Li Yang

TL;DR: This work shows that all three genes are directly activated by the microRNA-targeted transcription factor SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE 3 (SPL3), and suggests that SPL3 acts together with other micro RNA-regulated SPL transcription factors to control the timing of flower formation.

TL;DR: The data strongly suggest that SE plays an important and general role in pri-miRNA processing, and it would be interesting to determine whether animal SE homologues may play similar roles in vivo.

TL;DR: The results reveal that SBP-LIKE genes in Arabidopsis can be divided into three functionally distinct groups, and find that miR156-regulated SPL genes repress adventitious root development, providing an explanation for the observation that the capacity for adventitiousRoot production declines as the shoot ages.

TL;DR: A systematic protein-protein interaction network of virulence effectors from the ascomycete pathogen Golovinomyces orontii and Arabidopsis thaliana host proteins is generated and suggests the existence of a molecular host-pathogen interface that is conserved acrossArabidopsis accessions, while evolutionary adaptation occurs in the immediate network neighborhood of effector targets.

TL;DR: The results provide a molecular link between nutrient availability and developmental timing in plants, and suggest that sugar is a component of the leaf signal that mediates vegetative phase change.