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Adding a piece to the leaf epidermal cell shape puzzle (2017)
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von Wangenheim, D., Wells, D. M., & Bennett, M. J. (2017). Adding a piece to the leaf epidermal cell shape puzzle. Developmental Cell, 43(3), 255-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.020

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The jigsaw puzzle-shaped pavement cells in the leaf epidermis collectively function as a load-bearing tissue that controls organ growth. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Majda et al. (2017) shed light on how the jigsaw shape... Read More about Adding a piece to the leaf epidermal cell shape puzzle.

Characterisation of Thinopyrum bessarabicum chromosomes through genome-wide introgressions into wheat (2017)
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Grewal, S., Yang, C., Hubbart Edwards, S., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Burridge, A., …King, J. (2018). Characterisation of Thinopyrum bessarabicum chromosomes through genome-wide introgressions into wheat. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131(2), 389–406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-017-3009-y

Thinopyrum bessarabicum (2n = 2x = 14, JJ) is an important source for new genetic variation for wheat improvement due to its salinity tolerance and disease resistance. Its practical utilisation in wheat improvement can be facilitated through developm... Read More about Characterisation of Thinopyrum bessarabicum chromosomes through genome-wide introgressions into wheat.

Increasing leaf vein density via mutagenesis in rice results in an enhanced rate of photosynthesis, smaller cell sizes and can reduce interveinal mesophyll cell number (2017)
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Feldman, A. B., Leung, H., Baraoidan, M., Elmido-Mabilangan, A., Canicosa, I., Quick, W. P., …Murchie, E. H. (2017). Increasing leaf vein density via mutagenesis in rice results in an enhanced rate of photosynthesis, smaller cell sizes and can reduce interveinal mesophyll cell number. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, Article 1883. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01883

Improvements to leaf photosynthetic rates of crops can be achieved by targeted manipulation of individual component processes, such as the activity and properties of RuBisCO or photoprotection. This study shows that simple forward genetic screens of... Read More about Increasing leaf vein density via mutagenesis in rice results in an enhanced rate of photosynthesis, smaller cell sizes and can reduce interveinal mesophyll cell number.

Roots-eye view: using microdialysis and microCT to non-destructively map root nutrient depletion and accumulation zones (2017)
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Brackin, R., Atkinson, B. S., Sturrock, C. J., & Rasmussen, A. (2017). Roots-eye view: using microdialysis and microCT to non-destructively map root nutrient depletion and accumulation zones. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13072

Improvement in fertiliser use efficiency is a key aspect for achieving sustainable agriculture in order to minimise costs, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from nutrient runoff. To optimise root architecture for nutrient uptake and efficiency w... Read More about Roots-eye view: using microdialysis and microCT to non-destructively map root nutrient depletion and accumulation zones.

RiceAntherNet: a gene co-expression network for identifying anther and pollen development genes (2017)
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Lin, H., Yu, J., Pearce, S., Zhang, D., & Wilson, Z. A. (2017). RiceAntherNet: a gene co-expression network for identifying anther and pollen development genes. Plant Journal, 92(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13744

In plants, normal anther and pollen development involves many important biological events and complex molecular regulatory coordination. Understanding gene regulatory relationships during male reproductive development is essential for fundamental bio... Read More about RiceAntherNet: a gene co-expression network for identifying anther and pollen development genes.

The Cys-Arg/N-end rule pathway is a general sensor of abiotic stress in flowering plants (2017)
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Vicente, J., Mendiondo, G. M., Movahedi, M., Peirats-Llobet, M., Juan, Y.-T., Shen, Y.-Y., …Holdsworth, M. J. (2017). The Cys-Arg/N-end rule pathway is a general sensor of abiotic stress in flowering plants. Current Biology, 27(20), Article 3183-3190.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.006

Abiotic stresses impact negatively on plant growth, profoundly affecting yield and quality of crops. Although much is known about plant responses, very little is understood at the molecular level about the initial sensing of environmental stress. In... Read More about The Cys-Arg/N-end rule pathway is a general sensor of abiotic stress in flowering plants.

An updated protocol for high throughput plant tissue sectioning (2017)
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Atkinson, J. A., & Wells, D. M. (2017). An updated protocol for high throughput plant tissue sectioning. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01721

Quantification of the tissue and cellular structure of plant material is essential for the study of a variety of plant sciences applications. Currently, many methods for sectioning plant material are either low throughput or involve free-hand section... Read More about An updated protocol for high throughput plant tissue sectioning.

First hints of new sensors (2017)
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Holdsworth, M. J. (in press). First hints of new sensors. Nature Plants, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0031-7

A mechanism by which plants detect and respond to oxygen starvation has been known for some years. Three recent papers suggest that we haven’t been seeing the full picture.

HAWAIIAN SKIRT controls size and floral organ number by modulating CUC1 and CUC2 expression (2017)
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Gonzalez-Carranza, Z. H., Zhang, X., Peters, J. L., Boltz, V., Szecsi, J., Bendahmane, M., & Roberts, J. A. (2017). HAWAIIAN SKIRT controls size and floral organ number by modulating CUC1 and CUC2 expression. PLoS ONE, 12(9), Article e0185106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185106

The Arabidopsis thaliana F-box gene HAWAIIAN SKIRT (HWS) affects organ growth and the timing of floral organ abscission. The loss-of-function hws-1 mutant exhibits fused sepals and increased organ size. To understand the molecular mechanisms of HWS d... Read More about HAWAIIAN SKIRT controls size and floral organ number by modulating CUC1 and CUC2 expression.

Shaping 3D root system architecture (2017)
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Morris, E. C., Griffiths, M., Golebiowska, A., Mairhofer, S., Burr-Hersey, J., Goh, T., …Bennett, M. J. (2017). Shaping 3D root system architecture. Current Biology, 27(17), R919-R930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.043

Plants are sessile organisms rooted in one place. The soil resources that plants require are often distributed in a highly heterogeneous pattern. To aid foraging, plants have evolved roots whose growth and development are highly responsive to soil si... Read More about Shaping 3D root system architecture.

Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation (2017)
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Yang, C., Song, J., Ferguson, A. C., Klisch, D., Simpson, K., Mo, R., …Wilson, Z. A. (2017). Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation. Plant Physiology, 175(1), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00719

Successful fertilization relies on the production and effective release of viable pollen. Failure of anther opening (dehiscence), results in male sterility, although the pollen may be fully functional. MYB26 regulates the formation of secondary thick... Read More about Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation.

Overexpression of the RieskeFeS protein increasese electron transport rates and biomass yield (2017)
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Simkin, A. J., McAusland, L., Lawson, T., & Raines, C. A. (in press). Overexpression of the RieskeFeS protein increasese electron transport rates and biomass yield. Plant Physiology, 175, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00622

In this study, we generated transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants overexpressing the Rieske FeS protein (PetC), a component of the cytochrome b6f (cyt b6f) complex. Increasing the levels of this protein resulted in concomitant increase... Read More about Overexpression of the RieskeFeS protein increasese electron transport rates and biomass yield.

Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping (2017)
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Pound, M. P., Atkinson, J. A., Townsend, A. J., Wilson, M. H., Griffiths, M., Jackson, A. S., …French, A. P. (2017). Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping. GigaScience, 6(10), Article gix083. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix083

© The Author 2017. In plant phenotyping, it has become important to be able to measure many features on large image sets in order to aid genetic discovery. The size of the datasets, now often captured robotically, often precludes manual inspection, h... Read More about Deep machine learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping.

Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge (2017)
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Tardieu, F., Cabrera-Bosquet, L., Pridmore, T. P., & Bennett, M. J. (2017). Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge. Current Biology, 27(15), R770-R783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.055

Major improvements in crop yield are needed to keep pace with population growth and climate change. While plant breeding efforts have greatly benefited from advances in genomics, profiling the crop phenome (i.e., the structure and function of plants)... Read More about Plant phenomics, from sensors to knowledge.

Linear discriminant analysis reveals differences in root architecture in wheat seedlings related to nitrogen uptake efficiency (2017)
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Kenobi, K., Atkinson, J. A., Wells, D. M., Gaju, O., deSilva, J. G., Foulkes, M. J., …Bennett, M. J. (2017). Linear discriminant analysis reveals differences in root architecture in wheat seedlings related to nitrogen uptake efficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68(17), 4969-4981. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx300

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Root architecture impacts water and nutrient uptake efficiency. Identifying exactly which root architectural properties influence these agronom... Read More about Linear discriminant analysis reveals differences in root architecture in wheat seedlings related to nitrogen uptake efficiency.

Reduction of indole-3-acetic acid methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in Arabidopsis (2017)
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Abbas, M., Hernández-García, J., Blanco-Tourin, N., Aliaga, N., Minguet, E. G., Alabadí, D., & Blázquez, M. A. (2018). Reduction of indole-3-acetic acid methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in Arabidopsis. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12768

High temperature is a general stress factor that causes a decrease in crop yield. It has been shown that auxin application reduces the male sterility caused by exposure to higher temperatures. However, widespread application of a hormone with vast ef... Read More about Reduction of indole-3-acetic acid methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in Arabidopsis.

Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation (2017)
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Munoz-Concha, D., Davey, M. R., Ribas, G., & Mayes, S. (in press). Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 55(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2017.1343737

Temperate forests have been affected extensively by human activities, resulting in land cover changes and population fragmentation. However, these anthropogenic effects can be superimposed onto the natural history of species, making it difficult to d... Read More about Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation.

OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models (2017)
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Postma, J. A., Kuppe, C., Owen, M. R., Mellor, N. L., Griffiths, M., Bennett, M. J., …Watt, M. (2017). OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models. New Phytologist, 215(3), 1274-1286. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14641

© 2017 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2017 New Phytologist Trust OpenSimRoot is an open-source, functional–structural plant model and mathematical description of root growth and function. We describe OpenSimRoot and its functionality to broaden the b... Read More about OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models.