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Thomas Stegemann: The Plant Cell First Author

Thomas Stegemann, co-first author of "Insights into polyamine metabolism: homospermidine is double-oxidized in two discrete steps by a single copper-containing amine oxidase in pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis" Current Position: Senior Application Scientist GC, GC-MS at ThermoFisher Scientific,…

Shuai Wang: The Plant Cell First Author

Shuai Wang, first author of "Phosphorylation of MdERF17 by MdMPK4 Promotes Apple Fruit Peel Degreening during Light/Dark Transitions" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate at China Agricultural University Education: M.S. at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Non-scientific Interests: reading,…

Guo-Qian Yang: The Plant Cell First Author

Guo-Qian Yang, first author of "Activation and negative feedback regulation of SlHY5 transcription by the SlBBX20/21–SlHY5 transcription factor module in UV-B signaling" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai, China). Education:…

Sanbon Chaka Gosa: The Plant Cell First Author

Sanbon Chaka Gosa, co-first author of "Out of the blue: Phototropins of the leaf vascular bundle sheath mediate the regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance by blue light" Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. Andrew Leakey’s research group at the Institute for Genomic Biology,…

Yael Grunwald: The Plant Cell First Author

Yael Grunwald, co-first author of "Out of the blue: Phototropins of the leaf vascular bundle sheath mediate the regulation of leaf hydraulic conductance by blue light" Current Position: TBD Education: PhD in Plant Physiology and MSc in Environmental Biology, both at the Faculty of Agriculture of…

The straw that breaks the camel's back

Wang et al. investigate the downstream effectors of CLE peptide ligand-mediated meristem homeostasis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab315 By Wenping Wang, Chong Hu, Xiaoping Gou and Jing Yi Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences,…

Seung Hee Jo: The Plant Cell First Author

Seung Hee Jo, first author of "The Arabidopsis cyclophilin CYP18-1 facilitates PRP18 dephpshorylation and the splicing of introns retained under heat stress" Education: BSc in School of Biological Science and Technology in Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea Non-scientific Interests: Tasty…

A module controlling endoreduplication and cell growth in Arabidopsis

Jiang et al. discover a module controlling endoreduplication, a process in which DNA replication occurs in the absence of mitosis. Background: Organ size is coordinately regulated by both cell number and cell size. Endoreduplication is often associated with cell size in plants and animals, but the…

The chloroplast protein biogenesis network at the ribosome during heat acclimation

By Raphael Tröscha, Fabian Riesb, Lisa Désirée Westrichb, Felix Willmundb, a Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; b Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotes, University of Kaiserslautern, Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 23, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Trösch,…