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Keep Up with Plant Biology 2020 on Twitter
Follow #PlantBio20 to see all the activity at rest of the Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit.
 
 
ASPB Announces Partnership with OUP
ASPB is delighted to announce that it will partner with Oxford University Press (OUP) to produce and disseminate Plant Physiology® and The Plant Cell beginning January 2021. Please consult our FAQ document for more information.
 
 
 
 
FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
 
 
ASPB Journals Announce Journal Portability Initiative
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.
 
 
Apply to Be an Early Career Representative on ASPB Committees
ASPB has an exciting opportunity for early career plant scientists to get involved and, in the process, to help shape the future of the Society. Several 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.
 
 
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week
The spotlight is on Stéphanie Marianne Swarbreck, Amirah Mohammad-Sidik, and Julia M. Davies. Their letter "Common Components of the Strigolactone and Karrikin Signaling Pathways Suppress Root Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana" has an Altmetric score of 13 and 22 mentions in the past week.
 
 
The Plant Cell Article of the Week
The spotlight is on Asher Pasha, Shabari Subramaniam, Alan Cleary, Xingguo Chen, Tanya Z Berardini, Andrew Farmer, Chris Town, and Nicholas J. Provart. Their letter "Araport Lives: An Updated Framework for Arabidopsis Bioinformatics" has an Altmetric score of 27 and 43 mentions in the past week.
 
 
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Join the 2020-2021 PlantingScience Master Plant Science Team!
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.
 
 
Funding Opportunity: AFRI Releases RFA for Foundational and Applied Science Program
USDA's NIFA recently released a request for applications (RFA) for the AFRI FAS program. The fiscal year 2021 and 2022 program will distribute approximately $290 million each year to support research and extension proposals to advance basic and applied research in agricultural sciences across a number of disciplines. Additionally, the RFA adds new priority areas for all programs outlined in the 2018 Farm Bill in cross cutting programs such as Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology.
 
 
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Teaching the Next Generation of Plant Scientists Using the Creative Plant Teaching Tools
Wei He, an Associate Professor in Northwest University, Xian, China, shares how he uses the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology to help his students learn fundamental plant biology, experimental design, writing and presentation strategies, and hone their English language skills.
 
 
National Academy of Sciences 2020 Member Highlight — Elizabeth Ainsworth
This year, nine plant scientists were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. We asked the newly elected plant scientists about how the news of their election to the NAS reached them, what inspires their research, and for their advice for early career researchers. Today we feature Elizabeth Ainsworth. Check the blog for profiles in the coming days.
 
 
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Call for Papers: Plant Physiology Will Publish a Focus Issue on Transport and Signaling in May 2021
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.
 
 
Call for Papers: Plant Physiology Will Publish a Focus Issue on Digital Agriculture in June 2021
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.
 
 
Call for Papers: The Plant Cell Will Publish a Genome Focus Issue in April 2021
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.
 
 
#WeAreASPB
 
 
First Author Profiles
Recognizing Plant Direct author Amy Klocko, first author of RNAi of AGAMOUS genes in sweetgum alters reproductive organ identity and decreases fruit persistence
 
 
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
 
 
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College Park, Maryland
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PLANT SCIENCE EVENTS
 
 
JULY 27-31
Plant Biology 2020 World Wide Summit (ONLINE)
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FROM THE FIELD
 
 
Application Open: AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
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What Makes a Plant Science Manuscript Successful for Publication?
From Functional Plant Biology
Editors of the journal Functional Biology give an overview of the history of scientific publishing, and provide useful advice for authors. Topics include guidance for critical analysis and good writing, appropriate references and statistical analyses, and what criteria editors use to evaluate manuscripts.
 
 
Making the Grass Greener with Sara Middleton
From Fronds with Benefits
The "Fronds with Benefits" blog interviews Sara Middleton, a PhD student at Oxford University. Sara studies the effect of drought on a calcareous grassland, with a focus on Brachypodium sylvaticum. Sara also runs a blog, a YouTube channel, and is working on a documentary called Bananageddon.
 
 
Shared Structural Principles Across Kingdoms
From Annual Reviews in Cell and Developmental Biology via Plantae
Hamant and Saunders review recent findings on biochemical and biophysical mechanisms governing morphogenesis in model organisms, and infer general principles underpinning organ formation across kingdoms. The authors emphasize that animal and plant systems share similar regulatory mechanisms to shape organs, although they differ in cellular structures and molecular components.
 
 
 
 
Fossil Plants Could Help This South African Solve a 200-Year Puzzle
From Forbes
Paleobotanist Aviwe Matiwane is working in her native South Africa to find and catalog fossils of a plant that can provide us with a glimpse back in time to the climate and even food chains of a time before the dinosaurs. She studies an extinct gymnosperm, Glossopteris, which has no living relatives. In addition to now forming the oldest coal deposits in South Africa, the plants have been used to solve a wide-range of scientific mysteries.
 
 
Engineering Study Examines Sunflower Stem Growth
From South Dakota State University via Phys.org
Examining the structure of a sunflower stem as it matures can help both the plant scientist and biomaterials engineer. That's the premise that Anamika Prasad, an assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, is putting into practice.
 
 
European and American Maize: Same Same, but Different
From Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health via EurekAlert
Due to its history, today's maize lines do not only differ in appearance, their genome contains many differences (presence and absence of genes as well as structural variations). In 2009, researchers decoded the genome of the North American maize accession "B73." This reference sequence, however, only covers a small part of the global maize genome (pan-genome) and is of limited use as a benchmark for European lines. In order to improve maize breeding and adapt to climate change, basic research on the genome of other maize lines is needed.
 
 
In Vegetation Growth Studies, What You Measure Matters
From Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences via Eos
Plant growth is an important indicator for diagnosing environmental health as well as shifts in climate. Large-scale monitoring of vegetation patterns relies on several proxy measurements derived from satellite observations. Although these proxies all correspond roughly to the amount of plant material observed, each one depends on a different aspect of plant biology.
 
 
Novel 'On-Off' Switch Discovered in Plant Defenses
From University of California - San Diego via Science Daily
Researchers investigating the ways that plants protect themselves — from insects to pathogens — have discovered an "on-off" switch that controls plant defensive mechanisms. The switch turns on immune responses minutes after an attack and later sends a deactivation signal to avoid self-inflicted damage. The finding lays the groundwork for improved plant disease resistance and food stability.
 
 
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