Plantae Presents – From Dorm Rooms to Discoveries: Inspiring Undergraduates to Pursue Academic Research
Featuring Neha Bhatia, Kevin Cox, Jess Gersony and Jason Rauscher
When: March 26, 2025,…
While learning how to code may seem like a daunting task, having the ability to code can help streamline your research in plant science. Knowing how to code can significantly improve your data analysis…
A Message from the Initiative Originator, Kevin Cox Jr., Ph.D:
What has become a tradition of mine since February 2021, every day of Black History Month I highlight a Black botanist, resulting in over…
Along with many others, we have done our best to absorb the deluge of executive actions that have taken place over the past few weeks. We recognize the harm they are causing to both individuals and institutions,…
Neurodivergence refers to the variations in human neurocognitive functioning, encompassing conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia,…
This community blog harbors personal viewpoints on how to navigate parenthood and academia from two perspectives, one a current academic parent and another future academic parent.
As a female academic…
Plantae Presents – Pathways to Impact: Translating Plant Science Research Into Real-world Applications
Featuring MariCarmen Alamar, Anne Runkel and Katarzyna Retzer
When: Thursday, February 20,…
The Decline of Classical Botany
Though many of us may recognize the word ‘botany’, we may also associate it with dusty books and 18th century science. ‘Botany’ is not used frequently in our…
Most shapes in plant organs are pre-determined at the primordial stage and from this point, growth will establish and maintain this shape. Rarely will re-shaping of an organ occur post-organogenesis. However,…
For living organisms, proper control of element location is just as important as the control of enzyme location, but harder to study. A new study by Ramakrishna et al. uses an exciting new technology,…
Domesticated plants and animals are remarkable human achievements but were achieved with rather blunt instruments. With the benefit of hindsight, we can now see that some of the genes and alleles that…
Memory—a mysterious cognitive process that retains information over time and shapes future interpretations and actions—is not exclusive to animals. In plants, a similar phenomenon occurs where past…