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A list of book recommendations from our community with a focus on Plant Sciences Current Topics The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species by Carlos Magdalena Carlos is a tropical plant horticulturalist at the Royal Botanic Garden Kew in London. He acquired the nickname…

Given the importance of branch angle in determining overall plant form, we know surprisingly little about how those angles are controlled. Branch angle clearly has genetic underpinnings but also responds strongly to light and gravity, as well as to water availability and other stimuli (reviewed in Roychoudhry…

Katharina Schiessl, first author of MtNODULE ROOT1 and MtNODULE ROOT2 are essential for indeterminate nodule identity Current position: Research Associate at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK Education: PhD, John Innes Centre Non-scientific interests: Sports Brief bio: I am…

Dandan Qian, first author of OsDer1 is an ER-associated protein degradation factor that responds to ER stress in rice Current Position: Research Associate, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Education: PhD in Developmental biology at the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy…

Kévin Magne, first author of MtNODULE ROOT1 and MtNODULE ROOT2 are essential for Medicago truncatula indeterminate nodule identity Current Position: Post doc, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research Education: Ph.D., Biology, University…

Said Hafidh, first author of Dynamics of Nicotiana tabacum pollen sequestrome defined by subcellular coupled omics Current Position:  Research fellow, Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB), Prague Education: BSc and PhD at the University of Leicester (2002-2009) Non-scientific Interests: Cycling,…

Jing Wang, first author of AnnAt1 and AnnAt2 regulate Arabidopsis primary root growth in response to sugar Current Position:  Ph.D candidate in University of Texas Education: Master of Science in Shandong University, China Non-scientific Interests:  Cooking, hiking and traveling Brief bio:…

Lin Zhang, first author of Nucleus-encoded Protein BFA1 Promotes Efficient Assembly of the Chloroplast ATP Synthase Coupling Factor 1 Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Education: PhD in Developmental Biology…