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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Applications Now Open for CourseSource Writing Faculty Mentoring Network
Have you developed new evidence-based teaching activities and/or lessons for online learning in biology undergraduate education? Are you interested in working with a group of peers to write and prepare your lesson manuscript for submission to the journal CourseSource?
CourseSource offering semester-long Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMN)! Apply now to join the Spring 2022 CourseSource Online4Bio Writing FMN.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Introducing: The Newly Revised Principles for Teaching Plant Biology
The 12 Principles of Plant Biology are a widely used resource for teaching and learning plant biology, especially within the K-12 educational community. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of their development, the Education Committee would like to share with you a revised, expanded set of Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.
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Full-Time Job Opportunity at ASPB: Community Engagement Administrator
The Community Engagement Administrator will be responsible for supporting, nurturing and helping to grow ASPB's plant science community. This is achieved by engaging community members on an ongoing basis through a variety of tactics, tools, and resources, both online via ASPB's digital properties (Plantae, social media, and websites) and offline (via in-person activities at meetings). The community engagement administrator assists the Plantae, Member Services teams, and our governance body in executing ASPB's community engagement plan. They are responsible for coordinating ASPB's community-facing digital content — a major component of the engagement plan. In particular, the community engagement administrator will assist in organizing and delivering ASPB's online content and activities and will develop and generate ongoing reporting of progress on engagement and growth metrics.
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Save the Dates! Webinars to Celebrate Plant Cell Biology, January 13 and January 25
Join us for two special webinars to celebrate the January 2022 Plant Cell Focus Issue on Plant Cell Biology. On Thursday, January 13, at 8 AM GMT, we will host Byung-Ho Kang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Yansong Miao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). On Tuesday, January 25, at 4 PM GMT, we will host Magdelena Bezanilla (Dartmouth College, United States) and Joke De Jaeger Braet (University of Hamburg, Germany). Registration information coming soon. Recordings will be posted shortly after the webinars.
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Plant Physiology Article of the Week: Nitrogen fertilization modulates beneficial rhizosphere interactions through signaling effect of nitric oxide
The spotlight is on An Kang, Nan Zhang, Weibing Xun, Xiaoyan Dong, Ming Xiao, Zihao Liu, Zhihui Xu, Haichao Feng, Jianwen Zou, Qirong Shen, and Ruifu Zhang. Their research indicates that moderate N fertilization enhances plant–beneficial rhizobacteria interactions and promotes plant N use efficiency, which is mediated by the signaling effect of denitrification-produced NO.
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Submissions Open for Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Evolution of Plant Structure and Function
Plant Physiology seeks research article submissions by January 1, 2022, for inclusion in a Focus Issue on the topic of Evolution of Plant Structure and Function. Recent progress in understanding the proximate basis of plant evolution has revealed a myriad of underlying mechanisms, ranging from the genetic and epigenetic to the biophysical and micro-biotic. This focus issue calls for review or research articles, short letters, and reports that provide novel insights into evolutionary mechanisms underpinning plant phenotypic variation.
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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.
Differential Retention Contributes to Racial/Ethnic Disparity in US Academia
From PLOS One
The authors find that, regardless of recruitment, failed retention contributes to mis-representation across academia and that the stages responsible for the largest disparities differ by race and ethnicity: for Black and Hispanic scholars this occurs at the transition from graduate student to postdoctoral researcher whereas for Native American/Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander scholars this occurs at transitions to and within faculty stages. Their findings demonstrate that while recruitment continues to be important, retention is also a pervasive barrier to proportional representation.
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Recognizing Plant Physiology Authors
Meet Paúl Hernández Herrera, co-first author of "Live Plant Cell Tracking: Fiji plugin to analyze cell proliferation dynamics and understand morphogenesis." Paúl is a postdoc at the National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he adapted and improved the algorithm developed during his PhD to extract human sperm flagellar characteristics from 3-D images. In his free time, Paúl enjoys gardening, playing video games, biking, and running.
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Recognizing The Plant Cell Authors
Meet Kun Li, first author of "Interactions between SQUAMOSA and SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE MADS-box proteins regulate meristem transitions during wheat spike development." Kun Li grew up in China but is now a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Jorge Dubcovsky's lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis. Her work there shows that it is possible to rationally manipulate the activity of SQUAMOSA and SVP genes to optimize wheat spike architecture. Kun Li enjoys playing badminton, hiking, and running in her free time.
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Recognizing Plant Direct Authors
Meet Meng-Rong Chuang, first author of "Chloroplast import of an intermembrane space protein is facilitated by translocon components Toc75 and Tic236." Meng-Rong is currently a Research Assistant at the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology of National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, where she studies the functions of polysaccharides important in agricultural products. Meng-Rong strives to remain curious about everything she encounters in science and endeavors to establish the underlying mechanism. She shares, "It has been an illuminating journey for me so far." Meng-Rong also is interested in cooking, gardening, photography, and indie rock.
