Archive: September, 2018

Jiakun Zheng, first author of INCREASING NODULE SIZE1 expression is required for normal rhizobial symbiosis and nodule development Current Position: Master candidate student, Root Biology Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China Education: Bachelor in College of Agriculture,…

Xinxin Li, first author of INCREASING NODULE SIZE1 expression is required for normal rhizobial symbiosis and nodule development Current Position: Associate Professor in Root Biology Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China Education: PhD in Plant Nutrition at the State…

Eiji Gotoh, first author of Chloroplast accumulation response enhances leaf photosynthesis and plant biomass production Current Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University Education: Eiji Gotoh obtained his Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University. Non-scientific…

This month we are featuring Andrew Benson, one of the most influential people in the discovery of the Calvin-Benson cycle. Andrew Benson came on the scene at the right time. Around the time he was born, Willstätter and Toll showed that chloroplasts absorbed CO2. After that, the hunt for the reaction…

Why did you decide to pursue science as you went through college, and what got you particularly interested in rice stress and plant domestication?  There were two areas I had an aptitude for in college – science and journalism. I was lucky to get experience in both during my college days,. …

Focused Review: A role for ecophysiology in the ’omics’ era Ecophysiology is the study of plant functioning as modulated by the environment (or, as described by one author, "outdoors physiology"). Flexas and Gago ask whether research (and training) in  ecophysiology has been left behind somewhat…

Producing data is costly, and with advances in technology, we are producing data with revolutionary capacity. However, we are also losing data at an astonishing rate, with around 80% of data being unavailable 20 years after publication. Griffin et al. provide guidelines, repositories and other resources…

Ecophysiology is the study of plant functioning as modulated by the environment (or, as described by one author, “outdoors physiology“). Flexas and Gago ask whether research (and training) in  ecophysiology has been left behind somewhat by successes in -omics approaches, and from a Web of Science…