Sarah Courbier, first author of "Mechanisms of far-red light-mediated dampening of defense against Botrytis cinerea in tomato leaves" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the Horticulture and Product Physiology (HPP) group at Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands. Education:…

Aravind Rao Karanam, co-first author of "Boolink: a Graphical Interface for Open Access Boolean Network Simulations and Use in Guard Cell CO2 Signaling" Current Position: PhD Student, Dept of Physics, UC San Diego Education: BS, MS in physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Non-scientific…

David Yuchen He, co-first author of "Boolink: a Graphical Interface for Open Access Boolean Network Simulations and Use in Guard Cell CO2 Signaling" Current Position: Master Student, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Education: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering…

Chin et al. identify SPIRRIG and SCAR/WAVE as molecular determinants of actin-mediated root hair development in Arabidopsis.  Background: Root hairs are tip growing cells that extend the radius of a root to optimize water and nutrient absorption. Root hair development is complex and involves the…

Shuaibing Liu, co-first author of “Estimating leaf area index using unmanned aerial vehicle data: Shallow vs. deep machine learning algorithms” Current Position: Ph.D Candidate, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Education: B.E. & M.E…

Benjamin Julius, first author of "Maize Brittle Stalk2-Like3, encoding a COBRA protein, functions in cell wall formation and carbohydrate partitioning" Current Position: Scientist I – Bayer Crop Science Education: Ph.D. Biological Sciences University of Missouri-Columbia, B.S. Biology from Truman…

Yulei Zhu, first author of "Large-scale field phenotyping using backpack LiDAR and CropQuant-3D to measure structural variation in wheat" Current position: Research associate (The Zhou Laboratory, Nanjing Agricultural University) Education: Research master (Master of Engineering) Non-scientific…

Recently, the UN Environment Programme identified excessive reactive nitrogen (N) resulting from anthropogenic activity as one of the five emerging threats facing our planet. Much of this derives from agricultural practices in which N fertilizers are inefficiently applied to crops, a significant proportion…