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Jingjing Ma: Plant Physiology First Author

Jingjing Ma, first author of "MADS-box transcription factors MADS11 and DAL1 interact to mediate the vegetative-to-reproductive transition in pine" Current Position：PhD student in the College of Biological Sciences and Technology at Beijing Forestry University, China Education：PhD (2021) in…

Elena Andrea Pelech: Plant Direct First Author

Elena Andrea Pelech, first author of "Photosynthesis, yield, energy balance, and water-use of intercropped maize and soybean" Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher Education: PhD. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; BSc University of Essex, UK Non-scientific Interests: Mythology,…

Yuan Huang: The Plant Cell First Author

Yuan Huang, first author of the research article “Species-specific gene partial duplication in Arabidopsis thaliana evolved novel phenotypic effects on morphological traits under strong positive selection” Current Position: Professor at Yunnan Normal University, China Education: Ph.D, Kunming…

Fishing out virus replication complexes

Incarbone et al. use an epitope-tagged protein that binds double-stranded RNAs to fish out viral replication complexes and identify the associated proteins. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab214 Marco Incarbone (GMI, Vienna) and Christophe Ritzenthaler (IBMP, Strasbourg) Background:…

Jin-Lei Liu: Plant Physiology First Author

Jin-Lei Liu, first author of “A CASE toolkit for easy and efficient multiplex transgene-free gene editing” Current position: PhD Student, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Education: BS in Agronomy, College of Agronomy, Shandong…

Winter is coming: It’s time to “CRY”

Li et al. reveal how the cryptochrome CRY2 regulates freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab215  By Youping Li Background: Cold acclimation via exposure to non-lethal low temperatures enhances frost resistance in plants. This process requires light; however, we know…

Jonathan Huc: The Plant Cell First Author

Jonathan Huc, first author of "Bypassing reproductive barriers in hybrid seeds using chemically induced epimutagenesis" Current Position: PhD student in Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie (Potsdam, Germany) Education: High School Diploma in Biotechnologies (ESTBA, Paris, 2017),…