Anna Olek, first author of "Essential amino acids in the Plant-Conserved and Class-Specific Regions of cellulose synthases" Current Position:  Recently retired Education: Anna Olek received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1977 from Kraków University of Technology, Poland, and she received…

María Fernanda Gómez Méndez, first author of "Ice plant root plasma membrane aquaporins are regulated by clathrin-coated vesicles in response to salt stress" Current Position: Lab assistant in Dr. Dahesh Lab at UC Riverside Education: BCs in Morelos State Autonomous University, Mexico. Master…

Huan Zhang, co-first author of "The B-box transcription factor IbBBX29 regulates leaf development and flavonoid biosynthesis in sweet potato" Current Position: Associate professor, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Education: Ph.D. from China…

Xiaoru Gao, co-first author of “The B-box transcription factor IbBBX29 regulates leaf development and flavonoid biosynthesis in sweet potato” Education: 2012.09-2016.06 Henan Agricultural University (Bachelor); 2016.09-2023.01 China Agricultural University (Ph.D) Non-scientific Interests:…

Xiaoguang Chen, first author of "A plastid nucleoside kinase is involved in inosine salvage and control of purine nucleotide biosynthesis"  Current Position: No at present (position hunting) Education:  Ph.D. at Leibniz Universität Hannover Non-scientific Interests: Sports, Cooking Brief…

Hung-Chi Liu, first author of "Cytosolic Phosphoglucose Isomerase Is Essential for Microsporogenesis and Embryogenesis in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Education: PhD from School of Biomedical, Biomolecular…

By Hui Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China  Wang and colleagues explore how two WUSCHEL-like transcription factors affect leaf blade outgrowth in Medicago truncatula and Nicotiana sylvestris  Background: Members of the plant-specific…

Palos et al. identify thousands of new long intergenic noncoding RNAs using public data.  By Kyle Palos and Andrew Nelson  Background: All plants have thousands of genes in their genomes that contribute to plant form and function. While the functional “end-state” of many of these genes are…