Jiajun Wang, first author of Differential Regulation of Arabidopsis PP2C-D1 by SAUR17 and SAUR50 in Apical Hook Development and Cotyledon Opening Current Position: Research assistant at School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University Education: Ph.D. in School of Life Sciences, Peking…

Xiong et al. investigated the transcriptional regulation of PLT1 in Arabidopsis, which revolves around competitive and antagonistic binding of JANUS and GIF1 to IMPORTIN β4. The Plant Cell (2020). https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00108 By Feng Xiong and Sha Li, State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology,…

High levels of soil salinity lead to toxic accumulation of sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl-) ions in plants, which adversely affect plant growth and yield. Plants use several strategies to cope with salt stress. These include removal and compartmentalization of toxic ions, and maintenance of growth and…

Tianhu Sun ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2513-1387 Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 [email protected] Plant seed oils (such as canola oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil) are important for the human diet and store energy…

Liu et al. demonstrate how canonical tyrosine endocytic motifs control the internalization of plasma membrane proteins by the clathrin adaptor complex AP-2. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00384.   Background: In plants, plasma membrane (PM)-resident proteins are selectively…

HuanJun Li, co-first author of Grass-Specific EPAD1 Is Essential for Pollen Exine Patterning in Rice Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology,…

Yu-Jin Kim, co-first author of Grass-Specific EPAD1 Is Essential for Pollen Exine Patterning in Rice Current Position: Professor, Department of Life Science and Environmental Biochemistry, Pusan National University, (South) Korea Education: Ph.D. from Kyung Hee University Non-scientific Interests:…

John J. Spiekerman, first author of The halophyte seashore paspalum uses adaxial leaf papillae for sodium sequestration Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Georgia Education: Ph.D. University of Georgia (UGA), Plant Biology; B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),…