Plant Physiology

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Nishikant Wase, first author of Remodeling of Chlamydomonas metabolism using synthetic inducers results in lipid storage during growth Current Position: Senior Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Education: 2011 PhD Department of Chemical and Biological…

Adrian Dauphinee, first author of Chemical screening pipeline for identification of specific plant autophagy modulators Current Position: NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at SLU, Uppsala  Education: PhD in Biology  Non-scientific interests: travel, cycling, graphic design, hockey, swimming, kayaking,…

Bethany Huot, Michigan State University Driving through the country on a lazy summer day with a nice gentle breeze, the lush fields of wheat, corn and soybean appear peaceful. What you cannot see is the quiet war plants are fighting against the insects and pathogens that have pulled up to a feast…