Plant Physiology

Sébastien Bélanger, first author of Pre-meiotic, 24-nt reproductive phasiRNAs are abundant in anthers of wheat and barley but not rice and maize Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Education: PhD in Plant Sciences at Université Laval (Québec, Canada) Non-scientific…

Marc-Sven Roell1 ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2714-8729 1Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany [email protected] Cannabis sativa (cannabis) is the cornerstone of the multi-billion-dollar legal marijuana industry.…

Kaitong Du, first author of Viral Perturbation of Alternative Splicing of a Host Transcript Benefits Infection Current Position: PhD student in the Plant Virology Lab (2018－), Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Education: B.Sc. in Plant Protection, China…

Charlotte Gommers, Assistant Features Editor [email protected] For a long time, the study of light fueled two independent fields of plant sciences. On the one hand, light energy is absorbed in the chloroplasts, to drive sugar production via photosynthesis. On the other hand, light is an…

María Flores-Tornero, first author of Transcriptomic and Proteomic Insights into Amborella trichopoda Male Gametophyte Functions Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry Department, University of Regensburg Education: BSc. in Biological Sciences, University…

Jing Zhang, first author of Role of Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulatory Subunit 3 (PP1R3) in Mediating Abscisic Acid Response Current Position: Postdoc, Root Biology Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Education: MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of…

Yusuke Kobayashi, first author of Holliday junction resolvase MOC1 maintains plastid and mitochondrial genome integrity in algae and bryophytes Current position: Assistant Professor, College of Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University Education: Ph.D. in Science. Graduate…

Jinghong Zhang, first author of The PPR-SMR protein ATP4 is required for editing the chloroplast rps8 mRNA in rice and maize Current Position: Ph. D. candidate, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China Education: Ph. D. in Huazhong Agricultural…