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Prediction of gene responses to heat and cold stress in maize

Zhou and colleagues dissect the transcriptional response of maize seedlings to cold and heat stress and explore to what extent gene expression can be predicted from cis-regulatory motifs in promoters by employing machine learning approaches By Peng Zhou, University of Minnesota Background: Plants…
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Plant Cell Webinar: Highlighting Plant Cell Focus Issue on Cell Biology, Jan 25

This webinar was held, January 25, 2022 About This Webinar In January 2022, The Plant Cell presents a Focus Issue on Cell Biology. In this Focus Issue, we go back to the “roots” of the journal, and the basis for its name, turning our attention to the many fascinating facets of plant cell biology.…

Dynamic Evolution of Self-Incompatibility in Angiosperms

Zhao et al. demonstrate the dynamic evolutionary processes of self-incompatibility in angiosperms.  By Hong Zhao and Yongbiao Xue, State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, and the Innovation Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy…

Shan Jiang: The Plant Cell First Author

Shan Jiang, first author of "The UBP14-CDKB1; 1-CDKG2 cascade controls endoreduplication and cell growth in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). Education: Bachelor’s degree in…

Anchoring Membranes in Cyanobacteria

Ostermeier et al. introduce AncM, a new factor for structuring the photosynthetic membrane system in cyanobacteria. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab253 By Matthias Ostermeier, Steffen Heinz and Jörg Nickelsen at Molecular Plant Science at LMU Munich Background: Cyanobacteria are…

GWAS and the fight against darkness-induced starvation

Feng Zhu and colleagues investigate the time-resolved mGWAS of dark-induced senescence.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab251 By Feng Zhu and Alisdair R. Fernie Background: In cellular circumstances under which nutrients are scarce, plants must degrade polymers to recycle carbon (C) and nitrogen…

Lisa Désirée Westrich: The Plant Cell First Author

Lisa Désirée Westrich, co-first author of “Fast and global reorganization of the chloroplast protein biogenesis network during heat acclimation” Current Position: PhD student in the laboratory of Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotes at the Technische Universtität Kaiserslautern Education: M.…

Raphael Trösch: The Plant Cell First Author

Raphael Trösch, co-first author of “Fast and global reorganization of the chloroplast protein biogenesis network during heat acclimation” Current Position: Post Doc in Dr. Reimo Zoschke’s research group at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm. Education: Ph.D. in…

Fabian Ries: The Plant Cell First Author

Fabian Ries, co-first author of “Fast and global reorganization of the chloroplast protein biogenesis network during heat acclimation” Current Position: PhD student at the laboratory Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotes, University of Kaiserslautern Education: M.Sc. in Microbial and Plant Biotechnology,…