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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Registration is Now Open for the Plant Biology 2021 Worldwide Summit
The Plant Biology 2021 Worldwide Summit, powered by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), will be a fully virtual conference that is taking place July 19-23, 2021. Building on the great success of last year's first ever fully virtual ASPB annual conference, which attracted over 2,600 plant scientists from 56 countries, the theme this year is FROM a global audience TO a global audience. Registration and abstract submission are now open. Early bird registration ends June 19, 2021.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Lessons from Plants: A Conversation with Beronda Montgomery
Beronda Montgomery is a professor at Michigan State University in the departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. Her new book, Lessons from Plants, combines her two research interests: how plants explore and optimize their environments to grow and thrive, and how lessons from plants can help us thrive and support others. We'll discuss Beronda's own life path, her advocacy work, and what we can learn from plants. Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating hour, and bring your questions for Beronda!
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Request for Proposals — ASPB Plant BLOOME 2021
ASPB is now accepting proposals for the 2021 Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education (BLOOME). BLOOME is open to ASPB members with education and outreach projects that advance youth, student, and general public knowledge and understanding of plant biology. A maximum award size of $50,000 can be requested for the one-year funding cycle. View the full RFP and apply by April 12, 2021.
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Plantae Presents: Ksenia Krasileva, Christine Diepenbrock, and Rory Craig
Join us for a celebration of the Focus Issue on The Biology of Plant Genomes, published by The Plant Cell, on Wednesday, April 7, at 4pm EDT, 1pm PDT 9pm BST; Thursday, April 8, 8am NZT. Ksenia Krasileva will speak on Analysis of intraspecies diversity reveals a subset of highly variable plant immune receptors and predicts their binding sites, Christine Diepenbrock on Eleven biosynthetic genes explain the majority of natural variation for carotenoid levels in maize grain, and Rory Craig on Comparative genomics of Chlamydomonas. Moderated by Saima Shahid.
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Funding Opportunity to Improve the Predictability of Gene Expression in Plants
Corteva Agriscience™ Open Innovation has released a request for proposals on Plant-derived Insulator Elements for Predictable Gene Expression. Corteva is inviting scientists to submit proposals describing a research plan to identify plant-derived or novel-synthetic DNA sequences that protect gene expression from outside influence and improve predictability in plants.
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week
The spotlight is on Claus Schwechheimer, Shaul Yalovsky, and Viktor Žárský for their Letter, "Auxin does not inhibit endocytosis of PIN1 and PIN2 auxin efflux carriers" It had over 20 Altmetric mentions in the past week.
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The Plant Cell Article of the Week
The spotlight is on Longfei Wang, Guanghong Jia, Xinyu Jiang, Shuai Cao, Z Jeffrey Chen, and Qingxin Song for their article "Altered chromatin architecture and gene expression during polyploidization and domestication of soybean."
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Plant Direct Article of the Week
The spotlight is on Beibei Jing, Toshiki Ishikawa, Nicole Soltis, Noriko Inada, Yan Liang, Gosia Murawska, Lin Fang, Fekadu Andeberhan, Ramana Pidatala, Xiaolan Yu, Edward Baidoo, Maki Kawai‐Yamada, Dominique Loque, Daniel J. Kliebenstein, Paul Dupree, and Jenny C. Mortimer for their article "The Arabidopsis thaliana nucleotide sugar transporter GONST2 is a functional homolog of GONST1."
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Submissions Open for Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Gene Editing and Its Applications
Plant Physiology seeks research article submissions by September 30, 2021, for inclusion in a Focus Issue on the topic of Gene Editing and Its Applications. Rapid advancements in gene editing technology have provided unprecedented capability for scientists to modify plant genomes, revolutionizing basic plant biology research and crop breeding. This Focus Issue will cover a wide range of topics related to gene editing, including technical development and innovative applications in solving biological questions and in overcoming difficulties in crop improvement.
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Call for Papers — Upcoming Focus Issue of Plant Physiology
Submissions now being accepted for the Plant Physiology 2022 Focus Issue on Circadian Rhythms. Editors: Stacey Harmer, Alex Webb, and Christian Fankhauser. Deadline for submission: November 1, 2021. Publication date: July/August 2022.
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Alexis Porcher, postdoctoral researcher at the CEM lab, Institut Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France. Alexis is first author of "Ascorbate-glutathione pathways mediated by cytokinin regulate H2O2 levels in light-controlled rose bud burst." Alexis is in partnership with a private company working on a new tool for weeds control without the use of pesticides.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Zechariah Haber is a PhD student in plant sciences and food security at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is first author of "Resolving diurnal dynamics of the chloroplastic glutathione redox state in Arabidopsis reveals its photosynthetically-derived oxidation." In the future, Zechariah would like to explore desert and marine plants, as potential future crops, allowing us to combat intensifying desertification, biodiversity loss and water scarcity.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Shivani Bhatia. She is first author of "A cellular expression map of epidermal and subepidermal cell layer‐enriched transcription factor genes integrated with the regulatory network in Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem." She earned her PhD in plant molecular biology and developmental genetics from IISER Mohali, India and would like to become a microscopy expert someday.
