S6E5: Transforming plants and the culture of publishing

In this episode, we speak with Yunde Zhao, a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California San Diego. Yunde earned his Bachelors in Biochemistry from East China University of Science and Technology, received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan, and did his postdoctoral training in plant genetics at the Salk Institute, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. In January 2022, Yunde started his appointment as the Editor-in-Chief of Plant Physiology, one of the oldest plant journals. We discuss a recent paper from Yunde’s lab describing a fast and non-invasive method for monitoring plant transformations, and talk about the transformations that are needed in the publishing world. We also address a recent controversy about diversity among some newly appointed Plant Physiology editors. Show Notes: Plant Physiology Synbio Initiative Pandemic-related effects on publishing are gendered: Paper: He, Zhang, Sun, Zhan, and Zhao. A reporter for noninvasively monitoring gene expression and plant transformation. (2020). Horticulture Research 19:152. Twitter Handles: Liz Haswell Twitter @ehaswell Ivan Baxter Twitter @baxtertwi Yunde Zhao Twitter @YundeZhao

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S6E5: Transforming plants and the culture of publishing is an episode from The Taproot by Plantae / American Society of Plant Biologists.

This episode is 0:43:54 long.

This episode was published on Jan 24, 2023.

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