Xiao Lin, co-first author of Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts Current Position: PhD candidate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Education: PhD in Biochemistry (2020), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Non-scientific Interests: Our…

In this episode, we talk with Laura Klasek who is a Plant Biology Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis about her research and experiences as a graduate student.  Laura received her undergraduate degree from Hendrix College, where she double-majored in Biology and English with a…

At the beginning of 2018 Plant Physiology initiated a program to introduce several promising early-career scientists to the editorial board and engage their expertise in assessing and writing about research published in the journal. Over the past two years these scientists brought their passion for science…

2019 was an amazing year of growth for Plantae's social media accounts. It is always interesting to look back at what worked and which posts were of most interest to our community. Here is a list of our Top 5 Twitter and Facebook posts. Thank you for following our accounts! Light-sheet fluorescence…

Tessa Moses The Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (IQB3), The King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected], ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9366-4727 WRKY1 is a member of the WRKY transcription factor family…

Plant cell growth is often limited by the availability of two key nutrients, phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N). As in mammals and yeast, a kinase known as TOR (target of rapamycin) is a key nutrient-responsive regulator of primary metabolism and cell growth in plants (Gonzalez and Hall, 2017; Dobrenel…

Smit et al. uncover a feed-forward loop that controls vascular development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00562 By Margot E. Smit1, Siobhán M. Brady2, and J. Peter Etchells3 1 Stanford University 2 UC Davis 3 Durham University  Background: Vascular tissues…

Ignacio Lescano, first author of Arabidopsis thaliana Ureide Permease 5 (AtUPS5) connects cell compartments involved in Ureide metabolism Current Position: Postdoc in the Plant biology laboratory, CIQUIBIC-CONICET (Argentina) Education: Degree in Biology and Ph.D. in Biology (National University…