Recognizing Plant Physiology author Ying Chen
Plant Physiology: Author Profiles
Ying Chen, first author Distinct Cellular Strategies Determine Sensitivity to Mild Drought of Arabidopsis Natural Accessions
Current Position: PhD candidate at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant System Biology, Ghent, Belgium
Education: M.S. (2013 - 2016), Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy…
DRW1 interacts with Polycomb complexes but exerts divergent regulatory functions in rice
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhang et al. explore the mechanisms of epigenetic information transfer in plants.
The Plant Cell
By Pingxian Zhang and Xiaofeng Gu
Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Background: Both genetic and epigenetic information must be…
Key role of RNA structure in a sense-antisense RNA interaction and enhancement of translation
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellReis et al. explore how an interaction between PHO1.2 mRNA and its cis-natural antisense transcript enhances translation.
The Plant Cell
Rodrigo S. Reis1 and Yves Poirier1
1 Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Background: A large proportion…
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Mauricio Contreras
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Mauricio Contreras, first author of Host-interactor screens of Phytophthora infestans RXLR proteins reveal vesicle trafficking as a major effector-targeted process
Current Position: PhD Student at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK.
Education: BSc in Biological Sciences from the University…
Recognizing Plant Physiology author Dongjie Jia
Plant Physiology: Author Profiles
Dongjie Jia, first author of Genetic variation in the promoter of an R2R3−MYB transcription factor determines fruit malate content in apple (Malus domestica Borkh.)
Current Position: Lecturer, College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University
Education: 2014.09-2018.11, Ph.D., Pomology,…
Lipid remodeling during phosphate starvation
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellYang et al. show that nonspecific phospholipase C4-mediated sphingolipid remodeling regulates root growth in Arabidopsis in response to phosphate deficiency. The Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaa054.
By: Xuemin Wang, Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis/Donald Danforth…
Review: Perspectives on improving light distribution and light use efficiency in crop canopies (Plant Physiol)
Plant Science Research WeeklyLight comes largely from above, and plants have evolved strategies to efficiently capture this light even when competing with other potentially shading plants. However, at a field-level, such competition may (and does) prevent plants from collectively maximizing light use efficiency, hence yield. In…
Genome assembly and population genomic analysis provide insights into the evolution of modern sweet corn (Nature Comms)
Plant Science Research WeeklyIn maize (Zea mays), loss of function mutations in genes involved in starch biosynthesis characterize sweet corn varieties that have increased sugar content in the kernel. Specifically, lines carrying the shrunken2 (sh2) allele revolutionized the corn industry in Northern America in the last 50 years…
Enhancing grain-yield-related traits by CRISPR-Cas9 promoter editing of maize CLE genes (Nature Plants)
Plant Science Research WeeklyDuring domestication of maize, one of the favorable traits was meristem size. Understanding the genetic circuit of maize meristem development and engineering for crop productivity are important from an agricultural perspective. In this article, Lie et al. used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the promoter regions…