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“#Stealing information from host plants: How the parasitic dodder plant flowers” Dodder (Cuscuta australis) flowers together with the host cucumber. Credit: GUO Han About 4,000 to 5,000 parasitic plant species exist. Among these, dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) are distributed worldwide. Compared with normal autotrophic plants, they have a unique morphology—they are rootless and leafless and carry…
“#A new method for in vivo plant cell imaging with SNAP-tag proteins” Arabidopsis thaliana. Credit: Wikipedia. A team of scientists at the Nagoya University Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) have developed a method for visualizing microtubule dynamics and cell membrane protein endocytosis in living plant cells, an important step forward in plant cell biology. SNAP-tag…
“#Novel hormone discovery provides new insight into the evolution of plant structure” Marchantia polymorpha. Credit: Fuchs (1542). An international study co-led by the Monash University School of Biological Sciences has discovered a stem-cell promoting hormone in the liverwort Marchantia polymopha. The discovery, published today in Current Biology, provides a new understanding of the evolution of…
“#New building block in plant wall construction” Credit: Pixabay University of Adelaide researchers as part of a multidisciplinary, international team, have uncovered a new biochemical mechanism fundamental to plant life. The research, published in The Plant Journal details the discovery of the enzymatic reaction involving carbohydrates present in plant cell walls, which are essential for…
“#Flavonoids’ presence in sorghum roots may lead to frost-resistant crop” Researchers collecting soil associated with roots of different sorghum lines (after frost). These soil samples were then subjected to sequencing for the identification of microbes. Seen here are graduate students Mara Cloutier (front right) and Debamalya Chatterjee (back right) working with Plant Genetics and Biotech undergraduate…
“#Researchers discover how plants distinguish beneficial from harmful microbes” Scientists have discovered that legumes use small, well-defined motifs in LysM receptors to read signals produced by both pathogenic and symbiotic microbes. Credit: Christina Krönauer and Damiano Lironi Legume plants know their friends from their enemies, and now we know how they do it at the…
“#An inventory providing information on more than 200 viruses that infect plants in Brazil” Tomatoes with necrotic ringspots caused by Tospovirus. Credit: Elliot Watanabe Kitajima A Brazilian scientist has produced an inventory of 219 pathogens that infect plants in Brazil, including many agriculturally important species. The annotated list, published in Biota Neotropica, is the largest…
“#Mice need kinetochores rich in a microtubule crosslinker to achieve error-free oocyte division” Figure 1: Kinetochores (magenta spots) rich in Prc1 (green spots) in mouse oocytes taken 1 hour (left) and 3 hours (right) after preparation (microtubules are grey and chromosomes are blue). RIKEN researchers have found that Prc1-rich kinetochores are needed for error-free cell…
“#Highly stable amyloid protein aggregates may help plant seeds last longer” In situ hybridization of anti-Vicilin antibodies (red) with amyloid-specific dye Thioflavine T (green) of the pea seed cryosections. Colocalization is shown in yellow. Maximal projection of the confocal stack is shown. Credit: Dr. Pavel Zykin Highly stable polymeric “amyloid” proteins, best known for their…
“#Lizards’ immune systems are not only for fighting germs, but also for regrowing severed tails” Credit: Thomas Lozito The human immune system has been getting a bad rap lately. However, the lizard immune system is finally receiving its due credit for enabling lizards to regrow severed tails. In a recent study in the Journal of…