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Shedding light on Arabidopsis seed oil biosynthesis

Deslandes-Hérold et al. explore the integration of the PRK/Rubisco shunt into green embryo photosynthesis and metabolism. Gabriel Deslandes-Hérold, Melanie R. Abt, and Samuel C. Zeeman, ETH Zurich Background: Light promotes the accumulation of storage lipids during development of oilseeds with…

Helping out a neighbor: What FAMA tells us about specialization among stomatal genes across different species

Author et al. explore the genes involved in making stomata in a temperate grass. Katelyn Hansen-McKown and Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institution. Background: Plants are essential players in global carbon and water…

Shuyan Song: The Plant Cell First Author

Shuyan Song, first author of "The functional evolution of architecturally different plant geranyl diphosphate synthases from geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase"  Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology & ZJU‐Hangzhou…

Endosperm cellularization and dehydration tolerance in the embryo

Xu, Sato, et al. explore the longstanding mystery of why endosperm cellularization is essential for embryo survival and reveal a connection to dehydration responses. Background: In most angiosperms, the endosperm initiates as a coenocyte and starts to cellularize after a defined number of nuclear…

Junbei Ni: The Plant Cell First Author

Junbei Ni, first author of "The ethylene-responsive transcription factor PpERF9 represses PpRAP2.4 and PpMYB114 via histone deacetylation to inhibit anthocyanin biosynthesis in pear" Current Position: Associate Professor, College of Agriculture & Biotechnology, Zhejiang University Education:…

Yongming Chen: The Plant Cell First Author

Yongming Chen, co-first author of “The translational landscape of bread wheat during grain development” Current Position: Postdoc in China Agricultural University Education: PhD in China Agricultural University Interests: Music, Movie Brief bio: I received my PhD from China Agricultural…

Yiwen Guo: The Plant Cell First Author

Yiwen Guo, co-first author of “The translational landscape of bread wheat during grain development” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in China Agricultural University Education: Bachelor, Northeast Forestry University Interests: Travel, Photography, Reading Brief bio: During the undergraduate…

Lignin chemistry is fine-tuned on the nanoscale by different combinations of LACCASES

Blaschek et al. explore the spatial control of lignin chemistry. Leonard Blaschek1 and Edouard Pesquet1,2,3 1 Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP), Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå…

MtNRT2.1 controls root nodule formation in response to the ambient nitrate concentration

Luo et al. investigate how nitrate transporters direct root nodule formation in a legume. By Zhenpeng Luo & Fang Xie CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.  Background: Nitrogen…