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Your donation to ASPB’s Plant Biology Conference Participation Fund directly supports scientists with travel awards, summer undergrad research fellowships, and childcare subsidies.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🌍 Today is #GivingTuesday!
Your donation to ASPB’s Plant Biology Conference Participation Fund directly supports scientists with travel awards, summer undergrad research fellowships, and childcare subsidies.
Give now and make an impact: buff.ly/C2jFGRS
#PlantScience #PlantBio2026
Your donation to ASPB’s Plant Biology Conference Participation Fund directly supports scientists with travel awards, summer undergrad research fellowships, and childcare subsidies.
Give now and make an impact: buff.ly/C2jFGRS
#PlantScience #PlantBio2026
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The 2026 plant science conference travel award program is open!
Awards are given to student/mentor pairs.
At lease one of the pair must be a member of SACNAS or MANRRS or AISES.
Please share, applications due by Dec 5, 2025.
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Awards are given to student/mentor pairs.
At lease one of the pair must be a member of SACNAS or MANRRS or AISES.
Please share, applications due by Dec 5, 2025.
@sacnas.bsky.social
rootandshoot.org/2026-root-sh...
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The 2026 plant science conference travel award program is open!
Awards are given to student/mentor pairs.
At lease one of the pair must be a member of SACNAS or MANRRS or AISES.
Please share, applications due by Dec 5, 2025.
@sacnas.bsky.social
rootandshoot.org/2026-root-sh...
Awards are given to student/mentor pairs.
At lease one of the pair must be a member of SACNAS or MANRRS or AISES.
Please share, applications due by Dec 5, 2025.
@sacnas.bsky.social
rootandshoot.org/2026-root-sh...
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In a season of gratitude, we reflect on our ASPB volunteers whose service powers everything we do. Your dedication is the cornerstone of our society. Thank you. 🌱
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In a season of gratitude, we reflect on our ASPB volunteers whose service powers everything we do. Your dedication is the cornerstone of our society. Thank you. 🌱
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November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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✨ Fellow feature time! @amberonradio.bsky.social's summer at @smithsonianmag.bsky.social supported by @aspbofficial.bsky.social resulted in some incredible work. Read them all here: www.aaas.org/programs/mas...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
✨ Fellow feature time! @amberonradio.bsky.social's summer at @smithsonianmag.bsky.social supported by @aspbofficial.bsky.social resulted in some incredible work. Read them all here: www.aaas.org/programs/mas...
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#JustIn on Plantae — The Secret Life of Plant Science: How and Where It Shapes Our World. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Krishna Chaitanya Alamuru and Gourav Arora explore how and where plant science research impacts our daily lives. buff.ly/HPbplSL
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The Secret Life of Plant Science: How and Where It Shapes Our World | Plantae
Introduction Walk outside and you’ll find them everywhere, shading your path, perfuming the air, and quietly turning sunlight into life. Plants are the green engines of our planet…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#JustIn on Plantae — The Secret Life of Plant Science: How and Where It Shapes Our World. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Krishna Chaitanya Alamuru and Gourav Arora explore how and where plant science research impacts our daily lives. buff.ly/HPbplSL
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Rapid and Cost-Effective Digital Quantification of RNA Editing and Maturation in Organelle Transcripts by Oxford Nanopore Target-Indexed-PCR (TIP) Sequencing (Zhihua Hua) doi.org/10.1002/pld3... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
CmSGT1, Transcriptionally Regulated by CmWRKY21 and CmWRKY31, Improves Powdery Mildew Resistance in Cucurbita moschata (Wei-Li Guo, Jin-Peng Zhao, Xue-Jin Chen, Bi-Hua Chen, Qing-Fei Li, Xin-Zheng Li) buff.ly/0MUMytg #PlantScience @aspbofficial
CmSGT1, Transcriptionally Regulated by CmWRKY21 and CmWRKY31, Improves Powdery Mildew Resistance in Cucurbita moschata
Powdery mildew (PM), mainly caused by Podosphaera xanthii, is a severe destructive disease that threatens the production of cucurbit crops globally. Heterologous transformation has shown that the…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Check out the October 2025 issue of The Plant Cell from @ASPB @OxUniPress! academic.oup.com/plcell/issue... #PlantScience
Volume 37 Issue 10 | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic
The Plant Cell publishes novel research of special significance in plant biology, especially in the areas of cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, development, and evolution.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Single Cell Technologies. This focus dedicated to the emerging field of plant single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), etc. Submission Deadline: 09/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Call for Papers: 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. This focus issue aims to provide a forum to improve our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. Submission Deadline: 05/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚨 Did you know? Publishing in The Plant Cell doesn’t just advance your career—it supports the entire field of plant biology.
