Sun-Ju Rhee, first author of "Virus-induced gene silencing for in planta validation of gene function in cucurbits" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea. Education: Postdoctoral researcher. Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Dept.…

Jiawei Xiong, first author of  “The deubiquitinating enzymes UBP12 and UBP13 positively regulate recovery after carbon starvation by modulating BES1 stability in Arabidopsis thaliana” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Sichuan University Education: Bachelor’s degree, Sichuan Agricultural…

Ana González Moreno, first author of “3D (x-y-t) Raman imaging of tomato fruit cuticle: microchemistry during development” Current Position: Ph.D. Student in Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora" (IHSM-UMA-CSIC)  Education:Master…

Chandrasekar, Wanke, Wawra and co-workers discover how fungal cell surface polysaccharides assist in evading hostile plant immune responses. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac114 By Alan Wanke1 and Pia Saake2 Alga Zuccaro2 1 Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United…

Experience is the best teacher, so hand-on learning is invaluable for students of biology. If you have the opportunity to teach with a laboratory course and haven’t yet incorporated a module that incorporates CRISR/Cas9, you’re in luck! Here, Mayta et al. share the design of the laboratory course…

The AlphaFoldDB database recently made headlines by predicting the three-dimensional protein structure of millions of proteins based on their primary amino acid sequence. Most of these models remain to be tested, but it’s a place to start. Here, Dumortier et al. add an important complementary tool…

Synthetic genetic circuits offer a promising method to achieve beneficial changes in plant phenotypic traits. By combining different activator or repressor transcription factors (TFs) , the expression of target genes may be fine-tuned according to Boolean operations. Here, Brophy et al. describe a method…

Responses to environmental and internal signals require the recruitment of transcription factors (TFs). TFs recognize simple DNA sequences to activate specific genes that will accomplish the required functions. DOF (DNA-binding with one finger) is a large family of plant TFs that encloses the CYCLING…