Grow less or Grow more, That is the Question
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLongkumer 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…
Yugo Kitazawa: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Yugo Kitazawa, first author of "A phytoplasma effector acts as a ubiquitin-like mediator between floral MADS-box proteins and proteasome shuttle proteins"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of…
A species-specific partial duplicate gene in Arabidopsis thaliana evolved novel morphological effects
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellHuang, Chen and colleagues take advantage of a partial duplicated gene to compare the functions of the partial duplicate and its parental copy.
By Yuan Huang, Jiahui Chen, Shengqian Xia and Manyuan Long, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Background:…
Guokai Xu: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Guokai Xu, first author of "Embryonic reactivation of FLOWERING LOCUS C by ABSCISIC ACID-INSENSITIVE 3 establishes the vernalization requirement in each Arabidopsis generation"
Current Position: Assistant Scientist, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, China
Education: Ph.D.…
An RNA splicing factor regulates temperature-responsive flowering
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellChang et al. discover the role of an evolutionarily conserved splicing factor in regulating temperature-responsive flowering in Arabidopsis.
Background: Eukaryotic genes contain non-coding sequences termed introns that intervene between coding sequences. After being transcribed into pre-mRNA, these…
Dana Amira Dahhan: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Dana Amira Dahhan, co-first author of "Proteomic Characterization of Isolated Arabidopsis Clathrin-Coated Vesicles Reveals Evolutionarily Conserved and Plant Specific Components”
Current Position: PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, USA)
Education: Biochemistry, B.S.…
The developmental importance of the DNA damage response in plants
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLi et al. found that SOG1, a functional homolog of mammalian p53, protects radicle growth when seeds accumulate DNA damage.
By Jinchao Li and Weiqiang Qian, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research and School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Background:…
Xuan Du: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Xuan Du, first author of "Structure of plant RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE 2, an enzyme involved in small interfering RNA production"
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. Sisi Li’s research group at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, International Cancer Center, Shenzhen…
Bian Wu: The Plant Cell First Author
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Bian Wu, first author of “Natural variation in WHITE-CORE RATE 1 regulates redox homeostasis in rice endosperm to affect grain quality”
Current Position: Ph.D. at Huazhong Agricultural University
Education: Ph.D., National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural…