Down the Rabbit Hole: The Hidden World of Gene Regulation Within the Nucleus
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLee and Bailey-Serres uncover multiple aspects of nuclear and whole-cell epigenetic and post-transcriptional gene regulation in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00463
By T. A. Lee and J. Bailey-Serres
Background: Plant cells require oxygen to generate ATP, similar to our own…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Teagen Quilichini
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesTeagen Quilichini, co-first author of The Transcriptional Landscape of Polyploid Wheats and their Diploid Ancestors during Embryogenesis and Grain Development
Current Position: Assistant Research Officer, National Research Council Canada, Saskatoon, Canada
Education: PhD, Department of Botany, University…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Daoquan Xiang
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesDaoquan Xiang, co-first author of The Transcriptional Landscape of Polyploid Wheats and their Diploid Ancestors during Embryogenesis and Grain Development
Current Position: Research Officer, Principal Investigator, National Research Council Canada
Education: Ph.D in Plant Genetics and Breeding from…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Yan Zhang
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesYan Zhang, co-first author of Cryo-EM structure of the plant actin filaments from Zea mays pollen
Current Position: Associate professor
Working Experience:
2014-Current Associate professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science
2017-2018 Visitor Associate professor, University…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Zhanhong Ren
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesZhanhong Ren, co-first author of Cryo-EM structure of the plant actin filaments from Zea mays pollen
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Biological Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing…
Recognizing Plant Cell first authors: Meng Xie
The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesMeng Xie, first author of A 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate 3-Phosphate Synthase Functions as a Transcriptional Repressor in Populus
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Education:…
Introducing CRISPR-TSKO: A Breakthrough in Precision Gene Editing
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefAn excellent way to explore the function of a gene is to knockout its expression and see what happens. The development of the targeted gene editing system CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) has triggered scores of gene knockout studies. CRISPR is based on a defense system…
Tissue-specific Gene Elimination in Plants
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In a NutshellDecaestecker and Buono et al. develop a system for tissue-specific gene knockout to enable phenotypic analysis of context-specific gene function.
Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00454
By Ward Decaestecker, Rafael Andrade Buono, Moritz Nowack and Thomas Jacobs
Background: As plant molecular…
Mellowed Yellow: WHITE PETAL1 Regulates Carotenoid Accumulation in Medicago Petals
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefCarotenoids are tetraterpenoid (C40) lipophilic compounds that are widely distributed in nature and play key roles in pigmentation, photosynthesis, and development (Nisar et al., 2015). Detailed biochemical and genetic analyses have uncovered the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway, which generates a diverse…