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Registration is still open for ASPB's Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit, which will run online from July 27 to July 31.
You can sign up for a virtual career desk to find your next new hire or look for a new career opportunity. The Virtual Career Fair will be Wednesday, July 29, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
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 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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In light of historical and recent world events, ASPB and NAASC are partnering to further equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives that are in alignment with the missions of both societies. More information will be coming soon. In the meantime, don't miss the workshops and concurrent symposium organized by the ASPB Minority Affairs Committee as part of the Plant Biology Worldwide Summit.
The spotlight is on Christopher McCollum, Stefan Engelhardt, Lukas Weiss, and Ralph Hückelhoven. Their article "ROP INTERACTIVE PARTNER b interacts with RACB and supports fungal penetration into barley epidermal cells" has an Altmetric score of 26 and 38 mentions in the past week.
The spotlight is on Kaushik Panda and R. Keith Slotkin. Their article "Long-read cDNA Sequencing Enables a 'Gene-Like' Transcript Annotation of Transposable Elements" has an Altmetric score of 49 and 98 mentions in the past week.
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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 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.
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If you're a first author with a recently accepted manuscript in Plant Physiology, The Plant Cell, or Plant Direct, remember to send your profile to suzanne@aspb.org. We'd love to recognize you with a blog post on Plantae.org. Read our Plant Physiology first author profiles here.
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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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The ASPB Legacy Society, initiated in late 2016, will use income earned from donations to support ASPB's professional and student-centered programs and activities. The primary goal is to nurture future generations of plant biologists and, thereby, ensure the health and longevity of the Society. The Legacy Society was launched by contributions from Founding Members who endowed the fund with a financial commitment of over half a million dollars. Pioneer Members of the Legacy Society make up a special group of plant scientists who helped make ASPB what it is today: one of the leading professional associations for plant biology in the world. These individuals provided the education and research training for many members of our community, and in some cases the leadership of the Society and its journals.
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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| July 27-31 |
Plant Biology 2020 World Wide Summit (ONLINE) |
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| July 29 |
Plant Biology 2020 Virtual Career Fair (10 a.m. - 10 p.m.) |
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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 the Women in Genomics blog
Modesta Abugu interviewed Dr. Catherine Feuillet, who has been the Chief Scientific Officer of Inari Agriculture since 2018. Before taking up this role, she was the head of trait research at Bayer Crop Science. Catherine shared her career journey, challenges, and opportunities, and emphasized the need for more mentoring programs for women in agriculture. Dr. Feuillet is speaking on July 30 at the upcoming Plant Biology Worldwide Summit.
From the CEPLAS blog (Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences)
Dr. George Coupland is the director of the Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, and also a senior editor of The Plant Cell. His research focuses on how plants flexibly respond to their environment to control their growth and development.
From Plantae via Plant Cell
Efforts to engineer the carbon-fixing enzyme Rubisco in higher plants are thwarted by the fact that its large subunit (RbcL) is chloroplast-encoded, and its small subunit RbcS is nuclear-encoded. Here, Martin-Avila et al. have developed a tobacco line with all the endogenous rbcS genes silenced by RNAi, and with the rbcL gene substituted with a bacterial gene that encode a prokaryotic form of Rubisco that does not assemble with the small subunit. These plants can be used to explore new variations of Rubisco.
From the Los Angeles Times
After five years of study, a team of UC Riverside researchers led by Hailing Jin, professor of plant genetics, identified a gene in the Australian finger lime that causes immunity to citrus greening disease. This gene encodes an antimicrobial peptide that kills the disease-causing bacteria. Spraying this peptide onto trees has stopped the disease in young trees raised in laboratories and controlled environment greenhouses. These promising results need to be corroborated, but field trials have been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
From Nature Plants
Plant root exudates can recruit beneficial microorganisms that boost plant growth and immunity. This new work shows that active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis controls root secretion of myo-inositol and consequently plant growth promotion triggered by Bacillus megaterium strain YC4. The study not only demonstrates a plant signal controlling plant–rhizosphere interactions, it also shows that this interaction is under epigenetic control by DNA methylation.
From Oregon State University via Science Daily
Oregon State University researchers have made a key advance in understanding how timing impacts the way microorganisms colonize plants, a step that could provide farmers an important tool to boost agricultural production. The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, will help scientists better understand the plant microbiome, which consists of hundreds of thousands of microorganisms that live in and on plants and contribute to their health and productivity.
From PNAS
The idea that grasslands can be ancient, particularly in climates that also support forests, is not widely recognized. Consequently, scientists and conservation planners often misinterpret old-growth grasslands to be low-diversity, successional vegetation, from which little is lost through conversion to tillage agriculture or tree plantations. Nerlekar and Veldman used a global analysis of herbaceous plant communities to show that after old-growth grasslands are destroyed, the recovery of plant diversity requires hundreds to thousands of years.
From Cornell University via EurekAlert
To better understand how plant pathogens that travel the globe with dust particles might put crops at risk, a Cornell University-led team of scientists will use data from NASA's Earth Observing Satellites to identify areas of potential disease and track plumes of dust that traverse the globe. If the origins and landing spots of specific pathogens can be better predicted, farmers can be advised on how to avoid practices that would increase its spread, such as those that kick up dust from farm fields, and perhaps grow less susceptible crops where such dust falls.
From KQED-FM
Stepping onto the 55-acre grounds of the San Francisco Botanical Garden feels a bit like entering the chocolate room at Willy Wonka's factory, if that storybook setting were bursting with real plants instead of ones made of candy. Located in the heart of Golden Gate Park, just blocks away from bustling city life (though not as bustling during these days of the pandemic), the garden is home to an astounding array of more than 9,000 types of flowers, plants and trees from across the globe.
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