Category: Plant Physiology

Hemipterans, a group of phloem-feeding insects that includes aphids, planthoppers, and whiteflies, are responsible for the spread of most plant viruses from plant to plant. Stylet positioning and feeding activities have important consequences for the acquisition and transmission of viruses by insect…

Yu-chi Liu, first author of A methyltransferase trio essential for phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis and growth Current Position: Technical specialist, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Education: BS in Bioengineering, Tatung University, Taiwan. MS in Life…

Guanxiao Chang, first author of ABI5-BINDING PROTEIN 2 Coordinates CONSTANS to Delay Flowering by Recruiting the Transcriptional Corepressor TPR2 Current position, Postdoctoral Researcher, Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Life Sciences, Henan…

Evan McConnell, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during the effector-triggered immunity Current Position: Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Education: B.S. in Chemistry (2014), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,…

Philip Berg, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during the effector-triggered immunity Current position: Ph.D. student; Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology, Mississippi State University Education: MSc in Genomics and Systems biology, BSc in Plant Biology Non-scientific…

Timothy Westlake, first author of Proteome-wide analysis of cysteine reactivity during effector-triggered immunity Current Position: Researcher at the National Institutes of Health and current student pursuing Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Future Position: Post-doctoral…

Lisa-Marie Schmid, first author of PUMPKIN, the sole Plastid UMP Kinase, Associates with Group II Introns and Alters Their Metabolism Current Position: PhD student in the group of PD Dr. Jörg Meurer, Leister lab, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany Education: B.Sc. Biology and M.Sc.…

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is a potent inhibitor of cytochrome c oxidase, a conserved component of the respiratory electron transport chain in all aerobic life. Thus, HCN is well suited to serve as a broad-spectrum chemical defense, and indeed it plays such a role in many interactions between plants and…