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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
.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! 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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.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
How Plants Respond to Heat Stress
From the Technical University of Munich
From Jan. 6 Plants, like other organisms, can be severely affected by heat stress. To increase their chances of survival, they activate the heat shock response, a molecular pathway also employed by human and animal cells for stress protection. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have now discovered that plant steroid hormones can promote this response in plants.
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Research Pioneers New Frontiers in Plant-Based Food Science
From ScienceDaily via American Institute of Physics
From April 21: Modern methods of creating plant-based meat can yield high optical similarities and targeted molecular-sensory methods, but on a molecular scale, it appears completely different from the food it tries to mimic. Scientists investigate the molecular function and effects of vegetable proteins of different origins to identify sensory weak points in plant-based substitutes, employing rheology and tribology and bringing greater insight than pure sensory analyses. They said muscle proteins emulsify fats and oils in a very different way while lending to a different biting behavior.
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Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Food in Complete Darkness
From SciTechDaily
From July 7: For millions of years, photosynthesis has evolved in plants to turn water, carbon dioxide, and the energy from sunlight into plant biomass and the foods we eat. However, this process is very inefficient, with only around 1% of the energy found in sunlight ending up in the plant. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Delaware have found a way to bypass the need for biological photosynthesis altogether and create food independent of sunlight by using artificial photosynthesis.
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'The Tipping Point is Coming': Unprecedented Exodus of Young Life Scientists is Shaking Up Academia
From Stat News
From Nov. 17: Young life science researchers are leaving academia at unprecedented levels for lucrative jobs in the private sector. This shift of young researchers out of academia is already having real-world consequences. Many faculty are having a harder time hiring postdocs, and the fraction of life science graduates with concrete next steps who plan to do a postdoc has steadily dipped from 70% in 2010 to nearly 58% in 2021. However, there might be some benefits to this exodus. Shirley Tilghman, who has studied this question for 30 years, observes, “Nothing will be more beneficial to the academic life science enterprise than getting some real competition,” she said. “I see this as immensely healthy.”
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Most US Professors are Trained at Same Few Elite Universities
From Nature
From Sept. 29: A new study identifies the astonishing fact that just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions in the US, and no historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) were among that 20%. Furthermore, one in eight US-trained tenure-track faculty members got their PhDs from just five elite universities. The tendency for hiring committees to use institutional prestige as a proxy for a candidate’s excellence can disadvantage students of color. Recommendations to avoid this bias are provided.
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Giles Oldroyd reflects on 50 years of Pride and STEM
From the Royal Society blog
From June 30: Professor Giles Oldroyd (Cambridge) reflects on his experiences as a queer scientist. "Unfortunately I have worked in environments that oppress diversity. Such environments value self-confident individuals who aggressively promote their own worth. In such an environment I found myself always fighting to be heard, to be valued, to be appreciated. Years of harassment left my mental health in tatters and looking to leave science. Thankfully I moved to an organisation that took diversity seriously, somewhere that gave me the space to recover. I know my experiences are not unique and are all too frequently those of women and minorities working in science."
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Why Do Plants Grow Towards Light?
From SciTechDaily
From Aug. 18: Charles Darwin has had a greater influence on science than most. Though his research on the Galápagos Islands and his theories on evolution are widely known, fewer people are aware of his contributions to plant science. A multinational research team has now achieved a significant advancement in the explanation of a key observation that dates back to Darwin.
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Genetically Modified Rice Uses Less Fertilizer, Produces More Food
From CleanTechnica
From Aug. 11: Researchers in China have developed a strain of genetically modified rice that thrives while using less nitrogen. It actually produces 40% to 70% more food. Rice is the primary staple crop in many parts of the world. Modern agriculture relies on fertilizer and much of that fertilizer relies on so-called natural gas, which is more than 90% methane.
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Plant Molecular Geneticists Discover, and Begin to Crack, the Epigenetic Code
From Penn State
From Sept. 1: When plants sense environmental challenges such as drought or extended periods of extreme temperatures, they instinctively reprogram their genetic material to survive and even thrive. The chemical code that triggers those changes can be deciphered and then duplicated to breed more vigorous, productive and resilient crops.
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Common Weed May Be 'Super Plant' That Holds Key to Drought-Resistant Crops
From Yale News
From Aug. 18: A common weed harbors important clues about how to create drought resistant crops in a world beset by climate change.
Yale scientists describe how Portulaca oleracea, commonly known as purslane, integrates two distinct metabolic pathways to create a novel type of photosynthesis that enables the weed to endure drought while remaining highly productive, they report August 5 in the journal Science Advances.
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