Plant Physiology recently published a Focus Issue on Cell Dynamics. We asked the editors involved to tell us about what is meant by Cell Dynamics and why this topic is interesting and relevant, as well as about the Focus Issue program in general. This 11-minute video features Editor-in-Chief Mike Blatt (University of Glasgow), and Issue […]
Here’s a fascinating story; starting with an association study, Xie et al. found that a protein previously identified as an enzyme involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism (specifically, 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase, EPSP) also acts as a transcriptional regulator of this pathway, not only increasing lignin content but also the expression of dozens of other genes involved in […]
Plant scientists are familiar with the steep drop in photosynthetic activity when plants are illuminated with far-red photons (> 700 nm), because the energy of these long-wavelength photos is insufficient to initiate photochemistry at the chlorophyll a reaction center. Previously, some studies have indicated that the long-wavelength chlorophyll f can serve as an antenna complex […]
This week we have some guest contributions from undergraduate student interns working with Professor Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon. Julissa helped the students select and read the papers, and worked with them on writing and editing the summaries, with additional editing provided by Mary Williams. What a nice learning experience. […]
Katharina Belt, first author of An assembly factor promotes assembly of flavinated SDH1 into the succinate dehydrogenase complex Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO, Agriculture and Food, Floreat Education: PhD, School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia Non-scientific Interests: Latin dance, hiking, travel Brief bio: I obtained my Bachelor and Master degree in Germany at the University of […]
Nicola Zagari, first author of CHLOROPLAST RIBOSOME ASSOCIATED supports translation under stress and interacts with the ribosomal 30S subunit Current Position: (Starting 1/08/2018) Junior Researcher Cell Biology at Enza Zaden, Enkhuizen, NL Education: Biotechnologies BSc at Bologna University, Plant biotech and breeding MSc at Wageningen University (NL). PhD at LMU (Munich, Germany), FEM (San Michele […]
Pablo Pulido, first author of CHLOROPLAST RIBOSOME ASSOCIATED supports translation under stress and interacts with the ribosomal 30S subunit Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, Germany. Education: PhD in Redox Biology, Department of Vegetal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Seville. Non-scientific Interests: Photography, travelling, diving, reading. Brief bio: Since early […]
Nikolay Manavski, first author of CHLOROPLAST RIBOSOME ASSOCIATED supports translation under stress and interacts with the ribosomal 30S subunit Current Position: Postdoc at IBMP-CNRS, Strasbourg, France Education: Diploma and PhD in Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Plant Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany. Non-scientific Interests: Running, cooking, reading, meditation. Brief bio: I’m interested in understanding how […]
By Alex Harkess and Margaret Frank While working on very small RNA molecules, Blake Meyers tackles some of the biggest problems in plant biology. Blake has spent much of his academic career generating and sifting through billions of sequence reads to ask a deceptively simple question: what do small RNAs do in a cell? Holding […]