Salt stress simultaneously causes ionic toxicity, osmotic stress, and oxidative stress, which
directly impact plant growth and development. Plants have developed numerous strategies …

Mechanical signals play many roles in cell and developmental biology. Several
mechanotransduction pathways have been uncovered, but the mechanisms identified so far …

Building a complex structure such as the cell wall, with many individual parts that need to be
assembled correctly from distinct sources within the cell, is a well-orchestrated process …

Plants have evolved signaling mechanisms that guide growth away from adverse
environments that can cause yield losses. Root halotropism is a sodium-specific negative …

To survive, cells must constantly resist mechanical stress. In plants, this involves the
reinforcement of cell walls, notably through microtubule-dependent cellulose deposition …

Microtubule-severing enzymes–katanin, spastin, fidgetin–are related AAA-ATPases that cut
microtubules into shorter filaments. These proteins, also called severases, are involved in a …

Microtubules are cytoskeletal filaments essential for numerous aspects of cell physiology.
They are polarized polymeric tubes with a fast growing plus end and a slow growing minus …

Properly patterned cell walls specify cellular functions in plants. Differentiating protoxylem
and metaxylem vessel cells exhibit thick secondary cell walls in striped and pitted patterns …

Abstract ROPs (Rho of Plants) are plant specific small GTPases involved in many membrane
patterning processes and play important roles in the establishment and communication of …

Microtubule minus ends are thought to be stable in cells. Surprisingly, in Drosophila and
zebrafish neurons, we observed persistent minus end growth, with runs lasting over 10 min …