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Takashi Akagi: The Plant Cell First Author

Takashi Akagi, co-first author of "Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning" Current Position: Research Professor, Grad Sch Environ Life Sci, Okayama University, Japan Education: B.S., M.S. and PhD in agricultural biology, Kyoto…

Eriko Kuwada: The Plant Cell First Author

Eriko Kuwada, co-first author of "Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning" Current Position: Master candidate, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Japan Education: B.S. in agricultural biology,…

Kanae Masuda: The Plant Cell First Author

Kanae Masuda, co-first author of "Genome-wide cis-decoding for expression design in tomato using cistrome data and explainable deep learning" Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Japan. Education: MSc and BSc in Agricultural…

TOR promotes guard cell starch degradation and stomatal opening

Han et al demonstrate that sugar-activated TOR promotes guard cell starch degradation and stomatal opening. Chao Han and Ming-yi Bai The Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237,…

Rui Xu: The Plant Cell First Author

Rui Xu, co-first author of "The tomato OST1-VOZ1 module regulates drought-mediated flowering" Current Position: PhD student, Henan University, China Education: B.S., Henan Agriculture University, China M.S., Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, China Non-scientific Interests: food and…

Leelyn Chong: The Plant Cell First Author

Leelyn Chong, co-first author of "The tomato OST1-VOZ1 module regulates drought-mediated flowering" Current Position: Associate Professor at Henan University, China Education: Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Life Sciences, Purdue University, Indiana, USA; Master of Science in Nutritional…

Shaopeng Li: The Plant Cell First Author

Shaopeng Li, first author of "LeafNet: A Tool for Segmenting and Quantifying Stomata and Pavement Cells" Current Position: PhD candidate at Wuhan University, China Education: B.S., Wuhan University, China Non-scientific Interests: Reading Brief bio: In 2018, I finished my undergraduate study…

Vernalization response by a cis-element in the VIN3 promoter and the circadian clock

Kyung, Jeon et al. investigated the nature of the molecular mechanism by which winter cold accelerates flowering and discovered that circadian clock regulators are involved. By Jinseul Kyung and Myeongjune Jeon; School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea Background: Appropriate…

Grow less or Grow more, That is the Question

Longkumer et al. explore how plant growth is regulated during drought. Paul E. Verslues and Toshisangba Longkumer, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN Background: Plants can deliberately slow down their growth in response to even a small decrease in water…