Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Csaba Papdi
Csaba Papdi, co-first author of ErbB-3 BINDING PROTEIN 1 Regulates Translation and Counteracts RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED to Maintain the Root Meristem
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at IBMP, Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes du CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Education: PhD in plant…
Restriction Release: improved maize transformation efficiency
Magdalena M. Julkowska
Magdalena.Julkowska@kaust.edu.sa
Improvement of crops using traditional breeding is too slow to ensure food production able to sustain the growing human population, especially in the face of climate change (Hickey et al., 2019). Transformation methods for monocot crops depend…
Keep it steamy: improved quantification of the humidity within the leaf
Magdalena M. Julkowska
Magdalena.Julkowska@kaust.edu.sa
Stomata are the gatekeepers of plant water status, regulating the balance between plant CO2 uptake and water loss. Stomatal conductance (gs) can be estimated by microscopy of wax or plastic leaf surface imprints, but this technique is time…
How To Identify Autophagy Modulators
Author: Masanori Izumi
Affiliation: RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako 351-0198, Japan
masanori.izumi@riken.jp
Autophagy is the ubiquitous process in eukaryotes leading to the degradation of intracellular components, during which a portion of the cytoplasm, including organelles,…
NTRC: a key regulatory hub in carbon metabolism and redox balance in developing tomato fruits
Maria Grazia Annunziata
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8593-1741
By acting as redox regulatory factor, NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C (NTRC) is involved in many metabolic processes as well as plastid biogenesis. It…
Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Qi Li
Qi Li, first author of Perception of damaged self in plants
Current Position: Postdoc at University of Florida
Education: BS and PhD in Shandong Agricultural University
Non-scientific Interests: music, running, hiking
Brief bio: I am a postdoctoral associated at University of Florida, supervised…
Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Wengui Lin
Wengui Lin, co-first author of Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts
Current Position: PhD candidate
Education: 2011 – 2015 Northeastern University, Bachelor degree; 2015 – Present The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PhD candidate
Non-scientific…
Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Xiao Lin
Xiao Lin, co-first author of Analysis of Soybean Long Non-coding RNAs Reveals a Subset of Small Peptide-Coding Transcripts
Current Position: PhD candidate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Education: PhD in Biochemistry (2020), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Non-scientific Interests: Our…
Plant Physiology welcomes 26 new Assistant Features Editors
At the beginning of 2018 Plant Physiology initiated a program to introduce several promising early-career scientists to the editorial board and engage their expertise in assessing and writing about research published in the journal. Over the past two years these scientists brought their passion for science…