Liu has contributed to a Spotlight article for Molecular Plant, discussing recent findings by Yan et al. (2020), that pectins, more precisely β-1,4-galactans of rhamnogalacturonan I (RGI), play an important role in the plant’s salt stress response.
Salt with a sweet-tooth: Galactan synthesis impacts salt tolerance in Arabidopsis
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2021.01.011
Restrictions have been slowly lifted over the past three weeks, and we are a allowed to work more again. Hopefully, things will go back to semi-normal in January.
Victoria is opening up after I-don’t-remember-how-many-weeks-of-lockdown, but we here at the Plant Sciences division are still not allowed to increase our working hours.
So the Corona-Lockdown has been extended until October 26th. At that point it will be seven months that we have not been allowed to do anything but essential tasks (keeping plant lines alive, etc.).
A pretty bad year for everybody here at BioSciences UniMelb.
Well, that didn’t last long. We are back in lockdown with stage 4 restriction imposed in Melbourne.
Following the ‘Plant science’s next top models‘ review with contribution from Marc, we can already announce the next review from the team in Annals of Botany.
Liu is the first author on a new review discussing the links between phytohormone signalling and cellulose synthesis:
Associations between phytohormones and cellulose biosynthesis in land plants
Liu has covered abscisic acid, gibberellic acid, ethylene, salicylic acid and strigolactone, while Bret E. Hart from the lab of Ian Wallace has contributed parts on brassinosteroids, auxin and cytokinin, and Ghazanfar A. Khan from the Staffan Persson lab has contributed a paragraph on jasmonic acid.
Since restrictions have been partially lifted here in Victoria, we are now slowly returning back to campus. We still only have limited access to the different institutes and facilities, but at least we can work in the lab and office again for a couple of days per week. Better than nothing.
Our review, ‘Plant Science’s next top models’, is now online in its final, copy-edited version. It is part of the latest issue of Annals of Botany.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa063
Good to see it in this form.
See also this Twitter thread:
1/3 Our review on new model plants is now online in its final version in the latest issue of @annbot. Have a look at 'Plant Science's next top models': https://t.co/GmZnjPMLS6
This was a truly international cooperation with some very cool people: (see next tweet)— Marc Somssich (@somssichm) June 20, 2020
2/3 @CesarinoIgor from @usponline 🇧🇷 covers #Setaria viridis, @DelloRaffaele from @SapienzaRoma 🇮🇹 covers #Cardamine hirsuta, Gwen Kirschner from @KAUST_News/@UniBonn 🇸🇦/🇩🇪 covers #Striga hermonthica, @itsMikeOgden from @unimelb/@MPIMP_Potsdam 🇦🇺/🇩🇪 covers #Phragmites australis,
— Marc Somssich (@somssichm) June 20, 2020
3/3 @KelseyOnScience from @UTAS_ 🇦🇺 covers #Pisum sativum, @MSomssich from @MonashUni 🇦🇺 covers #Marchantia polymorpha, and, finally, I @BioSci_UniMelb 🇦🇺 write about #Eutrema salsugineum.
I hope people find this to be an interesting and helpful resource.🙂👍— Marc Somssich (@somssichm) June 20, 2020
As restrictions are easing over Victoria and Australia, we are still in Lockdown unfortunately. What makes matters worse is that we (the School of BioSciences) are not given much information from the Faculty, so we have no idea when we’ll be allowed back. Very annoying. Things would be easier with reliable information…
Very happy to read that Botany One has now also featured our review on new plant models:
https://www.botany.one/2020/05/7-plants-youll-be-seeing-more-of-as-model-species/
Now we just need the final edited version to go live.
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