Plant Physiology

Li Feng, first author of An online database for exploring over 2,000 Arabidopsis small RNA libraries Current Position: PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, SUSTech-HIT Joint Graduate/PhD Project, Department of Biology & Institute of Plant and Food Science, Southern University of Science and Technology…

Lynn GL Richardson [email protected] Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Chloroplasts, like their cyanobacterial ancestors, use binary fission to divide and generate new organelles. The origins of the division machinery stem from both the original eukaryotic…

In conifers such as Norway spruce (Picea abies), lignin is a major cell wall constituent of secondary xylem (wood), forming approximately 27% of the dry weight. Lignin enhances the structural stability of wood as well as water transport through it. Lignification encompasses many steps, starting with…

Plasmodesmata (PD) are membrane-bound tunnels that connect the cytosols of neighboring plant cells. The rate of PD transport between cells changes during the course of plant development. Forward genetic screens to identify factors controlling transport through PD have repeatedly revealed that chloroplasts…

Puneet Paul, first author of MADS78 and MADS79 are essential regulators of early seed development in rice Current Position: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Education: Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology, Goethe University,…

Scott Hayes, [email protected] The adoption of Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant in the early 1980s led to a revolution in plant molecular genetics. Its diminutive size, rapid generation time and small genome made Arabidopsis a fantastic tool, allowing us to build a complex picture of the genetic…

Zhen Wang, co-first author of Two Chloroplast Proteins Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Resistance Through Separate Pathways Current Position: Research Associate, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Education: Ph.D. in Genetics, Shanghai Institutes for Biological…

Yechun Hong, co-first author of Two Chloroplast Proteins Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Resistance Through Separate Pathways Current position: Ph.D. student, Shanghai center for plant stress biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: B.S., School of life science, Sun Yat-Sen University Non-scientific…