Longkumer et al. explore how plant growth is regulated during drought. Paul E. Verslues and Toshisangba Longkumer, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN Background: Plants can deliberately slow down their growth in response to even a small decrease in water…

Yugo Kitazawa, first author of "A phytoplasma effector acts as a ubiquitin-like mediator between floral MADS-box proteins and proteasome shuttle proteins" Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of…

Wei-wei Zhang, co-first author of “FvWRKY48 binds to the pectate lyase FvPLA promoter to control fruit softening in Fragaria vesca” Current position: Postdoctor, College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture Education: PhD (China Agricultural University) Non-scientific…

Shenglin Jing, first author of "Transcription factor StABI5-like 1 binding to the FLOWERING LOCUS T homologs promotes early maturity in potato" Current Position：Ph.D student in Huazhong Agricutural University Education： Undergraduate，Biotechnology，2012-2016，Southwest University of…

Kosuke Kuwabara, first author of "orf137 triggers cytoplasmic male sterility in tomato" Current Position: PhD student in the laboratory of Olericulture and Floriculture at the University of Tsukuba, Japan Education: M.Sc. in Agricultural science, and B.Sc. in Bioresource science at the University…

Huang, Chen and colleagues take advantage of a partial duplicated gene to compare the functions of the partial duplicate and its parental copy.  By Yuan Huang, Jiahui Chen, Shengqian Xia and Manyuan Long, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA  Background:…

Weiwei Gao, first author of "miR2105 and the kinase OsSAPK10 co-regulate OsbZIP86 to mediate drought-induced ABA biosynthesis in rice" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou, China) Education: M.S. at South China Agricultural University Non-scientific…

Guohui Yu, first author of "The NAC factor LpNAL delays leaf senescence by repressing two chlorophyll catabolic genes in perennial ryegrass" Current Position: Postdocs in Nanjing Agricultural University Education: Ph.D, College of Agro-grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, China;…