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Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Daniele Rosado

Daniele Rosado, first author of Downregulation of PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4 influences plant development and fruit production Current Position: PhD student in the group of Prof. Magdalena Rossi at the Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo Education: B.Sc. in Biology, University…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Moonhyuk Kwon

Moonhyuk Kwon, co-first author of Catalytic plasticity of germacrene A oxidase underlies sesquiterpene lactone diversification Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Gyeongsang National University, Korea / Visiting Professor, University of Calgary, Canada Education: Ph.D. and B.S. in Seoul…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Trinh-Don Nguyen

Trinh-Don Nguyen, co-first author of Catalytic plasticity of germacrene A oxidase underlies sesquiterpene lactone diversification Current position: Mitacs Elevate postdoctoral fellow, University of British Columbia and Supra Research & Development (Kelowna, BC, Canada) Education: BSc (Viet Nam…

Pinstatic acid as a dissection tool-kit for transcriptional and non-transcriptional auxin responses

Author:         Magdalena M. Julkowska Affiliation:      Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University for Science & Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia   Auxin is one of the most studied plant hormones, and it comes in various forms. Whereas…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Vanessa Loiacono

Vanessa Loiacono, first author of Establishment of a Heterologous RNA Editing Event in Chloroplasts Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University – Ithaca, NY Education: B.Sc. Biological Sciences, University of Bari – Italy; M.Sc. Horticultural…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Bing Bai

Bing Bai, first author of Seed stored mRNAs that are specifically associated to monosome-are translationally regulated during germination Current Position: Post-doc Researcher, Wageningen Seed Lab, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University Education: B.Sc. Henan Agricultural University,…

Recognizing Plant Physiology first authors: Wen-Ting Bai

Wen-Ting Bai, first author of Earlier Degraded Tapetum1 (EDT1) encodes an ATP-citrate lyase required for tapetum programmed cell death Current Position: PhD Candidate, National Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural…

Injecting new life into a classic technique

Author: Robert P. Skelton Institution: Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, 94720; CA Commentary on Hochberg et al A new technique for rapidly quantifying xylem vulnerability curves In this volume of Plant Physiology, Hochberg et al. (2019) present a…

The SNARE SYP132 fine-tunes proton transporter levels at the plasma membrane during plant growth

By Lynn GL Richardson The acid-growth theory was proposed over 40 years ago based on early observations that low apoplastic pH promotes growth in a pathway involving the plant hormone auxin (Rayle and Cleland, 1992; Hager, 2003; Arsuffi and Braybrook, 2018). Since this discovery, a clearer understanding…