Volume 177, Issue 1, May 2018

T6P can be targeted through genetic and chemical methods for crop yield improvements in different environments through the effect of T6P on carbon allocation and biosynthetic pathways.

Activity profiling with biotinylated and fluorescent probes targeting α-glycosidases in plants is applied to saffron crocus and combined with other hydrolase probes.

Aequorin-based probes targeted to the thylakoid lumen and membrane reveal an integrated role for thylakoids in Ca²⁺ homeostasis and modulation of chloroplast Ca²⁺ signals.

Soft x-ray microscopy is a new method developed to determine cellular carbon and nitrogen concentrations in vivo.

H₂  ¹⁸O labeling and IRMS can be used to measure gross photosynthesis, mesophyll conductance, and respiratory uptake in the light in leaflets exposed to 21% and 2% O₂.

Sunflecks that penetrate through canopy gaps transiently interrupt shade and modify the activity of the UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 to mediate growth and gene expression responses.

Evolutionary analyses suggest that plant R-genes originated in charophytes and plant R-proteins evolved in a modular fashion through frequent gain or loss of protein domains.

Maize genotypes with more crown roots have more intensive topsoil foraging and superior phosphorus acquisition, growth, and yield in low-phosphorus soil.

NF-YC proteins interact with the histone methyltransferase CLF and prevent the trimethylation of H3K27 on chromatin at the FT locus, thereby allowing FT expression and the initiation of flowering.

Modulation of arogenate dehydratase in Arabidopsis causes changes in secondary metabolism, transient overaccumulation of starch, and lower photosynthetic electron transport rates.

A robust working model delineates the main axes of the divergent metabolic strategies used by Arabidopsis thaliana in response to partial or total darkening treatments.

Mutagenesis reveals which CESA protein classes have the greatest influence on the regulation of cellulose microfibril biosynthesis in the Arabidopsis secondary cell wall.

In the wheat Rht18 semidwarf, increased expression of GA2oxA9 metabolizes GA₁₂ precursor to inactive GA₁₁₀, thereby reducing flux through the GA biosynthetic pathway, resulting in a lower content of bioactive GA and reduced growth.

In Nannochloropsis oceanica, betaine lipid is not only important as a surrogate for phospholipids during phosphate deficiency, but is also required for adaptation to low temperature conditions.

In Arabidopsis thaliana, scopoletin 8-hydroxylase mediates the final step in the biosynthesis of fraxetin, a coumarin with a catechol moiety, which is secreted by roots of iron-deficient plants at elevated pH to mobilize iron.

Biotin attachment domain-containing proteins contribute to irreversible inhibition of ACCase under normal growth conditions and under conditions of fatty acid oversupply in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The dynamic organization of vacuoles and the association of tonoplast cargo protein PAT10 are impaired and lead to reduced pollen tube growth in adaptor protein-3 mutants.

Arabidopsis expresses four ALY family nuclear RNA-binding proteins that interact with the RNA helicase UAP56, and their depletion causes nuclear mRNA accumulation and developmental defects.

Preexisting vacuoles are reprogrammed to give rise to protein storage vacuoles.

RMD, a type II formin, controls pollen tube growth by regulating the direction and distribution of actin filaments arrays in rice (Oryza sativa).

Phosphorus deficiency affects the photosynthetic machinery in barley through a series of sequential events.

A chromatin regulatory complex displays two modes of action in regulating the gene expression of a subclade of a transcription factor family during early endosperm development in Arabidopsis.

Physcomitrella patens RECX maintains mitochondrial genome stability by interacting with the mitochondrial recombinase RECA1.

GH1-HMGA1, an uncharacterised linker histone protein of the High Mobility Group Protein A (HMGA) family, is a telomere-interacting protein and is required for telomere maintenance and DNA double strand break repair.

A chloroplast protein known to be involved in membrane biogenesis and maintenance displays a novel type of GTPase activity requiring oligomerization through its N-terminus.

Polyamines play an important role in strawberry fruit ripening by integration of multiple plant hormones, including abscisic acid, auxin, and ethylene.

Magnaporthe oryzae (Guy11) infection induces osa-miR319 expression, which stalls host jasmonic acid signaling and intensifies its pathogenicity.

Expression of AtBBX21 in potato causes morphological and physiological changes that improve photosynthetic rates in high-irradiance conditions without negatively affecting water use efficiency.

Pre-rRNA processing in rice involves two coexisting pathways and responds to chilling stress.

The RXLR effector Pi17316 from Phytophthora infestans targets a MAP3K, VIK, and supports its activity as a susceptibility factor to promote late blight disease.

2′,3′-cAMP associates with Arabidopsis Rbp47b and plays a role in stress granule formation.

The Predicted Arabidopsis Interactome Resource (PAIR) is a database of high-confidence functional associations between Arabidopsis genes that integrates functional association evidence and enables a network-driven approach for interpreting transcriptomic changes that may functionally impact biological processes.