Category: The Plant Cell

Choon-Peng Chng, co-first author of "Potentiation of plant defense by bacterial outer membrane vesicles is mediated by membrane nanodomains" Current Position: Post Doc in Prof. Changjin Huang’s research group at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University…

Koga et al. identified a mechanism that produces heterophylly in aquatic plants grown either submerged in water or in air.  Plant Cell.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab192 By Hiroyuki Koga, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. Background: Amphibious plants,…

Peng Zhou, first author of "Prediction of conserved and variable heat and cold stress response in maize using cis-regulatory information" Current Position: Principal Investigator at Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) Education: Postdoc (Maize Genetics) and…

Lopez-Obando et al. unravel the complex pathways for the perception of strigolactones and related compounds in the moss Physcomitrium patens.  By Ambre Guillory1, Mauricio Lopez-Obando2, Alexandre de Saint Germain3, and Sandrine Bonhomme3 1Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Microbes Environnement…

Leiyun Yang, first author of "Reduction of the canonical function of a glycolytic enzyme enolase triggers immune responses that further affect metabolism and growth in Arabidopsis" Current Position: Postdoc, Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, USA Education:…

Lee et al. use a co-fractionation mass spectrometry pipeline to predict the compositions of cytosolic protein complexes present during early rice seed development. The Plant Cell (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab182  Background: Many proteins act as components of multiprotein complexes that…

Simon C. “Niels” Groen, first author of “Evolutionary systems biology reveals patterns of rice adaptation to drought-prone agro-ecosystems” Current Position: Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology at the University of California, Riverside Education: BSc and MSc in Biology,…

Yang et al. study the role of the SMC5/6 complex during reproductive development in Arabidopsis. By Ales Pecinka a, Fen Yang a, Nadia Fernández-Jiménez b and Mónica Pradillo b a Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Acad Sci, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural…