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Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Vivek K. Raxwal

Vivek K. Raxwal, first author of Nonsense mediated RNA decay factor UPF1 is critical for post-transcriptional and translational gene regulation in Arabidopsis Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic Education: PhD, Department of Botany,…

Unregulated Sphingolipid Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis ORM Mutants

Gonzalez Solis et al. describe the metabolic, cellular, and physiological consequences of the complete loss of regulation of sphingolipid biosynthesis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00015  By Ariadna Gonzalez Solis and Edgar B. Cahoon  Background: Glycosphingolipids are molecules…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Kaushik Panda

Kaushik Panda, first author of Long-read cDNA Sequencing Enables a 'Gene-Like' Transcript Annotation of Transposable Elements Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate in the Slotkin Laboratory at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Education: Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics,…

FRA1 Kinesin Prevents Cell Wall Deposition from Going Off the Rails

Cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin are the brick and mortar of the plant kingdom, and how they are laid has substantial impacts on plant morphology.  Plant cell shape is dictated by the interplay between turgor pressure and heterogeneity in cell wall composition, whereby localized cell wall loosening…

Brassinosteroids Promote Greening of Etiolated Seedlings

Wang et al. demonstrate that BRs play important roles in seedling development and survival during the initial emergence of seedlings from subterranean darkness into sunlight. The Plant Cell (2020) https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00057. By Lingyan Wang,Yanchen Tian, Wen Shi, Min Fan and Ming-Yi Bai,…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Maxuel de Oliveira Andrade

Maxuel de Oliveira Andrade, first author of The MAF1 phosphoregulatory region controls MAF1 interaction with the RNA polymerase III C34 subunit and transcriptional repression in plants Current Position: Postdoctoral Research, Biochemistry, Brazilian Bioscience National Laboratory (LNBio) - CNPEM, Brazil Education:…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Bastian Oldenkott

Bastian Oldenkott, first author of Reciprocal complementation with moss and angiosperm editing factors Current Position: PhD Candidate in the Department for Molecular Evolution belonging to the Insitute for Cellular and Molecular Botany (IZMB) of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Education:…

2-in-1-GEFIs: Biosensors for two plant signals at one time

Waadt et al. use a suite of genetically encoded biosensors to monitor signaling compound concentration changes and how they overlap in time and space. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00892 By Rainer Waadt Background: To survive, plants need to sense the environment and adjust their growth…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Jiaqi Sun

Jiaqi Sun, first author of LUNAPARK Is an E3 Ligase that Mediates Degradation of ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE3 to Maintain a Tubular ER Network in Arabidopsis Current Position: Post-Doc Research Fellow, Biology Department, McGill University Education: B. Sc. in Agriculture from Zhejiang University, China;…