Rice is an important food crop in China, but the damage of rice blast fungus is an important factor affecting the high and stable yield of rice. Liu Jun's research group of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences found in the previous study that when rice blast fungus infects rice,…

Zihao Li, first author of Uncoupled Expression of Nuclear and Plastid Photosynthesis-associated Genes Contributes to Cell Death in a Lesion Mimic Mutant Current Position:  Ph.D. candidate, CAS center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai center for Plant Stress Biology, University of…

By Amna Mhamdi and Charlotte M.M. Gommers The nuclear genome encodes the majority of chloroplast-localized proteins and, in return, chloroplasts exert some control over nuclear gene expression via so-called retrograde signals. These signals derive from developing chloroplasts (referred to as biogenic…

We think of enzymes as highly specific catalysts that carry out one reaction and show nearly absolute substrate specificity. However, absolute specificity is the exception, not the rule, as most enzymes accept several structurally similar substrates. Moreover, many enzymes catalyze alternative reactions…

Most of the carbon dioxide sequestered by plants during photosynthesis is converted into sugars and stored into polysaccharide-enriched cells walls that constitute the majority of the plant biomass. While plants have long been considered a valuable resource of biomaterials for the chemical and textile…

Mateusz Bajczyk, first author of Novel nuclear functions of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE1: beyond RNA interference Current Position: Ph.D. student, Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland Education: M.S. in Biotechnology,…

Ruiqing Lv, first author of  Uncoupled Expression of Nuclear and Plastid Photosynthesis-associated Genes Contributes to Cell Death in a Lesion Mimic Mutant Current Position:  Ph.D. student, CAS center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai center for Plant Stress Biology, University…

Minmin Du, first author of MYC2 Regulates the Termination of Jasmonate Signaling via an Autoregulatory Negative Feedback Loop Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Education: PhD, School of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural…