Park H.J., Gamez-Arjona F., et al. show how plants reset the time of flowering under salinity stress. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac289 Background: For plants, extremes in the cardinal conditions of light, temperature, nutrients and water availability are major drivers of natural selection.…

Yang Liu, co-first author of "Expanding the application of anti-CRISPR proteins in plants for tunable genome editing" Current Position: Oak Ridge National Lab, Post-Doctoral Associate Education:  Iowa State University, Ph.D. Beijing Forestry University, Master Southwest University, Bachelor Non-scientific…

Guoliang Yuan, co-first author of "Expanding the application of anti-CRISPR proteins in plants for tunable genome editing"  Current Position: Postdoc, Biological Conversion Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Education: PhD, Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium; MSc,…

Tan et al. identify a type of ABA-activated Ca2+ channels for ABA-specific cytosolic Ca2+ signaling and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. Yan-Qiu Tan, Yang Yang, Meijun Zhu, and Yong-Fei Wang National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences,…

Lorenzo et al. develop a system that uses gene editing to target multiple members of redundant gene families. Christian Damian Lorenzo(1,2), Kevin Debray(1,2) and Dirk Inzé(1,2) 1 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium 2 Center for Plant…

Shintaro Ichikawa, first author of "Live-cell imaging of the chloroplast outer envelope membrane using fluorescent dyes" Current Position:  Ph.D student, Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity, Utsunomiya University, Japan Education:  Bachelor of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University,…

Qiran Sun, first author of "Kinase MxMPK4-1 and calmodulin binding protein MxIQM3 enhance apple root acidification during Fe deficiency" Education: Shandong agriculture university (B.S); China Agricultural University (M.D; Ph.D) Non-scientific Interests: table tennis, swimming, piano Brief…

Yunqing Yu, first author of "Grain shattering by cell death and fracture in Eragrostis tef"  Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Education: Ph. D., the Pennsylvania State University, USA Non-scientific Interests: walking in nature, reading Brief…