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ASPB has an exciting opportunity for early career plant scientists to get involved in ASPB and, in the process, to help shape the future of the Society. The following committees each will appoint an early career professional, defined as an ASPB member in good standing who began their graduate studies no more than eight years ago. Each appointee will serve up to two consecutive years.
ASPB members: Vote now for a president-elect, secretary-elect, and for corresponding members. Deadline is July 10.
Registration and abstract submissions are now open for ASPB's Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit, which will run online from July 27-31. Abstract submission deadline to be included in the iposter gallery is July 12.
This online workshop at Plant Biology 2020 will discuss computational plant biology and mathematical modeling. Questions addressed during this workshop include "How to translate a biological problem into a conceptual model?" and "How these models applied across scales, space, and time?" If you're a modeler, make sure to join the modeling community and the interdisciplinary collaborative database. Workshop is on July 31 from 2-4 p.m. EDT.
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On June 5, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) released a request for applications for the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI). AG2PI was authorized in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill) and received its first funding in fiscal year 2020. This new funding opportunity seeks proposals that will enhance the knowledge of phenomes and genomes of plants and animals important to the U.S. agricultural sector.
News and announcements from ASPB, including extended deadlines and information on the U.S. federal government's response to COVID-19 and research opportunities for plant scientists.
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The spotlight is on Judith K. Booth, Macaire M.S. Yuen, Sharon Jancsik, Lina Madilao, Jonathan Page, and Joerg Bohlmann. Their article "Terpene Synthases and Terpene Variation in Cannabis sativa" has an Altmetric score of 43 and 72 mentions in the past week.
The spotlight is on Fugui Zhu, Jie Deng, Hong Chen, Peng Liu, Lihua Zheng, Qinyi Ye, Rui Li, Mathias Brault, Jiangqi Wen, Florian Frugier, Jiangli Dong, and Tao Wang. Their article "A CEP Peptide Receptor-like Kinase Regulates Auxin Biosynthesis and Ethylene Signaling to Coordinate Root Growth and Symbiotic Nodulation in Medicago truncatula" has an Altmetric score of 26 and 40 mentions in the past week.
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ASPB invites members to join the 2020-2021 PlantingScience Master Plant Science Team. PlantingScience is a free online resource to K-12 teachers and schools. The program provides volunteer scientists, resources, and activities to support innovation in teaching, learning, and online mentoring. The Master Plant Science Team provides compensation for a cohort of 12 graduate students and postdocs who make a substantial contribution as an online scientist mentor.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the organization established to improve the interface between science and policy on issues of biodiversity and ecosystem services, welcomes input from technical experts on the draft scoping report of its nexus assessment. Comments are due by July 31.
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This Focus Issue will highlight the recent advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind membrane transport, its integration with signaling, and its roles in homeostasis. A selection of Update Reviews, included within the Issue, will address new and transformative insights that are driving research beyond the traditional boundaries of transport physiology. We encourage submissions that address quantitative frameworks in understanding membrane transport, transport proteins, and the integration of transport and signaling across scales. Submission deadline: November 2.
This focus issue will include reviews that synthesize the current state of the art and future prospects in sustainable precision agriculture, including but not limited to phenotyping, artificial intelligence and deep learning, robotics, databases and data sharing, pangenomics, genomic selection, and neodomestication. Submission Deadline: December 1.
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The Plant Cell invites submissions to a Focus Issue on the Biology of Plant Genomes to be published in April 2021. Possible submissions: sequencing/analysis of plant genomes of particular interest, comparative genomics, genome evolution, advances in genome modification, epigenomics and genome-wide studies of chromatin, large-scale analyses of RNA in a genomic context, systems or synthetic biology on a genomic scale, or any of these topics as applied to plastid or mitochondrial genomes. Target date for submissions: September 1.
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This week we are featuring ASPB Founding Legacy Society Member Robert Giaquinta. Read about Robert's career, contributions to plant science, and advice for those just starting out.
Recognizing Craig Schenck, first author of the Plant Direct article Role of Cytosolic, Tyrosine-Insensitive Prephenate Dehydrogenase in Medicago truncatula.
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.
To see more jobs, go to jobs.Plantae.org.
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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 AAAS
The Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) program provides opportunities to outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first-hand about policy making and contribute their knowledge and analytical skills in the policy realm. Fellows represent a broad range of backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages. Each year, STPF adds to a growing corps well over 3,400 strong of policy-savvy leaders working across academia, government, nonprofits, and industry to serve the nation and citizens around the world. The application is currently open! The deadline to apply is November 1.
From Nature Communications via The Guardian
Some tropical forests are very wet, but others thrive in a drier climate. Scientists had thought these drier forests would be better adapted to drought and therefore more able to cope with the effects of the climate crisis. A new study suggests the opposite may be true: Forests with an already drier climate show greater loss of biodiversity, and a reduced ability to support a wide variety of wildlife and plant species, when subjected to warmer temperatures.
From Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Renee Dale, a postdoc at the Danforth Center, recently received a grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists to develop a video game to help high school students overcome math anxiety. "When you play video games, you often try to understand how the game is functioning so you can beat it. My idea is if we make a game where the function was based on biology and math, more students might be motivated to learn more about those subjects," Dale said.
From German Research Center for Environmental Health via Science Daily
Researchers mapped the signaling network in plants and discovered novel insights about how plants process information about their environment. This gives new potential to strategies to protect crops and help them thrive in the time of increasing droughts.
From Current Plant Biology
Recent developments in metagenomics, sequencing technologies, bioinformatics analysis, and the establishment of microbiome culture collections have increased our knowledge of plant microbiome composition and diversity. The environmental factors that shape the composition of plant microbiomes are less well known. Here, current insights into the factors driving the assembly of plant microbial communities are discussed.
From Marine Biological Laboratory via EurekAlert
Deserts of the U.S. Southwest are extreme habitats for most plants, but, remarkably, microscopic green algae live there that are extraordinarily tolerant of dehydration. How are they so resilient? That question is at the core of research by Elena Lopez Peredo and Zoe Cardon of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via Phys.org
The ability to genetically engineer plants is key for creating sustainable agriculture and renewable energy. But the methods currently used to engineer plants are underdeveloped compared to those for bacteria, limiting scientists in their ability to add preferable traits or delete unwanted ones. To meet this need, researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) developed a set of synthetic plant promoters — which are required for a gene to be expressed in a plant — that will help scientists engineer more sophisticated traits in plants.
From Scientific American
Just 10 years ago, a virulent strain of the fungus Austropuccinia psidii arrived in New South Wales. First observed in Hawaii in 2005, the fungus causes a devastating plant disease called myrtle rust, which has quickly and mysteriously spread around the world — most likely through industrial shipping and other elements of our global economy. Once the fungus hit Australia it quickly spread from coast to coast, infecting hundreds of species from the Myrtaceae family, which includes native guava, eucalyptus, tea trees, and bottle brushes.
From Cornell University
In a study of New York state apple orchards, Cornell plant pathologists have identified a new fungal pathogen that causes bitter rot disease in apples. A second related fungus known to cause rot disease in other fruits was also found for the first time in apples.
From California Polytechnic State University
It's big, it's rare, and it smells like rotting flesh. For the first time ever, a Titan Arum, or corpse flower, will bloom at Cal Poly. Cal Poly horticulture and botany students have been growing the Amorphophallus titanum for several years — and this is the plant's first flower.
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