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Recognizing Plant Physiology author Jiani Yang

Jiani Yang, first author of The SvFUL2 transcription factor is required for inflorescence determinacy and timely flowering in Setaria viridis  Current Position:  Postdoctoral Associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Education:  B.S. in Agronomy from Shandong Agricultural University,…

Molecular Mechanism for the CO-FT Module

Lv et al. investigate the molecular basis for the specific regulation of FT by CONSTANS. The Plant Cell (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab016  By Xinchen Lv and Jiamu Du  Background: During the floral transition, plants perceive various environmental and endogenous signals to trigger…

The secret arsenal of phytopathogenic fungi

Martínez-Cruz et al. identify fungal effectors with chitinase activity, which suppress chitin-triggered immunity. by Jesús Martínez-Cruza,b, Diego Romeroa,b, Jesús Hierrezueloa,b, Michael Thonc, Antonio de Vicentea,b and Alejandro Pérez-Garcíaa,b aDepartamento de Microbiología, Facultad…