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📢 ASPS committee positions open! Apply for Honorary Treasurer, discipline reps (Genetics, Plant Dev, Ecophysiology, Climate, Physiology) & student reps.

Submit nomination form + 100-word statement to secretary@asps.org.au by Nov 14. #AusPlantSci
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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🎯 ASPS 2025 final call! Nov 24-27 at Flinders Bedford Park. 11 specialized sessions from student-led Future of Plant Science to Industry sessions.

Register: www.asps.org.au/asps-annual-conference
#PlantScience #Adelaide
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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🍷 Conference dinner at National Wine Centre next to Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Book your spot for an evening of networking, food & wine.

Limited spaces! #ASPS2025 #ConferenceDinner

www.asps.org.au/asps-annual-conference
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of biochemist Professor Joe Wiskich FAA, at the age of 90.
Read more about Professor Wiskich's remarkable career: https://www.science.org.au/profile/joe-wiskich
Portrait of Professor Joseph Tony Wiskich, a distinguished biochemist, wearing a suit and tie.
October 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Please join @aligill.bsky.social & @alisonrbentley.bsky.social for the first ASPS Women in Plant Science Breakfast from 8 to 9am on Tuesday 25th November.

Register here (FREE): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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October 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Want to meet this awesome group of plant scientists?

Join us at ASPS 2025 in Adelaide, 24-27 November!

(Photo from ASPS 2023 conference in Hobart)

Register: bit.ly/4p25OJ0

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #Adelaide
September 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring the future of GM and genome-edited wheat in Australia. The review explores biotech opportunities, regulatory challenges, and stakeholder roles in shaping adoption.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience
Random mutagenesis, targeted mutagenesis, and transgenesis breeding approaches and their differing regulations in Australia. Random mutagenesis and SDN-1 mutagenesis approaches are unregulated, whereas transgenesis involving the insertion of novel DNA, SDN-2 mutagenesis involving the use of a template to make small mutations, and SDN-3 mutagenesis involving the use of a template to make large insertions are regulated as GM in Australia.
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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📜 The auxin efflux carrier PIN1a regulates vascular patterning in cereal roots

🧑‍🔬 Riccardo Fusi, Silvio Salvi, Rahul Bhosale, et al.

📔 @newphyt.bsky.social

🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Cereals #RootBiology #CropRoots #Auxin #Phytohormones #PlantDevelopment
The auxin efflux carrier PIN1a regulates vascular patterning in cereal roots
<em>New Phytologist</em> is an international journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.
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April 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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💧SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH💧

🍇 Grapevine shows hydraulic vulnerability segmentation within the scion *and* rootstock. Rootstock choice impacts scion drought resistance by modifying leaf minimum conductance without altering embolism resistance- Flor et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Fig. 1.Graphical representation of the experimental design. The diagram illustrates the experimental layout, showing that Vitis vinifera L. cv. Tempranillo Clone 232 grafted onto 110R and SO4 rootstocks was divided into two groups. A first group of five plants per combination were used for measuring water relations and xylem vulnerability to embolism under laboratory conditions, while a second group of six plants per combination were maintained under field conditions. The field plants were subjected to a progressive drought and quick water recovery, with various gas exchange, water relations, and xylem anatomy parameters measured at different stages. See ‘Material and methods’ for further details.
August 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Registration and abstract submission are still open for our 2025 conference in Adelaide!

www.asps.org.au/asps-annual-...
August 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🌿ASPS 2025 Conference Travel Awards are still open!

Financial support for students, carers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference in November.

Registration opens July - early bird pricing coming soon!

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience

www.asps.org.au/archives/57747
Australian Society of Plant Scientists » ASPS2025 Student and Carers’ Support Travel Grants Now Open
www.asps.org.au
July 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (an incorporated society in Australia dedicated to advancing plant science; brings together university researchers, vocational educators, school teachers, and students) leaves X (4.308 followers)

Bluesky: @asps-oz.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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🏨ASPS 2025 Accommodation Deals Live!
📍Conference at Flinders Bedford Park campus, Adelaide
💰Discounted rates now available for delegates
🚌Shuttle service between Flinders train station & venue
⚠️Book early - rates increase from Thu 27 Nov due to community event
More details: www.asps.org.au/asps25
Australian Society of Plant Scientists » ASPS 2025
www.asps.org.au
July 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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⚖️ SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH ⚖️

