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Yang Yang: The Plant Cell First Author

Yang Yang, co-first author of “Multiple cyclic nucleotide-gated channels function as ABA-activated Ca2+ channels required for ABA-induced stomata closure in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science (CEMPS) and University of Chinese…

Yan-Qiu Tan: The Plant Cell First Author

Yan-Qiu Tan, co-first author of “ Multiple cyclic nucleotide-gated channels function as ABA-activated Ca2+ channels required for ABA-induced stomata closure in Arabidopsis.” Current Position: Research assistant Education:  Ph.D. in Botany from CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant…

A handshake between auxin and gibberellin in the cambium

Hu et al. demonstrate how the interactions of gibberellin and auxin signaling components regulate cambial activity during wood formation in poplar. By Jian Hu, Changzheng Xu, and Keming Luo  Background: In trees, the vascular cambium is the population of stem cells that laterally divide and as…

Chia-Nan Tao: The Plant Cell First Author

Chia-Nan Tao, first author of "A single amino acid transporter controls the uptake of priming-inducing beta-amino acids and the associated trade-off between induced resistance and plant growth" Current Position: PhD student at School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield Education: Master…

Bo Yang: The Plant Cell First Author

Bo Yang, first author of "The sugar transporter ZmSUGCAR1 of the Nitrate Transporter 1/Peptide Transporter family is critical for maize grain filling" Current Position: Scientist, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (Plant & Food Research) Education: PhD in plant biology,…

FERONIA holds the key to a better understanding of the molecular interplay in diverse biological processes

Hongqing Guo, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University Wang and colleagues explore the transcriptome, proteome, and phosphoproteome in wild-type and fer mutant plants to dissect known and new functions of the receptor kinase FER. Background: FERONIA (FER) is a…

Antoine Nicolas: The Plant Cell First Author

Antoine Nicolas, first author of "De novo stem cell establishment in meristems requires repression of organ boundary cell fate" Current Position: Looking for a postdoc position in Germany close to Berlin  Education: PhD in Plant Biology at University Paris-Saclay ; MSc and BSc at University Paris-Saclay  Non-scientific…

Chloroplast in Translation: How the tomato RNA-binding protein SlRBP1 regulates translation of nuclear transcripts that encode chloroplast proteins

Ma et al. reveal the role of a key tomato RNA-binding protein in translating the nuclear transcripts that encode chloroplast proteins via its association with a eukaryotic translation initiation factor Background: The nuclear genome encodes most of the proteins that are found in chloroplasts; these…

Xiaojie Tian: The Plant Cell First Author

Xiaojie Tian, co-first author of “WRKY53 negatively regulates rice cold tolerance at the booting stage by fine-tuning anther gibberellin levels” Current Position: Associate Research Fellow, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China Education:…