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Wei Wei: The Plant Cell First Author

Wei Wei, first author of "Proteasomal degradation of MaMYB60 mediated by the E3 ligase MaBAH1 causes high temperature-induced repression of chlorophyll catabolism and green ripening in banana" Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University Education:…

ADP-ribosylation and plant immunity

Yoon, Middleditch, and Rikkerink explore how a Pseudomonas syringae ADP-ribosyl transferase effector modifies RPM1-INTERACTING PROTEIN4 to activate the host R protein RPM1 in disease resistance.  Minsoo Yoon, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand  Background:…

Yuhan Hao: The Plant Cell First Author

Yuhan Hao, first author of "Green means go: Green light promotes hypocotyl elongation via brassinosteroid signaling" Current Position: Assistant Professor in CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS) Education: 2012-2016 Ph.D in Fudan University; 2009-2012 MS in Shenyang Agricultural…

HDT family histone deacetylases are nucleoplasmins

Bobde, Kumar, and Vasudevan explore the properties of a family of predicted histone deactetlyases, finding them to function as nucleoplasmins. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac275 Ruchir C. Bobde, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha - 751023, India; Ashish Kumar, Department of Molecular…

Van Cam Nguyen: The Plant Cell First Author

Van Cam Nguyen, first author of "Distinctly localized lipid phosphate phosphatases mediate endoplasmic reticulum glycerolipid metabolism in Arabidopsis" Current Position:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Plant Lipid Research Team, Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), RIKEN Yokohama, Japan Education: Ph.D.,…