The people behind the papers – Zoe Weeks and Laura Moody

The transition of plants from water to land included the evolution from two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) growth. In their work, Laura Moody and colleagues identify a new factor that encodes aFLOE-related protein, which is essential for the 2D-to-3D growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens. To find out more about their work, we spoke to the first author, Zoe Weeks, and the corresponding author, Laura Moody, Associate Professor in Molecular Plant Biology at the University of Oxford, UK.