
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Hanna Nishida
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Hanna Nishida, co-first author of Different DNA-binding specificities between NLP and NIN transcription factors underlie nitrate-induced control of root nodulation
Current Position:
Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization…

Recognizing The Plant Cell author Shohei Nosaki
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Shohei Nosaki, co-first author of Different DNA-binding specificities between NLP and NIN transcription factors underlie nitrate-induced control of root nodulation
Current Position: Assistant professor, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Education:…

Recognizing The Plant Cell author Hardik P. Gala
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Hardik P. Gala, first author of A single cell view of the transcriptome during lateral root initiation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Jennifer Nemhauser @ University of Washington, Department of Biology
Education: PhD in Cell biology with Prof. Jyotsna…

Recognizing The Plant Cell author Fanli Meng
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Fanli Meng, first author of Genomic editing of intronic enhancers unveils their roles in regulation of tissue-specific gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current Position: Professor, College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University (NEAU), China
Education: Ph.D., Genetics at Shenyang…

The final (algal) frontier: Chlamydomonas enters the age of single cell RNA-seq
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMa, Salomé and colleagues use single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) on the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a proof-of-concept for the application of this method to unicellular algae.
By Patrice A. Salomé, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA*
Background: The sequenced…

Recognizing The Plant Cell author Niklas Klusch
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Niklas Klusch, first author of A ferredoxin bridge connects the two arms of plant mitochondrial complex I
Current Position: PhD student, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Education: BSc in Biology, MSc in Cell Biology and Physiology, Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany
Non-scientific Interests:…

Coevolving Chloroplast Proteins
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBy ES Forsythe, AM Williams, DB Sloan, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Forsythe and colleagues measured the rate of variation across thousands of nucleus-encoded and plastid-encoded proteins to then look for evidence of coevolution, suggestive of similar functions…

Recognizing The Plant Cell author Henryk Straube
The Plant Cell: Author Profiles
Henryk Straube, first author of Enhanced nucleotide analysis enables the quantification of deoxynucleotides in plants revealing connections between nucleoside and deoxynucleoside metabolism
Current Position: PhD student, Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants, Institute of…

Pharus genome provides insights into grass evolution
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellMa et al. provide numerous insights into how whole-genome duplication contributed to the origin and diversification of the grass family.
By Peng-Fei Ma, Yun-Long Liu and De-Zhu Li
(Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS)
Background: Whole genome duplication (WGD), which may result from an organism…
