Volume 171, Issue 1, May 2016

Shared metatranscriptomic responses to petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in ten cultivars of field-grown willow expose native and foreign organism gene expression of effective phytoremediation.

Stable isotopic labeling combined with combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry elucidates metabolic properties of whole plants under strictly controlled physiological conditions.

Transcriptional profiles of spatially and temporally restricted cell populations from the Arabidopsis gynoecium reveals the meristematic nature of the gynoecial medial domain.

A conserved ancestral domain of the intrinsically disordered protein Histone Deacetylase Complex 1 (HDC1) binds H3-binding proteins and H1 variants.

Gatekeeper tyrosine phosphorylation of symbiosis receptor kinase is essential for guiding the infection threads through the epidermal-cortical barrier towards the nodule primordia during progress of root nodule symbiosis.

The N-terminal domain of the Stt7/STN7 protein kinase is essential for its activity and interacts directly with the Rieske protein of the cytochrome b₆f complex.

Xylan biosynthesis in the Golgi apparatus is affected by IRX9, IRX10, and IRX14A in Asparagus.

The cellulose deficiency of the shv3svl1 mutant is enhanced by the uptake of exogenous sucrose, which results in carbon redirection from cellulose to starch biosynthesis.

Loss of a functional NAD(P)H dehydrogenase supercomplex impairs CO₂ concentration in bundle sheath cells.

UDP-glucose:4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3(2H)-furanone glucosyltransferases were identified in strawberry fruit, and the position and nature of the amino acid residues important for the catalytic properties of these proteins were determined.

Diterpene resin acids are major conifer defense compounds and important precursors for industrial bioproducts and are formed through a modular system of diterpene synthases and cytochrome P450s.

Arabidopsis seed mucilage contains a population of RG-I with xylan side branches that mediate the adsorption of mucilage to cellulose microfibrils in vitro.

Rescuing the feedback inhibition of fatty acid synthesis in castor hydroxylase-expressing Arabidopsis seeds increases ricinoleic acid accumulation.

Oxidative pentose-phosphate pathway reactions are required for reproduction.

Polyspermic rice zygote, which is produced by fusion of an egg cell with two sperm cells, has the potential to develop into triploid embryos and plants through typical nuclear and cell divisions.

Auxin and salicylic acid differentially affect clathrin recruitment to regulate endocytosis.

OsDMC1, a conserved recombinase, maintains the stability of the single-end invasion process but is not required for homologous pairing in rice, which is quite different from the DMC1 homologs identified so far in other organisms.

Phosphorylation of a subunit of cellulose synthase differentially alters the rate at which cellulose synthase moves in both directions along microtubules, thereby impacting growth and development.

Analysis of mutant plants points to a synergistic role of two regulators of the ESCRT components SKD1 during plant development.

Multispecies meta-analysis of metabolic profiles reveals conserved and species-specific relationships between metabolism, leaf conductances, and net photosynthesis.

The removal of two cytoplasmic carbonic anhydrases, βCA2 and βCA4, from Arabidopsis causes reduced growth in plants grown in a low-CO₂ environment.

A Vigna umbellata formate dehydrogenase, VuFDH, confers tolerance to Al and low pH by regulating formate metabolism in plants.

In conifers, interactions between the rates and the durations of wood formation prevent the recording of climatic influences in tree-ring structure, except in the last formed cells.

A DNA2 homolog plays an important role in DNA damage repair, cell cycle progression, and the development of the shoot apical meristem and root apical meristem in higher plants.

OsABF1, which is a drought inducible transcription factor, may function reduandantly with OsbZIP40 to regulate rice heading date in response to the alteration of ambient water availability.

A conserved JUMONJI protein with E3 ubiquitin ligase activity affects transposon silencing.

For efficient production of trans-acting siRNA, the third open reading frame on the primary precursor transcript that encompasses the microRNA173 target site needs to be translated.

CBL10 is critical for reproductive development in the presence of salt and functions in different pathways during vegetative and reproductive development.

Repression of either MaMADS1 or MaMADS2 results in delayed ethylene synthesis and maturation, although the fruit ripen normally when treated with ethylene.

Seed production in the monocarpic plant Arabidopsis thaliana promotes shoot senescence and suppresses shoot growth, affecting similar processes as apical dominance does.

Genetic, developmental, and gene expression analyses of GhVIN1-RNAi cotton plants reveal critical roles of vacuolar invertase in floral organ development and male and female fertilities.

A histone methyltransferase negatively regulates a set of genes coordinating seed size and lipid biosynthesis pathways in developing Arabidopsis embryos.

Plants of the usually perennial autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa that colonized railways became vernalization insensitive, early and perpetually flowering, and constitutively heat and cold stress tolerant.

RNA-seq analysis of total and small RNAs throughout the lifespan of Arabidopsis leaves revealed that leaf senescence proceeds with tight temporal and distinctive inter-organellar coordination of transcriptomes.

The STEROL 4α-METHYL OXIDASE2 family proteins SMO2-1 and SMO2-2 function partially through effects on auxin accumulation, auxin response, and PIN1 expression to regulate embryogenesis in Arabidopsis.

TOPOISOMERASE1α is required for survival of stele stem cells and maintenance of the undifferentiated state and number of columella stem cells in the Arabidopsis root.

OsCCC1 functions as a K⁺, Na⁺, and Cl⁻ cotransporter in rice to maintain osmotic potential for cell elongation through increasing internal solute concentrations.

Arabidopsis AAP8 is essential for amino acid phloem loading during the vegetative and reproductive growth phases, and its function affects source leaf physiology, sink development, and seed yield.

Cyclic electron flow is accelerated under heat stress in Symbiodinium to promote photoprotective thermal energy dissipation.

The biosynthesis and spatial positioning of β-carboxysomes, the carbon fixation machinery in cyanobacteria, are modulated by light intensity and redox state of photosynthetic electron transport chain.

Long distance transport of thiamine is required for growth and development and is facilitated by PUT3, the polyamine transporter.

SWEET11 is a nodule-specific sucrose transporter of Medicago truncatula.

Intracellular colonization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is rapidly and temporarily inhibited by P and is stabilized by plant symbiotic P transporter.

Photosynthesis activates the plasma membrane H⁺-ATPase in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells through C-terminal phosphorylation, and this activation is mediated by photosynthetic sugars, including sucrose.

Sucrose promotes early leaf growth by stimulating cell proliferation and repressing chloroplast transcription through the induction of GPT2 expression.

Characterization of developing rice seeds under heat stress identifies OsMADS87 as a determinant of seed size sensitivity to increased temperature.

ADP-ribosyl cyclase activity in Arabidopsis is up-regulated by nitric oxide to increase the cellular concentration of cyclic ADP ribose and free Ca²⁺.

Phosphate deficiency induces the jasmonic acid biosynthesis and signaling pathways and increases resistance to insect herbivory.

An effector from the potato late blight pathogen targets a host protein that negatively regulates immunity.

A chloroplastic protein inhibits defense-induced cell death and is destabilized by activation of a disease resistance protein.

Pyoverdine, a high-affinity ferric iron chelator synthesized by Pseudomonas fluorescens, impacts the growth/defense trade-off of Arabidopsis thaliana under iron deficient conditions.

Maize chitinases, Pr4 and Endochitinase A, in fall armyworm frass suppress herbivore-induced defenses in maize.

The transcription factor ZAT6 coordinately activates phytochelatin synthesis-related gene expression and directly targets GSH1 to positively regulate Cd accumulation and tolerance in Arabidopsis.