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Education

Plantae Presents: Healthy Supervision in Plant Sciences
By: Plantae Community
July 30, 2026
Plantae Presents: Healthy Supervision in Plant Sciences Featuring Vinay Shukla and Paolo Maria Triozzi When: Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at 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...
Reimagining Undergraduate Teaching and Research
By: Plantae Community
June 15, 2026
Setting the stage All of us remember sitting in front of a tutor and feeling completely inadequate for not understanding something that seemed read more...

Careers

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...
When Disciplines Meet: Opportunities and Obstacles in Multidisciplinary Collaborations
By: Plantae Community
April 20, 2026
Importance of collaboration Collaboration has become central to contemporary science. The 2024 Physiology Nobel laureate Victor Ambrose remarked that read more...

Research Insights

High-Temperature-Induced Juice Sac Cell Wall Remodelling in Citrus Fruit
By: Plantae Community
July 23, 2026
We are putting our spotlight in this section on how high temperature rewires cell wall biosynthesis in citrus juice sacs, ultimately driving a read more...
Phospholipid Metabolism Interplays with Auxin Signaling to Regulate Plant Regeneration
By: Plantae Community
July 14, 2026
In vitro regeneration is a common process for clonal propagation and genetic engineering in plants. However, the regulation of the process has read more...
A lichen super-pangenome spotlights its genetic architecture and interaction secrets
By: Shakunthala Natarajan
July 10, 2026
A lichen is a unique composite organism formed through close interactions between a filamentous fungus (mycobiont) and its photosynthetic partners read more...

Announcements and Opportunities

Community

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...
The Plant Cell Features January, February and March 2026 First Authors
By: Plantae Community
June 1, 2026
Behind the manuscripts are researchers, professors, professionals, and students dedicated to advancing the field of plant science. You’ve seen our read more...

Industry News

Ant brains reveal how evolution turned hunger into parenting

Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical signals push clonal raider ants toward either caring for larvae or leaving to forage, with the balance changing as the ants grow older. Similar signals are involved in mammalian caregiving, suggesting that evolution may have followed the same basic blueprint across very different animals.Read more

Source: sciencedaily.com AG & Food Date: 2026-08-01
New immune-blocking strategy improves interspecies organ generation

Xenophagocytosis is a natural immune process that limits interspecies organ generation by eliminating living donor cells, researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, report. By uncovering how embryonic macrophages eliminate living donor cells, the researchers developed strategies to block this response. Using this strategy, they significantly improved donor cell survival and the generation of rat pancreas in mice, bringing us one step closer to producing transplantable human organs in animals.Read more

Source: phys.org - breaking news microbiology Date: 2026-08-01
Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree

A whole-genome analysis of Beefalo, a hybrid bison-cattle breed, suggests very few individuals have any bison DNA at all, a new study reports.Read more

Source: sciencenews.org-agriculture Date: 2026-07-07

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

ASPB Newsfeed

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
Introducing the 2026 Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editors

Plant Physiology started the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program 8 years ago to help disseminate discoveries published in the journal and to train the next generation of editors and reviewers. Our AFEs are promising early-career scientists. They bring their passion for science to our journal, communicating to our readers each...Read more

Source: blog.aspb.org Date: 2025-12-19 By Mary Williams

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