Mehmet Kılıç, first author of "Gene expression and organization of thylakoid protein complexes in the PSII-less mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803" Current Position: PhD Student, Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Finland. Education: B.S. in Molecular Biology and Genetics,…

Naresh Loudya, first author of "Mutations in the chloroplast inner envelope protein TIC100 impair and repair chloroplast protein import and impact retrograde signalling" Current Position:  Post-doctoral Research Associate, Royal Holloway University of London. I am fortunate to be about to join as…

By Yang Gao and Reimo Zoschke, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany Gao and colleagues dissect how transcription and translation of tobacco chloroplast genes respond to cold exposure and reveal a critical role for the nonessential gene petL. Background: Plants…

Thiago Alexandre Moraes, first author of "The lhy cca1 elf3 mutant paces starch mobilization to dawn despite severely disrupted circadian clock function" Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Crop Science Centre, Cambridge, UK Education: PhD in Molecular Plant Physiology studying the role…

Cuiping Wan, first author of “A serine-rich effector from the stripe rust pathogen targets a Raf-like kinase to suppress host immunity” Current Position: PhD student at College of Plant Protection of Northwest A&F University, China Education: Bachelor degree (College of Plant Protection…

Yu Chen, co-first author of “MOR1/MAP215 acts synergistically with katanin to control cell division and anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China Education: Bachelor Degree from Hainan…

Xiayan Liu, co-first author of “MOR1/MAP215 acts synergistically with katanin to control cell division and anisotropic cell elongation in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Professor, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China Education: B.S. from Fudan University in…

Wu et al. uncover the unexpected role of the truncated NLR NRG1C in negatively regulating plant immunity by antagonizing its full-length NRG1 neighbors. Background: Plants utilize sophisticated innate immune systems to fight against pathogens. Their genomes encode abundant immune receptors to detect…