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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Plant Physiology Welcomes 19 New Assistant Features Editors to Begin in 2023
Plant Physiology initiated the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program five years ago to help disseminate discoveries published in the journal and to train the next generation of editors and reviewers. Our AFEs are promising early-career scientists and they bring their passion for science to our journal, communicating to our readers each month some of the most exciting advances in research. We would like to welcome the nineteen new AFEs who will start in January 2023 and will work alongside our seasoned crew.
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Announcing the 2023 ASPB Plantae Fellows
ASPB is happy to announce the 2023 Plantae Fellows, an impressive group ready to bring their best to this resource for the plant science community. Fellows are selected for their interest in and enthusiasm for growing the plant science community, science communication and content curation skills, and ability to represent the perspectives of plant scientists in various fields and globally across many countries.
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The Plant Cell Article of the Week: A Hidden Mutation in the Seventh WD40-Repeat of COP1 Determines the Early Flowering Trait in a Set of Arabidopsis myc Mutants
The spotlight is on Dongmei Yu, Xue Dong, Ke Zou, Xiao-Dong Jiang, Yi-Bo Sun, Zhijie Min, Li-Ping Zhang, Haitao Cui, and Jin-Yong Hu. They recently identified MYC2 as a potential target of the MADS-box TF AGL16, a floral repressor that interacts with SVP and FLC. They conclude that “our current understanding of the role of MYC proteins in flowering time regulation and related traits should be re-examined.” In addition, their data also highlight the crucial function of S648 in the COP1-substrate interaction.
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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.
'The Tipping Point is Coming': Unprecedented Exodus of Young Life Scientists is Shaking Up Academia
From Stat News
Young life science researchers are leaving academia at unprecedented levels for lucrative jobs in the private sector. This shift of young researchers out of academia is already having real-world consequences. Many faculty are having a harder time hiring postdocs, and the fraction of life science graduates with concrete next steps who plan to do a postdoc has steadily dipped from 70% in 2010 to nearly 58% in 2021. However, there might be some benefits to this exodus. Shirley Tilghman, who has studied this question for 30 years, observes, “Nothing will be more beneficial to the academic life science enterprise than getting some real competition,” she said. “I see this as immensely healthy.”
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Erin Louise Baggs, co-first author of “Variation in Plant Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Domain Protein Dependence on ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY 1.” Erin is a Postdoctoral Researcher who earned her PhD from Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California Berkeley and her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from University of Bath. She hopes to continue to identify interesting evolutionary patterns and then use experiments in the laboratory to help explain such evolutionary signatures. In this way, she hopes to use nature’s long-term experiment of evolution over time to inform her short-term experiments that are aimed at furthering understanding about plant-microbe interactions. Erin enjoys dogs, pottery, skiing, vintage clothes shopping.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Bennet Reiter, first author of “CGL160-Mediated Recruitment of the Coupling Factor CF1 Is Required for Efficient Thylakoid ATP Synthase Assembly, Photosynthesis, and Chloroplast Development in Arabidopsis.” Bennet is a Medical Writer, Advanced Medical Services with a Dr. rer. nat. in Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His work My work focuses mainly on the assembly of multiprotein complexes in the chloroplast of Arabidopsis but, when not working, Bennet enjoys gardening and origami.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Yasmin Vasques Berchembrock, co-first author of “Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Early Stress Responses in Transgenic Rice Expressing Arabidopsis DREB1a.” Yasmin is currently a PhD student in Genetics and Plant Breeding at the Federal University of Lavras. Her research has partially focused on biotechnology and genetic engineering and drought tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa) and soybean. She is very interested in agriculture in the organic farming system.
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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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Assistant Professor in Genes, Genomes and Evolution |
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| University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Lincoln, NE
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Director, Institute of Biological Chemistry |
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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
Why Marshlands are the Perfect Lab for Studying Climate Change
From Smithsonian Magazine
The tempest began at 7 o’clock one morning this past June. It hadn’t rained for days, and by late afternoon, the forest floor had been drenched with 70,000 gallons of precipitation. Floods of salt water from the nearby Rhode River soaked the roots of the maples, beeches and tulip poplars. In this part of Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay, downpours of such magnitude happen just once every ten years.
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Toward Kingdom-Wide Analyses of Gene Expression
From Trends in Plant Science via ScienceDirect
More than 300 000 RNA-sequencing experiments are now publicly available for numerous algae and land plants.
Generation of gene expression matrices from RNA-seq data for the whole plant kingdom can now be processed in a matter of weeks on modern office computers.
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NASA Science, Cargo Launches on Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission
From NASA
Plants exposed to spaceflight undergo changes that involve the addition of extra information to their DNA, which regulates how genes turn on or off but does not change the sequence of the DNA itself. This process is known as epigenetic change. Plant Habitat-03 assesses whether such adaptations in one generation of plants grown in space can transfer to the next generation.
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Light Competition Drives Herbivore and Nutrient Effects On Plant Diversity
From Nature
Enrichment of nutrients and loss of herbivores are assumed to cause a loss of plant diversity in grassland ecosystems because they increase plant cover, which leads to a decrease of light in the understory. Empirical tests of the role of competition for light in natural systems are based on indirect evidence, and have been a topic of debate for the last 40 years.
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Flow Cytometry Core Facility Provides Cell Analysis Expertise to Scientists
From Penn State
The Penn State Flow Cytometry Core Facility, at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences on the University Park campus, is equipped with flow cytometers and cell sorters that enable researchers to examine suspended cells within the size range of the submicron to 50 micron. One micron is one thousandth of a millimeter.
“With flow cytometry, we can understand the cellular phenotype and a number of biochemical functions on a single cell basis in high throughput manner,” explained Rajeswaran Mani, director of the facility and assistant research professor.
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Enhanced High Thermal Conductivity Cellulose Filaments via Hydrodynamic Focusing
From American Chemical Society
Nanocellulose is regarded as a green and renewable nanomaterial that has attracted increased attention. In this study, we demonstrate that nanocellulose materials can exhibit high thermal conductivity when their nanofibrils are highly aligned and bonded in the form of filaments. The thermal conductivity of individual filaments, consisting of highly aligned cellulose nanofibrils, fabricated by the flow-focusing method is measured in dried condition using a T-type measurement technique.
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Canonical Strigolactones are Not the Major Determinant of Tillering But Important Rhizospheric Signals in Rice
From Science Advances
Strigolactones are a plant hormone inhibiting shoot branching/tillering and a rhizospheric, chemical signal that triggers seed germination of the noxious root parasitic plant Striga and mediates symbiosis with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Identifying specific roles of canonical and noncanonical SLs, the two SL subfamilies, is important for developing Striga-resistant cereals and for engineering plant architecture.
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The spotlight is on Xiangxiang Meng, Quanhui Wang, Ruili Hao, Xudong Li, Mu Li, Ruibo Hu, Hai Du, Zhubing Hu, Bin Yu, and Shengjun Li. They demonstrate that MAC5A interacts with 26S proteasome and is involved in DNA damage response induced by MMS and high-boron stress in Arabidopsis. 
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