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Luca Piccinini: Plant Physiology First Author

Luca Piccinini, first author of "A synthetic switch based on the orange carotenoid protein to control blue-green light responses in chloroplasts" Current Position: PhD candidate, Plantlab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy Education: B.Sc. in Biotechnology and…

Sanbon Chaka Gosa: The Plant Cell First Author

Sanbon Chaka Gosa, co-first author of "Out of the blue: Phototropins of the leaf vascular bundle sheath mediate the regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance by blue light" Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. Andrew Leakey’s research group at the Institute for Genomic Biology,…

Yael Grunwald: The Plant Cell First Author

Yael Grunwald, co-first author of "Out of the blue: Phototropins of the leaf vascular bundle sheath mediate the regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance by blue light" Current Position: TBD Education: PhD in Plant Physiology and MSc in Environmental Biology, both at the Faculty of Agriculture of…

Xun Liao: Plant Physiology First Author

Xun Liao, first author of "Mitochondrion-encoded circular RNAs are widespread and translatable in plants" Current Position: Postgraduate student, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China Education: B.S., College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University,…

The straw that breaks the camel's back

Wang et al. investigate the downstream effectors of CLE peptide ligand-mediated meristem homeostasis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab315 By Wenping Wang, Chong Hu, Xiaoping Gou and Jing Yi Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences,…

Zhihao Jiang: Plant Physiology First Author

Zhihao Jiang, first author of "Barley stripe mosaic virus γb protein targets thioredoxin h-type 1 to dampen salicylic acid–mediated defenses" Current Position: Post-doc, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen (ZMBP), Tübingen, Germany Education: Ph.D. in college of Biological…

Seung Hee Jo: The Plant Cell First Author

Seung Hee Jo, first author of "The Arabidopsis cyclophilin CYP18-1 facilitates PRP18 dephpshorylation and the splicing of introns retained under heat stress" Education: BSc in School of Biological Science and Technology in Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea Non-scientific Interests: Tasty…