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Leelyn Chong: The Plant Cell First Author

Leelyn Chong, co-first author of "The tomato OST1-VOZ1 module regulates drought-mediated flowering" Current Position: Associate Professor at Henan University, China Education: Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Life Sciences, Purdue University, Indiana, USA; Master of Science in Nutritional…

Shaopeng Li: The Plant Cell First Author

Shaopeng Li, first author of "LeafNet: A Tool for Segmenting and Quantifying Stomata and Pavement Cells" Current Position: PhD candidate at Wuhan University, China Education: B.S., Wuhan University, China Non-scientific Interests: Reading Brief bio: In 2018, I finished my undergraduate study…

Yanan Hu: Plant Physiology First Author

Yanan Hu, first author of "Ethylene response factor MdERF4 and histone deacetylase MdHDA19 suppress apple fruit ripening through histone deacetylation of ripening related gene"   Current Position:  Associate professor, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University. Education: Shanxi…

Ahmed Ali: Plant Physiology First Author

Ahmed Ali, first author of "Tracking metabolites at single-cell resolution reveals metabolic dynamics during plant mitosis" Current Position: Assistant Professor, Analytical Biosciences and metabolomics, LACDR, Leiden University: Education: PhD Biomedical sciences, Hiroshima University, Bsc in…

Xiong Min: Plant Physiology First Author

Xiong Min, first author of “Brassinosteroids regulate rice seed germination through the BZR1-RAmy3D transcriptional module” Current position: Lecturer, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Jiangsu, China Education: Ph.D. from Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China (2021) Non-scientific Interests:…

Suresh Pokhrel: Plant Physiology First Author

Suresh Pokhrel, first author of "The Evolutionary History of Small RNAs in Solanaceae" Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, MO, USA Education: Ph.D. in Plant, Insect and Microbial Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA Master…

Grow less or Grow more, That is the Question

Longkumer et al. explore how plant growth is regulated during drought. Paul E. Verslues and Toshisangba Longkumer, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN Background: Plants can deliberately slow down their growth in response to even a small decrease in water…

Yugo Kitazawa: The Plant Cell First Author

Yugo Kitazawa, first author of "A phytoplasma effector acts as a ubiquitin-like mediator between floral MADS-box proteins and proteasome shuttle proteins" Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of…