Femke de Jong, first author of Attracted to Membranes: Lipid-Binding Domains in Plants Current Position: Just finished a postdoc position at the section Plant Cell Biology from the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences of the University of Amsterdam . Education: PhD in plant science from the Australian…

Bao Yang, first author of Non-Specific Phospholipase C4 Hydrolyzes Phosphosphingolipids and Sustains Plant Root Growth under Phosphate Deficiency Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China Education:…

Elodie Billey, first author of Characterization of the Bubblegum acyl-CoA synthetase of Microchloropsis gaditana Current Position: Researcher in Microalgae Engineering, TOTAL Refining & Chemicals, France Education: Ph.D. Plant Biology from University of Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) Non-scientific…

Sandra Marisa Mathioni, co-first author of Reproductive phasiRNA loci and DICER-LIKE5, but not microRNA loci, diversified in monocotyledonous plants Current Position: Research Scientist in the Resistance Management Team in Syngenta Crop Protection, Brazil Education: PhD in Molecular Plant Pathology…

Parth Patel, co-first author of Reproductive phasiRNA loci and DICER-LIKE5, but not microRNA loci, diversified in monocotyledonous plants Current Position: Research Scientist at Janssen: Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson Education: Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Delaware…

Textbooks tell us that eukaryotic cells acquired first mitochondria and later plastids through assimilation and retention of useful prokaryotes, but textbooks also imply that these were one-off occurrences that happened long ago. In the past several years, evidence has been accruing that genomes from…

Every student knows that in a C4 plant like maize, photosynthetic carbohydrates are synthesized in the bundle sheath cells that surround the vein. These carbohydrates are then transported into the phloem for delivery to other tissues. Previous studies have identified SWEET (Sugars Will Eventually be…

The maize ear has a complex morphology consisting of a series of meristems that are organized into cell types and domains. Xu et al. used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to identify spatial regulators of maize ear development. Over 12,500 individual cells and 28,900 genes were analyzed. 12 meta-clusters…