Kyaw Aung, first author of Pathogenic bacteria target plant plasmodesmata to colonize and invade surrounding tissues Current Position: Assistant Professor Education: PhD in Plant Biology from Michigan State University, MS and BS in Horticulture from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Non-scientific…

Cindy M. Munoz, first author of Dimensionless Numbers to Study Cell Wall Deformation of Stiff Mutants of Phycomyces blakesleeanus Current Position: Faculty in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Design, and Computing, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado Education: PhD…

Wengui Lin, co-first author of Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts Current Position: PhD candidate Education: 2011 – 2015 Northeastern University, Bachelor degree; 2015 – Present The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PhD candidate Non-scientific…

Xiao Lin, co-first author of Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts Current Position: PhD candidate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Education: PhD in Biochemistry (2020), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Non-scientific Interests: Our…

At the beginning of 2018 Plant Physiology initiated a program to introduce several promising early-career scientists to the editorial board and engage their expertise in assessing and writing about research published in the journal. Over the past two years these scientists brought their passion for science…

Tessa Moses The Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (IQB3), The King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom. E-mail: Tessa.Moses@ed.ac.uk, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9366-4727 WRKY1 is a member of the WRKY transcription factor family…

Plant cell growth is often limited by the availability of two key nutrients, phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N). As in mammals and yeast, a kinase known as TOR (target of rapamycin) is a key nutrient-responsive regulator of primary metabolism and cell growth in plants (Gonzalez and Hall, 2017; Dobrenel…

Smit et al. uncover a feed-forward loop that controls vascular development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00562 By Margot E. Smit1, Siobhán M. Brady2, and J. Peter Etchells3 1 Stanford University 2 UC Davis 3 Durham University  Background: Vascular tissues…