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.…

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,…

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, 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…

Peng Wang, co-first author of "Structural basis and evolution of the photosystem I–light-harvesting supercomplex of cryptophyte algae" Current position：Associate professor, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, China Education：Ph.D (2017), School of Life Sciences, Shandong…

Longsheng Zhao, co-first author of "Structural basis and evolution of the photosystem I–light-harvesting supercomplex of cryptophyte algae"  Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow in State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, and Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao…

Che, Pan, Liu, Li et al. provide insight into fruit length variation in cucumber. By Gen Chea,e, Yupeng Panb, Xiaolan Zhanga,* aState Key Laboratories of Agrobiotechnology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Growth and Developmental Regulation for Protected Vegetable Crops, MOE Joint Laboratory for International…

Dan Yuan, co-first author of "INDETERMINATE1 autonomously regulates phosphate homeostasis upstream of the miR399-ZmPHO2 signaling module in maize" Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University Education: Ph.D. in Huazhong Agricultural University Non-scientific…