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Mei Niu: The Plant Cell First Author

Mei Niu, first author of “Rice DWARF AND LOW-TILLERING and the homeodomain protein OSH15 interact to regulate internode elongation via orchestrating brassinosteroid signaling and metabolism” Current Position: Research Assistant in Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Education: PhD…

Xingbo Cai: The Plant Cell First Author

Xingbo Cai, co-first author of "ERECTA regulates seed size independent of its intracellular domain via MAPK-DA1-UBP15 signaling" Current Position:  Ph.D. student, The University of Texas at Austin Education: M.S., Hebei Normal University, China B.S., Hebei Normal University, China Non-scientific…

Xuedan Wu: The Plant Cell First Author

Xuedan Wu, co-first author of "ERECTA regulates seed size independently of its intracellular domain via MAPK-DA1-UBP15 signaling" Education: Ph.D., Hebei Normal University China; B.S., HuiHua College of Hebei Normal University, China Non-scientific Interests: Travel, Reading and photography Brief…

18S rRNA processing factors in maize

Wang et al. find an RNA 3’-terminal phosphate cyclase-like protein that participates in processing the 18S ribosomal RNA in maize. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac052 by Tao Wang and Jun Yang The National Engineering Laboratory of Crop Resistance Breeding, School of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural…

Jieming Jiang: The Plant Cell First Author

Jieming Jiang, first author of "A diRNA–protein scaffold module mediates SMC5/6 recruitment in plant DNA repair" Current Position: Associate Research Fellow Education: South China Normal University, Doctor Non-scientific Interests: Keep pets, Travel Brief bio: I joined the research team…

Shuxian Huang: The Plant Cell First Author

Shuxian Huang, first author of “The plant ESCRT component FREE1 regulates peroxisome-mediated turnover of lipid droplets in germinating Arabidopsis seedlings” Current Position:  Research Associate, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Education: Ph.D. in The Chinese…