Cui Wu, first author of Gender Discrimination of Populus tomentosa Barks by HPLC Fingerprint Combined with Multivariate Statistics Current Position: Doctor candidate, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Education: B.S. (2015), Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; M Med (2018),…

Henryk Straube, first author of Enhanced nucleotide analysis enables the quantification of deoxynucleotides in plants revealing connections between nucleoside and deoxynucleoside metabolism Current Position: PhD student, Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants, Institute of…

Sarah Mielke, co-first author of Functional characterization of proton antiport regulation in the thylakoid membrane Current Position: Scientist, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany Education: B.Sc. in Life Sciences and M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the…

Michał Uflewski, co-first author of Functional characterization of proton antiport regulation in the thylakoid membrane Education: B.Sc. in Biotechnology and M.Sc. in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology at the Wrocław University Current position: PhD student, Max Planck Institute of Molecular…

Ma et al. provide numerous insights into how whole-genome duplication contributed to the origin and diversification of the grass family. By Peng-Fei Ma, Yun-Long Liu and De-Zhu Li (Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS) Background: Whole genome duplication (WGD), which may result from an organism…

Lori Tausta, first author of The fluoride transporter FLUORIDE EXPORTER (FEX) is the major mechanism of tolerance to fluoride toxicity in plants Current position:  Associate Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Education: B.A. Biochemistry Mount…

Prigozhin and Krasileva identify highly variable NLR subfamilies responsible for the generation of new immune receptor specificities. The Plant Cell (2021)   By Daniil M. Prigozhin1 and Ksenia V. Krasileva2 1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2University of California Berkeley  Background:…

Roots and shoots exist in different environments and have different functions, but each depends on the actions of the other. In recent years, many factors have been identified that move from root to shoot or vice versa to integrate their actions; these include hormones, small RNAs, peptides, and transcription…