Recognizing The Plant Cell author Pierre Buscaill
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Pierre Buscaill, first author of Defeated by the nines: nine extracellular strategies to avoid MAMP recognition in plants
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Plant Chemetics Lab of Prof. Renier A.L. van der Hoorn at the University of Oxford.
Education: PhD Biology (National…
Molecular Mechanism for the CO-FT Module
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLv et al. investigate the molecular basis for the specific regulation of FT by CONSTANS. The Plant Cell (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab016
By Xinchen Lv and Jiamu Du
Background: During the floral transition, plants perceive various environmental and endogenous signals to trigger…
The secret arsenal of phytopathogenic fungi
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMartínez-Cruz et al. identify fungal effectors with chitinase activity, which suppress chitin-triggered immunity.
by Jesús Martínez-Cruza,b, Diego Romeroa,b, Jesús Hierrezueloa,b, Michael Thonc, Antonio de Vicentea,b and Alejandro Pérez-Garcíaa,b
aDepartamento de Microbiología, Facultad…
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Kirk Amundson
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Kirk Amundson, first author of Rare instances of haploid inducer DNA in potato dihaploids and ploidy-dependent genome instability
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Davis, Davis CA USA
Education: B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Minnesota
Non-scientific interests:…
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Carmen Martín-Pizarro
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Carmen Martín-Pizarro, first author of The NAC transcription factor FaRIF controls fruit ripening in strawberry
Current position: Postdoc at the Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture (IHSM – UMA – CSIC)
Education: BSc in Biological Science and PhD in Molecular Biology (University…
A New Tool for Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWinkler et al. describe a tool to visualize and quantify protein-protein interactions inside Nicotiana benthamiana cells. The Plant Cell (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab004
Background: Interactions between proteins (protein-protein interactions, PPIs) are an essential aspect of how life…
Chlamydomonas genomics: no longer going it alone
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBy Rory J. Craig, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
Craig and colleagues report the sequencing and gene annotations of close and more distant relative of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, an emerging model organism for plant biology.
Background: The single-cell…
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Shajahan Anver
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Shajahan Anver, co-first author of Gene expression evolution in pattern-triggered immunity within Arabidopsis thaliana and across Brassicaceae species
Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment & UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London
Education: …
Chlamydomonas keeps the rhythm going
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBy Patrice Salomé, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Salomé and Merchant analyze hundreds of RNA-seq samples in the single-cell green alga and discover vast co-expression potential and surprising residual synchronized expression across samples derived from cultures…