Lester Botoman, first author of Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes Current Position: PhD student, Crop and Soil Sciences Department, Lilongwe University…

Divya Rajagopal, first author of Role of Arabidopsis RAB5 GEF vps9a in maintaining potassium levels under sodium chloride stress Current Position: DST-WOSA Principle Investigator at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India Education: Ph.D. International Centre for Genetic Engineering…

Yan Wang, first author of Plasticity and the role of mass-scaling in allocation, morphology and anatomical trait responses to above and belowground resource limitation in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Current Position: Lecturer, College of Forestry, Shandong Agricultural University, China Education:…

Bo Xu, first author of High affinity Na+ transport by wheat HKT1;5 is blocked by K+ Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Adelaide, Australia Education: PhD, University of Adelaide, Australia Non-scientific Interests: hiking, cooking Brief bio: I am a postdoctoral researcher…

Mendel Perkins, first author of Dwarfism of high-monolignol Arabidopsis plants is rescued by ectopic LACCASE overexpression Current Position: PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in Lacey Samuels lab Education: BSc (Hons) University of Calgary; MSc University of Calgary Non-scientific…

Marco Bürger, first author of In-silico analysis of the strigolactone ligand-receptor system Current Position: Senior research associate Education: PhD: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology; B.S., M.Sc.: University of Osnabrück Non-scientific Interests: reading, traveling Brief bio:…

Iny Elizebeth Mathew, first author of SUPER STARCHY1/ ONAC025 participates in rice grain filling Current Position: Research associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Education: PhD in Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), India Non-scientific…

James Patrick Santiago, first author of Phaseolus vulgaris SUT1.1 is a high affinity sucrose-proton co-transporter Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Plant Resilience Institute and Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University (USA) Education: B.S. Agriculture – University…