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As 2022 comes to a close, ASPB would like to wish its members, partners and other
industry professionals a safe and happy new year. As we reflect on the past year,
we would like to provide the readers of the ASPB Signal a look at
the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume January 5, 2023.
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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Submit Your Paper to a Plant Physiology or The Plant Cell Focus Issue
Both Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell are accepting submissions for upcoming Focus Issues. The deadline for Plant Physiology’s Focus Issue on Cell Walls, edited by Anja Geitmann and Tony Bacic, is February 28, 2023. The deadline for The Plant Cell’s Focus Issue on Photosynthesis, edited by Ralph Bock, Roberta Croce, Nancy Eckardt, J. Clark Lagarias, Sabeeha Merchant, and Kevin Redding, is August 1, 2023.
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.FROM ASPB & PLANTAE
Taproot Season Six, Episode Two is Out!
The jumping-off point for this episode’s discussion is a commentary that episode guest, Olivier Hamant wrote entitled "Plants Show us the Light," published in Trends in Plant Science in 2020. There, he argues that evolution favors robustness over efficiency, and cites several recent discoveries in the field of photosynthesis to support his argument.
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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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Changing Cultures and Climate Signal Archive
From ROOT & SHOOT
Looking for an article you saw in the Changing Cultures and Climates section of this newsletter? We have started to archive them on the ROOT & SHOOT blog. And if you would like to recommend an article to include here, please let us know by email - mwilliams@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
Improving Crop Resilience with Nanoparticles
From Nature
From Aug. 18: There were sceptics when Michael Strano and his colleagues published their method for using nanoparticles to alter the biology of living plants (J. P. Giraldo et al. Nature Mater. 13, 400–408; 2014). In a letter to Nature Materials, one prominent plant scientist stated that the findings were wrong. “She wrote to the editor and said, ‘What these authors are proposing is not possible. We think they’re misinterpreting their data’,” Strano recalls.
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Cereals Take Control of Bacterial Production of Ammonia Fertilizer
From EurekAlert!
From April 21: New research from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has established control of bacterial nitrogen fixation by cereals.
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in establishing the ability of cereals, such as barley, wheat, maize and rice, to make their own nitrogen fertiliser in the form of ammonia.
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The Green Planet: Plants as You Have Never Seen Them Before
From New Scientist
From Jan. 13: Presented by David Attenborough, The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans. As a spectacle, it is a world away from The Private Life of Plants, the BBC's last in-depth look at plants from 25 years ago. Through advances in filming techniques and scientific understanding, The Green Planet shows plants not only as we have never seen them before, but as we struggle to even imagine them: locked in vicious competition for resources, strategizing to gain the upper hand, helping each other and even communicating.
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Molecules Boosting Plant Immunity Identified
From ScienceDaily via Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
From July 21: Researchers have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive critical plant immune responses. These compounds have all the hallmarks of being small messengers tailored by plants to turn on key defense-control hubs. Harnessing these insights may allow scientists and plant breeders to design molecules that make plants, including many important crop species, more resistant to disease.
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Stanford Scientists Unlock Mysteries of Plant Growth and Health
From SciTechDaily
From June 16: Plants, like all other known organisms, utilize DNA to pass on traits. Animal genetics often focuses on parentage and lineage, but this can can be challenging in plant genetics since plants can be self-fertile, unlike most animals.
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How Well-intentioned White Male Physicists Maintain Ignorance of Inequity and Justify Inaction
From arXiv
From Oct. 20: A new preprint analyzes interviews with 27 self-identified progressive white-male physics faculty and graduate students discussing race and gender in physics. It identifies three overarching themes, demonstrating how highly intelligent, well-intentioned people of privilege maintain their power and privilege despite their own intentions: 1) Denying inequity is physically near them, 2) Locating causes of inequity in large societal systems over which they have little influence and 3) Justifying inaction. The article ends with recommendations for helping people to engage the power they hold to better work with women and people of color in disrupting inequity in physics.
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Meet an 'Extreme' Plant That Thrives and Grows Faster Under Stress
From CNN
From May 12: Not all plants wither when faced with harsh conditions. Extremophyte plants not only survive in dry, salty or cold places, but actually thrive in them.
One of these plants flourishes in a place with extremely high salt content, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Plants.
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Direct Delivery and Fast-Treated Agrobacterium Co-Culture (Fast-Tracc) Plant Transformation Methods for Nicotiana Benthamiana
From Nature
From Oct. 20: Cryptochromes are blue light receptors that mediate circadian rhythm and magnetic sensing in various organisms. A typical cryptochrome consists of a conserved photolyase homology region domain and a varying carboxyl-terminal extension across species. The structure of the flexible carboxyl-terminal extension and how carboxyl-terminal extension participates in cryptochrome's signaling function remain mostly unknown. In this study, we uncover the potential missing link between carboxyl-terminal extension conformational changes and downstream signaling functions.
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