Each plant species has a defined window of time during which flowers can be pollinated in order to trigger fruit or seed development. After this time, unpollinated flowers undergo a form of senescence culminating in programmed cell death (PCD). A detailed understanding of this cell death process is thus…

Vitamin D deficiency in humans is correlated with malfunction of the immune system and inflammation together with cancer, Parkinson disease, depression, neurocognitive decline, dementia, and severe COVID-19 infection. In humans, exposure of the skin to UV light promotes the production of Vitamin D from…

Review: Molecular regulators of nitrate response in plants Nitrate is the major form of nitrogen used by plants in an aerobic crop cultivation scenario. Lamig et al. review recent additions to the already vast knowledge of nitrate signaling. A first line of regulation concerns nitrate uptake through…

Dorothea Graus, co-first author of "The digestive systems of carnivorous plants" Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Dr. Kenji Fukushima, University of Würzburg, Germany Education: Ph.D. in Plant Biology, Department of Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University…

Aikaterini Koletti, first author of "Selenium-Binding Protein 1 (SBD1): A stress response regulator in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" Current Position: PhD candidate, Dr. Emmanouil Flemetakis lab, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens Education:…

Asaf Khan, first author of “Effector-triggered inhibition of nodulation: A rhizobial effector protease targets soybean kinase GmPBS1-1” Current Position: PhD candidate, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University,…

Mehmet Kılıç, first author of "Gene expression and organization of thylakoid protein complexes in the PSII-less mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803" Current Position: PhD Student, Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Finland. Education: B.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics,…

Naresh Loudya, first author of "Mutations in the chloroplast inner envelope protein TIC100 impair and repair chloroplast protein import and impact retrograde signalling" Current Position:  Post-doctoral Research Associate, Royal Holloway University of London. I am fortunate to be about to join as…