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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Coming Soon: New on Plantae!
Starting in 2023, Plantae will feature a content-first approach with weekly content addressing topics on plant science careers, education, community, and industry news. Plantae Fellows are working to create articles, videos, and graphics that address a range of topics and interests for plant biologists around the world. We’re excited to share this expanded resource. Stay updated at Plantae!
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
We Want to Hear Your Story
ASPB News is introducing new content features to highlight ASPB members and their stories, research, and accomplishments, and invites all members to submit content to be featured in upcoming issues of ASPB News. Member Updates will feature brief member news to share with the community, such as career updates, recent awards, or other milestones. Submit your update now (https://forms.office.com/r/0iKeRXe2su)! We also accept member profiles that highlight a member’s story and contributions to ASPB and the plant science community and Perspectives that look back on member’s careers or provide insights on issues affecting the plant science community. These can be submitted to sblack@aspb.org.
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week: PICLN Modulates Alternative Splicing and Light/Temperature Responses in Plants
The spotlight is on Julieta L. Mateos, Sabrina E. Sanchez, Martina Legris, David Esteve-Bruna, Jeanette C. Torchio, Ezequiel Petrillo, Daniela Goretti, Noel Blanco-Touriñán, Danelle K. Seymour, Markus Schmid, Detlef Weigel, David Alabadí, and Marcelo J. Yanovsky. They demonstrate that the methylosome component PICLN modulates low-temperature effects on alternative splicing and ensures plant acclimation to changes in environmental conditions.
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The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Proton Exchange by the Vacuolar Nitrate Transporter CLCa Is Required for Plant Growth and Nitrogen Use Efficiency
The spotlight is on Julie Hodin, Christof Lind, Anne Marmagne, Christelle Espagne, Michele Wolfe Bianchi, Alexis De Angeli, Fadi Abou-Choucha, Mickaël Bourge, Fabien Chardon, Sebastien Thomine, and Sophie Filleur. Their research shows that the conversion of the nitrate/proton exchanger CLCa into a nitrate channel in Arabidopsis plants reduces water contents in planta but increases nitrogen use efficiency.
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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.
Decolonizing the Biosciences: Turning Lip Service Into Action
From Nature
Science is steeped in injustice and exploitation. Scientific insights from marginalized people have been erased, natural-history specimens have been taken without consent and genetics data have been manipulated to back eugenics movements. Without acknowledgement and redress of this legacy, many people from minority ethnic groups have little trust in science and certainly don’t feel welcome in academia — an ongoing barrier to the levels of diversity that many universities claim to pursue.
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Collaborative Indigenous Research is a Way to Repair the Legacy of Harmful Reseach Practices
From The Conversation
If you grew up outside of Indigenous communities, Black communities, poor communities, and/or disabled communities, you might be surprised to learn that many have had negative experiences with university-based researchers. Nearly 25 years ago, renowned Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith observed that research is “probably one of the dirtiest words in the Indigenous world’s vocabulary.” Collaborative Indigenous Research is a deliberate challenge to the harmful ways university-based researchers have engaged with Indigenous communities.
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Speaking Out Against Racism is Risky, but Fear Will No Longer Keep Me Silent
From Science
Since coming to the United States from Tanzania as a graduate student, I have been subject to microaggressions and worse. Despite the grave reality that dehumanizing language can pave the way for death at the hands of the police and vigilantes, I was afraid to speak about it in public. The stress from not speaking out felt constant and inescapable. I felt trapped inside my own skin. I am still a Black man in America, with all the resulting challenges and fears. I am still afraid. But I have learned that fear need not mean silence. Instead, I can channel the adrenaline—not to outrun and escape my fear, but to face it head on, in the hopes that someday I and others like me will no longer have cause to feel afraid.
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2023 Engaged Leaders Series Will Feature Scientist, Author Beronda Montgomery
The University of Kansas
The University of Kansas Libraries and The Commons will host the 2023 Engaged Leaders Series, a lecture program featuring Beronda Montgomery, scholar and author of “Lessons From Plants.”
Montgomery will present a virtual talk titled “Leading by Nature: Lessons from Plants on Leading Well” at 9 a.m. Jan. 12. A virtual discussion with Montgomery and KU community members will follow at 10 a.m. Feb. 7.
