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Terraforming with Plants: Can Green Life Make Mars Habitable?
By: Plantae Community
August 3, 2026
Why go to Mars Everyone wants to have a house with a garden later on in life. Producing your own vegetables, or just having a glass of wine in an read more...
Plantae Presents: Healthy Supervision in Plant Sciences
By: Plantae Community
July 30, 2026
Plantae Presents: Healthy Supervision in Plant Sciences Featuring Chien Van Ha, Johannes Kromdijk, and Charles Anderson When: Tuesday, August 25, read more...
Plantae Presents – Grants and Funding: Finding Outside Collaborators
By: Plantae Community
July 16, 2026
Plantae Presents – Grants and Funding: Finding Outside Collaborators Featuring Vinay Shukla and Paolo Maria Triozzi When: Tuesday, July 28, read more...

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The Role of Failure in Science: What Plant Researchers Learn from Experiments That Don’t Work
By: Plantae Community
July 27, 2026
What does it mean to fail in science? In scientific research, what we call “failure” does not always mean the same thing. While some failures arise read more...
The Subtle Art of Pivot: Navigating Topic Changes in Your Research
By: Plantae Community
May 10, 2026
It 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 Community
May 4, 2026
Competition for scientific job positions is increasingly fierce nowadays. That pressure is felt even more strongly in the global south, where stable read more...

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Review: Tracing the evolution of plant cell types
By: Katarina Kurtovic
August 28, 2026
Plants. When we read this word, what comes to mind might be a rose, a tomato plant, or an oak tree. But plants belong to a green lineage that is far read more...
Review: Shuffling genes for better breeds
By: Anastasia Kolesnikova
August 28, 2026
During meiosis, the cell division process that generates four distinct gametes, chromosomes exchange genetic material during homologous read more...
GOOSE: A new tool to decipher the biological functions of intrinsically disordered regions
By: Fengoula Avgeri
August 28, 2026
Protein domains lacking a rigid structure, known as Intrinsically Disordered Regions (IDRs), play important roles in many cellular processes, read more...

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Plant Physiology Spotlights First Authors January, February, and March 2026
By: Plantae Community
August 3, 2026
You’ve seen our First Authors on X, BlueSky, and Facebook. Behind the manuscripts are researchers, professors, professionals, and students dedicated read more...
Plant Physiology is recruiting Assistant Features Editors to start in 2027 and 2028
By: Mary Williams
July 25, 2026
We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting read more...
Who Gets to Be in the Room? Making Scientific Conferences More Accessible
By: Plantae Community
July 13, 2026
Scientific conferences are among the most valuable opportunities researchers have to connect with the global community, exchange ideas, establish read more...

Industry News

How methylation sets a parasite in motion to invade host cells

Parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii and the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum depend on rapid, precisely controlled movement to complete their life cycles. To start moving, they must assemble actin filaments at their front end and connect them to the molecular machinery that generates force. How these events are coordinated has remained unclear.Read more

Source: phys.org - breaking news microbiology Date: 2026-08-28
Hitting bacteria hard and early with diverse phage cocktails may curb resistance

As multidrug antibiotic resistance emerges as a potent public health challenge, medical science has renewed attention on the potential for bacteriophage therapy. Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that target, infect and replicate inside bacteria, destroying them in the process. To help maximize the success rate of this approach, researchers recently modeled the dynamics of bacteriophage therapy to explain particular therapies and optimize the composition of bacteriophage cocktails.Read more

Source: phys.org - breaking news microbiology Date: 2026-08-27
How bacteria develop resistance to programmable antibiotics

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine. A new class of programmable antibiotics known as asobiotics can be used to treat bacterial infections when classical antibiotics fail. A team of researchers from TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; the RESIST Cluster of Excellence; and the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg has now studied how bacteria adapt to asobiotics. They recently published their findings in Nature Communications.Read more

Source: phys.org - breaking news microbiology Date: 2026-08-27

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Breeze Airways Akron Office – Customer Service Guide

The Breeze Airways Akron Office provides reliable customer support for passengers traveling with Breeze Airways from Akron and nearby areas. The office assists travelers with flight reservations, ticket bookings, itinerary changes, cancellations, and fare-related inquiries. Passengers can also receive guidance on baggage allowances, excess baggage charges, check-in...Read more

Source: community.plantae.org - disscusion Date: 2026-07-24 By Jack Smith

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Plant Physiology webinar: Focus on algae and aquatic plants

Plant Physiology Webinar: Focus on Algae and Aquatic Plants Celebrating the 2026 Focus Collection on Algae and Aquatic Plants September 24, 2026 at 8 AM Pacific | 11 AM Eastern | 4 PM UK | 5 PM Central Europe About this webinar Aquatic photosynthetic species are critical contributors to...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2026-08-19 By Mary Williams
Call to Action: Support the NSF BIO Plant Biology Act

Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Plant Science The NSF Plant Biology Act (H.R.7949), introduced by Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY-19) and Rep. Jim Baird (R-IN-4), is bipartisan legislation to strengthen the National Science Foundation’s investments in plant and microbial research. The bill would amend the NSF Authorization Act of 2002 to...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2026-03-29 By Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC
New Teaching Tool, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections”

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by Martina Deglialberti, Chiara Paleni, Federico Fainelli, Carla Lambertini, and Silvia Manrique. This Teaching Tools provides an overview of how botanical collections of...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2026-01-24 By Mary Williams

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