Ralph Bock, Senior Editor
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Areas of expertise
Chloroplast biology; gene expression; photosynthesis; evolutionary genetics.
Ralph Bock is a Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and a Professor at the University of Potsdam. He received undergraduate and MSc degrees from the University of Halle,…
Plant Cell papers get cited: non-citation rate is zero
Blog, Research, Research Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Newsby Nan Eckardt, Senior Features Editor, The Plant Cell [email protected]
Update 5/9/2017: So I couldn’t get that poor paper out of my mind – the only one pubished in The Plant Cell prior to 2015 that, apparently, had received zero citations to date, and decided to double-check. Turns out the…
Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors, March and April 2017
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Rakesh David, featured first author of Transcriptome-wide Mapping of RNA 5-Methylcytosine in Arabidopsis mRNAs and non-coding RNAs
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Adelaide.
Education: PhD, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Science…
James A. Birchler, Senior Editor
The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesAreas of expertise
Chromosome biology, epigenetics, dosage compensation, polyploidy, heterosis, gene silencing, synthetic chromosomes, genomic balance.
James Birchler is Curators’ Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He completed his BS degree at Eastern Illinois University and his…
Sebastian Bednarek, Senior Editor
The Plant Cell: Editor ProfilesAreas of expertise
Intracellular protein trafficking, clathrin-dependent trafficking, membrane biogenesis, microtubules, polar growth, the phragmoplast, the cell wall.
Sebastian Bednarek is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his PhD from…
The Long Non-coding RNA ELENA1 Functions in Plant Immunity
Blog, Research, The Plant Cell: In BriefOnce seen as potential sequencing artifacts, long, non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs, >200 nucleotides) have gained recognition as important regulatory factors. LncRNAs are transcribed from a variety of genomic locations (introns, intergenic spaces, and coding regions) from the sense or antisense strand (reviewed…
Recognizing featured Plant Cell first authors, February 2017
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Masanori Izumi, featured first author of Entire Photodamaged Chloroplasts Are Transported to the Central Vacuole by Autophagy
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University.
Education: Ph.D. (2012), Graduate School of Agricultural…
Meristem Doming and the Transition to Reproductive Development in Tomato
Research, The Plant Cell: In BriefDuring vegetative growth, the shoot apical meristem (SAM) produces lateral organ primordia but remains roughly the same size, as WUSCHEL–CLAVATA signaling modulates the balance between cell division and differentiation. During the transition to reproductive growth in many species, the SAM expands in…
Chasing Scattered Genes: Identifying Specialized Metabolite Pathway Genes through Global Co-expression Analysis
Research, The Plant Cell: In BriefPlants produce scores of specialized metabolites (SMs) to attract or repel the organisms around them and to cope with life in a variable environment. For thousands of years, we have been exploiting these compounds to feed, heal, and adorn us. Many more SMs remain to be discovered: the chemical constituents…