The Plant Cell

Soon after dicots germinate, the hypocotyl arches into a hook-like structure that protects the shoot apical meristem as the seedling grows through the soil. Once the seedling emerges from the ground and senses light, the hypocotyl straightens. The asymmetric growth that results in apical hook formation…

Areas of expertise Chlamydomonas, chloroplast biology, metabolic regulation, transcriptomics, proteomics, micronutrients. ​ Sabeeha Merchant is a Professor of Biochemistry and a member of the Molecular Biology Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed BS and PhD degrees…

Areas of expertise Genomics, microRNAs, bioinformatics, epigenetics. Blake Meyers is a member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, and a Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He completed his BA degree at the University of Chicago and his MS and PhD degrees at the…

Areas of expertise Metabolic regulation, secondary metabolism/natural products, statistical genetics, transcriptome and metabolome analysis, plant–biotic interactions. Dan Kliebenstein is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He completed a BS degree at Iowa…

Areas of expertise Phyothormones, cytokinin, ethylene, auxin, cell wall, receptor-like kinases, genetics. Joseph Kieber holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His group uses the model plants Arabidopsis…

Areas of expertise Disease resistance, cell death, plant pathogens. Jean Greenberg is a Professor in the Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Dept. University of Chicago, Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, and Committee on Microbiology. Her work examines both sides of the plant-pathogen…

Areas of expertise Large-scale biology, plant molecular biology and physiology, photosynthetic carbon reduction, plant stress responses. Nan completed her PhD in the Plant Physiology program at Penn State University in 1993. She carried out postdoctoral research in photosynthesis, focusing on Rubisco…

Areas of expertise ubiquitination, CULLIN-ring ligases, autophagy, cell cycle, DNA repair, epigenetic regulation, phytohormones, RNA silencing. Pascal Genschik holds a PhD and a Habilitation from the University of Strasbourg, France. Since 1997, he has been a group leader at the Institute of Molecular…