Choun-Sea Lin

TL;DR: The impact of chloroplast genome sequences on understanding the origins of economically important cultivated species and changes that have taken place during domestication are discussed.

TL;DR: The protoplasts generated by this new Tape-Arabidopsis Sandwich method are suitable for the same range of research applications as those that use the current method, but require less operator skill, equipment and time.

TL;DR: Functional analysis of cRNA-injected Xenopus laevis oocytes showed that NRT1.5 is a low-affinity, pH-dependent bidirectional nitrate transporter, and a regulatory loop between nitrate and potassium at the xylem transport step, suggesting that, in addition to that involving NRT 1.5, another mechanism is responsible for xylesm loading of nitrate.

TL;DR: It is concluded that nitrate itself, in addition to organic forms of nitrogen, is remobilized, nitrate remobilization is important to sustain vigorous growth during nitrogen deficiency, and source-to-sink remobilizing of nitrate is mediated by phloem.

TL;DR: A critical role is revealed in regulating leaf nitrate homeostasis, and the deficiency of AtNRT1:4 can alter leaf development.