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Plant Physiology Webinar: September 2022 Focus Issue on Evolution of Plant Structure and Function

Plant Physiology Webinar: Celebrating the September 2022 Focus Issue on Evolution of Plant Structure and Function Recorded Friday, September 16, 2022   About this Webinar Plant morphology, physiology, and development are shaped by a combination of internal, external, and historical factors…

Bibek Subedi: Plant Physiology First Author

Bibek Subedi, co-first author of "The START domain mediates Arabidopsis GLABRA2 dimerization and turnover independently of homeodomain DNA binding"  Current Position: PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant in Division of Biology at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 66506…

Xiaojie Tian: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiaojie Tian, co-first author of “WRKY53 negatively regulates rice cold tolerance at the booting stage by fine-tuning anther gibberellin levels” Current Position: Associate Research Fellow, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China Education:…

Jiaqi Tang: The Plant Cell First Author

Jiaqi Tang, co-first author of “WRKY53 negatively regulates rice cold tolerance at the booting stage by fine-tuning anther gibberellin levels” Current Position: Research associate, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China Education: Ph.D.,…

Pasquale Luca Curci: Plant Physiology First Author

Pasquale Luca Curci, first author of "Identification of new growth regulators using cross-species network analysis in plants"  Current Position: Researcher at Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR), National Research Council (CNR), Italy Education: Postdoc at VIB Center for Plant Systems…

Teff breeding potentials from data-driven, participatory characterization of farmer varieties (eLIFE)

There is a clear need to synergize advances from cutting-edge genomic approaches with the needs and knowledge of growers, particularly small-holder growers who have access to much of a crop’s genetic diversity. Here, Woldeyohannes, Iohannes et al. took a transdisciplinary approach to explore the breeding…

Removing systemic barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion: Report of a 2019 workshop “Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences” (Plant Direct)

In January 2019, a workshop was convened to explore strategies to address inclusivity in the plant sciences, and the recommendations emerging from this workshop are presented in a new report by Henkhaus et al. The authors recognize that this is an expansive challenge and requires action on many fronts,…

ABP1 (it’s back!) binds auxin and signals fast auxin responses (Nature)

One of the longstanding questions in plant biology concernes how auxin coordinates both gene expression in the nucleus and the so-called fast responses at the cell periphery including proton extrusion and cytoskeletal rearrangements. At this point the nuclear branch is well understood, but the cell periphery…

Two fern genome papers (Nature Plants)

The September 2022 issue of Nature Plants includes two papers describing the analysis of homosporous fern genomes. Ferns are interesting for many reasons including the diversity of the clade, their typically very large genomes, their often free-living gametophytes, and in many cases, homospory (a single…