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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Breeding Crops for Drought-Affected Environments and Improved Climate Resilience
The spotlight is on Mark Cooper and Carlos D. Messina. They review approaches that have been used to breed crops with improved levels of drought resistance and conclude that action now to develop platforms to facilitate the integration of scientific knowledge from genes to ecosystems, and their application within breeding programs will create new opportunities to hasten the transition towards more socially and environmentally responsible crop breeding strategies that are responsive to the pressures of climate change.
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Plant Direct Article of the Week: Pisum sativum Has No Competitive Responses to Neighbors: A Case Study in (Non)Reproducible Plant Biology
The spotlight is on Mariah L. Mobley, Audrey S. Kruse and Gordon G. McNickle. They find from reviewing published literature, that the six cultivars of pea which have been studied likely have no responses to a neighbor-volume manipulation at any pot volume ranging from 50 to 6,300 ml (varying mostly by depth). They conclude that this was simple statistical sampling error which is expected when science and frequentist statistics are operating as intended and suggest that it might be valuable to attempt to replicate some of the finer scale results reported for pea, to further explore how increases in horizontal space to increase volume might affect pea, but for coarser-scale questions it might be worth expanding the diversity of species and genotypes for which we have data about root responses to the neighbor-volume manipulation.
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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.
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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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Saying 'No' in Science Isn't Enough
From Nature
Studies show that women take on the bulk of NPT (Non-promotable tasks) such as organizing team-building exercises or writing reports. The underlying reason is simple, and sad: we all expect women to take on this work, which is why we ask them more often and judge them harshly when they say no. Women have internalized these expectations, and they feel a lot of pressure to say yes. Raising awareness of this problem and assigning these tasks, rather than asking for volunteers, would be more equitable.
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Bryan Leong, co-first author of “Respiratory Energy Demands and Scope for Demand Expansion and Destruction” Bryan has always been interested in metabolism and biochemistry, but during his senior year in his undergraduate studies, he realized that “plants were far better chemists than other organisms.” After his PhD in Plant Biology from Michigan State University, he became interested in using synthetic biology to improve plants. Now, as NSF Post-doctoral Fellow in the Horticultural Sciences at University of Florida in the Andrew Hanson lab, he uses continuous directed evolution to improve plant enzymes and re-engineer them back into plants. In his free time, Bryan enjoys reading, camping, brewing, and martial arts.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Jia He, first author of “Establishing Physalis as a Solanaceae Model System Enables Genetic Reevaluation of the Inflated Calyx Syndrome.” Jia earned his B.Sc. in Biotechnology from Peking University, China before coming to the United States for his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He know works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he is focusing on the genetics, genomics and developmental biology of Physalis – an emerging Solanaceae reference system. When not researching, Jia enjoys weightlifting, travel, and photography.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Bhuvan Pathak, co-first author of “Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Early Stress Responses in Transgenic Rice Expressing Arabidopsis DREB1a.” Bhuvan is an Assistant Professor, Biological and Life Sciences Division, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India, where she is pursuing research in the oil seed crop (such as peanuts and soybeans) improvement through genome editing approaches. Bhuvan also enjoys writing poems and cooking.
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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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Research Agronomist/Plant Physiologist/Biologist |
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| USDA Dairy Forage Research Center | Madison, WI
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Director, Institute of Biological Chemistry |
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| Washington State University | Pullman, WA
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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.
- Variety of Techniques
- Modern Breeding Methods
- Wide Range of Plant Species
- Skilled Scientists and Experts
- From Traditional Breeding to Modern Molecular Breeding
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.FROM THE FIELD
How Do We Double Ag Production to Feed 9 Billion People?
From MSU Today
It’s estimated that agricultural production must nearly double by 2050 to feed the world’s growing population. Add the impacts of climate change to the scarcity of land and water and you have one of the greatest challenges facing the world today.
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University of Missouri is Helping the Aviation Industry Go 'Green'
From University of Missouri
While biodiesel and ethanol are two forms of biofuel used to power today’s cars and trucks, one area of the transportation sector that’s still developing a viable biofuel solution is the aviation industry. Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from across the United States, including the University of Missouri, is working to develop a sustainable “green energy” source of biofuel — an energy source commonly produced from vegetable oil — as an alternative to the petroleum-based fossil fuel widely used in the aviation industry.
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Rewilding Plant Microbiomes
From Science
Over the past decade, research has shown that microorganisms living on and inside eukaryotes—the microbiota—are drivers of host health. For plants, microbiota can greatly expand their genomic capabilities by enhancing immunity, nutrient acquisition, and tolerance to environmental stresses.
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Safeguarding a Crop to Feed the Future
From Maryland Today
Thousands of years of wheat cultivation have created a bountiful crop that today provides about one-fifth of the calories consumed by the world’s population, but the process that led to desirable traits like large grains and yields have also suppressed genetic diversity. As a result, wheat—and the global food supply itself—is increasingly vulnerable to climate changes, pests and diseases.
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New Study by CSUN Prof Sheds Light on How Intimate Species Interactions Help Form New Species
From CSUN Today
A wide variety of living things — from beetles and butterflies to microbes — spend much of their lives in close association with plants that provide them food and shelter. Such intimate interactions actually encourage the formation of new species, according to a new study by California State University, Northridge evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder and a team of researchers.
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Exploring Your World: How Plants Cope With Cold
From MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Plants, unlike animals, are rooted to their place and unable to move indoors or to a warmer location. Neither can they bundle up in warmer clothing. So how do they survive? We know they must since we don’t have to replant all the forests and meadows each spring.
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The spotlight is on Hui Tian, Gabriel L. Fiorin, Anja Kombrink, Jeroen R. Mesters, and Bart P.H.J. Thomma. They show that fungal LysM effectors composed of two LysM domains bind chitin via intermolecular LysM dimerization, leading to polymers that may precipitate to eliminate chitin from infection sites to prevent the activation of host immune receptors.