Special Issue: Long-distance signaling ($) 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 […]
Umarah Mubeen, first author of Target of Rapamycin inhibition in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii triggers de-novo amino acid synthesis by enhancing nitrogen assimilation Current Position: Doctoral student Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP), Potsdam, Germany Education: MS Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan Non-scientific interests: Reading, movies, travelling Brief bio: During my masters I was fascinated […]
Cătălin Voiniciuc, first author of Identification of Key Enzymes for Pectin Synthesis in Seed Mucilage Current Position: Research Associate at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Education: Ph.D., summa cum laude (RWTH Aachen University), M.Sc. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), B.Sc., with distinction (University of British Columbia) Non-scientific Interests: Family-friendly activities, football, and exploring Germany Brief bio: Throughout the […]
Mingzhu Fan, first author of A Trihelix Family Transcription Factor is Associated with Key Genes in Mixed-linkage Glucan Accumulation Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Michigan State University Education: PhD in Developmental Biology (2013), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; BS in Agriculture (2007) Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China. Non-scientific Interests: Spending time with family, friends, […]
Yuan Xue, first author of VAMP711 is required for ABA-mediated inhibition of plasma membrane H+–ATPase activity Current Position: Ph.D. of Science, China Agricultural University, Stake Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Education: Biological ScienceBachelor of Science, Shandong Agricultural University Non-scientific interests:Speaking, reading, writing in English. Keeping pets: dog, cat, fish Brief bio: I am mainly […]
Muhammad Aman Mulki, first author of FLOWERING LOCUS T3 (FT3) promotes spikelet formation but not floral development Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany. Education: PhD, Crop Genetics, University of Cologne & Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research. Non-scientific Interests: History, Politics, Documentaries. Brief […]
I guess we’re well past the stage of thinking “one gene – one protein”, but even a single polypeptide isn’t really one protein, due to the huge number of different types of post-translational modification (PTM) it can be subjected to. These are summarized in the illustration that accompanies the editorial by Spoel (10.1093/jxb/ery295) of this […]
Just like the epigenome is the collection of epigenetic marks on DNA, the epitranscriptome is the collection of epigenetic marks on mRNA. Vandivier and Gregory review our current understanding of the epitranscriptome, with a focus on N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and 5-methylcytosine (m5C), and their various writers, readers and erasers. Transcriptome-wide sequencing has revealed that these marks […]
The plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa occurs widely and often asymptomatically, yet it is associated with a few seriously bad disease outbreaks, the most recent affecting olive trees in southern Italy and adjoining regions. It also is the causal agent of Pierce’s Disease of grapevine, citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC) and coffee leaf scorch. Sicard et […]