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Min Gao: Plant Physiology First Author

Min Gao, co-first author of “The Flowering Time Regulator FLK Controls Pathogen Defense in Arabidopsis thaliana” Current Position: Associate professor, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China  Education: Ph.D. from Northwest A & F…

Sarathi M. Weraduwage: Plant Direct First Author

Sarathi M. Weraduwage, first author of "Characterization of promoter elements of isoprene-responsive genes, and the ability of isoprene to bind START domain transcription factors" Current Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Bishop’s University, QC,…

Jingru Li: Plant Physiology First Author

Jingru Li, first author of "BASIC PENTACYSTEINE2 fine-tunes corm dormancy release in Gladiolus" Education: Ph.D. student in the Department of Ornamental Horticulture at China Agricultural University (since September 2022). Non-scientific Interests: Gourmet and traveling Brief bio: My current…

Getting rid of noise in sequencing data

Klasfeld, Roulé, and Wagner develop a user-friendly tool to get rid of artifacts in chromatin immunoprecipitation data. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac282  Doris Wagner, Samantha Klasfeld and Thomas Roulé Background Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) and other…

A Glimpse of #iFANS2023 and Highlights of ISPP-Young Scientist Session

The 2023 International Conference on Food and Nutritional Security conference (IFANS) was jointly organized by National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali; Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali; Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP), New Delhi; Plant Tissue…

Antonella Ferela: Plant Physiology First Author

Antonella Ferela, first author of "Interplay among ZF-HD and GRF transcription factors during Arabidopsis leaf development" Current Position: Data Analyst, Iowa State University, United States. Education: PhD in Biological Science and BS in Biotechnology, National University of Rosario, Argentina. Non-scientific…

Hila Behar: Plant Direct First Author

Hila Behar, first author of "Populus endo-glucanase 16 localizes to the cell walls of developing tissues" Current Position: Co-founder at BryoSphere Biotechnologies Education: B.Sc. Biology, Tel Aviv University (2011-2014); Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia…