Category: Plant Physiology

Peter 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,…

Lang 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…

Batthula 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…

Karen 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…

Maria Grazia Annunziata Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany. Lignin is a class of complex aromatic polymers particularly important in the formation of cell walls, especially in wood and bark. Lignin contributes to plant structure, support and defence…

Lynn GL Richardson Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Positive strand (+) RNA viruses act as their own messengers, encoding an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase that can replicate their sense RNA genome. This allows (+)RNA viruses to replicate outside the…

Commentary by Maria Papanatsiou We live an era where omic approaches are essential to decode scientific hypotheses. Indeed, technological advances have accelerated science, resulting in a plethora of insights.  During the past decade, the plant science community has profited from using large and…

Amna Mhamdi, Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, and VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Defense reactions are the fascinating result of a complex network between signals, receptors and effectors, where any missed nodes may spell disaster.…