Avenues and Strategies for Attracting Students to a New Lab
Blog, CareersYou have gone through years of training, landed a grant to start your own lab at your dream university, and now you are standing in an empty lab space full of equipment thinking, "Wow! Now I actually need to hire people to help me do science." Given it is conference season (we had an amazing Plant Biology…
Terraforming with Plants: Can Green Life Make Mars Habitable?
Blog, EducationWhy go to Mars
Everyone wants to have a house with a garden later on in life. Producing your own vegetables, or just having a glass of wine in an armchair in the light spring wind, sounds charming. Imagine this on another planet, retiring to Mars and doing some gardening. Throughout history, when…
Plant Physiology Spotlights First Authors January, February, and March 2026
Blog, Community, Plant Physiology: Author ProfilesYou’ve seen our First Authors on X, BlueSky, and Facebook. Behind the manuscripts are researchers, professors, professionals, and students dedicated to advancing the field of plant science. Read more about these dedicated scientists here.
Siddique I. Aboobucker
Siddique I. Aboobucker is the First…
Plantae Presents: Healthy Supervision in Plant Sciences
Blog, Education, Plantae WebinarsPlantae Presents: Healthy Supervision in Plant Sciences
Featuring Chien Van Ha, Johannes Kromdijk, and Charles Anderson
When: Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at
9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM BST | 12:00 AM Beijing
About this Webinar
Supervision is an important part of research and training…
The Role of Failure in Science: What Plant Researchers Learn from Experiments That Don’t Work
Blog, CareersWhat does it mean to fail in science?
In scientific research, what we call “failure” does not always mean the same thing. While some failures arise from technical issues, others stem from the scientific process itself. In the first case, experimental problems due to procedural mistakes, inadequate…
High-Temperature-Induced Juice Sac Cell Wall Remodelling in Citrus Fruit
Blog, ResearchWe are putting our spotlight in this section on how high temperature rewires cell wall biosynthesis in citrus juice sacs, ultimately driving a physiological disorder known as juice sac granulation. Specifically, we wanted to uncover how heat regulates the production of cellulose and hemicellulose, the…
Plantae Presents - Grants and Funding: Finding Outside Collaborators
Blog, Education, Plantae WebinarsPlantae Presents - Grants and Funding: Finding Outside Collaborators
Featuring Vinay Shukla and Paolo Maria Triozzi
When: Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at
6:00 AM PDT | 9:00 AM EDT | 2:00 PM BST | 9:00 PM Beijing
About this Webinar
Securing funding, such as a European Research Council (ERC)…
Phospholipid Metabolism Interplays with Auxin Signaling to Regulate Plant Regeneration
Blog, ResearchIn vitro regeneration is a common process for clonal propagation and genetic engineering in plants. However, the regulation of the process has remained underexplored. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms can help design strategies to improve efficiency. In our recent study published in The Plant Cell…
Who Gets to Be in the Room? Making Scientific Conferences More Accessible
Blog, CommunityScientific conferences are among the most valuable opportunities researchers have to connect with the global community, exchange ideas, establish collaborations, showcase their findings, and build professional networks. But apart from the people who attend, every conference has an invisible guest list:…