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Microtubule regulation in the moss Physcomitrella patens

Leong et al. examine the roles of Kinesin-13 and -8 in moss mitosis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00521 By Shu Yao Leong (Nagoya University, currently Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) & Moé Yamada (Nagoya University) Background: Microtubules (MTs) are dynamic macromolecular…

Multilayered Regulation in Senescence

Sakuraba et al. show the existence of multilayered regulation systems for the rice ONAC054 transcription factor, which is involved in abscisic acid-induced leaf senescence in rice. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00569 By Nam-Chon Paek, Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University,…

Make, Modify, Move: Multilayered Regulation of ONAC054 During ABA-Induced Leaf Senescence

‘Senescence’ originates from the Latin word senescere, to grow old. However, the process of leaf senescence is not simply the passive death of the leaf but instead represents an active and highly regulated process of nutrient remobilization from older leaves into developing parts of the plant to…

MED25 regulates the alternative splicing of JAZ genes through recruitment of splicing factors PRP39 and PRP40

Wu et al. investigated MED25 recruits splicing factors to regulate the alternative splicing of JAZ genes in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell (2019). https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00583   Background: The jasmonate (JA) signaling pathway controls resource allocation between growth- and defense-related…

A Novel Regulatory Mechanism in Plant Innate Immunity

Xing et al. use advance microscopy to show that phospholipase D functions in the response to powdery mildew. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00534  by Jingjing Xing, Xiaojuan Li, Xiaohua Wang, Xueqin Lv, Li Wang, Liang Zhang, Yingfang Zhu, Qianhua Shen, František Baluška, Jozef Šamaj,…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Christophe Lambing

Christophe Lambing, first author of Interacting genomic landscapes of REC8-cohesin, chromatin and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana Current Position:  Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK Education: PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Birmingham, UK.…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Cheng-Yu Hou

Cheng-Yu Hou, co-first author of Widespread Exon Junction Complex Footprints in the RNA Degradome Mark mRNA Degradation Before Steady-state Translation Current Position: Bioinformatician, Bioinformatics team of technology department, Sofiva Genomics Company, Taiwan Education: Master of Science in…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Bo-Han Hou

Bo-Han Hou, co-first author of Widespread Exon Junction Complex Footprints in the RNA Degradome Mark mRNA Degradation Before Steady-state Translation Current Position: research assistant, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Education: Bachelor of Nutritional Science,…

Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Wen-Chi Lee

Wen-Chi Lee, co-first author of Widespread Exon Junction Complex Footprints in the RNA Degradome Mark mRNA Degradation Before Steady-state Translation Current Position: Research assistant, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Education: M.S. and B.S. in Botany at National…