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Featured Articles
- Reimagining Undergraduate Teaching and ResearchBy: Plantae CommunityJune 15, 2026Setting the stage All of us remember sitting in front of a tutor and feeling completely inadequate for not understanding something that seemed read more...
- Beyond AlphaFold: The Technologies Waiting to Change Plant ScienceBy: Plantae CommunityJune 8, 2026There is probably not a plant scientist on the planet who has not heard of AlphaFold (Jumper et al., 2021). Many of you reading this have likely used read more...
- Why Does Plant Science Need More Storytellers?By: Plantae CommunityJune 1, 2026The world has grown impatient, especially with science. People want information about things they care about, from people whom they can trust. Trust read more...
Education
Plantae Presents: The Benefit of Scientific Societies for Undergraduates to PIsBy: Plantae CommunityJune 8, 2026Plantae Presents: The Benefit of Scientific Societies for Undergraduates to PIs Featuring Catrina Adams, Jennifer Hartley, Dior Kelley, Amy Newell, read more...
Plantae Presents – From Bench to Business: Building Plant Science-Based StartupsBy: Plantae CommunityMay 5, 2026Plantae Presents – From Bench to Business: Building Plant Science-Based Startups Featuring Kathleen Denya, Sarah Hammer, and Lucas Lieber read more...
A Guide for Poster Making: Tips to Master PowerPoint and InkscapeBy: Plantae CommunityApril 13, 2026The end of the semester is fast approaching, meaning many conferences, such as ASPB’s PlantBiology 2026, are on the horizon. These opportunities are read more...
Careers
The Subtle Art of Pivot: Navigating Topic Changes in Your ResearchBy: Plantae CommunityMay 10, 2026It was a cold Tuesday afternoon in my second year when my advisor sat across from me and said, almost gently, “I think we need to reconsider read more...
How to Negotiate Your First Lab Manager Offer?By: Plantae CommunityMay 4, 2026Competition for scientific job positions is increasingly fierce nowadays. That pressure is felt even more strongly in the global south, where stable read more...
When Disciplines Meet: Opportunities and Obstacles in Multidisciplinary CollaborationsBy: Plantae CommunityApril 20, 2026Importance of collaboration Collaboration has become central to contemporary science. The 2024 Physiology Nobel laureate Victor Ambrose remarked that read more...
Research Insights
Special Issue of Current Biology on plant evolutionBy: Mary WilliamsJune 26, 2026Current Biology has an excellent special issue on plant evolution full of fascinating articles. As an example, a Primer by Zhuo Feng looks at how read more...
Review: How temperature regulates stomatal development and dynamicsBy: Yee-Shan KuJune 26, 2026The ambient temperature for plant growth is increasingly unpredictable under the changing climate. To ensure growth, the leaf is the immediate organ read more...
Review: How plants repurposed cytokinin signaling for life on landBy: Deborah IghaloJune 26, 2026When plants first moved onto land, they encountered challenges that aquatic ancestors never faced, including heat, dehydration, and rapidly changing read more...

















