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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Early Career Members: Last Chance to Submit an Application to Serve on ASPB Committees!
ASPB has an exciting opportunity for early career plant scientist members to get involved in ASPB and, in the process, help shape the future of the Society by becoming an Early Career Representative (ECR) on ASPB standing committees. These positions directly involve ECRs in ASPB’s governance and involve a two-year appointment. Applications date extended to September 30, 2022
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Recording Available: Plant Physiology Focus Issue Webinar - Evolution of Plant Structure and Function
The September issue of Plant Physiology includes a Focus Issue on the Evolution of Plant Structure and Function. To celebrate this, the issue editors, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Jill C. Preston, Neelima R. Sinha, and Keiko Torii, invited three authors whose work appears in this issue to present their findings in a webinar, held September 16th. The webinar was hosted by Elizabeth Kellogg and moderated by Assistant Features Editor Mateusz Majda. The three speakers were Aurélia Emonet, Camille Puginier, and Jill Preston. If you missed it, a recording of the webinar is now available.
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Oct. 5 Plant Physiology Webinar: Focus issue on Circadian Rhythms
Circadian rhythms are ubiquitous across eukaryotes, but are perhaps of particular importance to plants. The complexity of the circadian clock network and the scope of processes influenced by circadian rhythms in plants outstrip those observed in other eukaryotes, highlighting the importance of circadian rhythms for the optimization of plant growth in a constantly fluctuating environment. The October issue of Plant Physiology includes a Focus Issue on Circadian Rhythms. Organized by Focus Issue editors Stacey Harman, Alex Webb, and Christian Fankhauser, this webinar features speakers Lei Wang, Katherine Greenham, and Glen Uhrig sharing their findings from their work appearing in this Focus Issue.
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week: INOSITOL (1,3,4) TRIPHOSPHATE 5/6 KINASE1-dependent Inositol Polyphosphates Regulate Auxin Responses in Arabidopsis
The spotlight is on researchers Nargis Parvin Laha, Ricardo F. H. Giehl, Esther Riemer, Danye Qiu, Naga Jyothi Pullagurla, Robin Schneider, Yashika Walia Dhir, Ranjana Yadav, Yeshambel Emewodih Mihiret, Philipp Gaugler, Verena Gaugler, Haibin Mao, Ning Zheng, Nicolaus von Wirén, Adolfo Saiardi, Saikat Bhattacharjee, Henning J. Jessen, Debabrata Laha, and Gabriel Schaaf. Their findings expand the mechanistic understanding of auxin perception and suggest that distinct inositol polyphosphates generated near auxin receptors help to fine-tune auxin sensitivity in plants.
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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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.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.
Renaming Indigenous Crops and Addressing Colonial Bias in Scientific Language
From Trends in Plant Science
With their unique adaptations and stress resilience traits, Indigenous crops have captured the attention of Western scientists and plant breeders. However, approaching Indigenous crop research from an anticolonial perspective is imperative to put an end to the scientific harm done to vulnerable and historically exploited communities; this includes questioning the appropriateness of the term “orphan crops”. The study of Indigenous crops, beyond its myriad potential impacts on food systems and sustainable agriculture, presents a chance to rectify the wrongs of colonial science and empower the nations and communities that have most suffered in its grip.
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Most US Professors are Trained at Same Few Elite Universities
From Nature
A new study identifies the astonishing fact that just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions in the US, and no historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) were among that 20%. Furthermore, one in eight US-trained tenure-track faculty members got their PhDs from just five elite universities. The tendency for hiring committees to use institutional prestige as a proxy for a candidate’s excellence can disadvantage students of color. Recommendations to avoid this bias are provided.
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Pavol Vadovič, co-first author of “Knockout of MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3 Causes Barley Root Resistance Against Fusarium graminearu” and Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Pavol is currently studying mechanisms modulating plant cytoskeleton and hormones by beneficial microbes and the role of PLDα1 in alfalfa under abiotic stress conditions. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, cycling, reading, music, and movies.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Lina Cheng, first author of “A SlCLV3-SlWUS Module Regulates Auxin and Ethylene Homeostasis in Low Light–induced Tomato Flower Abscission.” She is a PhD student at Shenyang Agricultural University, China. In her recent study, her lab shows that the SlCLV3-SlWUS signaling module regulates low-light-induced flower abscission in tomato, a finding which expands our knowledge of the hormonal regulatory network during stress-induced abscission. Lina enjoys badminton and watching movies.
