Me too. I had the same team and project as last year as we ranked high last year. Thought our application was much stronger this year and we did worse 😕. It’s so random!
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Me too. I had the same team and project as last year as we ranked high last year. Thought our application was much stronger this year and we did worse 😕. It’s so random!
#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
Our review on the genetics and domestication of cereal root systems is now online.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Almost a decade ago Emma Johnston, Tanya Monro and I appeared at The National Press Club of Australia to talk about our stories and our views of issues that impact on Women in Science. It was an amazing experience…
I will miss you Emma.
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12.9% success rate 🙄. Is this going down every year?
📢 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
🎯 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
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Are you saying that futures could run for another few years? What if people are using their last shot this year and then they end up continuing ?
🍷 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
Portrait of Professor Joseph Tony Wiskich, a distinguished biochemist, wearing a suit and tie.
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
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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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
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.
🌾 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
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Congrats Ben 👏
📜 The auxin efflux carrier PIN1a regulates vascular patterning in cereal roots
🧑🔬 Riccardo Fusi, Silvio Salvi, Rahul Bhosale, et al.
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#️⃣ #PlantScience #Cereals #RootBiology #CropRoots #Auxin #Phytohormones #PlantDevelopment
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.
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🍇 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.
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Registration and abstract submission are still open for our 2025 conference in Adelaide!
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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
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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
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.
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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.
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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...
I’d be tempted but not quite my research area 😕
We were lucky to have such a beautiful winters day! Hopefully my legs will function tomorrow 🤣
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
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.
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
I really should be asleep 😴 but can’t stop watching De Minaur vs Djokovic. C’mon demon 😈 🇦🇺
Will the current vaccine be effective against the new variant?
I can’t see anything positive here for EMCRs. An embedded fellowship sounds like they will essentially be a postdoc (similar to old ARC postdoctoral fellowships). It will take a good mentor to ensure the fellow has independence (and I would love to know how the ARC is going to assess the mentors!!)
Is there anyway to know how much Covid is around these days? There seems to be no reporting anymore.