Featured Articles
- Does Where You Graduate From Matter?By: Plantae CommunityNovember 4, 2024How much influence does your alma mater have on your career success? Does attending a prestigious school guarantee a successful career, or is it less read more...
- Strategic Career Planning for Plant Scientists: Navigating Your Path to SuccessBy: Plantae CommunityOctober 28, 2024Embarking on a career in plant science is both exciting and challenging. As the world grapples with pressing issues like climate change, food read more...
- NGS Technologies: Where Will the Future Take Us?By: Plantae CommunityOctober 14, 2024The development of DNA sequencing technologies has experienced multiple paradigm shifts within just a few decades. From the early efforts to sequence read more...
Education
- Plantae Presents: Understanding the Process of Choosing Your PhD or Postdoc LabBy: Plantae CommunityNovember 4, 2024Plantae Presents: Understanding the Process of Choosing Your PhD or Postdoc Lab Featuring Sophien Kamoun, Mary Gehring, and Lothar Kalmbach When: read more...
- Plantae Presents: Dealing with Rejection and Finding Motivation During a Slow Patch in Your ResearchBy: Plantae CommunityOctober 25, 2024Plantae Presents: Dealing with Rejection & Finding Motivation During a Slow Patch in Your Research Featuring Daniel Oseiofosu and Pritha Kundu read more...
- Building Healthy Writing Habits for Plant ScientistsBy: Plantae CommunitySeptember 23, 2024Effective writing is an essential skill for plant scientists, playing a crucial role in various aspects of their professional lives. The skill of read more...
Careers
- Bridging the Gap: Navigating the Transition from Academia to Industry in Plant SciencesBy: Plantae CommunitySeptember 3, 2024The transition from academia to the private sector in plant sciences presents both exciting opportunities and unique challenges. While academic read more...
- Careers in Plant Science and BeyondBy: Plantae CommunityAugust 26, 2024Plant science is an exciting field where many students opt for a PhD. While working in academic positions can be fulfilling, there are also many read more...
- Embracing the Artificial Intelligence Green Revolution: Unleashing Innovation in Plant SciencesBy: Plantae CommunityJuly 8, 2024Why does AI matter in this verdant domain? Picture a world where data dances with genomes, phenotypes, and environmental variables in an intricate read more...
Research Insights
- Spotlight: The role of fossils for reconstructing the evolution of plant developmentBy: Mary WilliamsNovember 1, 2024I suspect if we asked someone to describe a fossil we’d hear a lot about dinosaur bones. Certainly, science museums are full of fossilized animal read more...
- Perspective: Enzymatic routes to designer hemicelluloses for use in biobased materialsBy: Mary WilliamsNovember 1, 2024This article poses the interesting question of whether we can use our knowledge of plant cell wall-modifying, carbohydrate-active enzymes to produce read more...
- Review: Cracking the plant VOC sensing code and its practical applicationsBy: Mary WilliamsNovember 1, 2024Many studies have demonstrated the importance of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in communication between plants. VOCs emitted by a plant damaged read more...