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Featured Articles
- 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...
- 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...
Education
Plantae Presents – Rooted in Balance: Building Healthy Work-Life Balance as a Plant Scientist
By: 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 Academia
By: 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...Tips for Making Successful Oral Presentations and Crafting Effective Slides
By: Plantae CommunityAugust 11, 2025As scientists, part of our job description is to promote, explain, and illustrate our work through presentations. But what makes oral presentations read more...
Careers
Adjusting to PhD Life
By: 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 Researcher
By: 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...How to Prepare for Postdoc Applications and Interviews
By: Plantae CommunityJune 2, 2025Being a postdoc is an exciting career step, where you get to act as a researcher, but also sometimes a teacher, mentor, lab manager, project read more...
Research Insights
Review: How to evaluate the climate-mitigation potential of plant agricultural interventions
By: Mary WilliamsOctober 3, 2025Agriculture contributes substantially to climate change. Many agricultural interventions have been suggested as opportunities to lower this impact, read more...How well do large-language models understand plant biology?
By: Mary WilliamsOctober 3, 2025This very interesting preprint by Fernández Burda et al. investigates how well large-language models (LLMs, such as ChatGPT) are able to correctly read more...Lessons from 138 bryophyte genomes
By: Mary WilliamsOctober 3, 2025Pangenomes are amazing resources that provide glimpses into evolution that no single genome can capture. This new article by Dong et al. is a treat, read more...