Water-filled vacuoles provide the inner pressure plant cells need for structural support. However, damage to the plant’s cell wall risks vacuole rupture and cell death. The Dagdas group discovered a novel quality control mechanism that protects the…

Scientists at the Proteomics Tech Hub of IMBA, the IMP and the GMI at the Vienna BioCenter recently developed a new single-cell proteomics workflow that enables an unprecedented level of protein quantification at the single-cell level.

Autophagy keeps cells clean from harmful components. The group of Yasin Dagdas at the GMI studies how selective autophagy detects and removes damaged or unwanted cellular structures. In 2024, the Dagdas group published four preprints describing…

Herbicide resistance poses a challenge to producing enough food for a growing population. Sam Caygill and colleagues at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered how a large group of plants, the bryophytes, are…

In multicellular organisms, transcriptional regulation allows for specialization, such that cells carrying the same genetic code can carry out different functions and roles. In plants, a new unbiased screen allowed researchers in the group of Magnus…

A new study led by Claire McWhite at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and with the collaboration of Silvia Ramundo has established a novel system to identify protein isoforms in plant and human proteomics analyses. These truncated…

To begin sprouting, plant spores divide asymmetrically to give rise to the different plant structures. But how do they set up asymmetry in the first place and distribute their cell contents? In a new manuscript published on July 23rd in Development,…

To avoid exposure to the harsh Mediterranean summer conditions, some seeds delay germination until after the hot and dry days. Using the plant model Aethionema arabicum, Zsuzsanna Mérai in the group of Liam Dolan at the Gregor Mendel Institute of…

DNA damage response protects genome integrity by quickly repairing DNA lesions. Most plant proteins involved in this process have been identified by homology to their mammalian counterparts, but some key factors of DNA repair machinery have not been…

Advancing our understanding of plant epigenetics, a new study led by Ruben Gutzat from the “plant stem cell team” in Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid's laboratory at the Gregor Mendel Institute, unveils a genomic battle between plant stem cells and…