Areas of expertise Phyothormones, cytokinin, ethylene, auxin, cell wall, receptor-like kinases, genetics. Joseph Kieber holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His group uses the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa to examine the biosynthesis, perception, signaling, […]
Areas of expertise Disease resistance, cell death, plant pathogens. Jean Greenberg is a Professor in the Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Dept. University of Chicago, Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, and Committee on Microbiology. Her work examines both sides of the plant-pathogen interaction, including pioneering studies on cell death and disease resistance in […]
Areas of expertise Large-scale biology, plant molecular biology and physiology, photosynthetic carbon reduction, plant stress responses. Nan completed her PhD in the Plant Physiology program at Penn State University in 1993. She carried out postdoctoral research in photosynthesis, focusing on Rubisco and Rubisco activase, with William Ogren and Archie Portis at the University of Illinois […]
Areas of expertise ubiquitination, CULLIN-ring ligases, autophagy, cell cycle, DNA repair, epigenetic regulation, phytohormones, RNA silencing. Pascal Genschik holds a PhD and a Habilitation from the University of Strasbourg, France. Since 1997, he has been a group leader at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology in Strasbourg. He studies various aspects of plant growth and […]
Areas of expertise Plant development, environmental regulation of development, flowering time, Arabidopsis, transcriptional regulation, evolutionary genetics. George Coupland is Director of the Department of Plant Developmental Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, a position he has held since 2001. He earned his PhD from University of Edinburgh, and […]
Areas of expertise Chloroplast biology; gene expression; photosynthesis; evolutionary genetics. Ralph Bock is a Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and a Professor at the University of Potsdam. He received undergraduate and MSc degrees from the University of Halle, Germany and a PhD from the University of Freiburg. Dr. Bock uses […]
Rakesh David, featured first author of Transcriptome-wide Mapping of RNA 5-Methylcytosine in Arabidopsis mRNAs and non-coding RNAs Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Adelaide. Education: PhD, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Science Division, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australia. Non-scientific Interests: Cycling, cricket, movies and reading. […]
By Peter J Franks, Joseph A Berry, Danica L. Lombardozzi, and Gordon B Bonan The colonization of land by plants and their interaction with biogeochemical and atmospheric processes transformed continental climate and hydrology. Stomata, which evolved to optimize the biological economics of plant carbon uptake in exchange for water loss, play a crucial role in […]
By Shin-ichiro Inoue, and Toshinori Kinoshita Light-induced stomatal responses were first reported 23 by Francis Darwin (1898). Stomata open in response to light, including blue and red light (Shimazaki et al., 2007). Red light induces stomatal opening via photosynthesis in the mesophyll and guard cell chloroplasts (Mott et al., 2008; Suetsugu et al., 2014). In […]