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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Apply for SURF!
Applications are now open for ASPB’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Awards! SURF Awards fund promising undergraduate research in plant biology. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2023. Learn more and apply at http://surf.aspb.org/
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Taproot Season Six, Episode Four is Out!
This episode discusses an article recently published by Jason Williams and their colleagues in Science, entitled “Achieving STEM diversity: Fix the classrooms. Outdated teaching methods amount to discrimination.” This episode talks about the nuance and complexities around improving diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM education, in planning conferences, and in running scientific societies.
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week: Shade Avoidance in the Context of Climate Change
The spotlight is on Jorge J. Casal and Christian Fankhauser for their recent Topical Review. They conclude that the signalling network controlling shade avoidance is not buffered against climate change; rather, it integrates information about shade, temperature, salinity, drought, and likely flooding. They predict that climate change will exacerbate shade-induced growth responses in some regions of the planet while limiting the growth potential in others.
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The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Maize Domestication Phenotypes Reveal Strigolactone Networks Coordinating Grain Size Evolution With Kernel-Bearing Cupule Architecture
The spotlight is on Jiahn-Chou Guan, Changsheng Li, Sherry Flint-Garcia, Masaharu Suzuki, Shan Wu, Jonathan W. Saunders, Lemeng Dong, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Donald R. McCarty, and Karen E. Koch. They show that strigolactones regulate domestication features of kernel-bearing cupule architecture, seed size, and their coordination by networks dependent and/or independent of Tga1 (Teosinte glume architecture 1).
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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.
Indigenous Knowledge is Key to Sustainable Food Systems
From Nature, by Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Agricultural sciences have for too long ignored traditional and local knowledge about crop plants and how best to grow them. That must change if the world is to ensure future food security. Today, food production is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and contributes heavily to climate change and pollution. As such, there has never been more need to establish how Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to the building of resilient, sustainable and nutritious food systems in a way that is equitable.
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Yusdar Mustamin, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan and first author of “FER and LecRK Show Haplotype-Dependent Cold-Responsiveness and Mediate Freezing Tolerance in Lotus japonicus.” It is exciting for Yusdar to have identified the genes that mediate freezing tolerance and have likely contributed to the climate adaptation in the perennial plants. He hopes that his research will provide broad implications for selecting or engineering frost tolerance in crops. In his free time, Yusdar enjoys camping, walking and cooking.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Tianxia Yang, co-first author of “Tomato MED25 Regulates Fruit Ripening by Interacting with EIN3-like Transcription Factors.” She is a Postdoc at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on transcriptional regulation mechanism of fruit ripening and plant defense, as well as application of molecular breeding technology. Her hobby is seal cutting, a form of art that originated in China.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Brian St. Aubin, first author of “Regulatory Dynamics Distinguishing Desiccation Tolerance Strategies Within Resurrection Grasses.” Brian earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and is currently a Computational Biologist with Pairwise. Brian enjoys biking, woodworking, and pottery. In the lab, he is fascinated by the regulation of processes that affect plant development, including the control of cell size, biochemistry restricted to specific cells, responses to the environment, structural rearrangements, and dynamic control of cellular division.
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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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PostDoc: Plant oil Metabolism and Engineering |
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| Washington State University | Pullman, WA
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Postdoctoral research associates and research technician in plant lipid metabolism |
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| Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Lincoln, NE
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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
A Binary Interaction Map Between Turnip Mosaic Virus and Arabidopsis thaliana Proteomes
From Communications Biology via Nature
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that have co-evolved with their hosts to establish an intricate network of protein–protein interactions. Here, we followed a high-throughput yeast two-hybrid screening to identify 378 novel protein–protein interactions between turnip mosaic virus and its natural host Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Broccoli Looks More Like Cauliflower in a Warmer World
From Cornell University
As seasoned gardeners know, broccoli heads don’t develop properly and can resemble cauliflower when grown in higher temperatures.
A new study identifies the genetic underpinnings for why broccoli heads become abnormal when it’s hot, providing insight into effects of climate-induced warming for all crops and pointing the way for breeding heat-resistant new varieties.
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Collective Excitations of Germinating Pollen Grains at Critical Points
From Scientific Reports via Nature
In plants, the germinating pollen grain is a single, elongated cell that serves as a conduit through which gametes pass. Pollen tubes display a fast growth rate, which under certain conditions, changes periodically and is accompanied by ion exchange with the growth environment.
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Fungi Could Be the Future of Healthier Plants
From NC State University
A vital ecosystem is living under our feet. Below the world we see every day is a complex living network, made up of plant roots, nutrients and fungi. Kevin Garcia, an assistant professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, is researching how certain fungi can strengthen this hidden environment and, in turn, sustain the plants we use up above.
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Scientists Develop Novel Method to Explore Plant-Microbe Interactions
From Argonne National Laboratory
Humans benefit greatly from our relationship with plants. We rely on them for food, clean air, medicine, fuel and various other products. However, plants need other partners to thrive. Many plants grow better by establishing relationships with soil microbes.
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How Far Can Vertical Farming Go?
From BBC
While the modern concept of vertical farming – growing food in trays or pipes stacked on top of one another like a giant plant lasagne – dates from around the 1990s, it could be argued that farmers have sought ways to grow more in less space and with less soil for centuries.
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The spotlight is on researchers Hussien F. Alameldin and Beronda L. Montgomery from Michigan State University. Collectively, their phenotypic and transcriptome analyses serve as useful resources for probing the underlying molecular mechanisms associated with plant acclimation to rapid light intensity changes in the natural environment. 