Summary: Huang et al. elucidate a link between ethylene signaling and heat stress responses. Plant Cell https://bit.ly/3pTjNBK By Jianyan Huang, Xiaobo Zhao, Marco Bürger, Yurong Wang, Joanne Chory Background: Temperature is an environmental factor that has one of the most dramatic effects on…

Yupei Wang, first author of Molecular basis for high ligand sensitivity and selectivity of strigolactone receptors in Striga Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University Education: B.S. in College of Life Science, Wuhan University Non-scientific Interests:…

Yujiao Gao, first author of The endosperm-specific transcription factor TaNAC019 regulates glutenin and starch accumulation and its elite allele improves wheat grain quality Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization…

Jakub Tesitel, first author of The bright side of parasitic plants: What are they good for? Current Position: Associate Professor in Botany, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Education: Masters degree in plant systematics and Ph.D. in botany (plant ecology) , University of South Bohemia, Czech…

Does a new job always come with a new location? Perhaps this is true for some plant proteins; half of the proteins are located in more than one subcellular compartment. Emerging evidence in plants shows that nuclear-encoded proteins undergo redox and posttranslational modifications or processing events…

Hou et al. report a DEAD-box helicase as a component of the RNA microprocessor complex and highlight its importance in embryogenesis. Plant Cell http://bit.ly/2LhT7LO By Xiu-Li Hou,a,b Xiu-Fen Song,a,b Chun-Ming Liua,b,c a Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese…

A HUGE thank you to the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editors who are rotating off today. We've very much enjoyed working with you for the past few years, best wishes for your futures! Nathaniel Butler (University of Wisconsin, United States) Anne-Sophie Fiorucci (Université Paris-Saclay) Charlotte…

More then four years ago, we started a weekly column to highlight a few plant science articles each week. The series lauched with the name What We're Reading, but at some point was rebranded to Plant Science Research Weekly. From early on, we've drawn on the interests and talents of the Plantae Fellows…