Wu et al ✍️

🧬🍇 Expression of the grapevine anion transporter ALMT2 is regulated in response to nitrate.
🧂When expressed in Arabidopsis root stele, ALMT2 lowers the shoot chloride/nitrate ratio under salt stress.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Fig. 4.VviALMT2 is localized to the plasma membrane. Confocal laser scanning micrographs show (A, B) GFP–VviALMT2 co-localization with (A) the plasma membrane (PM) marker AtCBLln–RFP (scale bars=10 µm) (representative of n=10), and poor co-localization with (B) the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker HDEL–mCherry (scale bars=20 µm) (representative of n=5) in tobacco cells. The abaxial side of tobacco (N. benthamina) leaves was imaged 2 d after Agrobacterium infiltration. The four tobacco cells in the PM marker co-localization images are labelled as cl, c2, c3, and c4. (C, D) Signal profiles of GFP (green) and RFP or mCherry (magenta) corresponding to the white arrow in the microscopic images in (A) and (B). Overlapping peaks indicate co-localization between the two signals. The blue, orange, and pink arrows in the PM marker co-localization pixel intensity figure signify the PM signal peaks for the respective tobacco cells (cl, c2, and c3), each indicated by its corresponding colour.
August 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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ONE Lectureship in genomics + TWO in ecology are advertised right now in my 'hood. Applications close 7th August. It'd be brilliant to have these filled with plant people. #PlantSciJobs #MonashBiol #plantecology #plantgenomics 🪴🧪🌱🌿🌾 This links to both : www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...
Three positions at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia): Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ecology (2 positions) or Genomics (1 position) - VIC - Ecological Society of Australia
Closing 7 August 2025 The School of Biological Sciences at Monash University is seeking three academics to join our team as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (tenured-equivalent position under the Austral...
www.ecolsoc.org.au
July 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Out in the paddock sampling the OzBarley population for our new GRDC project to understand novel salinity tolerance mechanisms in barley. With @bberger-au.bsky.social and a team from the Australian Plant Phenomics Network.
A team of researchers in the field collecting leaf tissue from a number of breeding plots of barley Breeders plots of barley growing in the field
July 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
plantrootbiology.bsky.social
I really should be asleep 😴 but can’t stop watching De Minaur vs Djokovic. C’mon demon 😈 🇦🇺
July 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Happy International Women's Day! 🌟 Celebrating the incredible women in STEM who drive innovation and make a global impact. Grateful for my amazing female colleagues whose dedication and brilliance inspire us all. Let's continue to support and uplift each other! #IWD2025 #WomenInSTEM #Equality
March 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025).
www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/
Jobs - Laboratory of cell and molecular biology
Join Our Team – Open Positions at the LBMC, Vermeer Lab.   We are excited to announce two open positions, please get in touch with Prof. Dr. Joop Vermeer: josephus.vermeer@unine.ch Applications open f...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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When Mendel performed his pea 🫛 experiments in the garden of his monastry in Brno, he always grew for each experiment some plants in pots in his greenhouse as control. He wanted to exclude the possibility that environmental factors, mainly insects, influence the outcome of his experiments.
February 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Do not forget to submit your abstracts for Rhizosphere 6! Deadline is Feb 28.
February 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e…#LiseMeitnerGroupsps
https://mpg.de/lise-meitner-e…
February 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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❗️Don't forget to submit your abstracts for Rhizosphere 6 before 23:59 BST on the 28th of February❗️🌿
www.rhizo6.org/home
@hutton.ac.uk
@intbarleyhub.bsky.social
@dundee.ac.uk
@bulgarelli-d.bsky.social
Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth
Welcome to Rhizosphere 6 We are looking forward to welcoming the global rhizosphere research community to Edinburgh for Rhizosphere 6 in June 2025. The meeting will foster exchange, interaction and ...
www.rhizo6.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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hutton.ac.uk
Women remain under-represented in many #scientific areas.

Our #WomenInScience booklet describes the role of 20 of over 300 female scientists, technicians, & colleagues at the Hutton.

Aiming to inspire a future generation of #WomenInSTEM.

More: bit.ly/4htPMU1
February 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM