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Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots (2020)
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Fischer, S., Sánchez-Bermejo, E., Xu, X., Flis, P., Ramakrishna, P., Guerinot, M. L., …Salt, D. E. (2021). Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(2), 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa465

High Arsenic Concentration 1 (HAC1), an Arabidopsis thaliana arsenate reductase, plays a key role in arsenate [As(V)] tolerance. Through conversion of As(V) to arsenite [As(III)], HAC1 enables As(III) export from roots, and restricts translocation of... Read More about Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots.

Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance (2020)
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Rivera-Amado, C., Molero, G., Trujillo-Negrellos, E., Reynolds, M., & Foulkes, J. (2020). Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1527. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101527

© 2020 by the authors. Grain filling may be limited by the joint source and sink capacity in modern wheat cultivars, indicating a need to research the co-limitation of yield by both photosynthesis and the number and potential size of grains. The exte... Read More about Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance.

TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma (2020)
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Clifford, R. L., Yang, C. X., Fishbane, N., Patel, J., MacIsaac, J. L., McEwen, L. M., …Hackett, T. L. (2020). TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma. Clinical Epigenetics, 12(1), Article 145. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-020-00931-4

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Mesenchymal fibroblasts are ubiquitous cells that maintain the extracellular matrix of organs. Within the lung, airway and parenchymal fibroblasts are crucial for lung development and are altered with disease, but it... Read More about TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma.

Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm (2020)
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Ting, N. C., Sherbina, K., Khoo, J. S., Kamaruddin, K., Chan, P. L., Chan, K. L., …Singh, R. (2020). Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 16296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73170-5

© 2020, The Author(s). Evaluation of transcriptome data in combination with QTL information has been applied in many crops to study the expression of genes responsible for specific phenotypes. In oil palm, the mesocarp oil extracted from E. oleifera... Read More about Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm.

Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes (2020)
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Botoman, L., Nalivata, P. C., Chimungu, J. G., Munthali, M. W., Bailey, E. H., Ander, E. L., …Broadley, M. R. (2020). Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes. Plant Direct, 4(10), Article e00277. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.277

The prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies including zinc (Zn) is widespread in Malawi, especially among poor and marginalized rural populations. This is due to low concentrations of Zn in most staple cereal crops and limited consumption of animal... Read More about Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes.

Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations (2020)
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Gao, X., Bamba, A. S. A., Kundy, A. C., Mateva, K. I., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., …Massawe, F. (2020). Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1451. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101451

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Underutilis... Read More about Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations.

Site-Specific Factors Influence the Field Performance of a Zn-Biofortified Wheat Variety (2020)
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Broadley, M. R., Ahmed, I., Zia, M. H., Zaman, M., Wilson, L., Joy, E. J., …Bailey, E. H. (2020). Site-Specific Factors Influence the Field Performance of a Zn-Biofortified Wheat Variety. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00135

© Copyright © 2020 Zia, Ahmed, Bailey, Lark, Young, Lowe, Joy, Wilson, Zaman and Broadley. Background: Biofortification of wheat with zinc (Zn) through breeding and agronomy can reduce Zn deficiencies and improve human health. “High-Zn” wheat varieti... Read More about Site-Specific Factors Influence the Field Performance of a Zn-Biofortified Wheat Variety.

Photoprotective energy dissipation is greater in the lower, not the upper, regions of a rice canopy: A 3D analysis (2020)
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Foo, C., Burgess, A., Retkute, R., Tree-Intong, P., Ruban, A., & Murchie, E. (2020). Photoprotective energy dissipation is greater in the lower, not the upper, regions of a rice canopy: A 3D analysis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(22), 7382-7392. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa411

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. High light intensities raise photosynthetic and plant growth rates but can cause damage to the photosynthetic machinery. The likelihood... Read More about Photoprotective energy dissipation is greater in the lower, not the upper, regions of a rice canopy: A 3D analysis.

How to build an effective research network: Lessons from two decades of the GARNet plant science community (2020)
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Parry, G., Benitez-Alfonso, Y., Gibbs, D. J., Grant, M., Harper, A., Harrison, C. J., …Murray, J. (2020). How to build an effective research network: Lessons from two decades of the GARNet plant science community. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(22), 6881-6889. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa397

Successful collaborative research is dependent on excellent ideas and innovative experimental approaches, as well as the provision of appropriate support networks. Collaboration requires venues, infrastructures, training facilities, and, perhaps most... Read More about How to build an effective research network: Lessons from two decades of the GARNet plant science community.

A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system (2020)
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Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Li, X., Shen, H., Gao, J., Hou, S., …Wang, X. (2020). A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system. Nature Plants, 6, 1167–1178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0747-7

Over the past few decades, several plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon and rice (Oryza sativa), have been adopted as model plants for various aspects of research. These species, especially Arabidopsis, have had vita... Read More about A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system.

Volumetric Segmentation of Cell Cycle Markers in Confocal Images Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning (2020)
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Khan, F. A., Voß, U., Pound, M. P., & French, A. P. (2020). Volumetric Segmentation of Cell Cycle Markers in Confocal Images Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, Article 1275. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.01275

© Copyright © 2020 Khan, Voß, Pound and French. Understanding plant growth processes is important for many aspects of biology and food security. Automating the observations of plant development—a process referred to as plant phenotyping—is increasing... Read More about Volumetric Segmentation of Cell Cycle Markers in Confocal Images Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Impact of neospora caninum infection on the bioenergetics and transcriptome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells (2020)
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Elsheikha, H. M., Alkurashi, M., Palfreman, S., Castellanos, M., Kong, K., Ning, E., …MacNaughtan, W. (2020). Impact of neospora caninum infection on the bioenergetics and transcriptome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells. Pathogens, 9(9), Article 710. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9090710

In this work, the effects of the protozoan Neospora caninum on the bioenergetics, chemical composition, and elemental content of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMECs) were investigated. We showed that N. caninum can impair cell mitocho... Read More about Impact of neospora caninum infection on the bioenergetics and transcriptome of cerebrovascular endothelial cells.

Uclacyanin Proteins Are Required for Lignified Nanodomain Formation within Casparian Strips (2020)
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Reyt, G., Chao, Z., Flis, P., Salas-González, I., Castrillo, G., Chao, D. Y., & Salt, D. E. (2020). Uclacyanin Proteins Are Required for Lignified Nanodomain Formation within Casparian Strips. Current Biology, 30(20), 4103-4111.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.095

© 2020 The Author(s) Casparian strips (CSs) are cell wall modifications of vascular plants restricting extracellular free diffusion into and out of the vascular system [1]. This barrier plays a critical role in controlling the acquisition of nutrient... Read More about Uclacyanin Proteins Are Required for Lignified Nanodomain Formation within Casparian Strips.

Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity (2020)
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McCouch, S., Navabi, K., Abberton, M., Anglin, N. L., Barbieri, R. L., Baum, M., …Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity. Molecular Plant, 13(10), 1341-1344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.08.011

Over the past 70 years, the world has witnessed extraordinary growth in crop productivity, enabled by a suite of technological advances, including higher yielding crop varieties, improved farm management, synthetic agrochemicals, and agricultural mec... Read More about Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity.

mRNA adenosine methylase (MTA) deposits m6A on pri-miRNAs to modulate miRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana (2020)
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Bhat, S. S., Bielewicz, D., Gulanicz, T., Bodi, Z., Yu, X., Anderson, S. J., …Szweykowska-Kulinska, Z. (2020). mRNA adenosine methylase (MTA) deposits m6A on pri-miRNAs to modulate miRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(35), 21785-21795. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003733117

Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the METTL3 homolog, mRNA adenosine methylase (MTA) introduces N6-methyladenosine (m6A) into various coding and noncoding RNAs of the plant transcriptome. Here, we show that a... Read More about mRNA adenosine methylase (MTA) deposits m6A on pri-miRNAs to modulate miRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes (2020)
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Kendabie, P., Jørgensen, S., Massawe, F., Fernandez, J., Azam-Ali, S., & Mayes, S. (2020). Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes. Food and Energy Security, 9(4), Article e240. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.240

© 2020 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Applied Biologists In Bambara groundnut [Vigna subterranea (L) Verdc], long photoperiods can cause a decline in pod and seed number. While n... Read More about Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes.

Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession dependent not species dependent (2020)
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McAusland, L., Vialet‐Chabrand, S., Jauregui, I., Burridge, A., Hubbart-Edwards, S., Fryer, M. J., …Murchie, E. H. (2020). Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession dependent not species dependent. New Phytologist, 228(6), 1767-1780. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16832

©2020 The Authors. New Phytologist ©2020 New Phytologist Trust The wild relatives of modern wheat represent an underutilized source of genetic and phenotypic diversity and are of interest in breeding owing to their wide adaptation to diverse environm... Read More about Variation in key leaf photosynthetic traits across wheat wild relatives is accession dependent not species dependent.

An analysis of hand pump boreholes functionality in Malawi (2020)
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Mkandawire, T., Mwathunga, E., MacDonald, A. M., Bonsor, H. C., Banda, S., Mleta, P., …Lark, R. M. (2020). An analysis of hand pump boreholes functionality in Malawi. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 118-119, Article 102897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2020.102897

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd A survey on the functionality of boreholes equipped with hand pumps was undertaken in five districts in Malawi in 2016. The survey aimed at developing a robust evidence-base of the performance of hand pump boreholes by applying a... Read More about An analysis of hand pump boreholes functionality in Malawi.

Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm (2020)
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Ting, N. C., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Sambanthamurthi, R., Chan, K. L., Sritharan, K., & Singh, R. (2020). Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm. Biologia, 76, 267–279. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00563-2

© 2020, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The present study searched for candidate genes in five linkage groups (LGs) - T2, T3, OT4, OT6 and T9 hosting the QTLs associated with iodine value (IV) and fatty acid composition (F... Read More about Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm.

Longitudinal analysis of a long-Term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design (2020)
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Lark, R. M., Ligowe, I. S., Thierfelder, C., Magwero, N., Namaona, W., Njira, K., …Nalivata, P. C. (2020). Longitudinal analysis of a long-Term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design. Experimental Agriculture, 56(4), 506-527. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000125

Resilient cropping systems are required to achieve food security in the presence of climate change, and so several long-Term conservation agriculture (CA) trials have been established in southern Africa-one of them at the Chitedze Agriculture Researc... Read More about Longitudinal analysis of a long-Term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design.