Debunking the idea of biological optimisation: quantitative biology to the rescue [0.03%]
破解生物优化的理念：量化生物学的救赎
Olivier Hamant
Olivier Hamant
The idea that plants would be efficient, frugal or optimised echoes the recurrent semantics of 'blueprint' and 'program' in molecular genetics. However, when analysing plants with quantitative approaches and systems thinking, we instead fin...
The Arabidopsis leaf quantitative atlas: a cellular and subcellular mapping through unified data integration [0.03%]
拟南芥叶片定量图谱：通过统一数据整合实现细胞及亚细胞定位映射
Dimitri Tolleter,Edward N Smith,Clémence Dupont-Thibert et al.
Dimitri Tolleter et al.
Quantitative analyses and models are required to connect a plant's cellular organisation with its metabolism. However, quantitative data are often scattered over multiple studies, and finding such data and converting them into useful inform...
Quantitative analysis of lateral root development with time-lapse imaging and deep neural network [0.03%]
基于时间延时成像和深度神经网络的侧根发育定量分析
Yuta Uemura,Hironaka Tsukagoshi
Yuta Uemura
During lateral root (LR) development, morphological alteration of the developing single LR primordium occurs continuously. Precise observation of this continuous alteration is important for understanding the mechanism involved in single LR ...
Igor Kovalchuk
Igor Kovalchuk
Most plants are adapted to their environments through generations of exposure to all elements. The adaptation process involves the best possible response to fluctuations in the environment based on the genetic and epigenetic make-up of the ...
The Barthlott effect [0.03%]
巴特洛特效应
Laurent Vonna
Laurent Vonna
In 1997, Barthlott and Neinhuis published a groundbreaking article entitled "Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces" that caused a true paradigm shift in surface science. In this article, they explai...
A blast from the past: Understanding stem cell specification in plant roots using laser ablation [0.03%]
来自过去的冲击：利用激光消融技术了解植物根部干细胞的分化过程
Wouter Smet,Ikram Blilou
Wouter Smet
In the Arabidopsis root, growth is sustained by the meristem. Signalling from organiser cells, also termed the quiescent centre (QC), is essential for the maintenance and replenishment of the stem cells. Here, we highlight three publication...
The 1991 review by Coen and Meyerowitz on the war of the whorls and the ABC model of floral organ identity [0.03%]
Coen和Meyerowitz于1991年发表的关于旋涡之战及花器官身份ABC模型的评论文章
Kay Schneitz
Kay Schneitz
The 1991 review paper by Coen and Meyerowitz on the control of floral organ development set out the evidence available at that time, which led to the now famous ABC model of floral organ identity control. The authors summarised the genetic ...
Building a pipeline to identify and engineer constitutive and repressible promoters [0.03%]
构建鉴定及工程化组成型和诱导型启动子的流程
Eric J Y Yang,Jennifer L Nemhauser
Eric J Y Yang
To support the increasingly complex circuits needed for plant synthetic biology applications, additional constitutive promoters are essential. Reusing promoter parts can lead to difficulty in cloning, increased heterogeneity between transfo...
Alexandre Berr,Marie-Edith Chabouté
Alexandre Berr
How to get a metre of DNA into a tiny space while preserving its functional characteristics? This question seems easy to pose, but the answer is far from being trivial. Facing this riddle, salvation came from technical improvements in micro...
Charles W Melnyk
Charles W Melnyk
In 1957, Skoog and Miller published their seminal work on the effects of hormones upon plant growth. By varying the concentrations of auxin and cytokinin, they observed dramatic differences in shoot and root growth from tobacco stem culture...