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Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Andries Temme

Andries Temme, first author of Key traits and genes associate with salinity tolerance independent from vigor in cultivated sunflower Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, USA Education: BSc and MSc from Utrecht University, NL; PhD from…

Recognizing Plant Direct authors: James Patrick Santiago

James Patrick Santiago, first author of Phaseolus vulgaris SUT1.1 is a high affinity sucrose-proton co-transporter Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Plant Resilience Institute and Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University (USA) Education: B.S. Agriculture – University…

Back to where it came from: chloroplast expression of both Rubisco subunits helps functional enzyme analysis

Rubisco catalyzes the key carboxylation step in photosynthetic CO2 fixation and is probably the most abundant protein on Earth. The enzyme is famous for inefficient catalysis and the habit of binding oxygen instead of CO2 in one out of every four binding events, leading to photorespiration reactions…

Trapped In the Rhizosheath: Root-Bacterial Interactions Modulate Ethylene Signaling

Author: Sjon Hartman 1,2 ORCID: 0000-0002-6709-6436 1 Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Corresponding author contact: j.g.w.hartman@uu.nl Even moderate droughts can greatly limit plant performance…

Rhythms in the dark: how endosperm responds to daylight cycles

Li et al. discover a diurnal pattern in sucrose content in developing maize endosperm that relies on the action of an E3 ubiquitin ligase on the master regulator transcription factor Opaque2. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00352 By Chaobin Li, Zeyang Ma, Rentao Song, China Agricultural…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Yang Yang

Yang Yang, co-first author of The Tip-localized Phosphatidylserine Established by Arabidopsis ALA3 is Crucial for Rab GTPase-mediated Vesicle Trafficking and Pollen Tube Growth Current Position: Ph.D. candidate. Education: MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Yuelong Zhou

Yuelong Zhou, co-first author of The Tip-localized Phosphatidylserine Established by Arabidopsis ALA3 is Crucial for Rab GTPase-mediated Vesicle Trafficking and Pollen Tube Growth Current Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of…

Recognizing Plant Direct authors: Carla S. Santos

Carla S. Santos, first author of A combined physiological and biophysical approach to understand the ligand-dependent efficiency of 3-hydroxy-4-pyridinone Fe-chelates Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina – Laboratório…

Review: Extending Plant Defense Theory to Seeds (Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.) ($)

Plants have developed multiple mechanisms to deal with the natural enemies they encounter through their life. In consequence, the Plant Defense Theory has arisen to assess how plants allocate resources to this purpose. However, much of the efforts in this matter has revolved around the defense that occurs…