http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13687/full 50 years of Arabidopsis research: highlights and future directions 50年植物本身不会有太多进化,而植物科学的演化却很大。 如果研究每种植物都一样,那么我们还研究拟南芥吗? 在医疗、健康领域,对小白鼠的研究有没有那么多质疑?
Young Genes out of the Male: an Insight from Evolutionary Age Analysis of the Pollen Transcriptome New paper on pollen transcriptome. http://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/abstract/S1674-2052(14)00043-4 Another paper published after the first one was submited for review. “ ...
Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12911.html ? Tropical forests are important reservoirs of biodiversity1, but the processes that maintain this diversity remain poorly understood2. The Ja ...
Sugar demand, not auxin, is the initial regulator of apical dominance For almost a century the plant hormone auxin has been central to theories on apical dominance, whereby the growing shoot tip suppresses the growth of the axillary buds below. According to the classic model, the auxin indole-3-ace ...
Circadian rhythms have been demonstrated in organisms across the taxonomic spectrum. In view of their widespread occurrence, the adaptive significance of these rhythms is of interest. We have previously shown that constitutive expression of the CCA1 (CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED 1) gene in Arabidopsi ...
Today, I read two interesting new papers. Both of them are about NAC. The ABI4-Induced Arabidopsis ANAC060 Transcription FactorAttenuates ABA Signaling and Renders Seedlings Sugar Insensitive when Presentin the Nucleus http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen. ...
De novo genome assembly: what every biologist should know If you want a genome assembled.... Seek help . For dnGASP and Assemblathon, some teams simply fed data into an assembler and applied all the default settings. Those teams performed poorly, and even running an assembler on its def ...
Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13144.html Human alterations to nutrient cycles 1 , 2 and herbivore communities 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 are affecting global biodiver ...
I am going to create a journal club section in this blog, to record some interesting papers I read recently. It may be good for summarization later. And then I will not ask where the time was going? JC1: Rapid responses of soil microorganisms improve plant fitness in novel environments ...