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:
#DiversifyPlantSci
https://rdale1.shinyapps.io/diversifyplantsci/
Plant Physiology Synbio Initiative https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/190/1/180/6613939
Pandemic-related effects on publishing are gendered:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01294-9
https://elifesciences.org/articles/76559

Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33024566/
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