Hung-Chi Liu, first author of "Cytosolic Phosphoglucose Isomerase Is Essential for Microsporogenesis and Embryogenesis in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Education: PhD from School of Biomedical, Biomolecular…

By Hui Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China  Wang and colleagues explore how two WUSCHEL-like transcription factors affect leaf blade outgrowth in Medicago truncatula and Nicotiana sylvestris  Background: Members of the plant-specific…

Palos et al. identify thousands of new long intergenic noncoding RNAs using public data.  By Kyle Palos and Andrew Nelson  Background: All plants have thousands of genes in their genomes that contribute to plant form and function. While the functional “end-state” of many of these genes are…

Alexis Brun, first author of "MCO1 and MCO3, two putative ascorbate oxidases with ferroxidase activity, new candidates for the regulation of apoplastic iron excess in Arabidopsis" Current Position : Searching for a Post-doctoral position Education : PhD in Plant functional and molecular biology…

Haibo Dai, first author of “Cucumber STACHYOSE SYNTHASE is regulated by its cis-antisense RNA asCsSTS to balance source-sink carbon partitioning” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at Yangzhou University, China Education: B.Sc. at Changshu Institute of Technology, China Non-scientific Interests:…

Muhammad Abdullah, first author of "HEAT RESPONSIVE PROTEIN regulates heat stress via fine-tuning ethylene/auxin signaling pathways in cotton"  Current position: PhD Scholar - Institute of Crop Science, Plant Precision Breeding Academy, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources,…

Redkar et al. demonstrate that the wilt-inducing fungus Fusarium oxysporum secretes a set of proteins that allow it to colonize the roots of a wide array of plant species. The Plant Cell (2022). By Amey Redkar1 and Antonio Di Pietro2. Illustration by Dr. Lindsay Erndwein 1Department of Botany,…

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