Yan Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macro-autophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: It is shown that spatiotemporal biosynthesis and polar transport resulted in local auxin distribution in Arabidopsis, which in turn determined the cytokinin response during de novo shoot regeneration, and it was shown that ARF3 directly bound to the promoter of AtIPT5 and negatively regulated AtipT5 expression.

TL;DR: The results suggest a mechanism by which the noncatalytic domains of pollen-specific/enriched RopGEFs regulate PRONE function, leading to polarized pollen tube growth.

TL;DR: This study reveals that temporally regulated ROS production by NADPH oxidases is critical for tapetal programmed cell death (PCD) and pollen development in Arabidopsis and regulates RBOH expression, indicating that the temporal pattern of ROS production intimately connects to other signaling pathways regulated by theTapetal transcriptional network to ensure the proper timing of Tapetal PCD.

TL;DR: It is proposed that DNA methylation and histone modifications regulate de novo shoot regeneration of Arabidopsis through modulating WUS expression and auxin signaling and demonstrates that epigenetic modifications play an evolutionarily convergent role in this process.