Plant malectin-like receptor kinases: from cell wall integrity to immunity and beyond

CM Franck, J Westermann… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Plant cells are surrounded by cell walls protecting them from a myriad of environmental
challenges. For successful habitat adaptation, extracellular cues are perceived at the cell …

Insights into the respiratory chain and oxidative stress

V Larosa, C Remacle - Bioscience reports, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive reduced oxygen molecules that result
from aerobic metabolism. The common forms are the superoxide anion (O2∙−) and hydrogen …

Birth of a Photosynthetic Chassis: A MoClo Toolkit Enabling Synthetic Biology in the Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

P Crozet, FJ Navarro, F Willmund… - ACS synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Microalgae are regarded as promising organisms to develop innovative concepts based on
their photosynthetic capacity that offers more sustainable production than heterotrophic …

From molecular manipulation of domesticated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to survival in nature

S Sasso, H Stibor, M Mittag, AR Grossman - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
In the mid-20th century, the unicellular and genetically tractable green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was first developed as a model organism to elucidate …

Genome-reconstruction for eukaryotes from complex natural microbial communities

PT West, AJ Probst, IV Grigoriev, BC Thomas… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Microbial eukaryotes are integral components of natural microbial communities, and their
inclusion is critical for many ecosystem studies, yet the majority of published metagenome …

[PDF][PDF] Insights into the evolution of multicellularity from the sea lettuce genome

O De Clerck, SM Kao, KA Bogaert, J Blomme… - Current biology, 2018 - cell.com
We report here the 98.5 Mbp haploid genome (12,924 protein coding genes) of Ulva
mutabilis, a ubiquitous and iconic representative of the Ulvophyceae or green seaweeds …

Algal Green Energy–R&D and technological perspectives for biodiesel production

RP Rastogi, A Pandey, C Larroche… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Energy is the utmost requirement for driving the organization and maintenance of entire
ecosystem. Our continued dependency on fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural …

Intron-containing algal transgenes mediate efficient recombinant gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

T Baier, J Wichmann, O Kruse… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Among green freshwater microalgae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has the most
comprehensive and developed molecular toolkit, however, advanced genetic and metabolic …

[PDF][PDF] CLAVATA was a genetic novelty for the morphological innovation of 3D growth in land plants

CD Whitewoods, J Cammarata, ZN Venza, S Sang… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
How genes shape diverse plant and animal body forms is a key question in biology. Unlike
animal cells, plant cells are confined by rigid cell walls, and cell division plane orientation …

Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants

J De Vries, BA Curtis, SB Gould… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Streptophytes are unique among photosynthetic eukaryotes in having conquered land. As
the ancestors of land plants, streptophyte algae are hypothesized to have possessed …