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Aaron Rashotte
@aaronrashotte.bsky.social
Professor, cytokinin enthusiast, and all around plant person.

https://rashottelab.auburn.edu
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RSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
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September 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Very thankful for this award and really look forward to working with talented researches at JGI to make this project come to fruition
Using machine learning to analyze gene expression data, @aaronrashotte.bsky.social of Auburn University will investigate how the plant hormone cytokinin maintains photosynthesis longer for increased biomass production.
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September 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better!
Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social
📣 Are you a creative and articulate plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program!🌱

👉 Learn more and apply by August 31! buff.ly/JqoDSHq

#plantscience
July 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
You know that thing when you are starting a new project and exploring the regulated genes, then you find a gene that you don't know regulated by what you work on. Then you look up the reference for it and it is your own paper from ~20 years ago.

Yeah, that happened today. - A real full circle event
July 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
IPGSA 2025 is over, but there were many great talks and meetings with old and new plant hormone friends. See you all in Vienna if not sooner. #IPGSA
July 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Excited to head out to IPGSA and see lots of great science on plant hormones! The lab is busy making posters to show what we have all been doing.
It's in a few days! IPGSA 2025, the premier conference for research on ALL substances that regulate plant growth and responses to the environment: small molecules, phytohormones and peptide hormones. See you soon in Colorado! #IPGSA2025
June 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Forgot to add the Graphical Abstract for - Khanna et al 2025 - that sums up the questions we asked in this paper at a Physiological, Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Cytokinin Hormone level.
June 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Very happy to have our latest multi-omics cytokinin work published - "trans-Zeatin N-glucosides Can Delay Salt Accelerated Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana" in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry #cytokinin
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June 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
These are the types of reviews with commentary (Unanswered questions) that I really like seeing, as they combine expert opinions with what we don't know - and should be working on!
🧬 🌱 🔬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔬 🌱🧬

❓5️⃣ unaddressed questions about cytokinin biosynthesis

Hitoshi Sakakibara delves into the mysteries of the cytokinin world - from lonely guy-independent pathways to the elusive cis-zeatin synthesis 🌿🧭

📖 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
May 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Wrapped up a great ASPB Southern Section meeting - full of amazing Talks and Posters. Thanks to all that helped make it a success! #ASPB #PlantScience #SS-ASPB
March 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Really enjoying the Science at the SS-ASPB conference in Raleigh this weekend #PlantScience #ASPB #SS-ASPB
March 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Please come join us! This meeting is a great place to have graduate students give talks. Abstract and Travel Award deadlines - Monday the 17th!
📣 Join ASPB’s Southern Section on March 28-30, 2025, in NC State University, Raleigh, NC!🌱

Learn more and register soon 👉 https://southern.aspb.org/!

#PlantScience
February 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period."

Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.
February 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Daily campus walk for physical health, now more important for mental health
February 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The physiological and molecular responses of potato tuberization to projected future elevated temperatures (Abigail M Guillemette, Guillian Hernández Casanova, John P Hamilton, Eva Pokorná, Petre I Dobrev, Václav Motyka, Aaron M Rashotte, Courtney P Leisner) https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae664
December 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Please share! Nominate your Arabidopsis community colleagues, trainees (or yourself) by January 31! Open to people working with Arabidopsis from all parts of the world. Only nominees that advance to round 2 are required to have a full nomination package submitted: bit.ly/3DtjNEi
December 18, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Today's finding of Cytokinin action in the wild - in a "green island" on a leaf
November 27, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Enjoyable senescing leaf from today's walk
November 27, 2024 at 3:07 AM
TAIR is and has been an amazing indispensable website, which I still use weekly if not daily to go look up gene function or something else. 🐐 #plantscience
TAIR officially turned 25 on October 1, 2024! Read our blog post covering the highlights from the last 25 years. tinyurl.com/TAIR25
November 21, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Check out this announcement for a fantastic meeting on plant hormones #plantscience
The email announcement of International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) Conference in 2025 in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA is just out! Please spread the word of what will be a very exciting conference in a beautiful place. #IPGSA2025
November 20, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Since we are reintroducing ourselves. My lab and I have been working on understanding the role of the plant hormone cytokinin (including N-conjugated forms) and CRFs (Cytokinin Response Factors) in senescence and abiotic stress.
November 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
OK, I am making the move. Maybe a little late, but am looking forward to being here.
November 19, 2024 at 12:28 AM