Xuedan Wu, co-first author of "ERECTA regulates seed size independently of its intracellular domain via MAPK-DA1-UBP15 signaling" Education: Ph.D., Hebei Normal University China; B.S., HuiHua College of Hebei Normal University, China Non-scientific Interests: Travel, Reading and photography Brief…

Qing Zhou, first author of “Heat shock-induced failure of meiosis I to meiosis II transition leads to 2n pollen formation in a woody plant" Current Position: PhD candidate, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, China Education: Shenyang Agricultural University…

Zahra Zangishei, co-first author of "Parasitic plant small RNA analyses unveil parasite-specific signatures of microRNA retention, loss, and gain" Current Position: PhD student, Institute of Biological Data Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Education: Msc of Agriculture Biotechnology,…

María Luz Annacondia López, co-first author of "Parasitic plant small RNA analyses unveil parasite-specific signatures of microRNA retention, loss, and gain" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) Education:…

Wang et al. find an RNA 3’-terminal phosphate cyclase-like protein that participates in processing the 18S ribosomal RNA in maize. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac052 by Tao Wang and Jun Yang The National Engineering Laboratory of Crop Resistance Breeding, School of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural…

Genevieve Hoopes, first author of "Keeping time in the dark: potato diel and circadian rhythmic gene expression reveals tissue-specific circadian clocks" Current Position: Scientist in the Plant Sciences Group at J.R. Simplot Company in Boise, Idaho, USA Education: PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology…

By Jathish Ponnu, PhD, Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor Prof. Christian Fankhauser is an eminent photobiologist passionate about phototropism and shade avoidance in plants. He works at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and has served as a Monitoring…

Jieming Jiang, first author of "A diRNA–protein scaffold module mediates SMC5/6 recruitment in plant DNA repair" Current Position: Associate Research Fellow Education: South China Normal University, Doctor Non-scientific Interests: Keep pets, Travel Brief bio: I joined the research team…