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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
New Teaching Tool, "The Floral Transition and Adaptation to a Changing Environment: from Model Species to Cereal Crops"
Meet the newest member of the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology family, "The Floral Transition and Adaptation to a Changing Environment: from Model Species to Cereal Crops," by Michela Osnato, freely available in the November 2022 issue of The Plant Cell. This teaching tool reviews one hundred years of research on the regulation of flowering time, which largely influences the production of seeds and the perpetuation of angiosperm species. Like all Teaching Tools, it provides a review-style article, slides, and a teaching guide.
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week: A Two-gene Strategy Increases Iron and Zinc Concentrations in Wheat Flour, Improving Mineral Bioaccessibility
The spotlight is on Sophie A. Harrington, James M. Connorton, Natasha I.M. Nyangoma, Rose McNelly, Yvie M.L. Morgan, Mohamad F. Aslam, Paul A. Sharp, Alexander A.T. Johnson, Cristobal Uauy, and Janneke Balk. Their research shows that targeted expression of a vacuolar iron transporter and increased nicotianamine levels have combinatorial effects on iron and zinc levels and their distribution in wheat grain.
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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.
Recommendations for Making Editorial Boards Diverse and Inclusive
From Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Lack of diversity in editorial boards hinders multifaceted perspectives in fields such as ecology, evolution, and conservation. The authors outline ten key actions for editorial boards to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion, benefiting the journal in attracting a wider readership, enhancing diversity among authors, and overcoming biases in editorial decisions. These include increasing diversity among editors, reviewers, and authors, EDI training, publishing EDI perspectives, and tracking of EDI metrics.
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Preprint: Increasing Inclusion & Competency in STEM: Understanding LGBTQ+ History, Barriers, and Heteronormativity
From EcoEvoRxiv
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and other marginalized gender and sexual identities (LGBTQ+) face unique barriers to participation in the sciences rooted in cis-heteronormativity and heterosexism. This paper reviews how structural deficits and heteronormativity serve as barriers to LGBTQ+ inclusion, well-being, and participation in science by highlighting important historic events that aid in understanding current issues, including the historic and ongoing role of science in the lives and rights of LGBTQ+ people.
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Cristina Votta, co-first author of “ZAXINONE SYNTHASE 2 Regulates Growth and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Rice.” A PhD student in Biological Sciences and Applied Biotechnologies at the University of Torino, Italy, Cristina investigates the role of zaxinone synthase and its enzymatic product, zaxinone, a novel apocarotenoid, on plant growth and mycorrhization. She enjoys reading, dancing, and nature.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Pan Wang, co-first author of “The OPEN STOMATA1-SPIRAL1 Module Regulates Microtubule Stability During Abscisic Acid-Induced Stomatal Closure in Arabidopsis.” Pan is a PhD candidate at the China Agricultural University where her groups research reveals the molecular function of microtubule associated protein SPR1 during ABA-induced stomatal closure, and helps to clarify the importance of microtubule cytoskeleton in drought stress. Pan enjoys swimming and music.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Drew Harner first author of “Prolonged Phloem Feeding by the Spotted Lanternfly, an Invasive Planthopper, Alters Resource Allocation and Inhibits Gas Exchange in Grapevines." Drew is a postdoctoral scholar in the Plant Science Department and the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology at Penn State University, where he is investigating biochemical and ecophysiological responses of cultivated grapevines to phloem-feeding by the spotted lanternfly. When not working to broadly untangle how spotted lanternfly affects grapevine functioning, Drew enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading.
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- Seed germination status
- Plant stress response
- Plant height
- Photosynthesis rate
- Stem diameter
- Stomatal conductance
- Leaf number and area
- Water use efficiency
- Tiller number
- Transpiration rate
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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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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions |
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| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN
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Assistant Professor in Genes, Genomes and Evolution |
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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
NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Announces Three Funding Opportunities
From NSF
- Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges (URoL:ASC) seeks to apply lessons learned from studying rules of life across a broad array of living systems to tackle pressing societal concerns, such as climate change, environmental degradation, sustainability, and more.
