Deciphering how plants produce their biomass

Tissue and regional expression patterns of dicistronic tRNA-mRNA transcripts in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) and their evolutionary co-appearance with vasculature in land plants

Pastor Jullian Fabres, Lakshay Anand, Na Sai, Stephen Pederson, Fei Zheng, Alexander A Stewart, Benjamin Clements, Edwin R Lampugnani, James Breen, Matthew Gilliham, Penny Tricker, Carlos M Rodriguez Lopez, Rakesh David

2021-12-01

Transfer RNAs (tRNA) are crucial adaptor molecules between messenger RNA (mRNA) and amino acids. Recent evidence in plants suggest..

Not Just a Simple Sugar: Arab nose Metabolism and Function in Plants

Alban Mariette, Hee Sung Kang, Joshua L Heazlewood, Staffan Persson, Berit Ebert, Edwin R Lampugnani

2021-06-15

Growth, development, structure as well as dynamic adaptations and remodeling processes in plants are largely controlled by propert..

Current and future advances in fluorescence-based visualization of plant cell wall components and cell wall biosynthetic machineries

Brian T DeVree, Lisa M Steiner, Sylwia Glazowska, Felix Ruhnow, Klaus Herburger, Staffan Persson, Jozef Mravec

2021-03-29

Plant cell wall-derived biomass serves as a renewable source of energy and materials with increasing importance. The cell walls ar..

Rice transcription factor MADS32 regulates floral patterning through interactions with multiple floral homeotic genes

Yun Hu, Li Wang, Ru Jia, Wanqi Liang, Xuelian Zhang, Jie Xu, Xiaofei Chen, Dan Lu, Mingjiao Chen, Zhijing Luo, Jiayang Xie, Liming Cao, Ben Xu, Yu Yu, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang, Zheng Yuan

2021-03-29

Floral patterning is regulated by intricate networks of floral identity genes. The peculiar MADS32 subfamily genes, absent in eudi..

Structure of Arabidopsis CESA3 catalytic domain with its substrate UDP-glucose provides insight into the mechanism of cellulose synthesis

Zhu Qiao, Edwin R Lampugnani, Xin-Fu Yan, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Wuan Geok Saw, Patrick Hannah, Feng Qian, Jacob Calabria, Yansong Miao, Gerhard Gruber, Staffan Persson, Yong-Gui Gao

2021-03-16

Cellulose is synthesized by cellulose synthases (CESAs) from the glycosyltransferase GT-2 family. In plants, the CESAs form a six-..

Salt with a sweet tooth: galactan synthesis impacts salt tolerance in Arabidopsis

Liu Wang, Edwin R Lampugnani, Staffan Persson

2021-03-01

Brassinosteroids Influence Arabidopsis Hypocotyl Graviresponses through Changes in Mannans and Cellulose

Marc Somssich, Filip Vandenbussche, Alexander Ivakov, Norma Funke, Colin Ruprecht, Kris Vissenberg, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Staffan Persson, Dmitry Suslov

2021-02-11

The force of gravity is a constant environmental factor. Plant shoots respond to gravity through negative gravitropism and gravity..

Long-term single-cell imaging and simulations of microtubules reveal principles behind wall patterning during proto-xylem development

Rene Schneider, Kris van't Klooster, Kelsey L Picard, Jasper van der Gucht, Taku Demura, Marcel Janson, Arun Sampathkumar, Eva E Deinum, Tijs Ketelaar, Staffan Persson

2021-01-28

Plants are the tallest organisms on Earth; a feature sustained by solute-transporting xylem vessels in the plant vasculature. The ..

A network-based framework for shape analysis enables accurate characterization of leaf epidermal cells

Jacqueline Nowak, Ryan Christopher Eng, Timon Matz, Matti Waack, Staffan Persson, Arun Sampathkumar, Zoran Nikoloski

2021-01-19

Cell shape is crucial for the function and development of organisms. Yet, versatile frameworks for cell shape quantification, comp..

