Guoren He, first author of “WUSCHEL-Related Homeobox Genes Cooperate with Cytokinin Signalling to Promote Bulbil Formation in Lilium lancifolium” Current Position: Lecturer, Shanghai Normal University, China Education: PhD in Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural…

Amey Redkar, first author of  "Conserved Secreted Effectors Contribute to Endophytic Growth and Multi-Host Plant Compatibility in a Vascular Wilt Fungus"  Current Position:   Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow, Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India Education:  Ph.D.…

By José Manuel Ugalde, PhD, Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor, and Elisa Dell’Aglio, PhD Prof. Pierdomenico Perata is an Italian plant physologist and professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. He completed his PhD in agricultural biology at the University of Pisa, Italy, and…

Hans van Veen, co-first author of "Ethylene augments root hypoxia tolerance via growth cessation and reactive oxygen species amelioration" Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Utrecht University Education: MSc Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (University of Groningen); PhD Plant Sciences…

Chenyang Wang, co-first author of “T-LOC: a comprehensive tool to localize and characterize the T-DNA integration sites” Current position: Undergraduate in the College of Biological Science, China Agriculture University (CBS, CAU) Intern at Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy…

Zeeshan Z. Banday, first author of "Friend or Foe: Hybrid proline-rich proteins determine how plants respond to beneficial and pathogenic microbes" Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, USA Education: Ph.D. Life…

In rice, the circadian clock component gene Circadian Clock Associated 1 (OsCCA1) regulates flowering and nitrogen use efficiency. CCA1 is a MYB family transcription factor that follows a rhythmic expression pattern. Wei et al. confirmed the role of CCA1as a key hub in coordinating plant growth and abiotic…

Secondary dormancy (SD) of seeds is a natural strategy that allows survival of the plant in environments with unfavourable climatic conditions. However, in Arabidopsis, a variance of dormancy depth in between identical seeds can be explained by population-based threshold models. This single-seed variability…