Call for 2019 ASPS meeting expressions of interest

19 June 2017

Dear ASPS members,

As you will likely be aware, the Sydney 2018 COMBIO will be last annual COMBIO meeting. It will now run as a combined meeting every 2-3 years instead.
ASPS therefore is seeking expressions of interest to hold a 2019 ASPS meeting. This could either be in a city that has traditionally held COMBIO or one that has not. The only criteria is that it is well organised and has costs that are far reduced from COMBIO meetings.

We would like to decide the venue at the next AGM to be held on Thursday 5th October at 2pm at the COMBIO meeting in Adelaide.

We are seeking a venue for approximately 150 people and hoping that costs can be kept to a minimum by using University facilities or similar.

We will leave the timing up to those wishing to host the meeting but out of term time would be good to maximise academic involvement. We envisage that it would be a two day meeting, and we would aim that ASPS and the meeting receipts would subsidize costs for two plenaries from overseas.

As we have a broad membership, in terms of subject content, it would be wise to have at least 2 concurrent streams.

If you are wanting to host the meeting please contact myself (matthew.gilliham@adelaide.edu.au) or our President, Sergey (sergey.shabala@utas.edu.au) to discuss further.

Thanks,

Matt

_________________

Professor Matthew Gilliham

ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology 

Deputy Head of School (Research)

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

University of Adelaide

Ph: +61 8 8313 8145 | Twitter: @IonPlants

Lab website: Plant Transport and Signalling Lab

Honorary Secretary, Aust Soc Plant Scientists

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May 2017
What with our Executive Director Ruth visiting colleagues and partners in Australia, Fascination of Plants Day, and the State of the World’s Plants Symposium (which you’ll hear more about very soon over on our blog), May has been yet another busy month for the Global Plant Council!

We are also busily preparing for our summer conference appearances: as in previous years we will be attending the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (St Louis, MO, USA, 19–23 June), the American Society of Plant Biologists’ Plant Biology 2017 meeting (Hawaii, USA, 24–28th June), and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)’s annual main meeting (Gothenburg, Sweden, 3–6th July). Please say hello to Ruth and Sarah if you see them!

We’re also making final arrangements for our ‘New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences‘ workshop that we are running in association with the SEB on 7–8th July – places are still available, so if you’re attending the SEB conference, why not register for our event too?
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This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

From Journal of Experimental Botany: Marvellous Little Pulses
The latest special issue from Journal of Experimental Botany focuses scientific attention on pulse crops. A key part of many food cultures, pulses really are ‘little marvels’.

Open-source mungbean genetic database
Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.

The evolutionary story of the Birch tree told through 80 genomes
A new study illuminates the evolutionary history of birch, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value.

More genes turned on when plants compete
The lessons of plant diversity and competition learned from a clover patch can potentially unlock secrets on plant interactions around the globe.

Study finds large chromosomal swaps key to banana domestication
Using a variety of sequencing and bioinformatics tools, chromosomal imaging and PCR technology, scientists have, for the first time, identified a large chromosomal swap in the genome of the Cavendish banana, which prevents the proper reshuffling of its DNA in its progeny.
Events /
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If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences: A GPC/SEB Plant Section Symposium
07–08 July 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Plant Biology Scandinavia 2017
16–18 August 2017. Naantali, Finland. 

4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
03–07 September 2017. Giessen, Germany. 

CSIRO workshop: Gene Editing of Crops
28–30 November 2017. Kiama, NSW, Australia

Don’t forget: if you are a member of one of our Member Organizations (see below) you can use the discount code GC237648 to get 20% off anyTransmitting Science training course!
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
First EPA-approved outdoor field trial for genetically modified algae
Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for genetically engineered algae.

Myanmar’s extensive forests are declining rapidly due to political and environmental change
The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to new a study.

Antarctic has seen widespread change in last 50 years, moss study reveals
Researchers confirm that the unprecedented ecological change found in mosses and microbes at the southern end of the Antarctic Peninsula in 2013 are widespread.
Funding Opportunities /

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
More details about some of the funding opportunities we’ve come across this month can be found on our website here. Opportunities include: 

  • Newton Fund Institutional Link grants
  • Royal Society International Exchanges scheme
  • US–Ireland Research and Development Partnership Call in Agriculture 2017
  • VILLUM Young Investigators Programme
  • Travel scholarships to attend 4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
…and more!
On the blog / 
View more…

Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Just add water: could resurrection plants help feed the world?
Professor Henk Hilhorst from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands spoke to the GPC about his research on desiccation tolerance in seeds and plants.

