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Chan Liu: The Plant Cell First Author

Chan Liu, first author of “AP1/2β-Mediated Exocytosis of Tapetum-Specific Transporters Is Required for Pollen Development in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Current Position: Ph.D. candidate (job hunting), Lanzhou University, China Education: Master degree from Zhejiang Normal University, China Non-scientific…

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…

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…