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Abdolrahim Hooshmand: Plant Direct First Author

Abdolrahim Hooshmand, co-first author of "Potential application of spectral indices for olive water status assessment in (semi-)arid regions: A case study in Khuzestan Province, Iran" Current Position: Associate Professor of Irrigation and Drainage Education: PhD of Irrigation and Drainage Brief…

Azimeh Asgari: Plant Direct First Author

Azimeh Asgari, co-first author of "Potential application of spectral indices for olive water status assessment in (semi-)arid regions: A case study in Khuzestan Province, Iran" Current Position: Postdoctoral candidate in agricultural and natural resources research and education center, Shahrekord, Iran Education:…

Rafael Massahiro Yassue: Plant Direct First Author

Rafael Massahiro Yassue, first author of "Genome-wide association analysis of hyperspectral reflectance data to dissect the genetic architecture of growth-related traits in maize under plant growth-promoting bacteria inoculation" Current Position: Data Scientist at GDM Education: Ph.D. in Genetics…

Laura Dalle Carbonare: Plant Direct First Author

Laura Dalle Carbonare, first author of "Plant responses to limited aeration: Advances and future challenges" Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant Education: Ph.D., Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy) Non-scientific Interests: Reading, Latin dancing and travelling Brief…

Shintaro Ichikawa: Plant Direct First Author

Shintaro Ichikawa, first author of "Live-cell imaging of the chloroplast outer envelope membrane using fluorescent dyes" Current Position:  Ph.D student, Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity, Utsunomiya University, Japan Education:  Bachelor of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University,…

Sarathi M. Weraduwage: Plant Direct First Author

Sarathi M. Weraduwage, first author of "Characterization of promoter elements of isoprene-responsive genes, and the ability of isoprene to bind START domain transcription factors" Current Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Bishop’s University, QC,…

Hila Behar: Plant Direct First Author

Hila Behar, first author of "Populus endo-glucanase 16 localizes to the cell walls of developing tissues" Current Position: Co-founder at BryoSphere Biotechnologies Education: B.Sc. Biology, Tel Aviv University (2011-2014); Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia…

Stefanie Böhmer: Plant Direct First Author

Stefanie Böhmer, first author of "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants deficient for Old Yellow Enzyme 3 exhibit increased photooxidative stress" Current Position: Post-doc at Photobiotechnology group, Ruhr University Bochum Education: B.Sc. Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2011 – 2014) M.Sc.…

Rong Guo: Plant Direct First Author

Rong Guo, first author of "The identification of conserved sequence features of co-translationally decayed mRNAs and upstream open reading frames in angiosperm transcriptomes"  Education: BA. in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boston University Non-scientific Interests: Playing the…