Volume 29, Issue 8, August 2017

ePlant for hypothesis generation permits the exploration of plant data across >12 orders of magnitude encompassing >20 different kinds of genome-wide data, all in one easy-to-use, open-source tool.

DNA binding specificity of floral MADS domain protein complexes depends on protein complex composition and provides clues to the mechanisms underlying target gene specificity.

Abiotic stress and recovery transcriptomes reveal extremely short RNA half-lives, changes to cotranslational decay, and recovery-specific networks, consistent with active recovery and cellular memory.

ETTIN translates changes in auxin levels into diverse transcriptional outcomes to control specific processes during Arabidopsis plant development.

The tomato transcription factor (TF) MYC2 and MYC2-targeted TFs form a hierarchical transcriptional cascade during jasmonate-mediated plant immunity that initiates and amplifies the transcriptional output.

SG2-type R2R3-MYB transcription factor MYB15 regulates preformed and inducible Arabidopsis defense through the production of antimicrobial coumarin scopoletin and G-rich lignin, respectively.

Plants utilize conserved and developmentally essential activation of Rab5 GTPases for organizing endomembrane trafficking required for pre- and postinvasive innate immunity

The response of the same genes to cold stress often varies between maize and sorghum, but the set of genes with conserved patterns of regulation show greater evidence of functional constraint.

Mutants in the translation initiation factor eIF5B reveal the importance of translation for recovery from heat stress and a possible role for this conserved factor in mRNA-specific translation.

The histone deacetylase HDA6 interacts with the histone H3K9 methyltransferases SUVH4/5/6 to coordinately regulate transposon silencing.

The LAZY1 family expressed in statocytes is likely to regulate the polar auxin transport in response to gravistimulation in gravitropism of roots and shoots and in GSA control of lateral roots.

A ketoacyl CoA synthase (PotriKCS1) is key to the biosynthesis of alkenes in the cuticular waxes of poplar leaves.

As a proton-coupled H⁺/K⁺ antiporter, NRT1.5/NPF7.3 mediates K⁺ release from root parenchyma cells into the xylem and coordinates K⁺/NO₃  ⁻ distribution in Arabidopsis.

Suppressing the expression of the putative sterol carrier protein gene GhSCP2D in cotton fibers leads to enhanced callose deposition, thereby reducing plasmodesmata permeability and fiber elongation.

Genetic inactivation of diatom nitrate reductase abolishes nitrate assimilation but not nitrate uptake and results in transcriptional activation of nitrate storage and triacylglycerol biosynthesis pathways.