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Share Your Moment in the Spotlight with ASPB Members!
ASPB would like to highlight news coverage about plant science. If you or your research is being highlighted in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, online, or other sources, please let us know! Just send a quick note, URL, and other relevant information to ASPB News production manager, Diane McCauley, at diane@aspb.org.
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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.
.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
Orchid Reintroduction Is Helpful to Long-term Species Protection
From the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Orchids represent a charismatic group of plant species that currently face a considerable number of threats to their long-term survival. Orchids produce thousands of dust-like seeds that may be easily dispersed by wind. However, due to their tiny size, seeds lack an endosperm and have become highly dependent on mycorrhizal fungi for germination and further development into a seedling. Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently developed a novel seed sowing technique called in situ symbiotic seed germination.
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Danforth Center Scientists Develop an Unprecedented Three-Dimensional X-Ray Microscope Methodology to Image Plants at Cellular Resolution
From the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Using three-dimensional (3-D) imaging is a recent innovation in the plant biology sector to capture phenotypes on the "whole-plant" scale: from miniscule cells and organelles in the roots, up to the leaves and flowers. However, current 3-D imaging processes are limited by time-consuming sample preparation and by imaging depth, usually reaching only a few layers of cells within a plant tissue. New research led by Christopher Topp, PhD, associate member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and Keith Duncan, a research scientist in his lab, have pioneered X-ray microscope technology to image plant cells, whole tissues, and even organs at unprecedented depths with cellular resolution.
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Scientists Solve the Grass Leaf Conundrum
From the John Innes Centre
Grass is cut regularly by our mowers and grazed on by cows and sheep, yet continues to grow back. The secret to its remarkable regenerative powers lies in part in the shape of its leaves, but how that shape arises has been a topic of longstanding debate. The debate is relevant to our staple crops wheat, rice and maize, because they are members of the grass family with the same type of leaf. The mystery of grass leaf formation has now been unraveled by a John Innes Centre team, in collaboration with Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Edinburgh using the latest computational modelling and developmental genetic techniques.
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New Mexico State University Leads in National Effort to Map the Pecan Genome
From The Las Cruces Bulletin
You might say New Mexico State University faculty PhDs. Richard Heerema and Jennifer Randall are bringing pecans out of their shells. Heerema, an NMSU Cooperative Extension Service pecan specialist, and Randall, a plant molecular biologist and plant pathologist in the NMSU Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, are studying the pecan genome to develop pecan trees with the right genetics for specific climates, including the Southwest. The ultimate goal of mapping a complete set of all genetic instructions (the genome) for the pecan is "more profitable and efficient orchards," said Heerema, who has a PhD in plant biology and is one of only a handful of pecan specialists in the United States.
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Differentiating Friends from Foes in the Fungal Root Microbiome
From the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
A collaborative project between researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has shed light on the fungal genetic determinants that explain why some fungi from the root microbiome can colonize roots and cause disease more efficiently than others.
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New Biosensors Shine a Light On CRISPR Gene Editing
From Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Detecting the activity of CRISPR gene editing tools in organisms with the naked eye and an ultraviolet flashlight is now possible using technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Scientists demonstrated these real-time detection tools in plants and anticipate their use in animals, bacteria and fungi with diverse applications for biotechnology, biosecurity, bioenergy and agriculture. The team described the successful development of the UV system in Horticulture Research and their proof-of-principle demonstration in ACS Synthetic Biology.
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Ag-Inspired Engineering: How Engineering Principles Support Plant Science
From the University of Delaware
When Tropical Storm Isaias pummeled the East Coast in summer 2020, it created life-threatening tornadoes and weather conditions that ruined homes and flattened farm fields across Delaware. But in Newark, in a small field planted with different varieties of corn, one professor noticed that not all of the plants had the same damage. University of Delaware Assistant Professor Erin Sparks wondered: what allows some corn stalks to stay standing while others are knocked to the ground? The answer is complicated, but Sparks is getting much closer to understanding these plant mechanics thanks to an engineering-based approach typically used on manmade structures proposed by the College of Engineering's Monique Head.
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Plants Buy Us Time to Slow Climate Change — But Not Enough to Stop It
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
As human activities cause more carbon dioxide to be emitted into the atmosphere, scientists have debated whether plants are responding by photosynthesizing more and sucking up even more carbon dioxide than they already do — and if so, is it a little or a lot more. Now an international team of researchers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, have used a novel methodology combining remote sensing, machine learning, and terrestrial biosphere models to find that plants are indeed photosynthesizing more, to the tune of 12% higher global photosynthesis from 1982 to 2020.
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