We're published by ASPB @aspbofficial.bsky.social, a nonprofit devoted to advancing plant science 🌿
#PlantScience #NonprofitPublishing #PublishWithPurpose
We're published by ASPB @aspbofficial.bsky.social, a nonprofit devoted to advancing plant science 🌿
#PlantScience #NonprofitPublishing #PublishWithPurpose
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
IN BRIEF: Blue Light-Tuned Selective Autophagy: CRY1 Intercepts ATG8 to Protect HY5 (Jiajun Wang) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Blue light–tuned selective autophagy: CRY1 intercepts ATG8 to protect HY5
Sunlight not only provides energy for plant photosynthesis but also serves as a signal regulating various aspects of plant growth and development. Plants p
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November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
IN BRIEF: Deciphering the Tomato Phosphate Starvation Response: Functional and Transcriptional Roles of SlPHR3 and SlPHR4 (Andrea Gómez-Felipe) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Deciphering the tomato phosphate starvation response: Functional and transcriptional roles of SlPHR3 and SlPHR4
Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for plants, primarily taken up from the soil in the form of inorganic phosphate (Pi) (Paz-Ares et al. 2022). Howeve
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November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella (Rory J Craig, Marco A Dueñas, Dimitrios J Camacho, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella
Auxenochlorella, green algae shaped by evolutionary forces acting on vegetative diploids, are amenable to discovery research and bioengineering via efficie
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Fine-tuning of MYC2-mediated Botrytis defense response by the LBD40/42-CRL3BPM4 module in tomato (Jialong Zhang, Danhui Dong, Congyang Jia, Hongxin Li, Lun Liu, Jiayi Xu, Hao Cui, Na Zhang, Yang-Dong Guo) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Fine-tuning of MYC2-mediated Botrytis defense response by the LBD40/42-CRL3BPM4 module in tomato
Tomato trades off growth and defense by downregulating Botrytis defenses to preserve growth while staying primed for defense.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Single-cell and spatial omics reveal progressive loss of xylem developmental complexity across seed plants (Peng Shuai, Jo-Wei Allison Hsieh, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Single-cell and spatial omics reveal progressive loss of xylem developmental complexity across seed plants
Single-cell and spatial omics in conifers uncover conserved radial lineages but divergent axial trajectories with angiosperm-like and gymnosperm-specific f
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November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Multi-omics identifies key genetic and metabolic networks regulating spike organ development in wheat (Yangyang Liu, Lili Zhang, Anting Zhu, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Multi-omics identifies key genetic and metabolic networks regulating spike organ development in wheat
Analyzing 233 wheat spike-related samples across 12 developmental stages reveals how metabolite organ specificity, uneven hormone distribution in individua
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November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A triose phosphate/phosphate translocator triggers antimicrobial immunity by exporting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from chloroplasts (Deng-Pan Zuo, Bin Wang, Yu-Zi Liu, Zheng-Song Chen, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
A triose phosphate/phosphate translocator triggers antimicrobial immunity by exporting glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate from chloroplasts
The chloroplast transporter AtTPT exports glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to activate plant immune responses and confer resistance against diverse pathogens, re
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November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Gene expression divergence following gene and genome duplications in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes (Fabricio Almeida-Silva, Yves Van de Peer) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Gene expression divergence following gene and genome duplications in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes
After gene and genome duplications, expression divergence across cell types is not random, and it can be explained by a combination of gene age, gene funct
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November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Complex regulation of Citron OGD2-dependent resistance to citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. Citri (Chenxing Hao, Yan Jin, Hanying Su, Jianming Luo, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Complex regulation of Citron OGD2-dependent resistance to citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri
CmOGD2, a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase, confers resistance to citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri in Citron C-05.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on Wednesday, December 17, 9:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
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November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on Wednesday, December 17, 9:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/w6HBivf
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November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The October 2025 issue of Plant Physiology from ASPB and Oxford University Press is now COMPLETE! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/plphys/issue... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Volume 199 Issue 2 | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic
Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants
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November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM