Plantae Presents - Photosynthesis: Importance, Recent Improvements, and Opportunities Featuring Ádám Solti, Katarina Kurtović, and Nancy Kiang When: Friday, October 2, 2026, at 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM BST | 12:00 AM Beijing   About this Webinar Photosynthesis is a key process,…

Plant Science: The Science of Life, The Future of Life Despite plants being everywhere, we often ignore their importance. They are crucial for life on Earth, supporting ecosystems, providing the oxygen we breathe, the food we eat, and renewable resources for our society. Climate change, food shortages,…

The journey so far You finish high school, then a bachelor's degree, then a master's, and eventually a PhD. Each step can feel like the natural continuation of the one before it. Along the way, you collect the moments that remind you why you chose science: the smell of a greenhouse after watering,…

In 2011, with funding from the NSF, ASPB and the Botanical Society of America convened a workshop to work out how the Vision and Change recommendations might be put into practice in plant biology. The concern that emerged most was not a gap in research or in funding. It was that undergraduate curricula…

Ancient trees exhibit remarkable longevity amid changing environments over centuries to millennia. To achieve defense against biotic stresses, extensive secondary metabolism reprogramming is needed. However, the regulatory mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, using Ginkgo biloba individuals ranging…

A job application asks you to provide a teaching portfolio, and you are stumped. Never fear! This short blog will walk you through the basics of compiling your very own teaching portfolio, provide links to additional resources, and offer helpful tips to make this process as pain-free as possible. (Note:…

You 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…

Why 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…