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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Connect with ASPB in Our Channels!
ASPB provides various resources and avenues for members and the community to share information and network, including our global community, Plantae, as well as Facebook pages, Twitter, and more. Please join us on these community resources to stay connected with all your plant science colleagues.
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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.
Systemic Racial Disparities in Funding Rates at the National Science Foundation
From eLIFE
White principal investigators (PIs) are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs. Funding rates for white PIs have also been increasing relative to annual overall rates with time. The scientific community must engage in a full-scale re-evaluation of scientific practice and culture. Shifting the present scientific paradigm to be centered on equity will require individual, collective, and institutional commitments to elevating justice, respect, and community as core operating principles in science.
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: The Hidden Toll of Community Outreach
From eLIFE
A recent PhD graduate reflects on the challenge of juggling his scientific research with his desire to encourage others from his community to pursue science. As he observes, "Equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives are often a labor of love performed mainly by those with marginalized identities. We usually do so without compensation for our time and expertise or even the recognition that this effort can cut into time and energy vital for our scientific development. By becoming our university’s next 'poster person' and participating in our own tokenization, we allow institutions to paint a rosy picture and appear more inclusive and supportive than they actually are."
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.#WeAreASPB
Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet María Fernanda Gómez Méndez, first author of “Ice Plant Root Plasma Membrane Aquaporins Are Regulated by Clathrin-Coated Vesicles in Response to Salt Stress.” Fernanda is in the process of obtaining her PhD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is currently studying plant stress responses at the metabolite level using a mix of genetic approaches and LC-MS at the University of California Riverside. She believes that understanding the differences between the tolerance mechanisms of canonical model plants such as Arabidopsis and non-model plants is pivotal to finding traits that will lead to solutions to the agronomic challenges that we face today. Fernanda enjoys assembling miniature crafts, collecting earrings, and watching anime or cooking shows with her family while drinking a cup of coffee while the dogs sleep.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Ella Katz, first author of “Genetic Variation Underlying Differential Ammonium and Nitrate Responses in Arabidopsis.” She is fascinated by specialized metabolites, how they help the plant defend against the environment and directly affect the plant itself. Recently, as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Dan Kliebenstein at the University of California, Davis, she has been focusing on how the plant genotype and environment intersect to control specialized metabolism at a continental scale and how this simultaneously influences cellular growth in the plant. Ella enjoys travel, pilates, and baking.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Lester Botoman, first author of “Agronomic Biofortification Increases Grain Zinc Concentration of Maize Grown Under Contrasting Soil Types in Malawi.” Lester is a PhD student in the Crop and Soil Sciences Department at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi, where he is driven by a passion to explore ways of reducing micronutrient deficiencies in Malawi. Through his recent research work, he was able to increase the grain Zn concentration of maize, the staple cereal crop in Malawi and many other Sub-Saharan African countries. When not working in the lab, Lester enjoys reading, listening to music, and watching soccer.
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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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Tenure Track: Assistant Professor |
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| Texas A&M University Horticultural Sciences | College Station, TX
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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
Climate Change: Could Centuries-Old Wheat Help Feed the Planet?
From BBC
That's one of the hopes of scientists combing through 12,000 specimens of wheat and its relatives held in the Natural History Museum's archives.
The most promising samples are having their genomes sequenced in a bid to identify the genetic secrets of hardier wheat varieties.
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Deep Inside the Epigenetic Memories of Stressed Plants
From Trends in Plant Science
Molecular mechanisms underlying the ‘intelligence’ of plants are far from being fully understood while they are under a profound debate in the scientific community.
The contribution of the different types of epigenetic machinery (DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling, and RNA-mediated regulation) to data perception, storage, elaboration, and transmission needs to be elucidated.
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Is Hacking Photosynthesis the Key to Increasing Crop Yields?
From Smithsonian Magazine
This past summer, a widespread drought across the United States lowered crop yields by as much as one-third as corn, wheat, barley and other plants suffered from too much heat and too little water. It’s a scenario that will likely become more common as climate change makes much of the world a hotter, drier place.
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Plant on China's Shenzhou-15 Spaceship Begins Growing
From Space Daily
The Arabidopsis thaliana plant boarding on China's Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship has begun growing, the China Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday.
The Shenzhou-15 spaceship was launched at 11:08 p.m. on Nov. 29, 2022. About 20 hours later, Chinese astronauts placed the Arabidopsis thaliana in a biological incubator in the life and ecological experiment cabinet inside the Wentian lab module of China's space station.
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The spotlight is on Yuri S. van Ekelenburg, Karina S. Hornslien, Tom Van Hautegem, Matyáš Fendrych, Gert Van Isterdael, Katrine N. Bjerkan, Jason R. Miller, Moritz K. Nowack, and Paul E. Grini. Using Fluorescence-Activated Nuclear Sorting of endosperm domain markers they identify differential genomic imprinting with temporal and spatial resolution suggesting dynamic regulation of imprinting. 
The spotlight is on Wenjia Xu, Hikaru Sato, Heinrich Bente, Juan Santos-González, and Claudia Köhler. They demonstrate that endosperm cellularization is required to establish dehydration tolerance to the developing embryo, ensuring survival during seed maturation. 
The spotlight is on Alexander Goldshmidt, Todd Ziegler, Dafeng Zhou, Brent Brower-Toland, Sasha Preuss, and Thomas Slewinski. They conclude that with the development of genome editing tools and the increasing ability to manipulate allelic variation of individual genes (Rodríguez-Leal et al., 2017; Soyk et al., 2017), we can take advantage of our enhanced understanding of genetic elements that underly agronomic traits to design more productive, climate-resilient crops for the future.