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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.…

Linhan Sun: The Plant Cell First Author

Linhan Sun, first author of "Analyses of Cullin1 homologs reveal functional redundancy in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility and evolutionary relationships in eudicots" Name: Linhan Sun Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Education: B.S. in…

Ihsan Muhammad: Plant Physiology First Author

Ihsan Muhammad, first author of "Melatonin priming enhances maize seedling drought tolerance by regulating the antioxidant defense system" Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Guangxi University, Guangxi, China Education: Ph.D. in Physical Geography (Soil Science), College of Urban and…

Derui Liu: Plant Physiology First Author

Derui Liu, co-first author of "BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 internalization can occur independent of ligand binding" Current Position: Professor at College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, China Education: PhD at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai…