It has always been of interest to the plant community to understand the mechanisms behind the evolution of diverse floral carotenoid pigmentation within a genus. In this paper, Liang et al. investigated the mechanism behind monkeyflowers (Mimulus spp.) speciation driven by the flower color locus, YELLOW…

Climate change profoundly impacts plant communities, for example, by changing the geographic range of some species and locally extinguishing others. Yet these changes take time, maybe a few years, to be observed. This lag between climate and plant communities changes could result from the soil seed bank…

The vertebrate adaptive immune system is truly an evolutionary marvel. With its ability to mix-and-match segments of immunoglobulin genes, a nearly unlimited diversity of antigens can be recognized. Plants lack this ability, greatly limiting the number of antigens (and pathogens) any individual can recognize.…

Review: Salt-tolerant crops: Time to deliver Few topics are as inherently interesting from both fundamental and applied perspectives as salt tolerance in crop plants. From the basic science side, cells have several strategies that they use to keep Na+ levels low in their cytosol in spite of what can…

Daewon Kim, first author of "The Raf-like MAPKKK INTEGRIN-LINKED KINASE 5 regulates purinergic receptor-mediated innate immunity in Arabidopsis" Current position: Research Scientist in Dr. Gary Stacey’ Lab, Division of Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri-Columbia Education: Ph.D.…

Yanbin Yin, first author of "Two Interacting Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors Control Flowering Time in Rice" Current Position：Ph.D. candidate, Rice Research Institute, College of Agronomy, Shenyang Agricultural University Education： Sep. 2018. 09 ~ now, Ph.D. candidate in crop…

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…