- Advancing Plant Transformation is interested in proposals that advance the field of plant transformation, support basic research and protocol/tool development, or emphasize potential outcomes with benefits to society
- Biology Integration Institutes aim to bring researchers together around the common goal of understanding how the processes that sustain life and enable biological innovation operate and interact within and across different scales of organization.
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Surviving Space: Extreme Plant Adaptation
From NASA
Which plants have the best chances for survival in space? That’s the question being addressed by Principal Investigators Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl in the Epigenetic Adaptation to the Spaceflight Environment – Accumulated Genomic Change Induced by Generations in Space investigation which will soon launch to the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman’s 18th commercial resupply services mission for NASA.
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Plant Growth Acceleration Using a Transparent Eu3+-Painted UV-To-Red Conversion Film
From Scientific Reports
The stimulation of photosynthesis is a strategy for achieving sustainable plant production. Red light is useful for plant growth because it is absorbed by chlorophyll pigments, which initiate natural photosynthetic processes. Ultraviolet-to-red wavelength-converting materials are promising candidates for eco-friendly plant cultures that do not require electric power.
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Evapotranspiration Frequently Increases During Droughts
From Nature Climate Change
Changes in evapotranspiration affect water availability and ecosystem health. Higher evaporative demand during drought acts to increase ET, but droughts also reduce the moisture supply necessary for ET, limiting predictions of even the sign of ET anomalies. Drought-driven increases in ET are of particular concern because they quickly deplete water resources, causing flash droughts and acute stress on ecosystems.
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Neoplants Hopes to Curb Indoor Air Pollution With Bioengineered House Plants
From Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
A phrase commonly heard in gardens (and among gardeners) is “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Although the originator, Audrey Hepburn, was almost certainly not referring to synthetic biology, she could have been talking about one of the field’s most recently launched companies.
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Inside the University of Washington's New Greenhouse, Where a Tech Upgrade Keeps the 6,000 Plants Happy
From GeekWire
Exposure to plants and nature is said to make humans calmer and more productive, and just feel better overall. That theory will be put to test inside a sprawling new greenhouse at the University of Washington in Seattle, where the public will get the chance to regularly mingle with some 6,000 plant specimens from around the world.
The 20,000-square-foot concrete, steel and glass greenhouse replaces the original Botany Greenhouse, where the UW’s biology department had amassed one of the country’s most diverse plant collections over a period of 65 years.
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How Truffles Took Root Around the World
From Smithsonian Magazine
Every morning for three months of the year, Lola wakes at 8 and goes hunting. She races past oak trees, running at full speed through a 50-hectare field set in the southern end of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The daily challenge — to find her elusive prey — never fails to excite Lola. She darts from place to place until faltering at last: 40 minutes into her day, she gets distracted or simply gives in to exhaustion.
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The deadline is looming for virtual/in-person 
In the latest installment of the Plant Physiology Editor Profile series, Assistant Features Editor Yadukrishnan Premachandran interviews Monitoring Editor Rashmi Sasidharan, an Associate Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on flooding and hypoxia survival mechanisms in plants, using biochemical, molecular, and genomic approaches in both wild and model plant species.
The spotlight is on Jia He, Michael Alonge, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Matthias Benoit, Sebastian Soyk, Nathan T. Reem, Anat Hendelman, Joyce Van Eck, Michael C. Schatz, Zachary B. Lippman. They show that chromosome-scale reference genomes and Physalis species in the Solanaceae genus provide new model systems and a reevaluation of the inflated calyx syndrome.
The spotlight is on Kumari Billakurthi, Stefanie Schulze, Eva Lena Marie Schulz, Tammy L. Sage, Tina B. Schreier, Julian M. Hibberd, Martha Ludwig, and Peter Westhoff. They conclude that the AT1G29480 locus enhances the GFP reporter gene activity via an RNA-based mechanism.