Isoform specificity in plant COPII gene families
Chang et al. discover the phenotypic consequences of different isoforms of Coat Protein Complex II genes in the moss Physcomitrium patens.
Background: Vesicles that form on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and are bound for the Golgi apparatus are coated in a complex of proteins known as Coat Protein…
Hua Qin: The Plant Cell First Author
Hua Qin, first author of "Orchestration of ethylene and gibberellin signals determines primary root elongation in rice"
Current Position: Assistant Investigator, Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Education: Postdoc and Ph.D., (Biochemistry…
PI4P production at the plasma membrane: A giant protein complex for a tiny lipid
Noack et al. provide insight into the biosynthesis of an important plasma membrane lipid.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab135
Lise Noack and Yvon Jaillais
Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, F-69342,…
Sanghun Lee: The Plant Cell First Author
Sanghun Lee, first author of "Broad spectrum fungal resistance in sorghum is conferred through the complex regulation of an immune receptor gene embedded in a natural antisense transcript"
Current Position: Research Associate of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University, USA
Education: BS…
High temperature and heredity
Joke De Jaeger-Braet & Arp Schnittger, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, Department of Developmental Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany
De Jaeger-Braet and colleagues explore the effects of high temperatures on meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis.
Background: One of the hidden,…
Yuhao Liu: The Plant Cell First Author
Yuhao Liu, co-first author of "Arabidopsis CHROMATIN REMODELING 19 acts as a transcriptional repressor and contributes to plant pathogen resistance"
Current position: Postdoc in Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Education: PhD (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)…
Huijia Kang: The Plant Cell First Author
Huijia Kang, co-first author of “Arabidopsis CHROMATIN REMODELING 19 acts as a transcriptional repressor and contributes to plant pathogen resistance"
Current Position: Postdoc in School of Life Sciences Fudan University
Education: PhD (Biochemistry and molecular biology) in Fudan University;…
Jeong Hun Kim: The Plant Cell First Author
Jeong Hun Kim, first author of "FYVE2, a phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate effector, interacts with the COPII machinery to control autophagosome formation in Arabidopsis"
Current Position : Ph.D student (advisor : Taijoon Chung), Pusan National University, South Korea
Education: Bachelor’s degree…
Lei Tian: The Plant Cell First Author
Lei Tian, co-first author of "The N-terminally truncated helper NLR NRG1C antagonizes immunity mediated by its full-length neighbors NRG1A and NRG1B"
Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Education: B.Sc., Nankai University,…