Review: Perspectives on improving light distribution and light use efficiency in crop canopies Light comes largely from above, and plants have evolved strategies to efficiently capture this light even when competing with other potentially shading plants. However, at a field-level, such competition…

Simpson et al. describe and use PODIUM, a tool for global annotation of metabolites. Plant Cell (https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaa046) By Jeffrey Simpson, Brian Dilkes, Clint Chapple Background: Plants synthesize hundreds to thousands of different chemicals. These chemicals help plants adapt…

Ruizhen Li, first author of Inflorescence abscission protein SlIDL6 promotes low light intensity-induced tomato flower abscission Current Position: Master candidate, Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Ministry of Education, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China Education:…

Plantae Presents: Usha Vijayraghavan and Ramesh Sonti March 3:  6am EST, 11 am GMT, 4:30 pm Delhi Usha Vijayraghavan. Codes rice floret development: leads from studies on OsMADS1 regulated gene networks Usha Vijayraghavan obtained her Ph.D. in 1989 from California Institute of Technology,…

Jelena Cvetkovic, first author of Ectopic maltase alleviates dwarf phenotype and improves plant frost tolerance of maltose transporter mutants Current Position: Senior Scientist Seeking Work Education: PhD in Molecular plant physiology at the Free University Berlin, Germany; MSc in Molecular Biology…

Zhijuan Wang co-first author of AtLURE1/PRK6-Mediated Signaling Promotes Conspecific Micropylar Pollen Tube Guidance Current position: Postdoc, School of Life Sciences, Peking University Education: Ph.D. in School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China; Bachelor in College of Plant…

Meiling Liu, co-first author of AtLURE1/PRK6-Mediated Signaling Promotes Conspecific Micropylar Pollen Tube Guidance Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at Bioland Laboratory, Guangzhou, China Education: Ph.D. Degree: Peking University Master Degree: China Agricultural University Bachelor…

Kim et al. provide insight into leaf vascular cell types and new resources to build hypotheses and strategies regarding transport of ions, metabolites, and signals. Plant Cell http://bit.ly/2MKOR8M Ji-yun Kim and Wolf Frommer Background: Transport processes are critical for all multicellular…