Rob Last's fifth president's letter This continues the experiment of publishing the President’s Letter as part of a collection of essays and other resources related to the topic (https://community.plantae.org/path/5277540829945137009). Please also have a look at the previous collections on the future…

I would love to start a thread for people to share their favorite online SciComm Resources related to developing materials, short courses, strategies etc. I have listed a few that I have found below. 1. ASLO Scientists Guide to Social Media 2. Running a Reddit Ask me Anything 3. Tips for breaking…

See Conviron's press release Scientists at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Canada are leading the way when it comes to solving problems such as how to feed a growing population and alleviate the effects of climate change. BCIT is focusing on experimentation…

By Conviron Scholar Modesta Abugu In this interview, I spoke with Dr. Patricio Munoz, a scientist at the Horticultural Science department, University of Florida. He uses genomic data to predict the phenotype of blueberries, develop new cultivars and improve traits like yield, flavor, shelf and disease…

Update: How plants sense and respond to stressful environments A longstanding question in plant science is how plants “know” that they are under threat. The identification of cell-surface receptors that identify conserved pathogen patterns sheds some light on biotic stress perception, but what…

Opinion: We aren’t good at picking candidate genes, and it’s slowing us down Recent advances have facilitated the generation of huge phenotypic datasets from plant populations. However, the means to inexpensively organise such datasets to unequivocally determine causal genes has evaded researchers.…

At the dawn of this year, not any one of us would have even imagined that the whole world, within months, would be obsessed by a word hitherto familiar only to a sprinkling of scientists. But this word “coronavirus” today seems omnipresent. The pandemic situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, termed…

Collection of research tools and method review articles for plant autophagy research (Suggestions invited to include other important resource articles) 1. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356 2. Multiscale…