The first issue of Plant Physiology in 2023 is covered by an amazing microscopy image of three plastids and a nucleus showing a plastid stromule connecting with the nucleus surface. The image was taken by Sedef Özyürek, RTG PhD student of the project P03, and is related to the latest publication of Sedef Özyürek, Martin… (read more)

Great contribution of RTG members Khansa Mekkaoui and Bettina Hause (Project P02) to a recently published Plant Cell article about mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) proteins in Arabidopsis roots – a collaborative work involving reputable plant scientists. Read the full article online:https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac242

The newest findings regarding the regulatory function of the trans-Golgi localized protein BICAT3 have been recently published in a Plant Physiology article, August 2022. The publication is a great result of hard work and fruitful collaboration of RTG members Edgar Peiter (P06), Nico Rössner (P06), Martin Schattat (P03) and colleagues. Read the full article online:… (read more)

New review on the regulation of Phosphoinositides related to RTG project Nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of plant PI4P 5-kinases (P10) was recently published by project leader Mareike Heilmann in collaboration with Ingo Heilmann (P01) in the journal Current Opinion in Plant Biology, June 2022. Read the full article online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102218

Great outcome of RTG2498 project LC-MS based mapping of organellar protein trafficking and turn-over (P11A). Congratulation to all authors and contributors for publishing their research results in Frontiers in Plant Science, Nov 2021. Read the full article online: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.744103

In September the article “mTERF18 and ATAD3 are required for mitochondrial nucleoid structure and their disruption confers heat tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana” with contribution of RTG members Kristina Kühn and Theresa Schoeller (P08/P08A) has been published in New Phytologist. Read the full article online: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17717

As part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book series an protocol about “Analysis of Phosphoinositides from Complex Plant Samples by Solid-Phase Adsorption Chromatography and Subsequent Quantification via Thin-Layer and Gas Chromatography” with the contribution of RTG members Monique Matzner, Mareike Heilmann and Ingo Heilmann was recently published. Read the full article online: https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007%2F978-1-0716-1362-7_21

Recently, in March 2021 the RTG2498 members Edgar Peiter and Nico Roessner and collaborators published this awesome review about Transport, functions, and interaction of Calcium and Manganese in plant organellar compartments in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. “It highlights our current mechanistic understanding and points to open questions of their functions, their transport, and their interplay in the… (read more)

In December last year a remarkable article on the nano-organisation of the plasma membrane in pollen tube was published in THE PLANT CELL by Ingo Heilmann and co-workers. Monique Matzner, PhD student of the RTG 2498, was also involved in this work. Well deserved! Read the full article online:https://academic.oup.com/plcell/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plcell/koaa035/6041593