The NSF BIO Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) is pleased to announce a solicitation for IOS’s first synthesis center, NSF 23-564 Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience, with preliminary proposals due on January 12, 2024. NSF Synthesis Centers bring together communities…

Park H.J., Gamez-Arjona F., et al. show how plants reset the time of flowering under salinity stress. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac289 Background: For plants, extremes in the cardinal conditions of light, temperature, nutrients and water availability are major drivers of natural selection.…

Yang Liu, co-first author of "Expanding the application of anti-CRISPR proteins in plants for tunable genome editing" Current Position: Oak Ridge National Lab, Post-Doctoral Associate Education:  Iowa State University, Ph.D. Beijing Forestry University, Master Southwest University, Bachelor Non-scientific…

Guoliang Yuan, co-first author of "Expanding the application of anti-CRISPR proteins in plants for tunable genome editing"  Current Position: Postdoc, Biological Conversion Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Education: PhD, Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium; MSc,…

Tan et al. identify a type of ABA-activated Ca2+ channels for ABA-specific cytosolic Ca2+ signaling and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. Yan-Qiu Tan, Yang Yang, Meijun Zhu, and Yong-Fei Wang National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences,…

Lorenzo et al. develop a system that uses gene editing to target multiple members of redundant gene families. Christian Damian Lorenzo(1,2), Kevin Debray(1,2) and Dirk Inzé(1,2) 1 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Gent, Belgium 2 Center for Plant…

Shintaro Ichikawa, first author of "Live-cell imaging of the chloroplast outer envelope membrane using fluorescent dyes" Current Position:  Ph.D student, Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity, Utsunomiya University, Japan Education:  Bachelor of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University,…

On January 6, 2023, the plant community was deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Todd C. Mockler, Member and Geraldine and Robert Virgil Distinguished Investigator at the Danforth Center since 2011. Todd was a wonderful colleague, collaborator, and friend to so many of us. He was a scientist-entrepreneur…