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Jingru Li: Plant Physiology First Author

Jingru Li, first author of "BASIC PENTACYSTEINE2 fine-tunes corm dormancy release in Gladiolus" Education: Ph.D. student in the Department of Ornamental Horticulture at China Agricultural University (since September 2022). Non-scientific Interests: Gourmet and traveling Brief bio: My current…

Getting rid of noise in sequencing data

Klasfeld, Roulé, and Wagner develop a user-friendly tool to get rid of artifacts in chromatin immunoprecipitation data. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac282  Doris Wagner, Samantha Klasfeld and Thomas Roulé Background Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) and other…

Antonella Ferela: Plant Physiology First Author

Antonella Ferela, first author of "Interplay among ZF-HD and GRF transcription factors during Arabidopsis leaf development" Current Position: Data Analyst, Iowa State University, United States. Education: PhD in Biological Science and BS in Biotechnology, National University of Rosario, Argentina. Non-scientific…

Hila Behar: Plant Direct First Author

Hila Behar, first author of "Populus endo-glucanase 16 localizes to the cell walls of developing tissues" Current Position: Co-founder at BryoSphere Biotechnologies Education: B.Sc. Biology, Tel Aviv University (2011-2014); Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia…

Nam V. Hoang: The Plant Cell First Author

Nam V. Hoang, first author of "The Gynandropsis gynandra genome provides insights into whole-genome duplications and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Cleomaceae" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University, The Netherlands Education: PhD in Plant Genomics at The University…

Co-transcriptional processing of microRNA precursors

Stepien et al. explore how an auxiliary U1 snRNP protein interacts with RNA polymerase II to regulate co-transcriptional processing of microRNAs. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac278 Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded, usually 21-nt-long, RNAs that regulate basic developmental processes…

Stefanie Böhmer: Plant Direct First Author

Stefanie Böhmer, first author of "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants deficient for Old Yellow Enzyme 3 exhibit increased photooxidative stress" Current Position: Post-doc at Photobiotechnology group, Ruhr University Bochum Education: B.Sc. Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2011 – 2014) M.Sc.…