Plant Physiology

During leaf growth and development, chloroplast numbers increase to maximize photosynthetic capacity. In mesophyll cells, chloroplast division takes place primarily during cell expansion and increases plastid numbers from; 10 to 20 in leaf primordia to; 100 or more in  mature mesophyll cells. Chloroplasts…

Western cultivated carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus L) is broadly known for its orange pigmentation and accumulation of carotenoids, known as the carotene group (var. sativus). However, the eastern wild carrot (subsp. carota) originating from southwestern Asia over a century ago provides purple pigmentation…

Minoru Ueda, first author of Histone modifications form epigenetic regulatory networks to regulate abiotic stress response Current Position: Researcher Education: B.A. in Genetic Engineering, faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, and Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural…

Maria A. Fernandez, first author of RBR-type E3 ligases and the Ub-conjugating enzyme UBC26 regulate ABA receptor levels and signaling Current  Position:  PhD candidate (FPU fellowship) in Dr. Pedro Rodriguez´s lab, at the Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP-CISC) Education:…

Sidney L. Shaw Dept. of Biology (and Physics), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 [email protected]   How cell expansion is controlled to achieve a specific cell morphology remains one of the frontier questions in plant biology.  The carefully guided extension of the plant…

Author: Trevor H. Yeats, Email: [email protected] Plant Breeding & Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY USA (Commentary on Liu et al.) Lipid synthesis is a ubiquitous, but costly branch of primary metabolism in plants. All cells must make…

Liana T. Burghardt, co-first author of A 'Select and Resequence' approach reveals strain-specific effects of Medicago nodule-specific PLAT-domain genes Current Position: I am a post-doc in the Plant and Microbial Biology department at the University of Minnesota. In Spring 2020, I start my lab as an…

Diana Trujillo, co-first author of A 'Select and Resequence' approach reveals strain-specific effects of Medicago nodule-specific PLAT-domain genes Current Position: Principal Scientist, MNPHARM, Minnesota - USA Education: PhD in Microbial and Plant Biology, University of Minnesota Non-scientific…