Grass-Specific EPAD1 Is Essential for Pollen Exine Patterning in Rice

HuanJun Li, Yu-Jin Kim, Liu Yang, Ze Liu, Jie Zhang, Haotian Shi, Guoqiang Huang, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang, Wanqi Liang

2020-12-01

The highly variable and species-specific pollen surface patterns are formed by sporopollenin accumulation. The template for sporop..

Associations between phytohormones and cellulose biosynthesis in land plants

Liu Wang, Bret E Hart, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Edward R Cruz, Staffan Persson, Ian S Wallace

2020-10-09

Background Phytohormones are small molecules that regulate virtually every aspect of plant growth and development, from basic cell..

Molecular and genetic pathways for optimizing spikelet development and grain yield.

Zheng Yuan, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang

2020-10-01

The spikelet is a unique structure of inflorescence in grasses that generates one to many flowers depending on its determinate or ..

CELLULOSE SYNTHASE INTERACTING 1 is required for wood mechanics and leaf morphology in aspen

Anne Bunder, Ola Sundman, Amir Mahboubi, Staffan Persson, Shawn D Mansfield, Markus Ruggeberg, Totte Niittyla

2020-08-10

Cellulose microfibrils synthesized by CELLULOSE SYNTHASE COMPLEXES (CSCs) are the main load‐bearing polymers in wood. CELLULOSE SY..

Bright Fluorescent Vacuolar Marker Lines Allow Vacuolar Tracing Across Multiple Tissues and Stress Conditions in Rice

Yiran Cao, Wenguo Cai, Xiaofei Chen, Mingjiao Chen, Jianjun Chu, Wanqi Liang, Staffan Persson, Zengyu Liu, Dabing Zhang

2020-06-01

The vacuole is indispensable for cells to maintain their water potential and to respond to environmental changes. Nevertheless, in..

Investigation of CRISPR/Cas9-induced SD1 rice mutants highlights the importance of molecular characterization in plant molecular breeding

Sukumar Biswas, Jiaqi Tian, Rong Li, Xiaofei Chen, Zhijing Luo, Mingjiao Chen, Xiangxiang Zhao, Dabing Zhang, Staffan Persson, Zheng Yuan, Jianxin Shi

2020-05-20

Although Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated 9 (Cas9) system has been widely used..

CytoSeg 2.0: automated extraction of actin filaments.

Jacqueline Nowak, Kristin Gennermann, Staffan Persson, Zoran Nikoloski

2020-01-23

MOTIVATION: Actin filaments are dynamic structures that substantially change their organization over time. The dynamic behavior an..

The Rice Actin-Binding Protein RMD Regulates Light-Dependent Shoot Gravitropism

Yu Song, Gang Li, Jacqueline Nowak, Xiaoqing Zhang, Dongbei Xu, Xiujuan Yang, Guoqiang Huang, Wanqi Liang, Litao Yang, Canhua Wang, Vincent Bulone, Zoran Nikoloski, Jianping Hu, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang

2019-10-01

Light and gravity are two key determinants in orientating plant stems for proper growth and development. The organization and dyna..

Quantification of Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Time-Lapse Recordings.

René Schneider, Arun Sampathkumar, Staffan Persson

2019-06-01

The cytoskeleton is key to many essential processes in a plant cell, e.g., growth, division, and defense. Contrary to what "skelet..

Cellulose Synthesis - Central Components and Their Evolutionary Relationships

Edwin R Lampugnani, Eduardo Flores-Sandoval, Qiao Wen Tan, Marek Mutwil, John L Bowman, Staffan Persson

2019-05-01

Cellulose is an essential morphogenic polysaccharide that is central to the stability of plant cell walls and provides an importan..

Primary wall cellulose synthase regulates shoot apical meristem mechanics and growth

Arun Sampathkumar, Alexis Peaucelle, Miki Fujita, Christoph Schuster, Staffan Persson, Geoffrey O Wasteneys, Elliot M Meyerowitz

2019-05-01

How organisms attain their specific shapes and modify their growth patterns in response to environmental and chemical signals has ..

