ReviewThe Plant cell2022
Fifteen compelling open questions in plant cell biology.
Review in The Plant cell, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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- Self-organization underlies developmental robustness in plants.Cells & development · 2025Review
- Building resilience by cultivating difference: A role for noise in development.Current opinion in plant biology · 2025Review
- Understanding rates of genetic gain in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] in the United States.The plant genome · 2025Article
- Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: 'growth versus defence' or 'growth versus risk mitigation'?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Arabidopsis as a model for translational research.The Plant cell · 2025Review
- Global landscape of protein phosphorylation during plant regeneration initiation in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).BMC biology · 2025Article
- The mutual influence of microtubules and the cortical ER on their coordinated organisation.Journal of microscopy · 2025Article
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- Regulation of cytoskeleton dynamics and its interplay with force in plant cells.Biophysics reviews · 2024Review
- What Is a Plant Cell Type in the Age of Single-Cell Biology? It's Complicated.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Analyses during Plant Regeneration Initiation in Cotton (Genes · 2024Article
- Tradeoff between speed and robustness in primordium initiation mediated by auxin-CUC1 interaction.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Tradeoff Between Speed and Robustness in Primordium Initiation Mediated by Auxin-CUC1 Interaction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Greater ecophysiological stress tolerance in the core environment than in extreme environments of wild chickpea (Cicer reticulatum).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Synergism of vesicle trafficking and cytoskeleton during regulation of plant growth and development: A mechanistic outlook.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Novel genes and alleles of the BTB/POZ protein family in Oryza rufipogon.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emerging role of small GTPases and their interactome in plants to combat abiotic and biotic stress.Protoplasma · 2023Review
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Abstract
As scientists, we are at least as excited about the open questions-the things we do not know-as the discoveries. Here, we asked 15 experts to describe the most compelling open questions in plant cell biology. These are their questions: How are organelle identity, domains, and boundaries maintained under the continuous flux of vesicle trafficking and membrane remodeling? Is the plant cortical microtubule cytoskeleton a mechanosensory apparatus? How are the cellular pathways of cell wall synthesis, assembly, modification, and integrity sensing linked in plants? Why do plasmodesmata open and close? Is there retrograde signaling from vacuoles to the nucleus? How do root cells accommodate fungal endosymbionts? What is the role of cell edges in plant morphogenesis? How is the cell division site determined? What are the emergent effects of polyploidy on the biology of the cell, and how are any such "rules" conditioned by cell type? Can mechanical forces trigger new cell fates in plants? How does a single differentiated somatic cell reprogram and gain pluripotency? How does polarity develop de-novo in isolated plant cells? What is the spectrum of cellular functions for membraneless organelles and intrinsically disordered proteins? How do plants deal with internal noise? How does order emerge in cells and propagate to organs and organisms from complex dynamical processes? We hope you find the discussions of these questions thought provoking and inspiring.
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