Author(s) and Institutions: Leelyn Chong and Yingfang Zhu State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China Sanya Institute, Henan University, Sanya, 572025, China Leelyn Chong and colleagues provide cues as to how plants…

Plant Cell Webinar: Celebrating the May 2022 Focus Issue on Plant Biotic Interactions Plant Biotic Interactions (Part 1)  Recorded Tuesday, May 17, 2022   About This Webinar As much as half of all the calories produced by plant crops is lost to pathogens. Efforts to strengthen plant immunity…

Feng Zhu, first author of "A comparative transcriptomics and eQTL approach identifies SlWD40 as a tomato fruit ripening regulator" Current Position: Postdoc at Huazhong Agricultural University and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Education: B.S. in Huazhong Agricultural University;…

Dingyue Wang, co-first author of “Chromatin remodeling complexes regulate genome architecture in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Peking University, China Education: B.S., Capital Normal University, China Non-scientific Interests: Basketball, bodybuilding, travel Brief…

Tingting Yang, co-first author of “Chromatin remodeling complexes regulate genome architecture in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Postdoc, Peking University, China Education: B.S., Qingdao Agriculture University, China M.S., Northwest A&F University, China Ph.D, Max Planck Institute…

Alan Wanke, co-first author of "Fungi hijack a ubiquitous plant apoplastic endoglucanase to release a ROS scavenging β-glucan decasaccharide to subvert immune responses" Current Position: Research Assistant in the group of Dr Sebastian Schornack (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge,…

Balakumaran Chandrasekar, co-first author of "Fungi hijack a ubiquitous plant apoplastic endoglucanase to release a ROS scavenging β-glucan decasaccharide to subvert immune responses" Current Position:   Assistant Professor (Plant Biotechnology), Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute…

Alexandra Burgess, co-first author of "A future in 3D: analysing morphology in all dimensions" Current Position: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK Education: BA in Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, UK; PhD in Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK Non-scientific…