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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Final Countdown: Just 2 Weeks Left to Register Online!
Register today, and join the more than 1,200 plant scientists of all career levels who will come together July 9-13, 2022, in Portland, Oregon, at Plant Biology 2022. This joint meeting of ASPB and the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB) is a leading forum for plant scientists to discover new ideas, share their research, and experience the best the field has to offer. Secure your spot at https://plantbiology.aspb.org.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Hilton Reservation Deadline for Plant Biology Discounts Extended to June 24
Stay in the heart of Portland, and just 1.1 miles from the Oregon Convention Center where all the Plant Biology 2022 action takes place, at the Hilton Portland Downtown, with discounted rates extended until June 24! All Plant Biology 2022 attendees receive a free light-rail pass good for the duration of the meeting, making it easy to explore Portland. Make your reservation before discounted rates expire!
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ASPB Elections Are Open!
ASPB members: Vote now for president-elect, secretary-elect, and Enid MacRobbie Corresponding Members. Deadline is July 20, 2022.
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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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The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Conserved Secreted Effectors Contribute to Endophytic Growth and Multi-host Plant Compatibility in a Vascular Wilt Fungus
The spotlight is on Amey Redkar, Mugdha Sabale, Christian Schudoma, Bernd Zechmann, Yogesh K. Gupta, Manuel S. López-Berges, Giovanni Venturini, Selena Gimenez-Ibanez, David Turrà, Roberto Solano, and Antonio Di Pietro. Their breakthrough report shows that a set of conserved effectors mediates multi-host root compatibility in both pathogenic and endophytic strains of Fusarium oxysporum.
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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.
New Study Details Many Ways Scientists from Minority Groups are Disadvantaged in STEM
From Science
A new article published in Science Advances documents the many ways that people of marginalized or historically underrepresented identities are disadvantaged in the STEM environment. "White able-bodied heterosexual men (WAHM) experience more social inclusion, professional respect, and career opportunities, and have higher salaries and persistence intentions than STEM professionals in 31 other intersectional groups." The author observes that this research, "underscores the importance of making structural and cultural changes to the way that STEM operates."
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Dorothea Graus, co-first author of “The Digestive Systems of Carnivorous Plants.” Dorothea is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Dr. Kenji Fukushima, University of Würzburg, Germany. For her doctoral thesis, she studied the complex processes of membrane proteins involved in ion transport and their influence in cell metabolism. She primarily used electrophysiological techniques, such as the patch-clamp, noninvasive microelectrode ion flux estimation technique (MIFE) or Two-Electrode Voltage-Clamp (TEVC). Dorothea’s current research is an extension of this work, investigating membrane proteins and their evolutionary development in carnivorous plants. She enjoys reading, gardening, painting, and crafting in her free time.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Naresh Loudya, first author of "Mutations in the Chloroplast Inner Envelope Protein TIC100 Impair and Repair Chloroplast Protein Iimport and Impact Retrograde Signalling." Naresh is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Royal Holloway University of London and will soon join as Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Naresh shares, “As a child, observing the germinating plants in the garden, emerging new leaves of various plants on the way to school and plucking young tamarind leaves for my mom’s delicious dal recipe, I always wondered why the younger leaves of those plants are less green and how they turn dark green over time.” Now he hopes to continue his passion to understand how cells fill with chloroplasts, learning the beauty of the “greening” process at IISc. Naresh enjoys family, walking, gardening, cooking, and watching documentaries.
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- Chemically Competent Cell
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- Chemically Competent Cell
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- Electroporation Competent Cell
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- Electroporation Competent Cell
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Mehmet Kılıç, first author of "Gene Expression and Organization of Thylakoid Protein Complexes in the PSII-less Mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.″ Mehmet is a PhD Student in the Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Finland where his research mainly focuses on transcriptomic, analytical and spectrometric analysis of the photosynthetic electron transport chain complexes and their activities under abiotic stress conditions. In his free time, Mehmet enjoys music, films, and sports.
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.PLANT SCIENCE EVENTS
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| Meet the ASPB President-Elect Candidates Webinar
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| Plant Biology 2022 Conference
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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.
.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.
.FROM THE FIELD
How Crops Can Better Survive Floods
From ScienceDaily via University of Freiburg
Researchers show which signaling pathways make plants more resistant to flooding. The molecule ethylene is a warning signal for plants that they are under water and switches on the emergency supply for survival without oxygen. A team shows that plants can survive longer without oxygen when pretreated with ethylene.
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Seagrass Meadows are Reliable Fishing Grounds for Food
From EurekAlert!
Seagrass meadows are routinely used as a fishing habitat across the Indo-Pacific region to sustain millions of households by providing fish and other animals for food and income from fishing. A new study in Ocean and Coastal Management investigated how and why households use seagrass meadows across Cambodia, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Indonesia in the Indo-Pacific region by conducting interviews that asked what habitats they used and which they preferred.
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Research Reveals the Science Behind This Plant's Blue Berries
From Newwise
On a beautiful fall day in 2019, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado when something caught her eye: a small, particularly shiny blue fruit, on a shrub known as Lantana strigocamara. While its tiny clusters of pink, yellow and orange flowers and blue berries commonly adorn the pedestrian mall in spring, city workers were ripping these common Lantanas out to prepare for the winter season.
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Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules by Making 'Secret Decisions'
From ScienceAlert
Researchers have just discovered a previously unknown process that makes sense of the 'secret decisions' plants make when releasing carbon back into the atmosphere.
"We found that plants control their respiration in a way we did not expect, they control how much of the carbon from photosynthesis they keep to build biomass by using a metabolic channel," University of Western Australia plant biochemist Harvey Millar told ScienceAlert.
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Mistletoe Berries May Hold the Secret for Creating a Biological Super Glue
From Phys.org
Each mistletoe berry can produce up to two meters of a gluey thread called viscin. It allows the seeds of this parasitic plant to stick to and infect host plants. Since ancient times, mistletoe berries have been explored as treatments for everything from infertility and epilepsy to cancer. However, until now, no one has fully investigated the potential medical or technical uses of the glue itself.
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How Do Plants Know How Big to Grow?
From Carnegie Science
Organisms grow to fit the space and resources available in their environments, leading to a vast diversity of body sizes and shapes within a population of the same species. What are the genetic and physiological mechanisms that determine how big an organism can grow?
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In case you miss it in the latest ASPB News issue, read the article by ASPB’s Science Policy Committee (SPC) chair, Tessa Burch-Smith about SPC’s work to advocate for Plant Science and Plant Scientists.
The spotlight is on University of Minnesota researchers Trevor Weiss, Peter A. Crisp, Krishan M. Rai, Meredith Song, Nathan M. Springer, and Feng Zhang. Their findings provide strong evidence that specific chromatin features could have substantial and lasting impacts on both CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis efficiency and DNA double strand break repair outcomes.
The spotlight is on Qian-Hao Zhu, Shuangxia Jin, Yuman Yuan, Qing Liu, Xianlong Zhang, and Iain Wilson. Their study demonstrates the feasibility of saturation mutagenesis of plant miRNA families with dozens of genetic loci using CRISPR/Cas9 and provides the cotton community a valuable resource for uncovering the miR482-NLR module(s) underlying the interaction between cotton and different pathogens.
