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Plant Science Research Weekly: April 1, 2022

Chloroplast protein import determines plant proteostasis and retrograde signaling The neurological condition Huntington’s disease is caused by mutated versions of the Huntingtin gene that encode expanded stretches of polyglutamine repeats, resulting in protein aggregation. However, despite the widespread…

Takashi Akagi: The Plant Cell First Author

Takashi Akagi, co-first author of "Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning" Current Position: Research Professor, Grad Sch Environ Life Sci, Okayama University, Japan Education: B.S., M.S. and PhD in agricultural biology, Kyoto…

Eriko Kuwada: The Plant Cell First Author

Eriko Kuwada, co-first author of "Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning" Current Position: Master candidate, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Japan Education: B.S. in agricultural biology,…

Kanae Masuda: The Plant Cell First Author

Kanae Masuda, co-first author of "Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Japan. Education: MSc and BSc in Agricultural…

Chuanmei Zhu: Plant Physiology First Author

Chuanmei Zhu, first author of "Pleiotropic and Non-redundant Effects of an Auxin Importer in Setaria and Maize" Current Position: Plant Reproductive Biology Scientist at Bayer Crop Science Education: PhD at Washington University in St. Louis; BS in Tsinghua University, China Non-scientific Interests:…

Honglong Zhao: Plant Physiology First Author

Honglong Zhao, first author of "Two Major Metabolic Factors for an Efficient NADP-Malate Enzyme Type C4 Photosynthesis" Current Position: Postdoc in CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, China Education: PhD in CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, MS in CAS-MPI…

Yehyun Yim: Plant Physiology First Author

Yehyun Yim, co-first author of "CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1 promotes seed germination by destabilizing RGA-LIKE2 in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Ph.D. Student in Crop Science and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, South Korea  Education: Bachelor of Science in Crop Science and Biotechnology,…