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Ming Chen: The Plant Cell First Author

Ming Chen, first author of “Rapid Growth of Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis): Cellular Roadmaps, Transcriptome Dynamics, and Environmental Factors” Current Position: PhD student, Nanjing Forestry University Education: BSc Jiangsu Normal University Non-scientific Interests: Tennis, Travelling…

Lei Li: The Plant Cell First Author

Lei Li, first author and co-correspondence author of “Defects in autophagy lead to selective in vivo changes in turnover of cytosolic and organelle proteins in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Professor, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, College…

Cunman He: The Plant Cell First Author

Cunman He, first author of "The retrograde signalling regulator ANAC017 recruits the MKK9-MPK3/6, ethylene, and auxin signalling pathways to balance mitochondrial dysfunction with growth"  Current position: Research officer, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Education: MS, School of…

COP1 promotes abscisic acid signaling in the dark

Peng et al. discover that COP1, a central repressor of seedling photomorphogenic development, positively regulates ABA signal transduction during Arabidopsis seedling growth in darkness by mediating ABA-induced ABI5 accumulation.  By Jing Peng and Jigang Li  Background: The phytohormone abscisic…

A Contextualized Catalog: Proteomic analyses of plant CCVs

Dahhan et al. explore the clathrin-coated vesicle proteome in Arabidopsis By Dana A. Dahhan and Sebastian Y. Bednarek, Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison Background: Trafficking of vacuolar and plasma membrane proteins and other macromolecules is essential for plant development, nutrient uptake,…

Junting Pan: The Plant Cell First Author

Junting Pan, co-first author of “A plastid-encoded protein Orf2971 is required for protein translocation and chloroplast quality control” Current Position: Ph.D candidate, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: Master (2018) from Nanjing Agricultural University Non-scientific…

Jiale Xing: The Plant Cell First Author

Jiale Xing, co-first author of “A plastid-encoded protein Orf2971 is required for protein translocation and chloroplast quality control” Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: Ph.D. (2018) from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Non-scientific…

Homospermidine oxidase catalyzes the formation of a bicyclic ring system as part of the chemical defense of plants

Zakaria and Stegemann et al. identify and characterize an enzyme involved in pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis in a member of the borage family. Mahmoud M. Zakariaa,b, Thomas Stegemanna,b, Dietrich Obera a Botanical Institute and Botanic Gardens, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany b Department…

Short-term memory of warm daytime in Arabidopsis

Murcia et al. discover how plants store information about daytime temperatures to control stem growth during the night. By Germán Murcia, Cristina Nieto, Romina Sellaro, Salomé Prat, and Jorge J. Casal Background: Plants increase their stature in response to warm temperatures by enhancing stem…