Bolaji Babajide Salam, first author of Sucrose promotes stem branching through cytokinin Current position: Postdoc in Dr. Dani Eshel's lab, Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Institute (ARO), The Volcani Center, Israel Education: PhD jointly at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…

Anna Sergeeva, first author of Glycerolipid profile differences between perennial and annual stem zones in the perennial model plant Arabis alpina Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Dr. Petra Bauer, Institute of Botany, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Education:…

Om Prakash Narayan, first author of Sulfur transfer from the endophytic fungus Serendipita indica improves maize growth and requires the sulfate transporter SiSulT Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Tufts University, Boston, USA Education: Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,…

Limeng Zhou, co-first author of The Gibberellin Signaling Negative Regulator RGA-LIKE3 Promotes Seed Storage Protein Accumulation Current Position: Ph.D. student (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Education: I got my B.S. from Wenzhou University in 2015 and got a master’s degree from South…

Yilong Hu, co-first author of The Gibberellin Signaling Negative Regulator RGA-LIKE3 Promotes Seed Storage Protein Accumulation Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow (South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Education: I got my B.S. from Nanchang University in 2013 and Ph.D. from…

Transcription factors (TFs) are very important actors through which evolution can operate. In every organism and system studied, starting with the seminal work of Jacob and Monod, they’ve been shown to be potent regulatory proteins. Here, Romani and Moreno review the contributions of plant transcription…

Succulence provides plants with the ability to store water and is therefore commonly associated with plants from arid environments such as the familiar Aloe and Agave. Here, Heyduk reviews the genetic control of leaf succulence. Succulence usually involves large, highly vacuolated cells, but not surprisingly,…

Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) domain containing proteins are nuclear encoded with functions in the chloroplast, but regulation of PPR gene expression in the nucleus before import to the chloroplast has not been well studied. Bailey et al. identified and characterized the ubiquitin ligase NOT4A and its…