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Increasing awareness of climate change impacts and the potential role of plant science in climate change impacts mitigation

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ASPB Conviron Independent Project - Created by Andrew Egesa (a). Why climate change? The 21st century has witnessed a rapid increase in climate change drivers, comprising of industrial development and other activities associated with rising human population. As a result, climate change related challenges…

Call for Mentors!

We are all thankful for the mentors in our life, pay it forward and become a mentor yourself. The American Society of Plant Biologists is launching a mentoring platform through the Plantae Job Center. This platform will allow plant science professionals the opportunity to find mentors based on their…

Underrepresented objects in Plant Biology: The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae

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Why we need more experts in clubroot research Guest post by Susann Auer Funding for plant disease research is crucial for scientists as it aids in providing necessary resources for resistance breeding and commercial exploitation of results. It also helps to keep the amount of trained experts high…

Plant Physiology is recruiting Assistant Features Editors

By Michael R. Blatt and Mary Williams Note: This call for applications is now closed. Check back in autumn 2020 for a new call for AFEs. At the beginning of 2018 Plant Physiology welcomed 23 new Assistant Features Editors to the editorial board. Over the past eighteen months these young scientists…

Infographics describing GMO safety

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ASPB Conviron Independent Project created by Will Hinckley I made a series of infographics describing GMO safety for a general audience. I worked along with my PI and labmates and got several people to read them to make sure that everything was carefully worded to make sense to a general audience.…

Announcing the Career Fair at Plant Biology 2019

This year at Plant Biology 2019, we will have several Career Fair activities for you to participate in. On the Plantae Job Center, both employees and job seekers will be able to mark on their jobs or profiles that they will be attending Plant Biology 2019. Employers will also be able to purchase…

The two-body problem - Perspectives of an early career researcher

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Guest Post by Gaurav Moghe The two-body problem has been a classical mechanics problem in physics since at least Newtonian times. However, the first suggestion of Google’s autocomplete feature is “two-body problem academia”, with at least the first 90+ results being very relevant to the topic.…

Evolving From a Focus on Mentee to Cultivating a Mentoring Ecosystem

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Guest post by Beronda L. Montgomery (@BerondaM) Note: This contribution is adapted from a blog post original posted at http://www.berondamontgomery.c... on January 20, 2019 Many current “mentoring” programs focus primarily on interventions for those being mentored, i.e., mentees (or sometimes…

Diverse plants, diversity in botany

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Guest post by Paul Sokoloff, Senior Research Assistant, Botany, Canadian Museum of Nature Astragalus, the milkvetch genus, is a massive group of plants in the pea family that has diversified into over 3000 species, which can be found in various habitats across the northern hemisphere.  Its also a…