Category: Research

Woe-Yeon Kim, co-first author of The GIGANTEA-ENHANCED EM LEVEL complex enhances drought tolerance via regulation of abscisic acid synthesis Current Position: Associate professor, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea Education: B.S., M.S., & Ph.D. in Department of Biochemistry,…

Dongwon Baek, co-first author of The GIGANTEA-ENHANCED EM LEVEL complex enhances drought tolerance via regulation of abscisic acid synthesis Current Position: Research professor in Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea Education: B.S. in Biotechnology, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea; M.S.…

Pulkit Kanodia, first author of Control of Translation during the Unfolded Protein Response in Maize seedlings: Life without PERKs Current Position: PhD candidate, Miller Lab, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University Education: Bachelor in Engineering with a major in…

Gao et al. demonstrate that CK1 regulates plant cytorhabdovirus infections in both plants and insects. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00369   By Qiang Gao and Xian-Bing Wang, China Agricultural University  Background: Phosphorylation is a widespread post-translational modification…

For those of you about to start teaching again, here’s a great article to share with your plant science students, showcasing the ways that plant biologists are contributing to the international efforts to develop diagnostic reagents, vaccines, and antiviral drugs to combat the global COVID-19 pandemic.…

Biological processes are ruled by physical as well as chemical forces and properties, but the former are much less well understood and studied. Here, Michels et al. describe a collection of fluorescent probes that provide a quantitative visual readout of microviscocity, reflecting the physical properties…

Transgene introduction has been a major tool in modern plant science, but the ability of plants to distinguish ‘self’ from ‘non-self’ can lead to transgene silencing. This mechanism is mediated by the recruitment of RDR6 (an RNA-Dependent RNA polymerases) leading to the production of several…

Endoreplication is a process in which DNA doubles without cell division. Trichomes (epidermal hairs) serve as a good system in which to study endoreplication. Cyclin (CYC) and cyclin dependent kinases (CDK) promote cell division and inhibit endoreplication. In plant trichomes, two CDK/CYC complexes,…