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Bae Young Choi: The Plant Cell First Author

Bae Young Choi, co-first author of “The Chlamydomonas bZIP transcription factor BLZ8 confers oxidative stress tolerance by inducing the carbon-concentrating mechanism” Current position: Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Plant Cell Biology, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea Education:…

VDAL transgenic cotton exhibits tolerance to Verticillium wilt caused by Verticillium dahliae

Ma et al. investigate a VDAL protein from Verticillium dahliae that can enhance plant disease. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab221 By Aifang Ma, Zhizhong Gong and Junsheng Qi Background: Verticillium wilt, also called a plant cancer disease, causes massive losses in multiple crops…

Yuan Huang: The Plant Cell First Author

Yuan Huang, first author of the research article “Species-specific gene partial duplication in Arabidopsis thaliana evolved novel phenotypic effects on morphological traits under strong positive selection” Current Position: Professor at Yunnan Normal University, China Education: Ph.D, Kunming…

Fishing out virus replication complexes

Incarbone et al. use an epitope-tagged protein that binds double-stranded RNAs to fish out viral replication complexes and identify the associated proteins. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab214 Marco Incarbone (GMI, Vienna) and Christophe Ritzenthaler (IBMP, Strasbourg) Background:…

Winter is coming: It’s time to “CRY”

Li et al. reveal how the cryptochrome CRY2 regulates freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab215  By Youping Li Background: Cold acclimation via exposure to non-lethal low temperatures enhances frost resistance in plants. This process requires light; however, we know…

Jonathan Huc: The Plant Cell First Author

Jonathan Huc, first author of "Bypassing reproductive barriers in hybrid seeds using chemically induced epimutagenesis" Current Position: PhD student in Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie (Potsdam, Germany) Education: High School Diploma in Biotechnologies (ESTBA, Paris, 2017),…

An E3 ubiquitin ligase modulates brassinosteroid signaling by targeting the transcription factor BES1 to selective autophagy under sucrose starvation

Wang et al. identify a mechanism by which plants reduce growth under sucrose starvation conditions. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab210 by Ping Wang and Yanhai Yin (Iowa State University)  Background: Plants fine-tune their growth and stress-response programs to adapt to the environment.…

COMPASS functions as a module of the INO80 complex

Shang et al. explore the function of a chromatin-remodeling complex in the regulation of gene expression. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab187 By Ji-Yun Shang and Xin-Jian He  Background: In eukaryotic cells, the INO80 chromatin remodeling complex uses energy derived from ATP hydrolysis…

Toshisangba Longkumer: The Plant Cell First Author

Toshisangba Longkumer, first author of "Spatial differences in stoichiometry of EGR phosphatase and Microtubule-Associated Stress Protein 1 control root meristem activity during drought stress" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica,…