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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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Are you a member of ASPB, active on Plantae, and have something to celebrate in the #WeAreASPB Spotlight? Contact Shoshana Kronfeld (shoshana@aspb.org) and send her the details.
.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.
.PLANT SCIENCE EVENTS
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| Southern Section ASPB Virtual Meeting 2021
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| Plant Biology 2021 Worldwide Summit
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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
First Known Gene Transfer from Plant to Insect Identified
From Cell via Nature News
Plants produce toxic phenolic glycosides as protections against pests. A new study identified that a gene that detoxifies these compounds was transferred (millions of years ago) from plants into the genome of a subset of Bemisia tabaci whiteflies, which are damaging plant pests. Interestingly, when the authors introduced a gene-silencing contruct into tomato leaves that targets this insect gene, the tomato plants were protected against the pests. Thus, with a little help, plants can regain the upper hand in this arms race.
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Animal 'Relax' Gene Helps Plants Save Water
From Cosmos
In order to save water, plants might be able to use an animal relaxing gene. A team of Australian and German researchers, led by Bo Xu of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, found that the GABA molecule, which is usually associated with relaxation in animals, can help the plant control the size of leaf pores to prevent water loss.
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Researchers Notice Pattern On Surface of Leaves, Uncover New Clue About Plant Evolution
From the University of Tokyo via Phys.org
Doctoral student Yuki Doll has identified a long-overlooked pattern in how plants evolved their equivalent of lungs — tiny pores on the surfaces of leaves called stomata. Using specialized imaging techniques and a plant species not often found in laboratories, the researchers say this discovery reveals a key difference in the evolution of plants that live on land versus those that can grow in water.
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New Protein Helps Carnivorous Plants Sense and Trap Their Prey
From the Salk Institute via Science Daily
The brush of an insect's wing is enough to trigger a Venus flytrap to snap shut, but the biology of how these plants sense and respond to touch is still poorly understood, especially at the molecular level. Now, a new study identifies what appears to be a key protein involved in touch sensitivity for flytraps and other carnivorous plants.
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How We Discovered a Hidden World of Fungi Inside the World's Biggest Seed Bank
From The Conversation
Rowena Hill writes, "We'd spent countless hours meticulously sterilising seeds (1,710, to be specific), filling the lab with a cacophony of rattling as we shook them in bleach. We’d built a fungus city: great tower-blocks of petri dishes stacked on the lab workbenches, with different colours, textures and shapes of fungi all emerging inside. We'd extracted enough DNA that the freezer, stuffed full of tubes, threatened to revolt. Finally the time had come for me to analyse all the data, and discover just what we'd managed to find after all these months of work. In the first study of its kind, to our knowledge, in a major seed bank, we found hundreds of fungi hidden inside seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank, some of which are likely to be species new to science and could be crucial for the future of plant health."
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Not Just CO2: Rising Temperatures Also Alter Photosynthesis in a Changing Climate
From the Journal of Experimental Botany via My Journal Courier
Agricultural scientists who study climate change often focus on how increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will affect crop yields. But rising temperatures are likely to complicate the picture, researchers report in a new review of the topic. Published in the Journal of Experimental Botany, the review explores how higher temperatures influence plant growth and viability despite the greater availability of atmospheric CO2, a key component of photosynthesis. Excessive heat can reduce the efficiency of enzymes that drive photosynthesis and can hinder plants' ability to regulate CO2 uptake and water loss, the researchers write. Structural features can make plants more — or less — susceptible to heat stress. Ecosystem attributes — such as the size and density of plants, the arrangement of leaves on plants or local atmospheric conditions — also influence how heat will affect crop yields.
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University of Maryland Reports Six Novel Variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in Plants, Expanding Genome Engineering
From the University of Maryland via EurekAlert
In a new publication in Nature Communications, associate professor of Plant Science at the University of Maryland Yiping Qi continues to innovate genome editing and engineering in plants, with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of food production. His recent work contributes six novel variants of CRISPR-Cas12a that have never before been proven in plants, testing them first in rice as a major global crop. In addition to allowing for a much broader scope of possible gene editing targets, these new tools can edit many different sites in the genome at once, or even repress gene expression to tone down undesirable traits. These patent-pending tools greatly expand the scope of what CRISPR-Cas12a can do in plants, which can help to produce food more effectively to feed a growing global population.
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Yes, Spring Flowers Are Blooming Earlier — It Might Confuse Bees
From Washington University in St. Louis
Plants that rely on bees or other insect pollinators to transport pollen between like individuals — buzzing from violet to violet, or trillium to trillium — face uncertainties when spring becomes front-loaded. Suddenly bees have a lot more flower options at the same time. A key question on researchers' minds remains: How will this competitive atmosphere affect plants?
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