Francisco J. Romero-Campero, 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: Principal Investigator in the Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (University…

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,…

Hesham M.B. Sayed, first author of "Biosynthesis of polyprenylated xanthones in Hypericum perforatum roots involves 4-prenyltransferase" Current Position: Assistant lecturer (Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt) Education:   PhD from Technical University Braunschweig, Germany;…

Sunil Kenchanmane Raju, first author of "DNA methylation signatures of duplicate gene evolution in angiosperms"  Current Position: Postdoc, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Education:  Ph.D. University of Nebraska – Lincoln Non-scientific Interests: Playing badminton,…

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…

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…

Much of what is written about the impacts of climate change on food production is focused on the abiotic stresses that plants will experience, but biotic stresses will be equally impactful, as discussed in this fine review by Singh et al. The challenges in predicting climate impacts on plant disease…

It’s pretty obvious that plants are not simply balls of cells. Their shapes and patterns are determined in large part through processes that cause cells to grow and divide asymmetrically, through the establishment of cell polarity. When I set out to read this review I was a bit nervous, expecting to…