Nature Plants is an online-only, monthly journal publishing the best research on plants (hopefully).
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New News & Views: "A sweet solution to nicotine biosynthesis" rdcu.be/fl6qg
... unexpected role for glycosylation and a highly coordinated biosynthetic system that reshapes our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. #PlantScience
So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The Fragrant Library: Can a Perfume Bottle Save a Rainforest?
www.botany.one/the-fragrant...
Could perfumes help save endangered plants? A new initiative combines fragrance technology, conservation funding, and ethical sourcing to protect some of the world’s rarest species.
#Botany #PlantScience
New Letter: "Ubiquitin-dependent mitochondrial protein degradation ensures seedling emergence by regulating ER–mitochondrial interaction and mitophagy" rdcu.be/flrsu
SPL2 tags damaged mitochondria for degradation, ensuring sufficient energy for the seedling to emerge.
Nice use of the amazing Fungal Bioluminescence Pathway, published in @natcomms.nature.com: "Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections" rdcu.be/fl6ib
Press release from the Whitehead Institute:
wi.mit.edu/news/scienti...
New Editorial: "Remembrance of plants past" rdcu.be/fkN8D
The timescales on which plants operate are both much shorter and much longer than those on which we function. All we can observe are the traces they leave behind.
