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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Celebrate Plant Cells with The Plant Cell in a Special Webinar January 25
Join us for a special webinar on January 25 at 11 AM EST (4 PM GMT) to celebrate the January 2022 Focus Issue of The Plant Cell on the topic of Cell Biology. The host is Adrienne Roeder (Cornell), the speakers are Magdalena Bezanilla (Dartmouth) and Joke De Jaeger-Braet (Hamburg), and the moderator is Vijaya Lakshmi Battala (Cornell). The webinar is free to attend, but registration is required.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Announcing a New Editor-in-Chief for Plant Direct
ASPB, SEB, and Wiley are delighted to announce that we have appointed Larry York as the new Editor-in-Chief for Plant Direct. Larry is a plant ecophysiologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; his work focuses on whole-plant physiology and carbon-use efficiency with a focus on roots and plant responses to soil stresses.
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The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Fast and global reorganization of the chloroplast protein biogenesis network during heat acclimation
The spotlight is on Raphael Trösch, Fabian Ries, Lisa Désirée Westrich, Yang Gao, Claudia Herkt, Julia Hoppstädter, Johannes Heck-Roth, Matthieu Mustas, David Scheuring, Yves Choquet, Markus Räschle, Reimo Zoschke, and Felix Willmund. They demonstrate that heat exposure at 40°C leads to specific temporary changes of chloroplast translation, primarily affecting antenna proteins of the photosynthesis machinery.
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Apply Now: L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship
Applications for the 2022 L'Oréal USA For Women in Science program are now open and will close on Friday, January 28, 2022. If you are an eligible postdoc in the US, consider applying for one of these $60,000 fellowship awards.
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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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Top Twelve Evidenced-Based DEI Best Practices
Are you struggling to help your department or colleagues employ best DEI practices? Check out this list of 12 best practices, with references. "Establishing ground rules to have honest conversations about racism, to hold one another accountable to interrogate racism, and to keep the conversations confidential created a space where faculty trusted one another and focused on taking action toward change. These practices mediated White faculty learning that racially equity work involves emotional commitment, while validating the experiences of racially minoritized faculty."
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- DNA methylation
- ChIP
- Bisulfite modification of DNA
- Endonucleases digestion
- Histone modifications
- Mass spectrometry
- ChIP
- DNaseI hypersensitivity assays
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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
Announcing a New Interactive Database of Women in Botany
The University of Regensburg in Germany has launched a new database containing bio- and bibliographical information on about 10,000 women active in all fields of botany. The database is interactive, and additional entries and corrections are welcome.
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Readying Wheat with Climate Resiliency
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are practicing "tough love" when it comes to preparing wheat for the climate challenges ahead. In growth-chamber experiments in Peoria, Illinois, they're subjecting more than a dozen varieties of this important staple cereal crop to a one-two punch of stressors. The first comes from exposure to carbon dioxide (CO2) levels of up to 1,000 parts per million — an atmospheric concentration of the greenhouse gas that's projected for the turn of the century absent mitigation measures. The other stressor is infection by an insidious fungus known as Fusarium graminearum.
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Across the Boreal Forest, Scientists Are Tracking Warming's Toll
From Yale Environment 360
The Marcell Experimental Forest was established in 1962 to investigate the ecology and hydrology of the boreal forest, which in North America extends from the Lake Superior area of the northern United States to northern Canada and Alaska. Boreal woodlands — the world's largest forest system, holding vast carbon-rich peatlands — also cover Scandinavia and much of Russia. In the past several decades, the research focus at Marcell has shifted to the impacts of global warming on the boreal forest, with more than 50 experiments now underway.
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Scientists ID Dozens of Plants, Animals from Free-Floating DNA
From The Scientist
For a little more than a decade, scientists have been filtering water samples from aquariums, rivers, lakes, and even the ocean to obtain DNA that was shed by fish and other aquatic life. The goal: to use this environmental DNA (eDNA) to monitor aquatic species. Now, a trio of papers — two on animals, and one on plants — suggest it's also possible to detect and identify terrestrial organisms using eDNA floating in the air.
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The Green Planet: Plants as You Have Never Seen Them Before
From New Scientist
Presented by David Attenborough, The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans. As a spectacle, it is a world away from The Private Life of Plants, the BBC's last in-depth look at plants from 25 years ago. Through advances in filming techniques and scientific understanding, The Green Planet shows plants not only as we have never seen them before, but as we struggle to even imagine them: locked in vicious competition for resources, strategizing to gain the upper hand, helping each other and even communicating.
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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Signaling
From the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are key signaling modules downstream of receptors/sensors that perceive either endogenously produced stimuli such as peptide ligands and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) or exogenously originated stimuli such as pathogen/microbe-associated molecular patterns (P/MAMPs), pathogen-derived effectors, and environmental factors. In this review, Zhang et al. provide a historic view of plant MAPK research and summarize recent advances in the establishment of MAPK cascades as essential components in plant immunity, response to environmental stresses, and normal growth and development.
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Research Suggests Foliar Fungicides Help Increase Soybean Yield in Some Regions
From Pennsylvania State University
While previous studies have shown little economic benefit associated with using foliar fungicides in soybean as a preventive measure, new research aided by a Penn State plant pathologist suggests otherwise, especially in southern regions. The findings will help growers in the U.S. understand how foliar fungicides — applied to leaves — fit into overall soybean production practices, noted Paul Esker, associate professor of epidemiology and field crop pathology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, who collaborated with Denis Shah, associate scientist in the Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University.
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The First Newly Identified Plant Species of 2022 Was Named After Leonardo DiCaprio
From Smithsonian Magazine
Leonardo DiCaprio has been a vocal environmental activist for years, and scientists honored his efforts by naming a critically endangered plant — and the first plant species described by science this year — after him, Damian Carrington reports for The Guardian. The plant, Uvariopsis dicaprio, is an evergreen tree found in Cameroon. It reaches about 13 feet tall and has glossy, yellow-green leaves growing in bunches along its trunk. Researchers credit DiCaprio's activism with helping save the tropical Ebo Forest, the plant's home.
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You are invited to submit an abstract for the Plant Biology 2022 Worldwide Conference, a joint meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists. The deadline for your abstract to be considered for a concurrent symposium presentation is March 11, 2022. 
The spotlight is on Ayako N. Sakamoto, Tomoaki Sakamoto, Yuichiro Yokota, Mika Teranishi, Kaoru O. Yoshiyama, and Seisuke Kimura. The results of their research suggest that PpSOG1a and PpSOG1b work redundantly on DNA damage response (DDR) in Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens; in addition, plant-specific DDR systems had been established before the emergence of vascular plants.
The spotlight is on Lenka Kuběnová, Michaela Tichá, Jozef Šamaj, and Miroslav Ovečka. These researchers from Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, show that structural sterols might participate in delivering GFP-RHD2 to the apical plasma membrane of developing root hairs.