By Elide Formentin Rice (Oryza sativa), the primary source of calories for more than 2 billion people, is the most sensitive of all cereal crops to soil salinity, which affects more than 20% of irrigated arable land (FAO and ITPS, 2015). Rice paddies are mainly located at the delta of rivers, where they can be […]
By Robert J. Henry, Parimalan Rangan, Agnelo Furtado, Florian A. Busch, Graham D. Farquhar Does C4 photosynthesis occur in seeds? A nice set of of arguments for and against, as Letters to Editor. Read more … http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/174/4/1992
This week’s edition is guest edited by Ian Street. Ian is a plant scientist, the writer and editor of The Quiet Branches Blog, The Resources Editor at The AoB Blog and an Associate Editor at The POSTDOCket and co-host of The Recovering Academic podcast. He can be found on Twitter @IHStreet. Plant blindness and […]
Published on Apr 28, 2016 How do you juggle a toddler in a research lab? Very carefully. This talk looks at issues facing women (or any caregiver) in scientific careers, along with examples from women who have found ways to be successful as parents and as scientists. As a member of the Biology Department at […]
Publications are important, but these days it takes more than a couple of nice papers to move your career to the next level. Also, increasingly scientists are looking outside the (academic) box for their next career move. ASPB provides many ways through which scientist can build their careers and diversify their skills. Here are a […]
CropLife International has a series called “Food Heroes” – recently they profiled plant scientist Sophien Kamoun. Why did you want to be a plant scientist? I became a scientist because I grew up being extremely curious about the natural world. I wanted to know how living organisms function. How they became the way they are. […]
Jenna Gallagos is a talented writer and a scientist, and she’s spending this summer as a writing fellow at the Washington Post. Here’s her latest, “10 mega myths about farming to remember on your next grocery run” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/24/10-mega-myths-about-farming-to-remember-on-your-next-grocery-run/#
By 2050, the planet’s population is predicted to have reached 9.6 billion and pressure on our food sources will have intensified. Eminent plant scientist and molecular biologist Professor Sir David Baulcombe believes science and technology must provide the answers to this challenge. “I think it’s quite clear that modern agricultural methods are not sustainable,” says […]
Current Biology interviews Jane Langdale, Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at Oxford University. Jane Langdale received a PhD in human genetics from the University of London. For her postdoc, she switched to plant genetics, working with Tim Nelson at Yale University on maize leaf development. In 1990, she returned to the UK to […]