
Plant Science Research Weekly: February 14
Blog, WWR Full PostReview: Deep learning for plant genomics and crop improvement
One of the goals of plant science is to use the molecular phenotype (genome, transcriptome, proteome) to predict the whole-plant phenotype. Deep learning approaches can potentially begin to do this, starting with a training dataset, and…

Plant Science Research Weekly: February 7
Blog, WWR Full PostReview. Gossypium genomics: Trends, scope, and utilization for cotton improvement
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) provides the world’s most important natural fiber, and I suspect with our growing realization of the problems with plastics there will be still more demand for it. Yang et al. review the current…

Preparing your Manuscript for Submission
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Preparing your Manuscript for Submission
Recorded Tuesday, February 4, 2020
About This Webinar
In this webinar, ASPB Features Editor Mary Williams will outline the key steps in writing a paper, preparing figures, and navigating the submission process. Topics include how to frame the…

Taproot S4E7: Milestone-Based Decision-Making In and Out of the Lab
Blog, The Taproot Season 4, The-TaprootThis episode, we continue our discussions about cultivating a career with guest Kelly Gillespie, Nursery Solutions Lead at Bayer Crop Science. Kelly got her bachelor's degree at Knox College, a small liberal arts college in Illinois. She then moved on to do a PhD with Lisa Ainsworth at the University…

Have Abstract? Will Travel.
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By Laura Klasek
The beginning of 2020 brought resolutions, refreshed to-do lists, and, somewhere in the rush of things drifting over your desk, the opening of Plant Biology 2020 abstract submission and registration. Some of you already know you will be in Washington, D.C. this July because you…

Plant Science Research Weekly: January 31
Blog, WWR Full PostReview: Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening
Whenever we talk about global trends there are of course local variations. Here, Piao et al. discuss recent trends of global greening, which is occurring at arctic as well as temperate and tropical regions. Overall, this greening is…

First Author Profiles
Blog, Pubs PagesHave you recently published an article in The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, or Plant Direct as the first author? If you have, I hope you’ve taken the opportunity to send me your profile! For the past couple of years, we’ve been helping our first authors get the word out about themselves and their…

Promoting the value of publishing in society journals: Perspective from ASPB
Blog, Pubs PagesWith the rise of high-impact commercially published journals in recent years, journals published by learned societies face greater competition than ever before. While many society journals are among the highest-impact titles in their fields, making them top choices among scholars, for societies it is…

Continuing the Celebration - How Global is the Global Plant Science Calendar?
BlogThis month we are celebrating the anniversary of The Global Plant Science Events Calendar! So far, we have collected over 200 events. In the past year, the calendar has become one of our most viewed pages, but how global is the calendar?
To get an idea, here is a word cloud generated from the location…