The companion of cellulose synthase 1 confers salt tolerance through a Tau-like mechanism in plants

Christopher Kesten, Arndt Wallmann, Rene Schneider, Heather E McFarlane, Anne Diehl, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Barth-Jan van Rossum, Edwin R Lampugnani, Witold G Szymanski, Nils Cremer, Peter Schmieder, Kristina L Ford, Florian Seiter, Joshua L Heazlewood, Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez, Hartmut Oschkinat, Staffan Persson

2019-02-20

Microtubules are filamentous structures necessary for cell division, motility and morphology, with dynamics critically regulated b..

The OsJAZ1 degron modulates jasmonate signaling sensitivity during rice development

Jiaqi Tian, Lichun Cao, Xiaofei Chen, Mingjiao Chen, Peng Zhang, Liming Cao, Staffan Persson, Dabing Zhang, Zheng Yuan

2019-02-01

Jasmonates (JAs) are crucial to the coordination of plant stress responses and development. JA signaling depends on JASMONATE-ZIM ..

AtTrm5a catalyses 1-methylguanosine and 1-methylinosine formation on tRNAs and is important for vegetative and reproductive growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

Xiaohuan Jin, Zhengyi Lv, Junbao Gao, Rui Zhang, Ting Zheng, Ping Yin, Dongqin Li, Liangcai Peng, Xintao Cao, Yan Qin, Staffan Persson, Bo Zheng, Peng Chen

2019-01-25

Modified nucleosides on tRNA are critical for decoding processes and protein translation. tRNAs can be modified through 1-methylgu..

A Golgi UDP-GlcNAc transporter delivers substrates for N-linked glycans and sphingolipids

Berit Ebert, Carsten Rautengarten, Heather E McFarlane, Thusitha Rupasinghe, Wei Zeng, Kristina Ford, Henrik V Scheller, Antony Bacic, Ute Roessner, Staffan Persson, Joshua L Heazlewood

2018-10-01

Glycosylation requires activated glycosyl donors in the form of nucleotide sugars to drive processes such as post-translational pr..

Complete substitution of a secondary cell wall with a primary cell wall in Arabidopsis

Shingo Sakamoto, Marc Somssich, Miyuki T Nakata, Faride Unda, Kimie Atsuzawa, Yasuko Kaneko, Ting Wang, Anne-Maarit Bagman, Allison Gaudinier, Kouki Yoshida, Siobhan M Brady, Shawn D Mansfield, Staffan Persson, Nobutaka Mitsuda

2018-10-01

The bulk of a plant's biomass, termed secondary cell walls, accumulates in woody xylem tissues and is largely recalcitrant to bioc..

Cellulose synthesis during cell plate assembly

Hsiang-Wen Chen, Staffan Persson, Markus Grebe, Heather E McFarlane

2018-09-01

The plant cell wall surrounds and protects the cells. To divide, plant cells must synthesize a new cell wall to separate the two d..

Feeding the Walls: How Does Nutrient Availability Regulate CellWall Composition?

Michael Ogden, Rainer Hoefgen, Ute Roessner, Staffan Persson, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan

2018-09-01

Nutrients are critical for plants to grow and develop, and nutrient depletion severely affects crop yield. In order to optimize nu..

Inhibition of TOR Represses Nutrient Consumption, Which Improves Greening after Extended Periods of Etiolation

Yi Zhang, Youjun Zhang, Heather E McFarlane, Toshihiro Obata, Andreas S Richter, Mark Lohse, Bernhard Grimm, Staffan Persson, Alisdair R Fernie, Patrick Giavaliscob

2018-09-01

Upon illumination, etiolated seedlings experience a transition from heterotrophic to photoautotrophic growth. During this process,..

Cellulose synthase complexes display distinct dynamic behaviors during xylem transdifferentiation

Yoichiro Watanabe, Rene Schneider, Sarah Barkwill, Eliana Gonzales-Vigil, Joseph L Hill, A Lacey Samuels, Staffan Persson, Shawn D Mansfield

2018-07-03

In plants, plasma membrane-embedded CELLULOSE SYNTHASE (CESA) enzyme complexes deposit cellulose polymers into the developing cell..

