Loren Castaings

TL;DR: Genome-wide analyses revealed that NLP7 binds and modulates a majority of known nitrate signalling and assimilation genes, indicating that plants, like fungi and mammals, rely on similar nuclear retention mechanisms to instantaneously respond to the availability of key nutrients.

TL;DR: It is reported that Arabidopsis thaliana NIN-like protein 7 (NLP7) knockout mutants constitutively show several features of nitrogen-starved plants, and that they are tolerant to drought stress.

TL;DR: This multilevel spatiotemporal global study revealed numerous new patterns of adaptation mechanisms to N starvation in adult Arabidopsis plants, which will give new insight for the production of crops with increased N use efficiency.

TL;DR: A de novo assembly for the 375 Mb genome of the perennial model plant, Arabis alpina, revealed long-lasting and recent transposable element activity predominately driven by Gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposons, which extended the low-recombining pericentromeres and transformed large formerly euchromatic regions into repeat-rich pericentromeric regions.

TL;DR: Recent advances in the molecular knowledge of N sensing in plants such as the dual function of the nitrate transporter CHL1, the roles of the transcription factors LBD37/38/39 and NLP7 or of the CIPK8/23 kinases, as well as the implication of small RNAs, which are at last opening doors for future research in this field are reviewed.