Natasha V. Raikhel

TL;DR: The more than 13,400 plant ESTs that are currently available provide a new resource that will facilitate progress in many areas of plant biology and are illustrated by a description of the results obtained from analysis of 1500 Arabidopsis ESTs from a cDNA library prepared from equal portions of poly(A+) mRNA from etiolated seedlings, roots, leaves, and flowering inflorescence.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that two homologous, 5-kD cysteine-rich proteins designated Raphanus sativus-antifungal protein 1 and Rs-AFP2 are located in the cell wall and occur predominantly in the outer cell layers lining different seed organs, and are preferentially released during seed germination after disruption of the seed coat.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented of four tonoplast-localized soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs), representing each of the four groups of SNARE proteins necessary for membrane fusion in Arabidopsis thaliana.

TL;DR: Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that bind glycoproteins, glycolipids, or polysaccharides with high affinity and have the capability to serve as recognition molecules within a cell, between cells, or be?

TL;DR: It is shown that the translation inhibition, but not the mRNA cleavage activity, of Arabidopsis miRNAs requires ALTERED MERISTEM PROGRAM1 (AMP1), and AMP1-independent recruitment of miRNA target transcripts to membrane fractions shows that mi RNAs inhibit the translation of target RNAs on the ER.