The Plant Cell has published a Focus Issue on the Biology of Plant Genomes. This Focus Issue includes reviews and research articles that highlight some of the most important recent advances in plant genomics and foreshadow future discoveries. Although Arabidopsis is represented in this article collection…

Focus Issue: Focus on the Biology of Plant Genomes The Plant Cell has published a Focus Issue on the Biology of Plant Genomes. This Focus Issue includes reviews and research articles that highlight some of the most important recent advances in plant genomics and foreshadow future discoveries. Although…

Minjie Qian, first author of "Downsizing in plants - UV light induces pronounced morphological changes in the absence of stress" Current Position:  Lecturer, Hainan University, China Education: PhD in Pomology at Zhejiang University, China; joint training PhD in biochemistry at Örebro University,…

Laura Gonçalves Costa Martins, co-first author of "A plant-specific syntaxin-6 protein contributes to the intracytoplasmic route for the begomovirus CabLCV" Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biotechnological Institute Applied to Agriculture/ Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa,…

Bianca Castro Gouveia-Mageste, co-first author of "A plant-specific syntaxin-6 protein contributes to the intracytoplasmic route for the begomovirus CabLCV" Current position: Assistant Researcher in the Universidade Federal de Viçosa Education: Ph.D. and M.S. in Genetics and Breeding, B.S. in…

Wang et al. identify autumn senescence-associated genes and transcription factors in Populus and demonstrate a regulatory role for alternative splicing. The Plant Cell. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab046 By Hou-Ling Wang, Yi Zhang, Hongwei Guo and Zhonghai Li, Beijing Forestry University…

Lise Noack first author of "A nanodomain-anchored scaffolding complex is required for the function and localization of phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase alpha in plants" Current Position: Postdoc in Prof. Staffan Persson’s lab at department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Education:…

Yuanpeng Xu first author of "Phytophthora sojae apoplastic effector AEP1 mediates sugar uptake by mutarotation of extracellular aldose and is recognized as a MAMP" Current Position: PhD candidate. Wang Yuanchao’s group in Nanjing Agricultural University. Education: 2011-2015, Nanjing Agricultural…