Peng et al. discover that COP1, a central repressor of seedling photomorphogenic development, positively regulates ABA signal transduction during Arabidopsis seedling growth in darkness by mediating ABA-induced ABI5 accumulation.  By Jing Peng and Jigang Li  Background: The phytohormone abscisic…

Sang-Ji Lee, first author of “Natural alleles of CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED1 contribute to rice cultivation by fine-tuning flowering time” Current Position: Ph.D. Student in Department of Crop Science and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, South Korea Education: Master of Science in…

Dahhan et al. explore the clathrin-coated vesicle proteome in Arabidopsis By Dana A. Dahhan and Sebastian Y. Bednarek, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison Background: Trafficking of vacuolar and plasma membrane proteins and other macromolecules is essential for plant development, nutrient uptake,…

Alexandra Keren-Keiserman, author of "CLASS-II KNOX genes coordinate spatial and temporal ripening in tomato" Current position: Research Engineer at the Institute of Plant Sciences, Volcani Institute ARO Education: Post-Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem National Natural History Collections…

Jinseung Jeong, first author of "GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN variants with enhanced folding are more efficiently imported into chloroplasts" Current Position: Researcher, Sanigen Co., Ltd. R&D Center, Korea Education: Bachelor degree (Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National…

Jiapeng Han, first author of “Evolution of the DEHYDRATION-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN subfamily in green plants” Current Position: PhD student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Education: Huazhong University of Science and Technology Non-scientific…

Kawa and Brady review the contributions and responses of individual cell types and cell identities in plant biotic interactions, both pathogenic and commensal. The first step in these interactions is the perception of the microbes by root cells, which involves highly conserved microbe-associated molecular…

Organ size is imperative to biological function. In plants, newly-developing organs start out as a pool of meristematic cells, which set the number of cells in the organ through regulated iterations of cellular division; eventually, these cells transition out of the cell cycle and differentiate, during…