Federico López Hernández, first author of Calcium binding by arabinogalactan polysaccharides is important for normal plant development Current Position: Research Scientist at Tropic Biosciences Education: B.Sc. in Biotechnology Engineering from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education,…

Bo Yu, co-first author of MYC2-Activated TRICHOME BIREFRINGENCE-LIKE 37 Acetylates Cell Walls and Enhances Herbivore Resistance Current Position: Research Associate in Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education:…

Aiqing Sun, co-first author of MYC2-Activated TRICHOME BIREFRINGENCE-LIKE 37 Acetylates Cell Walls and Enhances Herbivore Resistance Current Position: Postdoc in Shanghai Jiaotong University Education: PhD, 2014-2019, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, CAS; Bachelor, 2010-2014, Nanjing Agricultural…

The green alga Chlorella ohadii was recently isolated from the harsh environment of desert biological sand crusts, where it is able to grow and thrive in extreme conditions. Previously, studies showed that it is unusually resistant to photodamage, even at twice the irradiance of maximal sunlight thanks…

Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are a class of apoplastic carbohydrate-binding proteins with a carbohydrate portion that can also bind to calcium (Ca2+) ions in a pH-dependent manner. Here, Lopez-Hernandez and colleagues have probed the role of AGPs and the functional significance of their Ca2+-binding…

Chlamydomonas, like many green algae, divides by so-called “multiple fission” where the mother cell can grow many-fold in size before undergoing a series of rapid divisions. The dramatic separation of cell growth from cell division makes Chlamydomonas an attractive system to study genetic control…

The contractile actomyosin ring (CAR) would be familiar to most students of cell biology. It is often assigned a major role in the formation of the cleavage furrow that bisects the cell during cytokinesis.  The contractile force of the ring is generated by type-II myosin motor proteins pulling on actin…

Protein degradation is mediated by several systems: the ubiquitin-proteasome system, multi-vesicle body-mediated vacuolar sorting (MVB), and the autophagy-vacuole pathway. However, the communication between these different protein degradation systems are less characterized. Here, Xia et al. report a…