The people behind the papers – Priyanka Govindaraju and Enrico Scarpella

The veins are the vascular networks of plant leaves, functioning as channels for transport of signals and nutrients. A new paper in Development investigates how the spatial regulation of auxin transport contributes to vein patterning in Arabidopsis We caught up with first author Priyanka Govindaraju and her supervisor Enrico Scarpella, Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, to find out more about the work.