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Plant Physiology is recruiting Assistant Features Editors for 2024

By Yunde Zhao (Plant Physiology EIC) and Mary Williams (Plant Physiology Features Editor) The mission of the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program is to help disseminate exciting discoveries published in Plant Physiology and to advance young scientists’ careers. This past January,…

Xiangui Zhou: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiangui Zhou, co-first author of "Phosphorylation and ubiquitination of OsWRKY31 are integral to OsMKK10-2-mediated defense responses in rice" Current Position: visiting scholar, Shenzhen university, China Education: 2006-2010 BS in Huazhong agricultural university, Wuhan, China; 2010-2017…

Shuai Wang: The Plant Cell First Author

Shuai Wang, co-first author of "Phosphorylation and ubiquitination of OsWRKY31 are integral to OsMKK10-2-mediated defense responses in rice" Current Position: Ph.D. at College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University，China Education: M.A. at College of plant Science and Technology,…

Huan Long: Plant Physiology First Author

Huan Long, first author of "Structural and functional regulation of Chlamydomonas lysosome-related organelles in response to environmental changes"  Current Position: Associate professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China. Education: 2005/09--2011/06,…

Runaway transcription makes plants sensitive to heat stress

Kim et al. investigate the role of a heat shock protein in thermotolerance. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac351 By Minsoo Kim and Elizabeth Vierling at UMass Amherst Background: Plants can survive heat stress by producing heat shock proteins (HSPs) that protect and rescue other proteins.…

Engineering a faster Rubisco in tobacco chloroplasts

Chen et al. demonstrated that installing a bacterial-type fast Rubisco into tobacco chloroplasts to support photosynthesis. The Plant Cell (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac348 By Taiyu Chen and Lu-Ning Liu Background: Rubisco is the key enzyme responsible for fixing CO2. However,…

Functional and evolutionary analyses of Cullin1 proteins involved in S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility

Sun et al. explore the involvement of CUL1 proteins in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility. By Linhan Suna and Teh-hui Kaoab aIntercollege Graduate Degree Program in Plant Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 bDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular…

Pablo González-Suárez: Plant Physiology First Author

      Pablo González-Suárez, first author of "FLOWERING LOCUS T mediates photo-thermal timing of inflorescence meristem arrest in Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: PhD Student at the University of Leeds, UK. Education: B.Sc. in Environmental Biology (Autonomous University…

Kang Li: The Plant Cell First Author

Kang Li, co-first author of "Structural basis and evolution of the photosystem I–light-harvesting supercomplex of cryptophyte algae" Current Position: staff, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology，China Education:  Ph.D., Shandong University, China Non-scientific…