Category: Research

Laurent Mombaerts, co-first author of Differential effects of day-night cues and the circadian clock on the barley transcriptome Current Position: 2019 – now Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Systems Control group, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg Education: 2019…

Lukas Müller, co-first author of Differential effects of day-night cues and the circadian clock on the barley transcriptome Current Position: Patent engineer at a patent law firm in Munich, Germany Education: 2005 – 2008: Bachelor of Science in agricultural sciences at the Technische Universität…

Yong Yang, first author of RNAi-based screen reveals concerted functions of MEKK2 and CRCK3 in plant cell death regulation Current Position: Research Assistant in the National Navel Orange Engineering Research Center, Gannan Normal University, Jiangxi, China Research Experience: Joint-Ph.D. in the…

Xinbin Dai, co-first author of MtSSPdb: the Medicago truncatula Small Secreted Peptide Database Current Position: Sr. Computational Biologist, Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA Education: Post-doc in plant biology division at Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, United States; PhD in plant…

Clarissa Boschiero, co-first author of MtSSPdb: the Medicago truncatula Small Secreted Peptide Database Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA Education: Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Animal Science at São Paulo State University, Brazil Non-scientific Interests:…

Every manufacture relies on a quality control process to ensure that the released product is without defects. Similarly, each transcript leaving the eukaryotic nucleus is subjected to mRNA surveillance, which helps to ensure that only flawless mRNAs are directed to translation. For example, transcripts…

Grunewald et al. identify a flavonoid transporter required for the deposition of flavonol-b-1,2-linked diglycosides to the outer pollen wall in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00801 By Stephan Grunewald and Thomas Vogt, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry,…

If the planet does not turn to ash before 2050, farmers will need to produce twice as much on roughly the same available arable land to feed the ever-growing world population. But since the Green Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, progress in crop yield has been incremental. And for good reason: most…