Archive: November, 2018

Transforming Pixels to Millimeters: Geometric Camera Calibration Recorded November 29, 2018   About This Webinar  The affordability and ubiquity of cameras have led to their increasing use in many disciplines. In plant phenomics, it is common to see experimental data based on image-derived…

A series by Alyssa Preiser Why did you decide to pursue science as you went through college, and what got you particularly interested in plant defense and plant/organism interactions? I was always interested in science. It started as a young kid when I used to collect natural history - animal skulls,…

Sheng Wang, first author of CYP76B74 catalyzes the 3'-hydroxylation of geranylhydroquinone in shikonin biosynthesis Current Position: Assistant Researcher at National Resources Center of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China Education: B.S. in Resources…

Wojciech J. Nawrocki, first author of Chlororespiration controls growth under intermittent light Current Position:  Postdoctoral fellow at the VU Amsterdam Education:  MSc in Biophysics, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, PhD, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS, Paris, France Non-scientific…

I think trees are awesome, and I mean that in the truest sense of the word. They dwarf us in height, and when we look at a tree that has lived for hundreds or thousands of years it is impossible not to think of that span in terms of human generations and human history. But, trees don’t live or grow…

Several recent studies have demonstrated that plants are able to respond to environmental challenges within minutes, through electrical signals, calcium oscillations, hydraulic changes, metabolites such as glutamate, and reactive oxygen species. Kollist et al. review studies of rapid responses that control…

What tools and skills do tomorrow’s plant scientists need, and how can we as a community ensure that today’s students get appropriate training? The Plant Science Research Network (PSRN), a consortium of plant science organizations and societies, has organized a series of workshops and discussions…

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? Gao et al. argue that we should be more aware of the beneficial impacts of friendly protists that eat potentially harmful microbes in the rhizosphere (they deliberately exclude plant pathogenic protists in their discussion). Protists are a diverse paraphyletic…