Plantae Presents - From Dorm Rooms to Discoveries: Inspiring Undergraduates to Pursue Academic Research   Featuring Neha Bhatia, Kevin Cox, Jess Gersony and Jason Rauscher   When: March 26, 2025, at 7:00 AM PDT | 10:00 AM EDT | 2:00 PM GMT | 10 PM Beijing About this Webinar The schedule…

While learning how to code may seem like a daunting task, having the ability to code can help streamline your research in plant science. Knowing how to code can significantly improve your data analysis and visualization, and help you automate tasks - not to mention that it looks good on your CV. Although…

Perspective: How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science? In this thought-provoking Perspective, four sets of authors express their opinions about the use of Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) in the practice of science. Each essay is well reasoned,…

Environmental stimuli, such as drought and salinity, alter cellular conditions including apoplastic pH (pHApo) in plants. These stimuli often lead to an elevation in pHApo which is closely associated with cell functions and plant growth. However, the mechanism behind is largely unexplored. A recent study…

For more than a hundred years, plant biologists have been fascinated by how plants sense and respond to environments that are spatially and temporally heterogenous.  Many of these responses occur through the remarkable developmental plasticity of plant growth, such as phototropism and photomorphogenesis.…

Have you ever placed a leaf from a Monstera plant in a glass of water and watched it grow new roots, forming a new plant? This happens because plants have a much greater ability to regenerate their tissues compared to animals. Recently, in Ruiz-Solaní et al., Spanish researchers have found a way to…

The genetic regulation of male fertility in Arabidopsis thaliana involves multiple factors, including ATP-Citrate Lyase (ACL), a key enzyme in cytoplasmic acetyl-CoA production. The thermosensitive male-sterile mutant reversible male sterile-2 (rvms-2) exhibits normal fertility at low temperatures but…

Lichens are complex symbiotic organisms formed by algae or cyanobacteria living within the filaments of multiple fungal species. This unique partnership, which is both stable and self-replicating across generations, represents one of the most successful lifestyle strategies in the biological world. Lichens…