Plant Physiology

Rajdeep Khangura, first author of Variation in maize chlorophyll biosynthesis alters plant architecture Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher in the group of Dr. Brian Dilkes, Department of Biochemistry and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Education:…

Melatonin is a highly conserved bioactive molecule present in all plant species. It is produced from serotonin through two consecutive enzymatic steps. Serotonin is converted into either N-acetylserotonin by serotonin N-acetyltransferase (SNAT) or into 5- methoxytryptamine by caffeic acid O-methyltransferase…

Apart from its well-known function in Suc unloading, cell wall invertase (CWIN), an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of Suc into Fru and Glc, also plays a role in sugar signaling and plant development.  As an  example of CWIN playing a role in plant development, Liao et al. (10.1104/pp.20.00400)…

Eva Hellmann, The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB2 1LR Cambridge, United Kingdom, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4591-2973 [email protected]   Small secreted peptides (SSPs) are short peptides that function as messengers and regulate a variety of processes in plants…

Firoz Ahmed, first author of pssRNAit-a web server for designing effective and specific plant siRNAs with genome-wide off-target assessment Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Education: Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal…

Modern cultivated watermelons (Citrullus lanatus) are sweet tasting and tender, with intensely colored flesh that ranges in hue from yellow to deep red. These colors are produced by the accumulation of various carotenoids in the flesh cells. Red-fleshed watermelons that accumulate lycopene in their flesh…

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that is relatively mobile in the soil and has become a serious worldwide environment problem. Cd is easily taken up by plant roots where it can be loaded into the xylem and transported to above-ground tissues. Cd accumulation in the shoot inhibits plant growth and…

Meisha Holloway-Phillips Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland [email protected] The slogan, ‘more crop per drop’, which was popularised in the early 2000s, depicts the need to improve the productivity of crops for the same water inputs (Kijne…