
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Wei Xu
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesWei Xu, first author of Genomic analysis reveals rich genetic variation and potential targets of selection during domestication of castor bean from perennial woody tree to annual semi-woody crop
Current Position: Associate Professor of plant molecular biology at Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese…

NPR1 has everything under control
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchAmna Mhamdi
Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, and VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Address correspondence to amna.mhamdi@psb.ugent.be
NONEXPRESSER OF PR GENES 1 (NPR1) controls plant immunity and is key to salicylic acid (SA)-dependent…

Attractive flower smell turned into defense barrier
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBoachon et al. explore metabolic processes associated with floral defense.
Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00320
By Benoît Boachon, University of Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, CNRS, BVpam FRE 3727, Saint-Etienne, France.
Danièle Werck-Reichhart, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology of…

Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Andre O. Hudson
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesAndre O. Hudson, co-first author of The Arabidopsis thaliana gene annotated by the locus tag At3g08860 encodes alanine aminotransferase
Current Position: Professor/Head-Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences
Education: BS, Biology-Virginia Union University, PhD-Plant Biology/Pathology-Rutgers…

Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Shu-Yi Yang
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesShu-Yi Yang, first author of uORF and Phosphate-Regulated Expression of Rice OsNLA1 Controls Phosphate Transport and Reproduction
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University
Education: PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Non-scientific…

Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: André Vidal Meireles
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesAndré Vidal Meireles, first author of Ascorbate deficiency does not limit non-photochemical quenching in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Current Position: Post-doctoral research associate position under Dr. Szilvia Z. Tóth at the Institute of Plant Biology of the Biological Research Centre Szeged (Hungary)
Education:…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Eleonore Holzwart
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesEleonore Holzwart, first author of A mutant allele uncouples the brassinosteroid-dependent and independent functions of BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE 1
Current Position: Post-Doc, Plant Development, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
Education: PhD (2018) in Plant Molecular Biology…

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Chengsong Zhao
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesChengsong Zhao, co-first author of An improved recombineering toolset for plants
Current Position: Research Scholar in the Alonso-Stepanova laboratory, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Education: Ph.D. in Horticulture…

Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Javier Brumos
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesJavier Brumos, co-first author of An improved recombineering toolset for plants
Current Position: Research Scholar in the Alonso-Stepanova laboratory, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Education: Ph.D. in Biotechnology…
