Highly Diverse Plant Immune Receptors Form a Species-wide Reservoir of New Recognition Specificities
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellPrigozhin and Krasileva identify highly variable NLR subfamilies responsible for the generation of new immune receptor specificities. The Plant Cell (2021)
By Daniil M. Prigozhin1 and Ksenia V. Krasileva2
1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2University of California Berkeley
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Recognizing The Plant Cell author Boxin Liu
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Boxin Liu, first author of Manipulating ZmEXPA4 Expression Ameliorated Drought-induced Disruption of Anthesis and Silking Interval in Maize
Current Position: job candidate
Education: PhD in Prof. Feng Qin’s Lab at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Non-scientific Interests: Music,…
A Light-Adapted Charge-Separated State for PSII
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellSipka and coworkers show that the closed state of photosystem II holds a formerly unrecognized structural and functional plasticity and upon illumination assumes a light-adapted charge-separated state. [Plant Cell https://academic.oup.com/plcell/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plcell/koab008/6119330]
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Recognizing The Plant Cell author Yang Yu
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Yang Yu, co-first author of The Arabidopsis MATERNAL EFFECT EMBRYO ARREST45 Protein Modulates Maternal Auxin Biosynthesis and Controls Seed Size by Inducing AINTEGUMENTA
Current Position: PhD candidate in Prof. Xian Sheng Zhang’s lab at Shandong Agricultural University, Shangdong, China
Education:…
A SWEET route for phloem loading in maize
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellBezrutczyk et al. use single cell RNA-seq to show that SWEET13 proteins in maize bundle sheath cells are specialized in nutrient transport to the phloem. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaa055.
By Margaret Bezrutczyk and Wolf B. Frommer, Institute for Molecular Physiology, Heinrich-Heine-University…
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Ying Ju Li
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Ying Ju Li, co-first author of The Arabidopsis MATERNAL EFFECT EMBRYO ARREST45 Protein Modulates Maternal Auxin Biosynthesis and Controls Seed Size by Inducing AINTEGUMENTA
Current Position: In the job
Education: BE in college of life sciences, Shangdong Agricultural University, Shangdong, China;…
Aluminum Toxicity and Phosphate Deficiency: One Compound to Rule Them All
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellWei et al. explore how aluminum toxicity and inorganic phosphate limitation inhibit plant growth.
Pengliang Weia,b and Lieven De Veyldera,b
aDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium
bCenter for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium
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Recognizing The Plant Cell author Samuel Koh Wee Han
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Samuel Koh Wee Han, first author of Mapping and engineering of auxin-induced plasma membrane dissociation in BRX family proteins
Current Position: Ph.D. student, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne
Education: MSc in Life Sciences (Hokkaido University, Japan) and BSc in…
Recognizing The Plant Cell author Huaming He
The Plant Cell: Author ProfilesHuaming He first author of The Arabidopsis Mediator complex subunit 8 regulates oxidative stress responses
Current Position: Lecturer, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
Education: Ph.D., VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium; MS, China Agricultural University, China
Non-scientific…