The Plant Cell

Matthias Ostermeier, first author of "Thylakoid attachment to the plasma membrane in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 requires the AncM protein" Current Position: PhD student at laboratory of Molecular Plant Sciences, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich Education: M.Sc. in Biology, Ludwig Maximilians…

Steffen Heinz, first author of "Thylakoid attachment to the plasma membrane in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 requires the AncM protein" Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the Molecular Plant Science group, LMU Munich, Germany Education: PhD, Molecular Plant Science group, LMU Munich, Germany;…

Joke De Jaeger-Braet, first author of "Heat stress reveals a specialized variant of the pachytene checkpoint in meiosis of Arabidopsis thaliana" Current Position: Ph.D. Student at IPM (University of Hamburg, Germany) Education:    M.Sc. in Plant Biotechnology (University of Gent, Belgium) B.Sc.…

Pedroza-Garcia report that the necessity for DNA damage response kinases under non-stress conditions is higher in maize than in Arabidopsis, indicating that the mechanisms maintaining genome integrity may be more important for vegetative and reproductive development than previously thought. Plant Cell…

Patricia Ballester Fuentes, first author of "A transcriptional complex of NGATHA and bHLH transcription factors directs stigma development in Arabidopsis" Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at IBMCP (CSIC-UPV, Valencia-Spain). Education: PhD in Biotechnology, Polytechnic University of Valencia,…

Zupok et al. demonstrate that photosynthesis genes encoded on the chloroplast genome can establish hybridization barriers. Plant Cell. (2021)  https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab155 By Arkadiusz Zupok, Danijela Kozul and Stephan Greiner, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam/Golm,…

Furuya et al. identify BEH3 as a stabilizer in the cambium in Arabidopsis thaliana By Tomoyuki Furuyaa,b  and Yuki Kondoa,b. a Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan b Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Background: Just like trees, plants like Arabidopsis…

Yuanyuan Zhou, co-first author of "The calcium-dependent protein kinase CPK28 is targeted by the ubiquitin ligases ATL31 and ATL6 for proteasome-mediated degradation to fine-tune immune signaling in Arabidopsis" Current position: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Doctoral candidate Education:…