Category: Research

Yan Zhang, co-first author of Cryo-EM structure of the plant actin filaments from Zea mays pollen Current Position: Associate professor Working Experience: 2014-Current Associate professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science 2017-2018   Visitor Associate professor, University…

Zhanhong Ren, co-first author of Cryo-EM structure of the plant actin filaments from Zea mays pollen Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Biological Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing…

Jing Fan, first author of CircRNAs are involved in the rice-Magnaporthe oryzae interaction Current Position: Associate Professor, Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, China Education: 2010, Ph.D. in Botany, Chongqing University, China; 2005, B.S. in Bioengineering, Chongqing…

Meng Xie, first author of A 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate 3-Phosphate Synthase Functions as a Transcriptional Repressor in Populus Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Education:…

An excellent way to explore the function of a gene is to knockout its expression and see what happens. The development of the targeted gene editing system CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has triggered scores of gene knockout studies. CRISPR is based on a defense system…

Gene regulation occurs at multiple levels including transcription. During transcription, transcriptional factors bind to specific target sequence which allows the recruitment of other proteins including RNA polymerase that enables transcription. Understanding such an intricate mechanism allows researchers…

Auxin plays a major role in plant development and can alter the developmental program following the stress response. In this paper, Yamauchi et al., have identified the auxin signaling cascade involved in the development of aerenchyma and regulators of this auxin signaling might also be involved in lateral…

Glucosinolates are secondary metabolites synthesized by plants as a defense compound against pathogen and herbivore. In this paper Salehin et al., have demonstrated regulation of aliphatic glucosinolate levels by auxin signaling that promotes drought tolerance in Arabidopsis. The Aux/IAA proteins are…