Yang Yang: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
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
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
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
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHu 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
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
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
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
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
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHongqing 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
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
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
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMa 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
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
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:…