Zhen-Chao Li, first author of The MAPK kinase kinase GmMEKK1 regulates cell death and defense responses Current Position: Postgraduate Student, College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Ludong University, Yantai, Shangdong, China Non-scientific Interests: reading books, playing volleyball, fishing and travelling Brief bio: I am […]
Hui-Yang Xu, first author of The MAPK kinase kinase GmMEKK1 regulates cell death and defense responses Current Position: Education Counselor, Zhejiang Post and Telecommunication College, Shaoxing, China. Education: MS in Plant Genetics from Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China Non-scientific Interests: Basketball, football, and table tennis. Brief bio: I graduated from the College of Chemistry and […]
(From a press release written in Chinese – original here) On September 10th , The Plant Cell published a research paper entitled Maize Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase1 Degrades Oxalate and Affects the Seed Metabolome and Nutritional Quality by the Wu Yongrui Research Group of the Institute of Plant and Plant Science and Excellence in Plant and Physiology, […]
Qian Zhang, first author of Blue light regulates secondary cell wall thickening via MYC2/MYC4 activation of the NST1-directed transcriptional network in Arabidopsis Current Position: PhD candidate. National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics ＆ CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, […]
Priya Voothuluru, first author of An in vivo imaging assay detects spatial variability in glucose release from plant roots Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Education: Ph.D. University of Missouri 2012 Non-scientific interests: Keeping up with current affairs, watching cricket and tennis, being outdoors, baking Brief Bio-sketch: My […]
The great strides we’ve made in understanding how plants perceive their environment, from light to pathogens to nutrients, haven’t been matched with an understanding of what they do with all that information; how do so many inputs get integrated into a single or few responses? And how does the information processing integrate spatially across the […]
Of course plants need to communicate between their different parts, and our understanding of these crucial signals has been advancing rapidly. This issue of Plant Cell Physiology includes a set of papers highlighting recent findings. A meeting report by Kiba on the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Program in Green Natural Sciences (IGER) International Symposium […]
Zinc is an important micronutrient for plants and people. To better understand Zn uptake and homeostasis, Sinclair et al. used a transcriptomic approach to identify genes abnormally expressed in zinc-transporter mutants (hma2 hma4). In these mutants, Zn accumulates in roots but isn’t effectively transported to shoots. The authors found that MTP2 (encoding a metal transporter […]
Polyamines including spermine and spermidine are present in all eukaryotes and have diverse roles. In plants they have been implicated in responses ranging from abiotic and biotic stresses to grain filling. Tao et al. examined the function of OsPMS1, encoding a spermine synthase, through genetic methods including RNAi and overexpression approaches. Knocking out OsPMS1 leads […]