Press release – translated from the original Article source: Microbiology Research Institute Published: 2019-01-23 Cotton Verticillium wilt is a soil-transmitted vascular bundle disease caused by Verticillium dahliae, which is the primary disease that restricts cotton production in China. It is the focus of the current cotton field research and application to discover the key disease resistance […]
Jiyue Huang, first author of Meiocyte-specific and AtSPO11-1-dependent Small RNAs and Their Association with Meiotic Gene Expression and Recombination Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Copenhaver Lab, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC Education: PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry. Fudan University, China; M.S. in Genetics, Department of Genetics. Fudan University, China; B.S. in Agriculture, […]
Cong Wang, first author of Meiocyte-specific and AtSPO11-1-dependent Small RNAs and Their Association with Meiotic Gene Expression and Recombination Current Position: Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecule Biology, Fudan University, China. Education: B.S. Biological Science, Sep. 2009-Jul. 2013. Lanzhou University, China Non-scientific Interests: Travelling, reading and movies. Brief bio: During the last year of my undergraduate student, I had […]
Hai-Hong Liu, co-first author of IMPORTIN β4 mediates nuclear import of GIFs to control ovule development in Arabidopsis Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in State Key laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Education: 2011 – 2015 B.S. Shandong Agricultural University; 2015 – now, Ph.D. candidate, Shandong Agricultural University, Non-scientific interest: […]
Feng Xiong, co-first author of IMPORTIN β4 mediates nuclear import of GIFs to control ovule development in Arabidopsis Current Position: Ph.D. student in State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Education: M.S. in State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Non-scientific […]
Jeremy Jewell, first author of Extracellular ATP shapes a defense-related transcriptome both independently and along with other defense signaling pathways Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA Education: PhD, Molecular Plant Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA; MSc, Plant Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA: BSc, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State […]
The year 2019 kicks off with a special issue on root biology, with all articles free to access for six months. Topics include interactions of roots with parasites and symbionts, root branching, transport in the root system, and roots of woody species. (Summary by Mary Williams) Physiologia Plantarum January 2019
Bryophytes spend most of their lifecycle in the haploid, gametophytic form, of which there are two types, male (sperm forming) and female (egg forming). Hisanaga et al. investigated the genetic basis that determines sex in the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Their findings are fascinating. A single genetic locus acts as a switch, to specify either […]
Non-shattering seed, or seed that stays attached to the stem when mature, is a key domestication trait that makes harvesting easier. Previous studies have identified several domestication genes that suppress the formation of the seed’s abscission zone, thus preventing shattering. Jiang et al. used a genetic approach to identify ssh1, which suppresses seed shattering; SSH1 […]