Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2016

This work describes cytogenetic and transcriptome analyses of repeated WGD events and genome reshuffling supporting preferential retention of stress-responding duplicates showing a signature of strong purifying selection.

The deposition of H3K27me3 at MIR156A and MIR156C mediates the vegetative phase change in Arabidopsis.

The histone binding WD40-repeat protein MSI1 forms a complex with a histone deacetylase that represses abscisic acid receptor genes, thus affecting sensitivity to this phytohormone in Arabidopsis.

Plant-specific RNA binding proteins RZ-1B and RZ-1C interact with a number of highly conserved serine/arginine-rich proteins to regulate RNA splicing and gene expression in Arabidopsis.

Analyses of structure-specific endonuclease mutants show that SEND1 plays a crucial backup role to MUS81 in maintaining genome stability and bring to light its unexpected role in telomere homeostasis.

TELOMERE REPEAT BINDING proteins sustain repression of target genes they share with Polycomb Group repressive complexes.

Systemic acquired resistance and the associated priming response are regulated by a pipecolic acid/FMO1 signaling module that controls both salicylic acid-dependent and -independent defense pathways.

Powdery mildew attack induces arrest of mitochondria at sites of attempted invasion, peripheral accumulation of the myrosinase PEN2, and redox imbalances in the matrix of the immobilized mitochondria.

Correlation between cell death signaling, nucleotide binding, and ligand binding activities of plant immune receptor variants suggests activation is based on altering the equilibrium between ON/OFF states.

Group VII ERF transcription factors regulate the low-oxygen response by binding to a newly identified promoter element in hypoxia-responsive genes, leading to their transactivation.

Constitutive activation of the master regulators of the heat stress response highly induces the expression of molecular chaperones, but not that of transcription factors.

A barley efflux transporter that is primarily borate-permeable operates as a channel in a Na⁺-dependent manner.

The short inflorescence stem phenotype of a chloroplast lipid mutant is caused by jasmonic acid overproduction, demonstrating a direct link between the biosynthesis of this lipid and jasmonic acid.

BAG6 processing confers plant immunity via autophagy.

Biochemical, morphological, and transcriptomic characterization of an unusual surface wax produced by Bayberry fruits reveals a cutin-related biosynthetic pathway that synthesizes oilseed-like glycerolipids in plants.