Sam Amsbury Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield, UK ORCiD: 0000-0002-2767-9768 [email protected] The physical and chemical barrier provided by the cell wall is one of the first lines of defence for plants against pathogen attack. Plant cell walls provide physical protection…

Sami Kazaz, first author of Differential Activation of Partially Redundant Δ9 Stearoyl-ACP Desaturase Genes is Critical for Omega-9 Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis During Seed Development in Arabidopsis Current position: PhD student, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, Versailles, France Education:…

Marie-Christine Carpentier, first author of Monitoring of XRN4 targets reveals the importance of co-translational decay during Arabidopsis development Current Position: Bioinformatician at Plant Genome and Development Laboratory, University of Perpignan, France Education: Master’s degree in computational…

Wenfang Lin, first author of Dual-localized WHIRLY1 affects salicylic acid biosynthesis via coordination of ISOCHORISMATE SYNTHASE1, PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE1 and S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE-DEPENDENT METHYLTRANSFERASE1 Current Position: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, College of Life Science,…

Sara Izquierdo Zandalinas, first author of Vascular bundles mediate systemic reactive oxygen signaling during light stress in Arabidopsis Current Position: Senior Research Assistant at the Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, USA Education: PhD in Sciences at the University Jaume I…

Ananya Mukherjee University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806 [email protected] Photosynthetic organisms often face fluctuations in light quality and quantity. Green plants and algae have built-in mechanisms that allow them to adapt to such changes. One…

Jose Pedro Fonseca, first author of Iron-sulfur cluster protein NITROGEN FIXATION S-LIKE 1 and its interactor FRATAXIN function in plant immunity Current Position:  Postdoctoral Fellow Education: BSc. Genetics (Honors.) - The University of Manchester 2002; Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology…

Bryophytes and vascular plants share a land plant as a common ancestor, but they have evolved independently for more than 400 million years. Recent genomic studies of model bryophytes, particularly mosses and liverworts, have provided insights into this ancient common ancestor. Here, Frangedakis et al.…