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Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Fathi Berrabah, first author of “Insight into the Control of Nodule Immunity and Senescence During Medicago truncatula Symbiosis.” Fathi conducted his PhD on the understanding of the immune control of the rhizobia-legume symbiosis in the lab of Dr. Pascal Ratet at Paris-Saclay University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research. During his PhD, he discovered the SymCRK gene coding symbiotic cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase involved in nodule immune repression. When not in the lab, Fathi enjoys farming, arts, and sports.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Sachiko Toma-Fukai, Associate Professor at NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, and first author of “Structural Insight into the Activation of an Arabidopsis Organellar C-to-U RNA Editing Enzyme by Active Site Complementation.” Recently, Sachiko has been interested in the molecular mechanism of post-translational or post-transcriptional modifications of proteins relating to diseases and she intends to propose a therapeutic strategy from the viewpoint of structural biology.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Shakirah Nakasagga, first author of “Genetic Variation in Hydrogen Cyanide Potential of Perennial Sorghum Evaluated by Colorimetry.” Ugandan by descent, Shakirah got her doctorate in plant breeding from Texas A & M University where she worked on perennial sorghum. In particular, her research entailed estimating hydrogen cyanide potential, biomass yield and UAS-based regrowth in perennial sorghum and Zea derived lines. In her free time, Shakirah enjoys cooking, traveling, and taking care of young children.
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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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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.
.FROM THE FIELD
How Genetics, Amino Acids and Bacteria Come Together to Combat Soybean Nematode
From University of Arkansas System
There’s hope on the horizon for soybean farmers who battle nematodes, those tiny roundworms that damaged more than $95 million worth of soybean crops in Arkansas last year.
After several years of research, scientists with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and other land-grant institutions in California, Washington and Indiana have found a way to boost a soybean plant’s natural defenses and reduce reproduction of soybean cyst and root-knot nematodes using special amino acids called peptides.
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More Biodiversity isn't a Silver Bullet for Ecosystem Restoration
From Michigan State University
There’s a popular saying that people who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. It turns out that there’s another reason not to ignore history according to new research from Michigan State University published in the journal Ecology.
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Researchers Germinate a Revival of Favorite Aussie Native
From The University of Queensland
A University of Queensland project to mass-produce a more genetically diverse and resilient species of the native Australian emu bush will boost vital land restoration and revegetation efforts across the country.
The ARC Linkage project led by UQ’s Dr Robyn Cave from the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, aims to improve seed germination of the hardy shrub, important to the ecosystem.
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Why Climate Crisis Means Some English Roses Will Bloom No Longer
From The Guardian
Think of the quintessential English garden and a rose will invariably spring to mind. Their sweet scent and plush petals have long been prized by gardeners, but now some of the most beloved varieties are being retired by growers due to climate breakdown and pests.
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The Road To Recovery: A Synthesis of Outcomes From Ecosystem Restoration in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Asian Forests
From The Royal Society Pubishing
Current policy is driving renewed impetus to restore forests to return ecological function, protect species, sequester carbon and secure livelihoods. Here we assess the contribution of tree planting to ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asia; we synthesize evidence on mortality and growth of planted trees at 176 sites and assess structural and biodiversity recovery of co-located actively restored and naturally regenerating forest plots.
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Discovery and Engineering of the Cocaine Biosynthetic Pathway
From Journal of the American Chemical Society
Cocaine, the archetypal tropane alkaloid from the plant genus Erythroxylum, has recently been used clinically as a topical anesthesia of the mucous membranes. Despite this, the key biosynthetic step of the requisite tropane skeleton from the identified intermediate 4-(1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)-3-oxobutanoic acid has remained, until this point, unknown.
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Plant-Produced Recombinant Cytokines Il-37B and Il-38 Modulate Inflammatory Response From Stimulated Human PBMCs
From Scientific Reports via Nature
Affordable therapeutics are vitally needed for humans worldwide. Plant-based production of recombinant proteins can potentially enhance, back-up, or even substitute for the manufacturing capacity of the conventional, fermenter-based technologies. We plastome-engineered a tobacco cultivar to express high levels of two “plantakines” — recombinant human cytokines, interleukins IL-37b and IL-38, and confirmed their native conformation and folding.
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The spotlight is on Alexis Brun, Marija Smokvarska, Lili Wei, Sandrine Chay, Catherine Curie, and Stéphane Mari. Their work has led to the identification of two new potential ferroxidases in Arabidopsis. 