
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Bhuvan Pathak
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesBhuvan Pathak, co-first author of Heat-shock inducible CRISPR/Cas9 system generates heritable mutations in rice
Current Position: Senior Graduate Assistant
Education: PhD candidate, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA; MS Agronomy (2010) University of Florida, Gainesville; MS in Biotechnology…

Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Soumen Nandy
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesSoumen Nandy, co-first author of Heat-shock inducible CRISPR/Cas9 system generates heritable mutations in rice
Current Position: Program Associate
Education: PhD, Department Of Botany, University Of Delhi, India
Non-scientific Interests: Reading, Music, Gardening and avid listener of NPR radio
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Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Sumio Iwai
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesSumio Iwai, first author of Guard cell photosynthesis is crucial in abscisic acid-induced stomatal closure
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Kagoshima University, Japan
Education: Ph.D. in Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Chemistry, Kyusyu University, Japan
Non-scientific Interests: Baseball,…

Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Anna Katherine Block
Plant Direct, Plant Direct: Author ProfilesAnna Katherine Block, first author of Specialized naphthoquinones present in Impatiens glandulifera extra-floral nectaries inhibit the growth of fungal nectar microbes
Current Position: Research Molecular Biologist, Chemistry Research Unit at the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology…