct advantage over summer annuals in expected global warming scenarios.
Juniper Kiss
A new tool for discovering transcriptional regulators of co-expressed genes
TF DEACoN is an in silico “screen” to identify candidate transcription factors using a public database.
Synchronization of senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana
Is floral senescence synchronized across accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana?
William Salter
Wounds divert auxin flow like “rocks in a stream”
The hormone auxin confers stem cell identity on cells surrounding the wound to enable healing.
Erin Zimmerman
Microscopes and roots: investigating whether cell wall thickenings are phi (Φ) or “C” shaped
Noccaea caerulescens has some tricks that help it cope with heavy metals.
Early Lateral Root Development Is Driven by Thirst
Roots are critical for plants to find water and nutrients. They can also be expensive to grow, so a plant needs to send them in the right direction. How do they do this? A new paper by Daniel von Wangenheim and...
Scientists find critical receptor that allows plant cells to pass stress signals
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is well-known for its role in cells as acting almost like currency for energy storage. Research by Elsa Matthus and colleagues shows that it can also play an important role outside the cell...
Fi Gennu
A new molecular mechanism reveals how plants keep their cool
How do plants adjust their body plan to cope with high-temperature stress?
Alun Salt
Hornwort stomata walls are not built for movement
Guard cell walls are built to resist bending and deformation to open and close the pore. Pectins provide flexibility and resilience to walls; in particular arabinans and unesterified homo-galacturonans are required for...
Alex Assiry
Abscisic acid inhibits hypocotyl elongation acting on gibberellins, DELLA proteins and auxin
Hypocotyl elongation of Arabidopsis seedlings is influenced by light and numerous growth factors. Light inhibits hypocotyl elongation (photomorphogenesis), whereas elongation is promoted in the dark (skotomorphogenesis)...
