Timothy Westlake, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during effector-triggered immunity Current Position: Researcher at the National Institutes of Health and current student pursuing Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Future Position: Post-doctoral fellowship at Saitama University in the Division of Strategic Research and Development. Education: Ph.D. in Plant […]
Lisa-Marie Schmid, first author of PUMPKIN, the sole Plastid UMP Kinase, Associates with Group II Introns and Alters Their Metabolism Current Position: PhD student in the group of PD Dr. Jörg Meurer, Leister lab, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany Education: B.Sc. Biology and M.Sc. Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany Non-scientific Interests: Yoga, Gardening, Knitting Brief bio: Already early during my […]
(Translated from the Chinese original) Auxin is an important plant hormone that is essential for plant growth and development. At present, people’s understanding of auxin signal transduction mainly focuses on the process of auxin receptor TIR1/AFBs- mediated Aux/IAAs protein degradation and regulation of auxin-related gene expression, but the understanding of post-transcriptional events is less. The […]
Sheng Wang, first author of CYP76B74 catalyzes the 3′-hydroxylation of geranylhydroquinone in shikonin biosynthesis Current Position: Assistant Researcher at National Resources Center of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China Education: B.S. in Resources & Development of Chinese Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, China; Ph.D. and M.S. in Chinese Material […]
Wojciech J. Nawrocki, first author of Chlororespiration controls growth under intermittent light Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at the VU Amsterdam Education: MSc in Biophysics, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, PhD, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS, Paris, France Non-scientific Interests: Volleyball, experimental music, politics Brief bio: After an enjoyable Erasmus program in Paris I decided to study […]
I think trees are awesome, and I mean that in the truest sense of the word. They dwarf us in height, and when we look at a tree that has lived for hundreds or thousands of years it is impossible not to think of that span in terms of human generations and human history. But, […]
Several recent studies have demonstrated that plants are able to respond to environmental challenges within minutes, through electrical signals, calcium oscillations, hydraulic changes, metabolites such as glutamate, and reactive oxygen species. Kollist et al. review studies of rapid responses that control stomatal aperture as well those leading to systemic signalling and acclimation. Although transcriptomic studies […]
What tools and skills do tomorrow’s plant scientists need, and how can we as a community ensure that today’s students get appropriate training? The Plant Science Research Network (PSRN), a consortium of plant science organizations and societies, has organized a series of workshops and discussions to try to answer these questions. Henkhaus et al. present […]
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? Gao et al. argue that we should be more aware of the beneficial impacts of friendly protists that eat potentially harmful microbes in the rhizosphere (they deliberately exclude plant pathogenic protists in their discussion). Protists are a diverse paraphyletic group of mostly single-celled eukaryotes. Bacterivorous protists […]