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Elena Andrea Pelech: Plant Direct First Author

Elena Andrea Pelech, first author of "Photosynthesis, yield, energy balance, and water-use of intercropped maize and soybean" Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher Education: PhD. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; BSc University of Essex, UK Non-scientific Interests: Mythology,…

Yuan Huang: The Plant Cell First Author

Yuan Huang, first author of the research article “Species-specific gene partial duplication in Arabidopsis thaliana evolved novel phenotypic effects on morphological traits under strong positive selection” Current Position: Professor at Yunnan Normal University, China Education: Ph.D, Kunming…

Fishing out virus replication complexes

Incarbone et al. use an epitope-tagged protein that binds double-stranded RNAs to fish out viral replication complexes and identify the associated proteins. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab214 Marco Incarbone (GMI, Vienna) and Christophe Ritzenthaler (IBMP, Strasbourg) Background:…

Jin-Lei Liu: Plant Physiology First Author

Jin-Lei Liu, first author of “A CASE toolkit for easy and efficient multiplex transgene-free gene editing” Current position: PhD Student, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Education: BS in Agronomy, College of Agronomy, Shandong…

Winter is coming: It’s time to “CRY”

Li et al. reveal how the cryptochrome CRY2 regulates freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab215  By Youping Li Background: Cold acclimation via exposure to non-lethal low temperatures enhances frost resistance in plants. This process requires light; however, we know…

Jonathan Huc: The Plant Cell First Author

Jonathan Huc, first author of "Bypassing reproductive barriers in hybrid seeds using chemically induced epimutagenesis" Current Position: PhD student in Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie (Potsdam, Germany) Education: High School Diploma in Biotechnologies (ESTBA, Paris, 2017),…

An E3 ubiquitin ligase modulates brassinosteroid signaling by targeting the transcription factor BES1 to selective autophagy under sucrose starvation

Wang et al. identify a mechanism by which plants reduce growth under sucrose starvation conditions. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab210 by Ping Wang and Yanhai Yin (Iowa State University)  Background: Plants fine-tune their growth and stress-response programs to adapt to the environment.…