We’re excited to announce the publication of The Plant Cell’s latest Teaching Tool, “A bioinformatics pipeline for exploring transcriptional regulation in plants,” by Amy Marshall-Colon, Mary Williams and Kranthi Varala, available without subscription at Plantae.org. It is difficult to conceptualize…

    Internship Posts: Internship; Lab Technician; Postdoc in Crop Metabolic Engineering and Genome Editing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA PhD student in Hydrology & Climate Applications, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Recent Job Posts: Post-doctoral…

Plant roots are essential organs for water and nutrient uptake, and aboveground biomass support. While these organs are important for many plant functions, the evolutionary history of the root is still unclear. The fossil record suggests that roots evolved in both the lycophyte (clubmosses and their…

Looking at a typical plant, you may not notice that it is moving. Although generally perceived as static, all plants are dynamic, as shown by time-lapse photography.  Plant Tracer is the first App-based tool that enables students and scientists to quantify plant movement (circumnutation and gravitropism)…

We have been charged by ASPB to conduct a search for the next Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell.  Back in March of this year, we began the search process by meeting as a group to discuss potential candidates for this important role.  We invited candidates and issued a call for nominations to…

Self-Advocacy and Negotiation Recorded October 2018 About This Webinar How to advocate effectively for yourself, your ideas and project, or your group does not necessarily come naturally for many of us and can actually be very difficult depending on your personality, gender, or cultural norms.…

This month we are featuring Andrew Benson, one of the most influential people in the discovery of the Calvin-Benson cycle. Andrew Benson came on the scene at the right time. Around the time he was born, Willstätter and Toll showed that chloroplasts absorbed CO2. After that, the hunt for the reaction…