Heat shock proteins support refolding and shredding of misfolded proteins
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchAuthor: Masanori Izumi
Affiliation: RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako 351-0198, Japan
Newly synthesized proteins must be folded to form their proper 3D structures. Stresses perturb protein folding, thereby leading to the hyperaccumulation of misfolded or aggregated proteins. Such…
How plants and synthetic biology could help us fight diabetes
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchDr. Raimund Nagel
Iowa State University
Plants produce a plethora of natural products that function as defensive compounds are frequently used by humans for medicinal purposes. A majority of these natural products, however, are either found in low concentrations, in slow growing plants, or are…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Dorota Kawa
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesDorota Kawa, first author of SnRK2 protein kinases and mRNA decapping machinery control root development and response to salt
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Plant Biology & Genome Center, University of California, Davis
Education: PhD University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2017);…
Illuminating photosynthesis in the mesophyll of diverse leaves
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: News and Views, ResearchMeisha Holloway-Phillips
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
[email protected]
Since Terashima and Saeki (1983) demonstrated that light attenuation through the leaf was accompanied by spectral changes, there has been increasing interest in how light…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Elisa Dell'Aglio
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesElisa Dell'Aglio, first author of Identification of the Arabidopsis calmodulin-dependent NAD+ kinase that sustains the elicitor-induced oxidative burst
Current Position: Research Assistant INSA-INRA Lyon (France)
Education: PhD in Plant Biochemistry
Non-scientific Interests: science journalism,…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Peter Crisp
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesPeter Crisp, first author of Variation and inheritance of small RNAs in maize inbreds and F1 hybrids
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Springer Lab, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota
Education: PhD Plant Science, Pogson Lab, Centre for Plant Energy Biology,…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Lang Pan
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesLang Pan, first author of Aldo-keto reductase metabolizes glyphosate and confers glyphosate resistance in Echinochloa colona
Current Position: Associate Professor, College of Plant Protection, Hunan Agricultural University, China
Education: 2013-2018, Ph.D. student, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesBatthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde, first author of The TCP4 transcription factor directly activates TRICHOMELESS1 and 2 and suppresses trichome initiation
Current Position:Postdoctoral Associate, Adrienne Roeder’s Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Education: PhD in Plant Developmental…
Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Karen Kloth
Plant Physiology, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesKaren Kloth, first author of PECTIN ACETYLESTERASE9 Affects the Transcriptome and Metabolome and Delays Aphid Feeding
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University
Education: BSc and MSc in Biology, Phd in genetical genomics of plant-aphid interactions
Non-scientific…