Min Yuan, co-first author of “A common whole-genome paleotetraploidization in Cucurbitales” Current Position: Associate professor, School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, China Education: Ph.D. at Hebei Normal University in China Non-scientific…

Jiaqi Wang, first author of “A common whole-genome paleotetraploidization in Cucurbitales” Current Position: Master degree candidate, School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology (NCST), Tangshan, Hebei, China Education: B.S. in Bioinformatics, NCST Non-scientific…

Hu et al. demonstrate how the interactions of gibberellin and auxin signaling components regulate cambial activity during wood formation in poplar. By Jian Hu, Changzheng Xu, and Keming Luo  Background: In trees, the vascular cambium is the population of stem cells that laterally divide and as…

Chia-Nan Tao, first author of "A single amino acid transporter controls the uptake of priming-inducing beta-amino acids and the associated trade-off between induced resistance and plant growth" Current Position: PhD student at School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield Education: Master…

Bo Yang, first author of "The sugar transporter ZmSUGCAR1 of the Nitrate Transporter 1/Peptide Transporter family is critical for maize grain filling" Current Position: Scientist, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (Plant & Food Research) Education: PhD in plant biology,…

Amy Ny Aina Aritsara, first author of "Divergent leaf and fine root “pressure-volume relationships” across habitats with varying water availability" Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Guangxi University, China Education: Ph.D. in Ecology Non-Scientific Interests: Music, walking, riding,…

Hongqing Guo, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University Wang and colleagues explore the transcriptome, proteome, and phosphoproteome in wild-type and fer mutant plants to dissect known and new functions of the receptor kinase FER. Background: FERONIA (FER) is a…

Nicolas Reynoud, first author of "The cutin polymer matrix undergoes a fine architectural tuning from early tomato fruit development to ripening" Current Position: PhD student in Plant biochemistry,  French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Nantes, France. Education: Master in plant…