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Research on mutant tobacco plants shows that a pigment called β-carotene is not necessary for photosynthesis.

Plants and humans use a shared mechanism, the eukaryotic metabolic sensor TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN protein kinase and its substrate, an RNA-binding protein called LARP1, to coordinate post-transcriptional gene expression.

The Cajal body is essential for plants to deploy antiviral DNA methylation.

Plants detect the presence of phospholipids in eggs from a herbivorous insect and trigger innate immunity.

Variation in autumnal expression from starting expression levels and initial cold-down-regulation, rather than epigenetic silencing, is the major field variable conferred by worldwide haplotypes of the floral repressor gene, FLC.

C53 bridges selective autophagy with ribosome-associated quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum.

I am writing to respond to the comment by Gagliano et al. on my article about associative learning in plants (Markel, 2020).

We are writing to comment on the article by Markel, 2020, which reports an unsuccessful attempt to replicate our finding of associative learning in plants.

A binary cell fate decision to be or not to be stomata is regulated by multiple peptide ligands, each triggering a unique subcellular dynamics of their shared receptor.

KATANIN1 in stigma papilla cells prevents disordered pollen tube growth and straightens pollen tube direction, allowing the pollen tube to find its correct path to the underlying female tissues.