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- Molecular Breeding Solutions of Rice
- Molecular Breeding Solutions of Wheat
- Molecular Breeding Solutions of Potato
- Molecular Breeding Solutions of Soybeans
- Molecular Breeding Solutions of Tomato
- Molecular Breeding Solutions of Vegetables
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The WinDIAS Leaf Image Analysis System measures multiple leaf parameters - including size, perimeter, width, length, and the percentage of healthy and diseased leaf area. Leaves of up to 100 cm long can be measured by the system. WinDIAS can also count small objects, such as seeds, even when they touch or overlap each other.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Bandana Bhusal, first author of “Efficient Fluorescence-Based Localization Technique for Real-Time Tracking Endophytes Route in Host-Plants Colonization.” Bandana completed her undergraduate studies in Nepal (motherland) in Agricultural Sciences then earned her Master’s in Plant Science from Tennessee State University. She is currently earning her PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University. She hopes that the work produced in her lab will help people working in controlling plant pathogens using BCAs. She enjoys travelling, swimming, baking, reading, and music.
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.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.
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Plant Biochemist I University of Missouri |
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| University of Missouri | Columbia, Missouri, MO
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Plant Developmental Biology Faculty (Open Rank) |
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| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI
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.PLANT SCIENCE EVENTS
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 THE FIELD
Green Career Week is October 3-7!
From Seed Your Future
October 3-7 has been designated Green Career Week, a nationwide effort led by local horticulture, agriculture and floriculture businesses and organizations around the country designed to expose high school students to the outstanding career opportunities in these fields.
During Green Career Week, participating businesses and organizations will connect with local high schools to showcase the various career paths at their business. By working together during this designated week, we can give the industry a louder voice.
Visit https://www.seedyourfuture.org/green-career-week to receive Green Career Week resources and get involved!
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A Better Understanding of Crop Yields Under Climate Change
From Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
You don’t need a Ph.D. in agriculture to know that water is critical to crop production. However, for years, people like Jonathan Proctor, who has a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University of California Berkeley, have been trying to explain why the importance of water isn’t showing up in statistical models of crop yield.
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The Ohio State University Chosen as Research Home for Starlab's George Washington Carver Science Park Terrestrial Laboratory
From Ohio State News
The Ohio State University will serve as the lead partner for the first-ever science park devoted to space research. Voyager Space announced today it has selected a proposal from the university, the State of Ohio, JobsOhio, and One Columbus (“Team Ohio”) to host the terrestrial analog of the George Washington Carver Science Park at Ohio State. The analog laboratory will be a replica of the Starlab space station science park and allows researchers to test missions and conduct parallel experiments on the ground.
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Massive Crossover Suppression by CRISPR — Cas-Mediated Plant Chromosome Engineering
From Nature
Recent studies have demonstrated that not only genes but also entire chromosomes can be engineered using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPER-associated protein 9 (Cas9). A major objective of applying chromosome restructuring in plant breeding is the manipulation of genetic exchange6.
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Are Hybrid Grapes the Future of Wine?
From Smithsonian Magazine
For much of October 2020, temperatures hovered in the low 80s in the Grand Valley American Viticultural Area, a grape-growing region on Colorado’s Western Slope. However, within 48 hours, the unseasonably warm fall quickly devolved into a nightmare scenario for the region’s many farmers, including Bruce Talbott, a fifth-generation fruit grower in Palisade.
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The spotlight is on Samantha Klasfeld, Thomas Roulé, and Doris Wagner, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania. Greenscreen is a user-friendly method to identify and remove artifactual signals from ChIP-seq data from any species and, in their article, they present an improved ChIP-seq pipeline incorporating greenscreen that detects more true peaks than other methods. 
The spotlight is on Ahossi Patrice Koua, Benedict Chijioke Oyiga, Said Dadshani, Salma Benaouda, Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi, Uwe Rascher, Jens Léon, and Agim Ballvora. Their current study demonstrates important reduction of chlorophyll content, fluorescence parameters values, and photosynthetic efficiency under prolonged drought conditions. 