If you are in search of an exciting hands-on way to entice the public to interact with your pollinator-themed outreach booth, look no further than the Pollination Selfie Station. The Ashman Lab outreach team from University of Pittsburgh This idea was developed after creating a giant flower prop for…

We’re excited to announce the publication of The Plant Cell’s latest Teaching Tool, “Computational Image Processing in Microscopy,” by Adrienne Roeder, available without subscription at Plantae.org (and in the October issue of The Plant Cell). The age of big data includes sophisticated imaging…

This Synthetic Biology collection includes papers detailing methods that have potential application in plant synthetic biology, ranging from protoplasting to directed evolution. elink.io | See Original  

Review: Revolutions in agriculture chart a course for targeted breeding of old and new crops ($) A few traits are associated with domestication across many species. Eshed and Lippman provide an overview of the changes to plant stature and flowering time that have been repeatedly selected by our…

About you Describe your journey from student to newly appointed faculty My academic path was not always straight forward. 15 years ago, I read in a magazine that doing bioinformatics will be the job of the future (which it is now!), and I decided to enroll in bioinformatics at the University of…

Single cellular photosynthetic organisms offer some advantages in terms of high-throughput, automated analysis and are explored as potential chasis for production of biofuels and high-value compounds. This is a curated collection of Plant Synthetic Biology Publications related to Algae and Cyanobacteria.    elink.io…

Review: Metabolite control of translation by conserved peptide uORFs: The ribosome as a metabolite multi-sensor Not all mRNAs are translated equally. Between 25–50% of eukaryotic mRNAs have an upstream open reading frame (uORF) that affects translation of the main ORF (mORF). Usually the presence…

Part of the "Self Reflection" series by and for early-career researchers In the era of digital media, science communication has advanced in an unprecedented way. Several years ago, we used to subscribe printed magazines and journals. Scientists prefer to subscribe digital version of magazines,…