Martin van Rongen who works with Ottoline Leyser in the Sainsbury Lab Cambridge discusses a recent paper published in PLoS Genetics entitled ‘Connective auxin transport contributes to strigolactone-mediated shoot branching control independent of the transcription factor BRC1‘.

GARNet committee member Sarah McKim talks to GARNet about a recent paper published in New Phytologist entitled ‘Interaction between row-type genes in barley controls meristem determinacy and reveals novel routes to improved grain‘.

Hank describes a recent paper published in the Journal of Cell Science entitled ‘Identification and characterization of genes encoding the nuclear envelope LINC complex in the monocot species Zea mays’. This paper also includes fellow INDEPTH member Katja Graumann from Oxford Brookes University.

Daniel Gibbs discusses a recent paper published in Nature Communications entitled ‘Oxygen-dependent proteolysis regulates the stability of angiosperm polycomb repressive complex 2 subunit VERNALIZATION 2‘

Malcolm Bennett discussed a recent publication in Science entitled ‘Root branching toward water involves posttranslational modification of transcription factor ARF7‘.

GARNet talked to Professor Ari Sadanandom from Durham University about a recent paper published in The Plant Cell entitled ‘SUMO Suppresses the Activity of the Jasmonic Acid Receptor CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1‘

Jill Harrison discusses a recent Current Biology paper entitled ‘CLAVATA Was a Genetic Novelty for the Morphological Innovation of 3D Growth in Land Plants‘

Eirini Kaiserli talks to GARNet about a recent open access paper in PNAS entitled ‘ZINC-FINGER interactions mediate transcriptional regulation of hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis‘.

Ranjan Swarup (University of Nottingham) discusses a couple of recent papers published in Nature Communications that describe the relationship between phosphate and auxin signaling in the roots of Arabidopsis and rice plants. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03851-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03850-4

Charles Melnyk discusses a new paper published in PNAS that describes the molecular events that occur during grafting. The paper is entitled ‘Transcriptome dynamics at Arabidopsis graft junctions reveal an intertissue recognition mechanism that activates vascular regeneration‘