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Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems ($) (Science)

Plant scientists are familiar with the steep drop in photosynthetic activity when plants are illuminated with far-red photons (> 700 nm), because the energy of these long-wavelength photos is insufficient to initiate photochemistry at the chlorophyll a reaction center. Previously, some studies have…

What We're Reading: June 21

This week we have some guest contributions from undergraduate student interns working with Professor Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon. Julissa helped the students select and read the papers, and worked with them on writing and editing the summaries, with additional editing…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Katharina Belt

Katharina Belt, first author of An assembly factor promotes assembly of flavinated SDH1 into the succinate dehydrogenase complex Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO, Agriculture and Food, Floreat Education: PhD, School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia Non-scientific…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Nicola Zagari

Nicola Zagari, first author of CHLOROPLAST RIBOSOME ASSOCIATED supports translation under stress and interacts with the ribosomal 30S subunit Current Position: (Starting 1/08/2018) Junior Researcher Cell Biology at Enza Zaden, Enkhuizen, NL Education: Biotechnologies BSc at Bologna University, Plant…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Pablo Pulido

Pablo Pulido, first author of CHLOROPLAST RIBOSOME ASSOCIATED supports translation under stress and interacts with the ribosomal 30S subunit Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, Germany. Education: PhD in Redox Biology, Department of Vegetal Biochemistry…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Nikolay Manavski

Nikolay Manavski, first author of CHLOROPLAST RIBOSOME ASSOCIATED supports translation under stress and interacts with the ribosomal 30S subunit Current Position: Postdoc at IBMP-CNRS, Strasbourg, France Education: Diploma and PhD in Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Plant Biology, University…

Plant Cell Editor Profile: Blake Meyers

By Alex Harkess and Margaret Frank While working on very small RNA molecules, Blake Meyers tackles some of the biggest problems in plant biology. Blake has spent much of his academic career generating and sifting through billions of sequence reads to ask a deceptively simple question: what do small…

Introducing the journal Plant Physiology, featuring EIC Mike Blatt

Editor-in-Chief Mike Blatt talks about the journal Plant Physiology, how online communication accelerates the pace of scholarly publishing, and the need to express key research findings in an accessible way. "What I often encourage authors to do when they prepare manuscripts is to think about the sound…

Critical plant gene takes unexpected detour that could boost biofuel yields

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 15, 2018 - For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function--produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to human diets. But for Wellington Muchero, Meng Xie and their colleagues, this enzyme does more than advertised.…