Category: Plant Physiology

The formation of the mature female gametophyte is one of the most complex processes in plants. It requires successive rounds of diploid mitosis, followed by meiosis and finally haploid mitosis, not to mention cell differentiation and cell degeneration in the multicellular gametophyte. Since the female…

Javier Brumos, first author of Structure-function analysis of interallelic complementation in ROOTY transheterozygotes Current Position: Research Scholar in the Alonso-Stepanova laboratory, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Program in Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,…

Ananya Mukherjee ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806 amukherjee3@unl.edu University of Nebraska Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588   Climate change is expected to make drought far more severe and frequent for plants all over the world (Bartlett et al., 2016). Drought affects yield, growth, and development…

Tianhu Sun ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2513-1387 Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 ts753@cornell.edu Plant cells harbor a varying number of chloroplasts and chloroplasts multiply by division to maintain the continuity…

Madeleine Seale Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom maddy.seale@plants.ox.ac.uk ORCID: 0000-0002-8924-3943 Wood formation occurs via radial proliferation of vascular cambium cells and the deposition of secondary cell wall layers…

Hongchao Li, first author of Maize plant architecture is regulated by the ethylene biosynthetic gene ZmACS7 Current Position: Ph.D. student, National Maize Improvement Center, China Agricultural University Education: Ph.D. student in Crop Genetics and Breeding and M.Sc. in Agricultural Extension…

Ananya Mukherjee ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806 amukherjee3@unl.edu University of Nebraska Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588    In the photosynthetic Calvin-Benson cycle, the enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) fixes CO2 into organic compounds. A major limitation…

Stephanie Klein, first author of Multiple integrated root phenotypes are associated with improved drought tolerance Current Position: PhD Candidate, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Education: B.Sc. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Non-scientific…