AtCSLD3 and GhCSLD3 mediate root growth and cell elongation downstream of the ethylene response pathway in Arabidopsis

Huizhen Hu, Ran Zhang, Shuchao Dong, Ying Li, Chunfen Fan, Yanting Wang, Tao Xia, Peng Chen, Lingqiang Wang, Shengqiu Feng, Staffan Persson, Liangcai Peng

2018-02-20

CSLD3, a gene of the cellulose synthase-like D family, affects root hair elongation, but its interactions with ethylene signaling ..

The Cellulose Synthases Are Cargo of the TPLATE Adaptor Complex

Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez, Yanyun Shi, Christopher Kesten, Dongmei Zhang, Gloria Sancho-Andres, Alexander Ivakov, Edwin R Lampugnani, Kamil Sklodowski, Masaru Fujimoto, Akihiko Nakano, Antony Bacic, Ian S Wallace, Takashi Ueda, Daniel Van Damme, Yihua Zhou, Staffan Persson

2018-02-05

Carbon Supply and the Regulation of Cell Wall Synthesis

Jana Verbancic, John Edward Lunn, Mark Stitt, Staffan Persson

2018-01-08

All plant cells are surrounded by a cell wall that determines the directionality of cell growth and protects the cell against its ..

Building a plant cell wall at a glance

Edwin R Lampugnani, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Marc Somssich, Staffan Persson

2018-01-01

Plant cells are surrounded by a strong polysaccharide-rich cell wall that aids in determining the overall form, growth and develop..

The Toolbox to Study Protein-Protein Interactions in Plants

Edwin R Lampugnani, Rene H Wink, Staffan Persson, Marc Somssich

2018-01-01

The ability to detect the interaction partners of a protein and how those interactions occur are central to the study of biology. ..

Two Complementary Mechanisms Underpin Cell Wall Patterning during Xylem Vessel Development

Rene Schneider, Lu Tang, Edwin R Lampugnani, Sarah Barkwill, Rahul Lathe, Yi Zhang, Heather E McFarlane, Edouard Pesquet, Totte Niittyla, Shawn D Mansfield, Yihua Zhou, Staffan Persson

2017-10-01

The evolution of the plant vasculature was essential for the emergence of terrestrial life. Xylem vessels are solute-transporting ..

System-wide organization of actin cytoskeleton determines organelle transport in hypocotyl plant cells

David Breuer, Jacqueline Nowak, Alexander Ivakov, Marc Somssich, Staffan Persson, Zoran Nikoloski

2017-07-11

The actin cytoskeleton is an essential intracellular filamentous structure that underpins cellular transport and cytoplasmic strea..

Revisiting ancestral polyploidy in plants

Colin Ruprecht, Rolf Lohaus, Kevin Vanneste, Marek Mutwil, Zoran Nikoloski, Yves Van de Peer, Staffan Persson

2017-07-01

Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) or polyploidy events have been studied extensively in plants. In a now widely cited paper, Jiao e..

Cellulose Synthesis and Cell Expansion Are Regulated by Different Mechanisms in Growing Arabidopsis Hypocotyls

Alexander Ivakov, Anna Flis, Federico Apelt, Maximillian Fuenfgeld, Ulrike Scherer, Mark Stitt, Friedrich Kragler, Kris Vissenberg, Staffan Persson, Dmitry Suslov

2017-06-01

Plant growth is sustained by two complementary processes: biomass biosynthesis and cell expansion. The cell wall is crucial to bot..

The elaborate route for UDP-arabinose delivery into the Golgi of plants

Carsten Rautengarten, Devon Birdseye, Sivakumar Pattathil, Heather E McFarlane, Susana Saez-Aguayo, Ariel Orellana, Staffan Persson, Michael G Hahn, Henrik V Scheller, Joshua L Heazlewood, Berit Ebert

2017-04-18

In plants, L-arabinose (Ara) is a key component of cell wall polymers, glycoproteins, as well as flavonoids, and signaling peptide..

Beyond Genomics: Studying Evolution with Gene Coexpression Networks

Colin Ruprecht, Neha Vaid, Sebastian Proost, Staffan Persson, Marek Mutwil

2017-04-01

Understanding how genomes change as organisms become more complex is a central question in evolution. Molecular evolutionary studi..