Entries by Mary Williams

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Jiyue Huang

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Jiyue Huang, first author of Meiocyte-specific and AtSPO11-1-dependent Small RNAs and Their Association with Meiotic Gene Expression and Recombination Current Position:  Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Copenhaver Lab, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC Education: PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry. Fudan University, China; M.S. in Genetics, Department of Genetics. Fudan University, China; B.S. in Agriculture, […]

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Cong Wang

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Cong Wang, first author of Meiocyte-specific and AtSPO11-1-dependent Small RNAs and Their Association with Meiotic Gene Expression and Recombination Current Position:  Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecule Biology, Fudan University, China. Education:  B.S. Biological Science, Sep. 2009-Jul. 2013. Lanzhou University, China Non-scientific Interests: Travelling, reading and movies. Brief bio: During the last year of my undergraduate student, I had […]

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Hai-Hong Liu

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Hai-Hong Liu, co-first author of IMPORTIN β4 mediates nuclear import of GIFs to control ovule development in Arabidopsis Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in State Key laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Education: 2011 – 2015 B.S. Shandong Agricultural University; 2015 – now, Ph.D. candidate, Shandong Agricultural University, Non-scientific interest: […]

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Feng Xiong

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Feng Xiong, co-first author of IMPORTIN β4 mediates nuclear import of GIFs to control ovule development in Arabidopsis Current Position: Ph.D. student in State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Education: M.S. in State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Non-scientific […]

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Jeremy Jewell

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Jeremy Jewell, first author of Extracellular ATP shapes a defense-related transcriptome both independently and along with other defense signaling pathways Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA Education: PhD, Molecular Plant Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA; MSc, Plant Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA: BSc, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State […]

A bidirectional switch controls sexual dimorphism in the liverwort (EMBO J)

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Bryophytes spend most of their lifecycle in the haploid, gametophytic form, of which there are two types, male (sperm forming) and female (egg forming). Hisanaga et al. investigated the genetic basis that determines sex in the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Their findings are fascinating. A single genetic locus acts as a switch, to specify either […]

AP2-like transcription factor SUPERNUMERARY BRACT controls rice seed shattering and seed size (Plant Cell)

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Non-shattering seed, or seed that stays attached to the stem when mature, is a key domestication trait that makes harvesting easier. Previous studies have identified several domestication genes that suppress the formation of the seed’s abscission zone, thus preventing shattering. Jiang et al. used a genetic approach to identify ssh1, which suppresses seed shattering; SSH1 […]

Chloroplasts navigate towards the pathogen interface to counteract Phytophthora infection (bioRxiv)

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Chloroplasts have diverse roles in plant defense, including contributing to the production of defense compounds. Toufexi, Duggan et al. show new data indicating the dynamic relocation of chloroplasts to the contact point of the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Infection also causes an increase of stromule formation (stromules are chloroplast membrane extensions implicated in defense). The […]