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Featured Articles
- Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and StrategiesBy: Plantae CommunityOctober 27, 2025An academic career is multifaceted. Academics combine research and teaching with mentoring, grant-writing, publishing, community service, and read more...
- Staying Sane in the Lab: Tips for Mental Health Strategies for ResearchersBy: Plantae CommunityOctober 6, 2025It’s 10:30 p.m. and your laptop is still open. The submission deadline is tomorrow, your latest experiment failed, and your email inbox is a small read more...
- Rooted in Knowledge: How Plant Science Shapes Edible Landscapes WorldwideBy: Plantae CommunitySeptember 1, 2025Plant scientists often find themselves rethinking the boundaries between research and life experience. Understanding edible landscapes requires more read more...
Education
Plantae Presents: How to Build a Productive LabBy: Plantae CommunityOctober 23, 2025Plantae Presents: How to Build a Productive Lab Featuring Yuchen Long, Carl Ng, and Joyce Onyenedum When: Friday, November 21, 2025, at 11:30 AM PST read more...
Plantae Presents – Rooted in Balance: Building Healthy Work-Life Balance as a Plant ScientistBy: Plantae CommunityOctober 8, 2025Plantae Presents – Rooted in Balance: Building Healthy Work-Life Balance as a Plant Scientist Featuring Kevin Cope, Jessica Erickson, Gnanesh read more...
Plantae Presents – Fledgling Season: Sound Advice for ECRs Starting Out in AcademiaBy: Plantae CommunitySeptember 10, 2025Plantae Presents – Fledgling Season: Sound Advice for ECRs Starting Out in Academia Featuring Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju and Howard S. Judelson read more...
Careers
Inspiring Undergraduates to Get Into Plant ScienceBy: Plantae CommunityAugust 25, 2025Plant science is closely tied to our food, our environment, and even the fight against climate change. Yet, it is often overlooked by undergraduates read more...
Adjusting to PhD LifeBy: Plantae CommunityJuly 14, 2025Joining a PhD program is often seen as the next logical step after a master’s degree. However, the fundamental differences between the two are not read more...
How to Manage Your Time Effectively as a ResearcherBy: Plantae CommunityJune 30, 2025The Challenge of Doing It All The role of a researcher encompasses a wide range of demanding and often competing responsibilities, including read more...
Research Insights
Opinion: Genomic studies hint at what makes a tree a treeBy: Mary WilliamsOctober 31, 2025This is such an engaging and though-provoking review article. I’d love to ask a group of students to think about what makes a tree a tree, including read more...
A new shade of photosynthesis: The missing chlorophyll f found in actionBy: Katarina KurtovicOctober 31, 2025Photosynthetic organisms were long believed to only use visible light for energy capture, until the discovery of far-red photosynthesis challenged read more...
The Spirogyra genome and the origin of that spiral chloroplastBy: Mary WilliamsOctober 31, 2025I expect we’ve all been captivated by images of the beautiful spiral chloroplasts in the Spirogyra genus of filamentous algae, and who could forget read more...


















