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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Submit a Proposal for Plant Biology 2023!
The ASPB Program Committee is pleased to invite members of our community to submit proposals for workshops and concurrent symposium topics for Plant Biology 2023, taking place online and in person in Savannah, Georgia, August 5-9, 2023. Submissions are due by November 14, 2022, to guarantee review for potential inclusion in the Plant Biology 2023 program.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Maintenance of Abiotic Stress Memory in Plants: Lessons Learned From Heat Acclimation
The spotlight is on Yee-yung Charng, Suma Mitra, and Shih-Jiun Yu. Based on what has been learned from genetic studies on heat acclimation memory, they propose criteria for identifying components of the regulatory networks that maintain plant stress memory (PSM). They provide examples of the regulatory circuits formed by effectors and regulators of PSM. They also highlight strategies for assessing PSMs, update the progress in understanding the mechanisms of PSM maintenance, and provide perspectives for the further development of this exciting research field.
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Plant Direct Article of the Week: Genetic Variation in Hydrogen Cyanide Potential of Perennial Sorghum Evaluated by Colorimetry
The spotlight is on Shakirah Nakasagga, Seth C. Murray, William L. Rooney, Catherine Barr, Pheona Nabukalu, Stan Cox, and Leo Hoffmann Jr. The objectives of their study were to develop a fast and inexpensive colorimetric assay to measure the hydrogen cyanide potential (HCN-P) as well as to compare this with existing visual assays while assessing the range of variation for HCN-P among perennial and annual sorghum biomass. They find that growth stage substantially influenced HCN-P, which should be considered when feeding animals on fresh forage.
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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.
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning
From CIRTL
The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) seeks to enhance excellence in STEM undergraduate education through development of a national faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices for diverse learners. The goal of CIRTL is to improve the STEM learning of all students at every college and university, and thereby to increase the diversity in STEM fields and the STEM literacy of the nation. CIRTL runs frequent online workshops on topics about inclusive teaching in higher education. Sign up to stay informed.
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Dismantling Barriers Faced By Women in STEM
From Nature Chemistry
Governments worldwide are committing more funding for scientific research in the face of the ongoing pandemic and climate crises. However, the funding process must be restructured to remove the barriers arising from conscious and unconscious biases experienced by minoritized groups, including women, and particularly women of colour. One of the largest drivers of gender inequity in research funding is the notion that past achievements should be used as a reliable indicator to judge future potential in grant funding applicants. When two equally qualified grant funding applicants compete for funding and one wins and the other loses out, the applicant who secured funding is more likely to keep winning funding in the future, so that the second is left ever further behind.
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Xiaozheng Li, co-first author of “The Chromatin Accessibility Landscape of Pistils and Anthers in Rice.” Xiaozheng earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and currently works as an Assistant Professor in the College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University. His research interest specifically focuses on understanding and improving photosynthesis by unveiling mechanisms of photo-protection and energy conversion. He wishes that his research can help make the world a better place. Xiaozheng enjoys playing ping pong and skiing in his free time.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Samantha Klasfeld, first author of “Greenscreen: A Simple Method to Remove Artifactual Signals and Enrich for True Peaks in Genomic Datasets Including ChIP-seq Data.” Samantha is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rare Disease Research Unit (RDRU) at Pfizer. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Genomics and Computational Biology, 2015-2021 from the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. She plan to leverage her experiences with analyzing and optimizing plant epigenetic datasets to gain relevant information from different types of genomic datasets. Her non-scientific interests are Dragonboat paddling, running, and game nights.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Kevin Cox, first author of “Automated Imaging of Duckweed Growth and Development.” Kevin is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, and is also an Assistant Features Editor with The Plant Cell. His postdoctoral work involves using spatial and single-cell biology to study plant-microbe interactions in Arabidopsis and meristem development in duckweed. When not in the lab, Kevin enjoys spending time with family, playing/watching sports, streaming video games on Twitch, and watching anime.
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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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| Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, MO
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions |
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| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN
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- Bisulfite modification of DNA
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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
Plant Scientists Granted Licence to Study 'Magic Mushrooms'
From University of Guelph
As interest grows in the possible therapeutic effects of psilocybin — a key active compound in so-called “magic mushrooms”– University of Guelph plant science researchers are preparing to begin research into this promising field.
After two years of effort, Dr. Max Jones and Dr. Gale Bozzo, professors in the Ontario Agricultural College’s Department of Plant Agriculture, have received a Health Canada dealer’s licence that will allow them and their teams to cultivate mushrooms that are known to produce psilocybin and other compounds.
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Texas A&M AgriLife Debuts Automated Precision Phenotyping Greenhouse
From AgriLife Today
Featuring state-of-the-art robotics, remote sensing and data-capturing capabilities, Texas A&M AgriLife Research has launched “the future of agricultural research” with its multi-million dollar Automated Precision Phenotyping Greenhouse on the Texas A&M University campus in Bryan-College Station. The greenhouse is part of the Texas A&M AgriLife Plant Growth and Phenotyping Facility, which also includes the Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement.
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Peptide Ligand-Mediated Trade-Off Between Plant Growth and Stress Response
From Science
A collection of small, sulfated peptides act as growth-promoting hormones in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Ogawa-Ohnishi et al. characterized the structures of several of these PLANT PEPTIDE CONTAINING SULFATED TYROSINE family peptides and identified their receptors among subfamily XI of the Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases.
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New Technique Sheds Light on Elusive Biomolecules
From Arizona State University
Biological sensing devices or biosensors have myriad applications, from disease monitoring and drug discovery to pollution detection, plant biology and food safety.
In new research, Shaopeng Wang and his colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors describe a method capable of keenly imaging the behavior of small molecules that have often eluded conventional biosensing technologies.
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Breedbase: A Digital Ecosystem for Modern Plant Breeding
From G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
Modern breeding methods integrate next-generation sequencing and phenomics to identify plants with the best characteristics and greatest genetic merit for use as parents in subsequent breeding cycles to ultimately create improved cultivars able to sustain high adoption rates by farmers. This data-driven approach hinges on strong foundations in data management, quality control, and analytics.
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The spotlight is on Maria Ermakova, Patricia E. Lopez-Calcagno, Robert T. Furbank, Christine A. Raines, and Susanne von Caemmerer. They discover that overexpression of the Calvin cycle enzyme in a model C4 plant does not stimulate CO2 assimilation. They discuss the potential implications of their results for understanding the role of SBPase in regulation of C4 photosynthesis.