The Plant Cell

Deyue Yang, co-first author of “Progressive chromatin silencing of ABA biosynthesis gene permits seed germination in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Senior Research Fellow, Southern University of Science and Technology, China Education: B.S. in Biology, Nanjing University, China; PhD in Plant…

Author(s) and Institutions: Leelyn Chong and Yingfang Zhu State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China Sanya Institute, Henan University, Sanya, 572025, China Leelyn Chong and colleagues provide cues as to how plants…

Plant Cell Webinar: Celebrating the May 2022 Focus Issue on Plant Biotic Interactions Plant Biotic Interactions (Part 1)  Recorded Tuesday, May 17, 2022   About This Webinar As much as half of all the calories produced by plant crops is lost to pathogens. Efforts to strengthen plant immunity…

Dingyue Wang, co-first author of “Chromatin remodeling complexes regulate genome architecture in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Peking University, China Education: B.S., Capital Normal University, China Non-scientific Interests: Basketball, bodybuilding, travel Brief…

Tingting Yang, co-first author of “Chromatin remodeling complexes regulate genome architecture in Arabidopsis” Current Position: Postdoc, Peking University, China Education: B.S., Qingdao Agriculture University, China M.S., Northwest A&F University, China Ph.D, Max Planck Institute…

Alan Wanke, co-first author of "Fungi hijack a ubiquitous plant apoplastic endoglucanase to release a ROS scavenging β-glucan decasaccharide to subvert immune responses" Current Position: Research Assistant in the group of Dr Sebastian Schornack (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge,…

Balakumaran Chandrasekar, co-first author of "Fungi hijack a ubiquitous plant apoplastic endoglucanase to release a ROS scavenging β-glucan decasaccharide to subvert immune responses" Current Position:   Assistant Professor (Plant Biotechnology), Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute…

Li et al. developed a new tool called LeafNet for segmenting and quantifying stomata and pavement cells. Background: Stomata are microscopic openings in the leaf epidermis that allow for oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange between a plant and the atmosphere. The phenotypes of stomata and the surrounding…