Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Shoji Segami
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Shoji Segami, first author of Vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase and Cytosolic Soluble Pyrophosphatases Cooperatively Regulate Pyrophosphate Levels in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
Education: PhD, Graduate…
Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Kun Wang
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Kun Wang, first author of Two Abscisic Acid Responsive Plastid Lipase Genes Involved in Jasmonic Acid Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Education: PhD, Biochemistry and…
Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Lian-Huan Wei
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesLian-Huan Wei, first author of The m6A Reader ECT2 Controls Trichome Morphology by Affecting mRNA Stability in Arabidopsis
Current Position: PhD student in the Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University.
Education: PhD in Chemical Biology at…
Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Jérémy Scutenaire
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesJérémy Scutenaire, first author of The YTH Domain Protein ECT2 Is an m6A Reader Required for Normal Trichome Branching in Arabidopsis
Current Position: Postdoc at the Institute of Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France
Education: PhD in plant molecular biology at the…
Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors: Laura Arribas-Hernández
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesLaura Arribas-Hernández, featured first author of An m6A-YTH Module Controls Developmental Timing and Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen.
Education: PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen (2015), BS and MS in Biology at Universidad…
Diverse border crops and neighboring crops aid urban agriculture (eLIFE)
Plant Science Research WeeklyAs more people move to cities, urban agriculture will make larger contributions to food security. There has been little investigation on the role of plant biodiversity in urban agricultural systems. Wan and colleagues use monitoring data collected from community farms in Shanghai, China, to investigate…
Strategic seed sourcing will enable species to better adapt to changing environments (eLIFE)
Plant Science Research WeeklyYellow box, Eucalyptus melliodora, is an iconic Australian tree and foundation species of a critically endangered woodland community that is the target for restoration efforts. This community is currently severely fragmented, and less that 5 % of its original distribution remains. Models of climate prediction…
Variability of paternally imprinted gene expression linked to hybridization failure in Capsella (Nature Plants)
Plant Science Research WeeklyHybrid seed lethality represents a major reproductive barrier in angiosperms and facilitates species divergence over evolutionary times. Hybrid seed lethality is mainly due to defective endosperm development, leading to embryo arrest. Hybrid seed defects show a parent-of-origin effect, but the underlying…
Discarding unwanted organs is a highly regulated process in plants (Cell)
Plant Science Research WeeklyPlants frequently, seasonally, discard unwanted organs (termed abscission), which include dead leaves, flowers and ripe fruit. Abscission requires tight control to avoid exposure to biotic and abiotic factors, which can lead to tissue damage or infection. Due to the presence of the cell wall, plant cells…