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MSU Plant Resilience Institute
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The PRI facilitates interdisciplinary #plantscience at Michigan State University. 🌱 We're tackling the challenge of improving plant resilience in a changing world. Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu
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From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions. ☀️ Learn how in this @sciencenews.bsky.social story about the remarkable research of Dr. Karine Prado from @rheelab.bsky.social.

#PlantScience #PlantResilience
A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat
A microscope reveals an algae-like adaptation that might future-proof crop photosynthesis in extreme heat.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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An incredible weekend of international research collaboration! 🌏👏
c-spirit.org C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · 3d
This week we held our 2025 C-SPIRIT Stakeholder Board Annual Summit: research updates, trust mapping, and big conversations on stakeholder engagement. Our in-person crew also enjoyed dinner & two building tours!

See more pics: c-spirit.org/events/photos/

Learn more: c-spirit.org

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November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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New research out of Death Valley from @rheelab.bsky.social! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PlantScience #PlantResilience
Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer
Heat waves, now more frequent and longer due to climate change, devastate plant productivity. Although they are rare, thermophilic plants could hold k…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Looking forward to RBMP 2026 in Bilbao, where I’m honored to join as a keynote speaker.
A central meeting for plant molecular biology in Europe. Don’t miss it.
jimenezgomez.bsky.social Jose M Jimenez-Gomez @jimenezgomez.bsky.social · Oct 1
Save the date, 1-3 July 2026, for the XVIII Plant Molecular Biology Meeting #RBMP2026 in Bilbao. Check out the website for updates rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info
XVIII Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology
I am going to attend the event
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November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Phosphorus is essential for global food production, yet its supply is limited. PRI researchers have now uncovered a signaling pathway that explains how plants delay flowering when phosphorus runs low, opening doors to nutrient-efficient crops.

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How plants decide when to flower: MSU scientists uncover a phosphorus-responsive switch
A newly discovered signaling pathway explains how plants delay flowering when phosphorus runs low, opening doors to nutrient-efficient crops.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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🚨 New in Developmental Cell @Dev_Cell
Our team uncovered how plants sense phosphorus deficiency and delay flowering — a molecular “switch” that links nutrient stress to development. A step toward breeding nutrient-smart crops! authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2id5Sx5g...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Today's the day! Come learn about plant resilience at the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM gathering in the country, #NDiSTEM2025! 🧑‍🔬

Make sure to also stop by the MSU exhibitor booths (numbers 631, 633, and 635) to learn about #plantscience graduate programs!

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msupri.bsky.social MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · 14d
We're excited for #NDiSTEM2025 this week! For those of you heading to Columbus, Ohio to attend, join us at the STEM symposia "From Stress to Strength: Understanding Plant Resilience Across Scales."

Learn more at: www.sacnas.org/conference

@sacnas.bsky.social #SACNAS #STEMCommunity #PlantResilience
An orange to blue gradient with abstract molecules around the edges serves as the background of the graphic. The 2025 NDiSTEM logo is at the top-center of the graphic bordered by two plant drawings. Below, there is a white box that contains the following text: "From Stress to Strength: Understanding Plant Resilience Across Scales, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:15-5:30 p.m. EDT, Greater Columbus Convention Center, Room A 110-111"
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Awesome aerial photo of our switchgrass harvest at the @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social by Ruben Ulbrich. You can see the progression of the harvest from right to left: cut plants to tied plants to soon to be tied plants. @msupri.bsky.social
Aerial photo of a field with fall colored trees.
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Connect with the plant phenotyping community at the 2026 @nappn.bsky.social Annual Conference, taking place February 9-12 at MSU! To be considered for a talk, abstracts are due October 31, 2025! Register & submit your abstract at: www.plantphenotyping.org/conference-h...

#NAPPN2026 #PlantScience
The graphic includes an image of maize plants growing in a field being surveyed by a drone set over a lime green background. The MSU logo is in the top left corner with the following text below: "2026 NAPPN Annual Conference, February 9-12, East Lansing, MI." In a navy blue rectangle is the following text: "Talk abstracts are due October 31st. Learn more & register: plantphenotyping.org/conference-home." The NAPPN logo is contained in a white triangle in the bottom right corner.
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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We're excited for #NDiSTEM2025 this week! For those of you heading to Columbus, Ohio to attend, join us at the STEM symposia "From Stress to Strength: Understanding Plant Resilience Across Scales."

Learn more at: www.sacnas.org/conference

@sacnas.bsky.social #SACNAS #STEMCommunity #PlantResilience
An orange to blue gradient with abstract molecules around the edges serves as the background of the graphic. The 2025 NDiSTEM logo is at the top-center of the graphic bordered by two plant drawings. Below, there is a white box that contains the following text: "From Stress to Strength: Understanding Plant Resilience Across Scales, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:15-5:30 p.m. EDT, Greater Columbus Convention Center, Room A 110-111"
October 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Congratulations to the newest cohort of PRI Seed Grant Program awardees! Their projects reflect the creativity and dedication of MSU trainees working collaboratively to address critical challenges in #plantresilience.

