Writing grant proposals is an important part of most scientific careers and yet is also a task for which many early career scientists feel unprepared. Journal articles, in contrast, may write more naturally, having become familiar with their structure and conventions over years of regular reading. But…

Micha Wijesingha Ahchige, first author of "PANTOTHENATE KINASE4, LOSS OF GDU2, and TRANSPOSON PROTEIN1 affect the canalization of tomato fruit metabolism" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher (Data Steward from DataPlant at MPIMP) Education:   B. Sc. (Biology) University of Cologne;…

Wang et al. reveal how the PPR-E proteins function in RNA editing in maize mitochondria. Yong Wang and Bao-Cai Tan Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China  Background:…

Hodin et al. explore the function of the vacuolar nitrate transporter CLCA and provide insight on potentially improving nitrogen use efficiency. Background: Nitrogen is quantitatively the most important inorganic nutrient for plants. Roots mainly take nitrogen up in the form of nitrate (NO3-). Once…

Xia Yan, first author of "The transcriptional landscape of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae reveals distinct families of temporally co-regulated and structurally conserved effectors" Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK Education: Zhejiang…

Qi Luo, first author of "E3 ligase MaNIP1 degradation of NON-YELLOW COLORING1 at high temperature inhibits banana degreening" Current Position: M.S., College of horticulture, South China Agricultural University Education: 2016-2020 South China Agricultural University (Bachelor) 2020-now South…

Chong Ren, first author of "Advances in understanding cold tolerance in grapevine" Education: M.S. from Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. D.S. from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy…

Gustaf E. Degen, first author of "High cyclic electron transfer via the PGR5 pathway in the absence of photosynthetic control" Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Johnson Lab, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, UK Education: PhD at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster…