Liguo Jia, first author of "Potato tuber degradation is regulated by carbohydrate metabolism: Results of transcriptomic analysis" Current Position: Associate professor at College of Agronomy, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Huhhot, China. Education: PhD (Plant Biology) in HongKong Baptist…

Franziska Fichtner, first author of "Plasticity of bud outgrowth varies at cauline and rosette nodes in Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence in Nature and Agriculture and the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St…

Li et al. discover that HY5 and TZP, two factors helping plants respond to far-red light, mutually upregulate each other by distinct mechanisms in transmitting the far-red light signal. The Plant Cell (2021)  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab254 By Cong Li, Lijuan Qi and Jigang Li Background:…

Guo-Ling “Gillian” Nan, co-first author of "A cascade of bHLH-regulated pathways program maize anther development" Current Position: Life Science Research Professional, Stanford University, USA Education: PhD in Horticulture at University of Hawaii at Manoa, MSc in Botany at National Taiwan…

Chong Teng, co-first author of "A cascade of bHLH-regulated pathways program maize anther development" Current Position: Research Scientist, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA Education: Undergraduate degree in Biology at Chinese Agriculture University (CAU) and PhD in Genetics from Dr.…

Zhou and colleagues dissect the transcriptional response of maize seedlings to cold and heat stress and explore to what extent gene expression can be predicted from cis-regulatory motifs in promoters by employing machine learning approaches By Peng Zhou, University of Minnesota Background: Plants…

Monika Chodasiewicz, first author of "2',3'-cAMP treatment mimics stress molecular response in Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: Assistant Professor at Center for Desert Agriculture, KAUST Saudi Arabia Education: PhD in Plant Science at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology,…

This webinar was held, January 25, 2022 About This Webinar In January 2022, The Plant Cell presents a Focus Issue on Cell Biology. In this Focus Issue, we go back to the “roots” of the journal, and the basis for its name, turning our attention to the many fascinating facets of plant cell biology.…