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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
The Plant Cell Welcomes New Assistant Features Editors for 2022
The Plant Cell welcomes our new cohort of Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) for 2022. Sixteen newly appointed AFEs join 8 continuing on from 2021, and we welcome 4 new Chinese-language AFEs. We thank 16 AFEs completing their terms of service. These talented individuals share their passion for communicating the fascination and importance of plant science by writing In Brief article summaries for the journal and receive training in editorial board activities and peer review through our AFE mentoring program.
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Webinar to Celebrate The Plant Cell Focus Issue on Cell Biology
Join us in January for a pair of webinars to celebrate The Plant Cell January 2022 Focus Issue on Cell Biology. The first of these, which will be be held on January 13 at 8 AM GMT, features talks by Byung-Ho Kang on "Electron microscopy analysis of plant organelles and correlative microscopy approaches" and Yansong Miao on "Molecular condensation in actin remodeling during plant immune signaling" and will be moderated by Liwen Jiang. The event will be best viewed live by those in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, and a recording will be provided after the event. This webinar is free to attend but registration is required.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
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Colored LEDs in linear arrangements can cause lighting flaws that may affect your research. Percival has solved this problem with SciBrite – colored LED lighting with unparalleled uniformity and up to eight evenly mixed colors. No other colored lighting measures up to SciBrite!
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Plant Direct Article of the Week: Distinct C4 sub-types and C3 bundle sheath isolation in the Paniceae grasses
The spotlight is on Jacob D. Washburn, Josh Strable, Patrick Dickinson, Satya S. Kothapalli, Julia M. Brose, Sarah Covshoff, Gavin C. Conant, Julian M. Hibberd, and Joseph Chris Pires. Using five species from the grass tribe Paniceae, they show that, although in some species transcripts and enzymes involved in multiple C4 acid decarboxylases accumulate, in others, transcript abundance and enzyme activity is almost entirely from one decarboxylase. In addition, they show that the development of a bundle sheath isolation procedure for a close C3 species in the Paniceae enables the preliminary exploration of C4 sub-type evolution.
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- Electroporation Competent Cell
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.CHANGING CULTURES AND CLIMATES
The mission of Changing Cultures and Climates is to provide information that supports and promotes diversity, inclusivity, and equity in the international plant science community so that it grows to more accurately reflect that of our larger, global society.
Project Biodiversify: Tools for Promoting Diversity and Inclusivity in Biology Classrooms
A repository of teaching materials and methods aimed at enhancing human diversity and inclusivity in biology courses. People — including students and biologists — exhibit a diverse set of backgrounds and identities. However, most biology students are not exposed to a diversity of role models in the field of biology, and many students are taught about biology in a way that (often unintentionally) does not feel inclusive to them or their communities. Project Biodiversify is an online space that promotes the humanization, diversification, and inclusivity of biology classrooms.
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Scientists from Historically Excluded Groups Face a Hostile Obstacle Course
Unequal attrition from science is often described as a "leaky pipeline." In an article in Nature Geoscience, the authors argue that the image of a "hostile obstacle course" is a better image, as it can aid in the construction of a more equitable STEMM enterprise by emphasizing the need to identify barriers to participation and calls for their removal.
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Share Your Moment in the Spotlight with ASPB Members!
ASPB would like to highlight news coverage about plant science. If you or your research is being highlighted in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, online, or other sources, please let us know! Just send a quick note, URL, and other relevant information to ASPB News production manager, Diane McCauley, at diane@aspb.org.
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.PLANTAE JOBS
The Plantae Job Center offers job seekers and employers a great resource for finding the right match of people to careers. Job seekers get free access to a searchable list of jobs specific to science careers, as well as access to the Mentoring Center and to a list of available internships. Employers who post a job get access to over 500 searchable profiles of job seekers. With over 140,000 unique page views in 2020, the Plantae Job Center is your resource for finding your next opportunity or your next hire. Below are just a few of the jobs currently listed on the site.
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.PLANT SCIENCE EVENTS
For plant science events, make sure to check out the Global Plant Science Events Calendar. Also, check the calendar for the latest cancellations and postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as webinars and online events you can join.
.FROM THE FIELD
How Plants Respond to Heat Stress
From the Technical University of Munich
Plants, like other organisms, can be severely affected by heat stress. To increase their chances of survival, they activate the heat shock response, a molecular pathway also employed by human and animal cells for stress protection. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have now discovered that plant steroid hormones can promote this response in plants.
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Multi-Dimensional Leaf Phenotypes Reflect Root System Genotype in Grafted Grapevine Over the Growing Season
From GigaScience
Here, Harris et al. investigate associations between rootstock genotype and shoot system phenotypes using five multi-dimensional leaf phenotyping modalities measured in a common grafted scion: ionomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, morphometrics, and physiology. Rootstock influence is ubiquitous but subtle across modalities, with the strongest signature of rootstock observed in the leaf ionome. Moreover, they find that the extent of rootstock influence on scion phenotypes and patterns of phenomic covariation are highly dynamic across the season.
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Could Causal Discovery in Proteogenomics Assist in Understanding Gene-Protein Relations? A Perennial Fruit Tree Case Study Using Sweet Cherry as a Model
From Cells
Among the numerous research areas of biology, the interactions of proteins and genes of an organism as well as the expression of genes and proteins are a topic of paramount importance. A popular method that aims to analyze the diversity of different biological samples is large-scale transcriptome profiling. Most transcriptome analyses focus on specific organs or entire organizations, such as plants. Moreover, new trends in research aiming at better understanding of gene function, have lead to an undiminished interest in the study of transcriptome profiles of specific tissues or cells. Proteogenomics is a new approach that opens new horizons in the analysis of proteomic and genomic data.
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Lychee Genome Tells a Colorful Story About a Colorful Tropical Fruit
From the University of Buffalo
Lychees have been grown in China since ancient times, with records of cultivation dating back about 2,000 years. Fresh lychees were an object of such desire that in the Tang Dynasty, one emperor set up a dedicated horse relay to deliver the fruits to the imperial court from harvests made far to the south. Now, scientists have used genomics to peer even deeper into the lychee's history. And in the process, they've uncovered insights that could help shape the species' future, too.
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New Method to Complete Genetic Data
From the University of Göttingen via Science Daily
The use of genetic information is now indispensable for modern plant breeding. Even though DNA sequencing has become much cheaper since the human genome was decoded for the very first time in 2003, collecting the full genetic information still accounts for a large part of the costs in animal and plant breeding. One trick to reduce these costs is to sequence only a very small and randomly selected part of the genome and to complete the remaining gaps using mathematical and statistical techniques. An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen has developed a new methodological approach for this.
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Researchers Resurrect Coffee-Destroying Fungus — to Study It
From The Scientist
Lily Peck entered the cryogenic freezer, clad in a face shield and thick gloves for protection against the dry ice, while a colleague watched the door to ensure it didn't lock. The carbon dioxide and water vapor rose in clouds around her, she recalls in an interview with The Scientist, as she reached for the rack with the preserved fungal strains, careful not to burn her skin on the icy trays. Stored in glass vials, these sinister strains once presented a deadly threat to coffee and other important crop plants, but had been dormant in this freezer for as long as 50 years. Peck, a grad student at Imperial College London, was here to awaken them.
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Researchers Seek to Better Understand Role of Individual Soil Microorganisms
From West Virginia University
One of the largest reservoirs of carbon and home to billions of microorganisms, soil is a highly complex ecosystem that is essential to a healthy climate. As climate change continues to alter the Earth's temperature and precipitation patterns, West Virginia University researchers hope to develop more precise predictions about the role specific soil microorganisms play in the carbon cycle.
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Researchers Discover 12-Foot Begonia, Thought to Be the Biggest in Asia
From the Daily Mail
A huge begonia plant standing at almost 12 feet tall with a stem comparable to a human arm has been discovered in Tibet. Researchers in China have classified the plant, discovered last year, as a new species of begonia, called Begonia giganticaulis. The begonia is so big that staff at the Chenshan Herbarium in Shanghai are applying for Guinness World Records title for their B. giganticaulis specimen. Despite only just being classified, its conservation status should be assigned to "endangered," according to researchers, due to its scarcity.
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Seeking: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Trainers and Consultants to work with a group of plant science academic organizations as they carry out an NSF-funded project aimed at rooting out oppression and effecting long-term cultural change. Several different opportunities exist within this call for proposals, see website for more information. Proposal review begins January 14, 2022.
The spotlight is on Iowa State University researchers Natalie M. Clark, James Mitch Elmore, and Justin W. Walley, who write in our December 2021 issue about updates on the state-of-the-art techniques in the single-cell proteomics field, discuss limitations for single-cell proteomics profiling in plant systems, and review potential applications for single-cell multi-omics profiling toward answering open questions in plant biology.
The spotlight is on Ben P. Williams, Lindsey L. Bechen, Deborah A. Pohlmann, and Mary Gehring. These researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research show that analysis of a mutant null for all four DNA demethylases in Arabidopsis vegetative tissues expands our understanding of the targets and function of DNA demethylation.