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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
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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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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Taproot Season Six, First Episode is Out!
In this new season's first episode, guest Dior Kelley, an assistant professor in the Genetics, Development and Cell Biology department at Iowa State University, describes “slim shady is a novel allele of PHYTOCHROME B present in the T-DNA line SALK_015201”, which was published in Plant Direct last year.
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The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Beyond Transcription: Compelling Open Questions in Plant RNA Biology
The spotlight is on Pablo A. Manavella, Micaela A. Godoy Herz, Alberto R. Kornblihtt, Reed Sorenson, Leslie E. Sieburth, Kentaro Nakaminami, Motoaki Seki, Yiliang Ding, Qianwen Sun, Hunseung Kang, Federico D. Ariel, Martin Crespi, Axel Giudicatti, Qiang Cai, Hailing Jin, Xiaoqi Feng, Yijun Qi, and Craig S. Pikaard. In their Review, twelve experts present and discuss new and long-standing compelling open questions in plant RNA biology and future perspectives in the field.
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Plant Direct Article of the Week: Effects of Trichoderma harzianum Biofertilizer on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Bupleurum chinense
The spotlight is on Li Liu, Yuansong Xu, Hailu Cao, Ya Fan, Kan Du, Xun Bu, and Demin Gao. This study demonstrated that T. harzianum biofertilizer promoted the growth of B. chinense, increased yield, improved its quality, and increased the contents of NH4+–N, NO3-–N, Ava-K, and Ava-P and the activities of sucrase and catalase in the rhizosphere soil
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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.
ROOT & SHOOT (NSF RCN) Travel Award Application for Members of SACNAS or MANRRS
From ROOT & SHOOT
The NSF-funded Research Coordination Network ROOT & SHOOT has funds to support a limited number of travel awards to help defray the costs of attending a plant-science conference for student/mentor pairs affiliated with SACNAS or MANRRS. Successful applicants will be reimbursed up to $3000 (per pair) for appropriate travel-related costs incurred by attending one of the designated plant science conferences.
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'GRExit' Gains Momentum as Ph.D. Programs Drop Exam Requirement
From Science
The vast majority of STEM PhD programs have stopped requiring GRE scores, according to an investigation by Science, and the number of tests taken each year has plummeted. To quantify the trend, Science examined the application requirements for PhD programs in eight disciplines at 50 top-ranked U.S. universities. Only 3% currently require prospective students to submit GRE General Test scores, compared with 84% 4 years ago.
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To Fix LGBTQ+ Disparities in Science, We Need the Data
From Nature
This month, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) will decide whether it will collect data next year on how many people from sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+ people) are in the US scientific workforce. The NSF currently does not ask about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in its surveys, although it does ask about race, ethnicity, income and disability. The scientific community can’t improve a situation that it refuses to measure. The US government needs data on LGBTQ+ scientists that can drive policies and effect change.
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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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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Physiology |
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| University College Cork | Cork, Ireland
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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
Planting for the Future
Washington University in St. Louis
An arboretum is a bit like a living museum of trees. WashU’s campus has over 200 distinct tree species and more than 4,000 individual, registered specimens. It was awarded Tree Campus USA status by the Arbor Day Foundation and Level 2 accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program.
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Climate Change Challenges Plant Breeding
From Current Opinion in Plant Biology via ScienceDirect
Plant breeding is important to cope with climate change impacts, complementing crop management and policy interventions to ensure global food production. However, changes in environmental factors also affect the objectives, efficiency, and genetic gains of the current plant breeding system.
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Extraterrestrial Nature Reserves
From International Journal of Astrobiology via Cambridge University Press
If human population growth is not controlled, natural areas must be sacrificed. An alternative is to create more habitat, terraforming Mars. However, this requires establishment of essential, ecosystem services on a planet currently unamenable to Terran species. Shorter term, assembling Terran-type ecosystems within contained environments is conceivable if mutually supportive species complements are determined.
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Self-Enclosed Bio-Photoelectrochemical Cell in Succulent Plants
From ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Harvesting an electrical current from biological photosynthetic systems (live cells or isolated complexes) is typically achieved by immersion of the system into an electrolyte solution. In this study, it is shown that the aqueous solution found in the tissues of succulent plants can be used directly as a natural bio-photo electrochemical cell.
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Learning How to Grow Super Mushrooms, With Termites as Teachers
From University of Copenhagen
Termites have cultivated and eaten them for 30 million years. This incredible mushroom has more protein than chicken, soy and corn, but has yet to be grown by humans. By imitating termites, scientists at the University of Copenhagen will investigate whether these mushrooms can become a sustainable food source for humans.
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The spotlight is on Lukas Wittern, Gareth Steed, Laura J. Taylor, Dora Cano Ramirez, Gabriela Pingarron-Cardenas, Keith Gardner, Andy Greenland, Matthew A. Hannah, and Alex A. R. Webb. They demonstrate that the flowering time of a cereal is regulated by a circadian oscillator component separate from its function in the circadian system.