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Tengteng Gao: Plant Physiology First Author

Tengteng Gao, co-first author of “Fruit crops combating drought: physiological responses and regulatory pathways” Current Position: Post-doctor, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, China Education: 2012.09–2016.06 Qingdao Agricultural University (B.Sc.); 2016.09–2019.06…

Xiaomin Liu: Plant Physiology First Author

Xiaomin Liu, co-first author of “Fruit crops combating drought: physiological responses and regulatory pathways” Current Position: PhD, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, China Education: 2012.09–2016.06 Shanxi Normal University (B.Sc.); 2016.09–2019.06 Northwest A&F…

Xiaochang Yin: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiaochang Yin, co-first author of "Binding by the Polycomb complex component BMI1 and H2A monoubiquitination shape local and long-range interactions in the Arabidopsis genome" Current Position: Postdoc, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, China Education: Ph.D., Hainan University,…

Minqi Yang: The Plant Cell First Author

Minqi Yang, co-first author of "Binding by the Polycomb complex component BMI1 and H2A monoubiquitination shape local and long-range interactions in the Arabidopsis genome" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University Education: Bachelor of ­­­­Science,…

Xiaoyu Weng: Plant Physiology First Author

Xiaoyu Weng, first author of “Transcriptome and DNA methylome divergence of inflorescence development between two ecotypes in Panicum hallii” Current Position: Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin, USA Education: Ph.D., Huazhong Agricultural University, China Non-scientific…

Effectors breaking down the lignin fortress

Singh et al. reveal how the effector ArPEC25 renders chickpea susceptible to a necrotrophic pathogen by targeting the transcription factor CaβLIM1a and negatively modulating the accumulation of lignin.  Shreenivas Kumar Singh, Kamal Kumar, Praveen Kumar Verma Background: Adapted pathogens exploit…