View the full list of funded projects at: plantresilience.msu.edu/resources/fu...
The PRI Seed Grant Program awardees of cohort 4 pictured together from left to right: Tyler Wintermute, Yuan Xu, Bailey Kleven, Donielle Brottlund, Tomas Lopes, Kaitlin Gattoni, Sydney Chen, Briana Hashim, and Trine Andersen
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Plant scientists at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute, including @rheelab.bsky.social, stand ready to meet the challenge of improving global food security. Read more about how MSU is working to build climate-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/10...

#SpartansWill #PlantResilience
Michigan State University Plant Resilience Institute Director Sue Rhee stands in a field wearing a lab coat and holding a large beaker filled with soil planted with various small crops.
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Check out our new preprint on monkeyflower salt spray adaptation, with coauthors @pcdurant.bsky.social, Katherine Egeler, and @davidlowry.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Diagrams of salt spray resilience mechanisms in sensitive inland (left) and resilient coastal (right) plants and tissues. (A) Salt spray avoidance shown as a tall inland and short coastal plant, with salt spray (shown as orange circles) landing mostly on the tall plant. (B) Salt spray exclusion shown as the cuticle and leaf epidermal cells of a leaf surface, with salt spray entering one leaf surface at a greater rate than the other. (C) Tissue tolerance shown as two plant cells with cell wall, plasma membrane, vacuole, and nucleus shown. One cell is plasmolyzed due to salt exposure, with salt found in the cytoplasm, while the other cell is healthy with salt found in the vacuole.
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A new review article from @msupri.bsky.social scientists with collaboration from ag industry colleagues. Building climate-resilient crops: genetic, environmental, and technological strategies for heat and drought stress tolerance url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...
Building climate-resilient crops: genetic, environmental, and technological strategies for heat and drought stress tolerance
This review examines the environmental and genetic factors that contribute to heat and drought stress tolerance in crops. It also assesses the limitations
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October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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TOMORROW is the LAST DAY to submit an abstract for the first annual WALII Symposium! 💧🗓️

Submit your abstract now!

www.walii.science/virtual-symp...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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C-SPIRIT’s Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) is giving a keynote at the XXI SMB Plant Biology Congress! 🌱
🗓️ Oct 21 | 6:30-7:15 pm CT
💬 Drug discovery for agriculture: Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience through International Teamwork

See more: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx
#PlantScience
Upcoming C-SPIRIT team member talk! Director of the Plant Resilience Institute & C-SPIRIT Michigan State University Dr. Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee Talk Title: Drug discovery for agriculture: Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience through International Teamwork (C-SPIRIT) Tuesday, October 21st 6:30 - 7:15 pm CT Learn more!
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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We're excited to welcome Christopher Topp to the Plant Resilience Institute! Dr. Topp uses powerful imaging tools to envision the future of sustainable agriculture, and he will soon bring his expertise in root biology to MSU. Read the full story: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi
Open rank faculty positions available at MSU Plant Resilience Institute. Apply online at: https://tinyurl.com/yy2kvt3n
October 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Did you miss the Plant Cell Atlas Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images?

No worries!

You can view it here:
youtu.be/4TMJt69yyjw
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October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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📌 Institutional Feature Series | No. 16: Michigan State University

MSU’s 37 members contribute to 6 areas of work: discovery, annotation, gene-pathway studies, lab/field testing, toxicity testing, and broader impacts. We're lucky to have their expertise!

🔗 c-spirit.org/research

#PlantScience
October 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🚨 Just one week left to submit an abstract for the first annual WALII Virtual Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water!
waliianhydro.bsky.social WALIIAnhydro @waliianhydro.bsky.social · Oct 2
There is only ONE WEEK LEFT to submit an abstract for a contributed talk at the first annual WALII Virtual Symposium on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025! 💧🌎

Selected speakers will present 10-12 min. talks followed by 3-5 min. of Q&A.

Submit now!

Visit: walii.science/virtual-symp...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This summer, Sydney Chen and Imani Pascoe, doctoral students in Sarah Lebeis' lab, traveled to Cologne, Germany to present their research at the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Representing the Lebeis Lab and MGI with excellence! 🦠🌱
Sydney Chen, Sarah Lebeis, and Imani Pascoe stand underneath a banner for the conference they are attending in Germany. Imani Pascoe stands next to her poster. Sydney Chen stands next to her poster.
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Check out this opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to join us at C-SPIRIT!

#plantscience
msupri.bsky.social MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · Sep 3
The @rheelab.bsky.social at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute is now #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how #nematodes respond to chemical and environmental cues as part of @c-spirit.org and @waliianhydro.bsky.social. 🪱

Apply now at: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs
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September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Our September newsletter is out! 🌿

Inside:
🔹Blogpost on C-SPIRIT’s role in the bioeconomy
🔹Spotlight on the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences
🔹Member publications
🔹Upcoming events
...and more!

👉 Read: createsend.com/t/y-23A65796...
✉️ Subscribe: forms.gle/Wkz3TgNQ2wJZ...

#plantscience
September 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM