Zhibo Ma, first author of "Mycorrhizal symbiosis reprograms ion fluxes and fatty acid metabolism in wild jujube during salt stress" Current position: Doctoral candidate, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University Education: Silviculture, Northwest A&F University， A master's degree；Forestry，Gansu…

Nitrate is the major form of nitrogen used by plants in an aerobic crop cultivation scenario. Lamig et al. review recent additions to the already vast knowledge of nitrate signaling. A first line of regulation concerns nitrate uptake through post-transcriptional and post-translational regulation of nitrate…

During my research journey, I have come across a handful of genes that are hard to express. Sometimes, even with a strong promoter and high transcript level, the protein level is negligible. We generally considered these proteins might be degrading very fast. But maybe not. A recent article by Wu et…

Each plant species has a defined window of time during which flowers can be pollinated in order to trigger fruit or seed development. After this time, unpollinated flowers undergo a form of senescence culminating in programmed cell death (PCD). A detailed understanding of this cell death process is thus…

Vitamin D deficiency in humans is correlated with malfunction of the immune system and inflammation together with cancer, Parkinson disease, depression, neurocognitive decline, dementia, and severe COVID-19 infection. In humans, exposure of the skin to UV light promotes the production of Vitamin D from…

Review: Molecular regulators of nitrate response in plants Nitrate is the major form of nitrogen used by plants in an aerobic crop cultivation scenario. Lamig et al. review recent additions to the already vast knowledge of nitrate signaling. A first line of regulation concerns nitrate uptake through…

Dorothea Graus, co-first author of "The digestive systems of carnivorous plants" Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Dr. Kenji Fukushima, University of Würzburg, Germany Education: Ph.D. in Plant Biology, Department of Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University…

Aikaterini Koletti, first author of "Selenium-Binding Protein 1 (SBD1): A stress response regulator in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" Current Position: PhD candidate, Dr. Emmanouil Flemetakis lab, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens Education:…