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Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Adrien Burlacot

Adrien Burlacot, first author of Flavodiiron-mediated O2 photoreduction a relay between H2 production and CO2 fixation Current Position: PhD student, Plant Biology, Aix Marseille University. Education: Ecole Polytechnique and MSc in Plant science, Paris Saclay. Non-scientific Interests: Hiking,…

Summer fun: how plants beat the heat

By Adam Phillips. Reprinted from It Ain't Magic, The RIKEN Global Communications Team https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off-the-press/plants-beat-heat It seems like I’ve been writing a lot about plants recently. The truth is that I hardly have enough time to write about all the cool plant…

Chen Mingsheng's research team found an evolutionary trend of genes fleeing the centromere region

Article source: http://theworldseeds.cn/index.php?p=152804 (Translated by Google Translate) The centromere and its surroundings are the fastest-evolving and most complex areas of the plant genome. The centromere and near centromere regions not only undergo rapid sequence changes and structural remodeling,…

Book Recommendations - Other

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A list of book recommendations from our community that are not directly related to plant science, but are still good reads "I'd recommend scientists to get out of the wormhole and read something else... Something historical, philosophical, or something as far removed from science as is possible. Something…

Book Reccomendations - Professional Development

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A list of book recommendations from our community with a focus on Professional Development Research Skills At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator by Kathy Barker (2004) At the Bench is the unique and hugely successful handbook for living and working in the laboratory, an essential aid to…

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Annika Brünje

Annika Brünje, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana Current Position: PhD student, Plant Physiology, University of Münster Education: Master of Science, Biology, University of Bochum Non-scientific Interests: Good books and…

Nuclear Positioning Requires a Tug-of-War Between Kinesin Motors

The microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton is a dynamic network of self-assembling highways that, together with the help of motor proteins, promotes intracellular transport and the formation of magnificent structures such as the preprophase band, mitotic spindle, and phragmoplast (Nebenführ and Dixit, 2018). …

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Minna Koskela

Minna Koskela, first author of Chloroplast acetyltransferase NSI is required for state transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana Current Position: PhD student, Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku Education: Master of Science, Biochemistry, University of Helsinki Non-scientific Interests: PC…

A pretty plant of summer produces a promising anti-diabetes compound

Discovery of the biosynthetic pathway of a plant metabolite lays the groundwork for its use as an anti-diabetes drug Roughly half of the western medicines used today were derived from naturally occurring plant metabolites. Plants produce over 200,000 of these specialized metabolites, but identifying…