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"Listen to the scientists" has been a common refrain around the world in recent months. So yes, scientists should be heard; but by whom? How? And where? To bring these important questions to the widest possible audience, ASPB is presenting this symposium on science policy online on Monday, July 20, from 10:00 AM–12:20 PM EDT. Registration is free; just click here to join this timely and important session.
Conveying the promise of plant science is the foundation on which to build public demand and funding for plant science research. This workshop at the Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit will feature a moderated discussion with staffers working for the co-leaders of the Congressional Agriculture Research Caucus.
Congratulations to Katie Dehesh, our newly elected and incoming president-elect, and Stacey Harmer, our incoming secretary-elect! Katie and Stacey will begin their next cycles of service to ASPB on October 1, 2020. Read about the rest of the results.
Registration is still open for ASPB's Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit, which will run online from July 27-31.
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The Scholars created 3-minute science communication videos on plant science topics, expanding the resources available through Plantae. Check them out!
ASPB is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, authors who have received an editorial decline decision from any journal in the ASPB suite of titles will be able to readily transfer their manuscript to any other ASPB journal.
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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.
PhD student Haley Carter and her research group have been collaborating on an annotated bibliography on the topic of racism. When each person reads and contributes to such a document their discussion becomes grounded in better informed and substantiated concepts and might bring up more ideas than would otherwise be covered.
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On June 11, Gramene's project manager and outreach, education and training coordinator, Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, gave an online presentation to fifth graders at Bayville's Intermediate School in New York to talk about where some favorite plant-derived foods come from and how plants are helping in the fight against COVID-19.
As part of her ongoing Career Snapshot series, Yun-Ting Kao interviews Dr. Edgar Moctezuma, an Instructor at University of Maryland (UMD). Edgar has been teaching plant biology classes for non-science majors at UMD since 2003. He is also the faculty advisor to the local chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/ Latinos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS).
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SciBriteTM LED lighting, one of Percival Scientific’s latest innovations, gives you significantly more features and benefits for your research. Our proprietary LED system provides more flexibility than lighting systems offered by other growth chamber manufacturers. Using our IntellusUltra Controller, you can control the intensities for each color to produce specific light wavelength ratios for your experiments.
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The spotlight is on Tao Guo, Zi-Qi Lu, Jun-Xiang Shan, Wang-Wei Ye, Nai-Qian Dong, and Hong-Xuan Lin. Their article "ERECTA1 Acts Upstream of the OsMKKK10-OsMKK4-OsMPK6 Cascade to Control Spikelet Number by Regulating Cytokinin Metabolism in Rice" has an Altmetric score of 11 and 20 mentions in the past week.
The spotlight is on Ariel H Tomassi, Delfina A Ré, Facundo Romani, Damián A Cambiagno, Lucía Gonzalo, Javier E Moreno, Agustín Lucas Arce, and Pablo Andrés Manavella. Their article "The intrinsically disordered protein CARP9 bridges HYL1 to AGO1 in the nucleus to promote micro RNA activity" has an Altmetric score of 33 and 40 mentions in the past week.
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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Recognizing Plant Direct author Kaori Yoneyama, first author of Hydroxyl carlactone derivatives are predominant strigolactones in Arabidopsis.
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 Plant Pathology via Plantae
The causal agent of wheat stem rust, Puccinia graminis, requires two hosts to complete its sexual life cycle; wheat and barberry. Barnes et al. take a historical look at how people in Britain have viewed barberry, starting from the gradual awakening that it does in fact promote the spread of this critically dangerous pathogen, to concerns today about the endangered barberry carpet moth.
From Black Botanists Week
The week of July 6 was Black Botanists Week, a celebration of Black people who love plants. This plant love manifests in many ways ranging from tropical field ecologist to plant geneticist, from horticulturalist to botanical illustrator. We embrace the multiple ways that Black people engage with and appreciate the global diversity of plant life. See more.
From Nature Methods via Plantae
Optogenetics has revolutionized mammalian biology by its ability to fine-tune gene expression in individual cells by pulses of light. However, its application in plants has been challenging because the white light required for plant growth misfires the system. Ochoa-Fernandez et al. solved this problem through engineered photoreceptors.
From PNAS
The cytoskeleton, a network of polymers including microtubules and actin, supports many functions in cells. In plants, the cytoskeleton orientation is an important parameter dictating the direction of cell growth. While light, hormonal, or mechanical signals can affect the cytoskeleton organization, the role of cell geometry remains to be clarified. With a microwell-based approach, Durand-Smet et al. confined plant cells lacking walls in different geometries and found that the cytoskeletons align with the long axis in cells in rectangular wells.
From Forbes
Plant biologist Ive De Smet was appreciating a painting when his friend and traveling companion, David Vergauwen, asked him if he could identify the fruit in the artwork. De Smet wasn't sure, so he joked that maybe it was just a bad painter. But Vergauwen, an art historian, pointed out that the artist was one of the best from the 17th century — so how the artist depicted the fruit was probably what it looked like at the time.
From University of Virginia Health System via Science Daily
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals how plants create the load-bearing structures that let them grow — much like how building crews frame a house. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the new discovery unveils the molecular machinery that plants use to weave cellulose chains into cable-like structures called "microfibrils." These microfibrils provide crucial support to the cell walls of land plants and allow them to build up pressure inside their cells.
From The Guardian
In the U.K., 97% of wildflower-rich land — 7 million hectares — has been swept away by modern agricultural and out-of-town developments since the 1940s. The conservation charity Buglife is working to help restore and create at least 150,000 hectares of wildflower pathways with the launch of its B-lines network.
From São Paulo Research Foundation via EurekAlert
Researchers affiliated with the Genomics for Climate Change Research Center (GCCRC), hosted by the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have discovered a protein involved in corn's resistance to dry weather, high temperatures, and fungal invasion. This finding paves the way for the development of more drought-resistant plants and products that reduce losses in production at a time when global climate change threatens crop yields around the world.
From Chinese Academy of Sciences via Phys.org
Despite the prevalence of microplastics (MPs) throughout the environment, the matter of MP uptake by crop plants has not received much attention. For decades, scientists believed that plastic particles were simply too large to pass through the physical barriers of intact plant tissue. But a new study disproves this assumption.
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