Jasmonate (JA) coordinates plant development and response to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stresses. JA production is stimulated by wounding, which damages cell walls, and increased in plants carrying mutations in cellulose biosynthetic genes. Nevertheless, the intracellular events connecting mechanical…

Review: Time to wake up: Epigenetic and small-RNA-mediated regulation during seed germination Seed germination is a crucial step in plants' life cycle and has critical implications in ecological and agronomic contexts. Therefore, there has been an increasing interest in understanding the mechanisms…

Chenxia Cheng, first author of Ethylene-regulated asymmetric growth of petal base promotes flower opening in rose (Rosa hybrida) Current Position: Lecturer, College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University Education: Ph.D. in College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing,…

Lucie Kriegshauser, first author of Function of the HYDROXYCINNAMOYL-CoA:SHIKIMATE HYDROXYCINNAMOYL TRANSFERASE is evolutionarily conserved in embryophytes  Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institut des sciences des plantes (IPS2), INRA, Paris-Saclay, France Education: PhD in plant…

Joel Masanga first author of Physiological and ecological warnings that dodders pose an exigent threat to farmlands in Eastern Africa Current position; PhD Candidate in Prof. Steven Runo’s group, and Lab Manager (Plant Transformation Laboratory) at the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and…

Baetsen-Young et al. explore the root transcriptomes of soybean and maize plants infected with a fungus. The Plant Cell By Amy Baetsen-Young and Brad Day, Michigan State University  Background: Diverged plant species respond to microbial interactions through different processes, the outcome…

Gary Yates, co-first author of A Recombineering Pipeline to Clone Large and Complex Genes in Chlamydomonas Current Position: Senior Research Associate and head of product development at PharmaSeeds Education: BSc (Hons) in Genetics from the University of Glasgow. PhD from the University…

Tom Emrich-Mills, co-first author of A Recombineering Pipeline to Clone Large and Complex Genes in Chlamydomonas Current position: PhD student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK Education: MSc (Biochemistry) and BSc (Biology) from the University…