Entries by Mary Williams

Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Zhangjian Hu

April 10, 2018 in , /by

Zhangjian Hu, featured first author of A Plant Phytosulfokine Peptide Initiates Auxin-Dependent Immunity through Cytosolic Ca2+ Signaling in Tomato Current Position: Graduate student in the Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University, China Education: B.S. (2012) in Applied Biological Science (Horticulture), Zhejiang University, China Non-scientific Interests: Running, watching movies and cooking. Brief bio sketch: I chose horticulture […]

Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Huan Zhang

April 10, 2018 in , /by

Huan Zhang, featured first author of A Plant Phytosulfokine Peptide Initiates Auxin-Dependent Immunity through Cytosolic Ca2+ Signaling in Tomato Current Position: Graduate student in the Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University, China. Education: Bachelor’s degree (2013) from the College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China. Non-scientific Interests: Cooking, shopping and watching movies. Brief bio sketch: […]

Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Suayib Üstün

April 10, 2018 in , /by

Suayib Üstün, featured first author of Bacteria exploit autophagy for proteasome degradation and enhanced virulence in plants Current Position: FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) long-term postdoctoral fellow at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden Education: PhD in Molecular Biology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Non-scientific Interests: Travel, Cooking, Freeletics. Brief bio […]

Eight things that you should consider for securing the dream academic job

April 8, 2018 in /by

By Yasin Dagdas Part of the Self-Reflection; series by and for early-career researchers You have been studying for ~15 years and finally you are at a crossroad where you will make an important decision to start cashing out your “delayed gratifications”. Although I strongly believe there are few no-return points in life, this decision will […]

Breakthrough Technology: Soft X-ray imaging of cellular carbon and nitrogen distributions in cyanobacteria (Plant Phys)

April 6, 2018 in /by

Soft X-ray imaging is a promising new technology that can be used to measure elemental compositions of living cells. By adjusting the energy (wavelength) of the incident X-rays, it is possible to specifically measure C or N, which have different photo-absorption edges.  Teramoto et al. demonstrate the power of soft X-ray microscopy (SXM) by imaging […]

Scopoletin 8-hydroxylase-mediated fraxetin production is crucial for iron mobilization (Plant Physiol)

April 6, 2018 in /by

As iron is often limiting in the environment, plants use many strategies to support iron uptake, including secretion of small molecules such as coumarins that can help to mobilize iron from the soil. Tsai et al. examined the role of a gene involved in fraxetin (7,8-dihydroxy-6-methoxycoumarin) production on iron uptake in Arabidopsis. SH8 expression is […]

An SPX-RLI1 module regulates leaf inclination in response to phosphate availability in rice (Plant Cell)

April 6, 2018 in /by

The angle at which a rice leaf bends affects its ability to intercept light and also the density at which the plants can be sown. Previous work has shown that brassinosteroid hormones and the BRASSINOSTEROID UPREGULATED1 (BU1) gene affect leaf angle. Ruan, Guo, Xu et al. investigated the role of phosphate (Pi) availability in leaf […]