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Ely Oliveira-Garcia: The Plant Cell First Author

Ely Oliveira-Garcia, first author of "Clathrin-mediated endocytosis facilitates the internalization of Magnaporthe oryzae effectors into rice cells" Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton…

Weichao Huang: The Plant Cell First Author

Weichao Huang, first author of "Chlamydomonas mutants lacking chloroplast TRIOSE PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER3 are metabolically compromised and light-sensitive" Current Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China Education: PhD…

Ju-Chen Chia: The Plant Cell First Author

Ju-Chen Chia, first author of "Loss of OPT3 function decreases phloem copper levels and impairs crosstalk between copper and iron homeostasis and shoot-to-root signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: Research Associate at Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell…

Xiangui Zhou: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiangui Zhou, co-first author of "Phosphorylation and ubiquitination of OsWRKY31 are integral to OsMKK10-2-mediated defense responses in rice" Current Position: visiting scholar, Shenzhen university, China Education: 2006-2010 BS in Huazhong agricultural university, Wuhan, China; 2010-2017…

Shuai Wang: The Plant Cell First Author

Shuai Wang, co-first author of "Phosphorylation and ubiquitination of OsWRKY31 are integral to OsMKK10-2-mediated defense responses in rice" Current Position: Ph.D. at College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University，China Education: M.A. at College of plant Science and Technology,…

Runaway transcription makes plants sensitive to heat stress

Kim et al. investigate the role of a heat shock protein in thermotolerance. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac351 By Minsoo Kim and Elizabeth Vierling at UMass Amherst Background: Plants can survive heat stress by producing heat shock proteins (HSPs) that protect and rescue other proteins.…

Engineering a faster Rubisco in tobacco chloroplasts

Chen et al. demonstrated that installing a bacterial-type fast Rubisco into tobacco chloroplasts to support photosynthesis. The Plant Cell (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac348 By Taiyu Chen and Lu-Ning Liu Background: Rubisco is the key enzyme responsible for fixing CO2. However,…

Functional and evolutionary analyses of Cullin1 proteins involved in S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility

Sun et al. explore the involvement of CUL1 proteins in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility. By Linhan Suna and Teh-hui Kaoab aIntercollege Graduate Degree Program in Plant Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 bDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular…

Kang Li: The Plant Cell First Author

Kang Li, co-first author of "Structural basis and evolution of the photosystem I–light-harvesting supercomplex of cryptophyte algae" Current Position: staff, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology，China Education:  Ph.D., Shandong University, China Non-scientific…