Student-driven plant breeding symposium addresses global challenges in the 21st century
Francisco Gomez and Ammani Kyanam, graduate students in the Soil and Crop Science Department at Texas A&M University, USA, tells us about the recent Plant Breeding Symposium, a successful meeting run entirely by students at the University.

Water is key to ending Africa’s chronic hunger cycle
In this SciDev.net repost, Esther Ngumbi discusses how governments must invest in sustainable water supplies for Africa to end chronic hunger.

Striga hermonthica – a beautiful but devastating plant
University of Sheffield (UK) student Caroline Wood tells us all about Striga, and her PhD quest to to identify the key defense pathways that determine host resistance to this pretty, but parasitic plant.

The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
This month, the GPC’s Executive Director Ruth Bastow visited the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) in Adelaide. This blog post was reproduced with the kind permission of the APPF. 
Members / 

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May 2017
What with our Executive Director Ruth visiting colleagues and partners in Australia, Fascination of Plants Day, and the State of the World’s Plants Symposium (which you’ll hear more about very soon over on our blog), May has been yet another busy month for the Global Plant Council!

We are also busily preparing for our summer conference appearances: as in previous years we will be attending the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (St Louis, MO, USA, 19–23 June), the American Society of Plant Biologists’ Plant Biology 2017 meeting (Hawaii, USA, 24–28th June), and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)’s annual main meeting (Gothenburg, Sweden, 3–6th July). Please say hello to Ruth and Sarah if you see them!

We’re also making final arrangements for our ‘New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences‘ workshop that we are running in association with the SEB on 7–8th July – places are still available, so if you’re attending the SEB conference, why not register for our event too?
Latest News / 
View more…

If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 
This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

From Journal of Experimental Botany: Marvellous Little Pulses
The latest special issue from Journal of Experimental Botany focuses scientific attention on pulse crops. A key part of many food cultures, pulses really are ‘little marvels’.

Open-source mungbean genetic database
Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.

The evolutionary story of the Birch tree told through 80 genomes
A new study illuminates the evolutionary history of birch, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value.

More genes turned on when plants compete
The lessons of plant diversity and competition learned from a clover patch can potentially unlock secrets on plant interactions around the globe.

Study finds large chromosomal swaps key to banana domestication
Using a variety of sequencing and bioinformatics tools, chromosomal imaging and PCR technology, scientists have, for the first time, identified a large chromosomal swap in the genome of the Cavendish banana, which prevents the proper reshuffling of its DNA in its progeny.
Events /
View more…

If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences: A GPC/SEB Plant Section Symposium
07–08 July 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Plant Biology Scandinavia 2017
16–18 August 2017. Naantali, Finland. 

4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
03–07 September 2017. Giessen, Germany. 

CSIRO workshop: Gene Editing of Crops
28–30 November 2017. Kiama, NSW, Australia

Don’t forget: if you are a member of one of our Member Organizations (see below) you can use the discount code GC237648 to get 20% off anyTransmitting Science training course!
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
First EPA-approved outdoor field trial for genetically modified algae
Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for genetically engineered algae.

Myanmar’s extensive forests are declining rapidly due to political and environmental change
The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to new a study.

Antarctic has seen widespread change in last 50 years, moss study reveals
Researchers confirm that the unprecedented ecological change found in mosses and microbes at the southern end of the Antarctic Peninsula in 2013 are widespread.
Funding Opportunities /

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
More details about some of the funding opportunities we’ve come across this month can be found on our website here. Opportunities include: 

  • Newton Fund Institutional Link grants
  • Royal Society International Exchanges scheme
  • US–Ireland Research and Development Partnership Call in Agriculture 2017
  • VILLUM Young Investigators Programme
  • Travel scholarships to attend 4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
…and more!
On the blog / 
View more…

Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Just add water: could resurrection plants help feed the world?
Professor Henk Hilhorst from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands spoke to the GPC about his research on desiccation tolerance in seeds and plants.

Student-driven plant breeding symposium addresses global challenges in the 21st century
Francisco Gomez and Ammani Kyanam, graduate students in the Soil and Crop Science Department at Texas A&M University, USA, tells us about the recent Plant Breeding Symposium, a successful meeting run entirely by students at the University.

Water is key to ending Africa’s chronic hunger cycle
In this SciDev.net repost, Esther Ngumbi discusses how governments must invest in sustainable water supplies for Africa to end chronic hunger.

Striga hermonthica – a beautiful but devastating plant
University of Sheffield (UK) student Caroline Wood tells us all about Striga, and her PhD quest to to identify the key defense pathways that determine host resistance to this pretty, but parasitic plant.

The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
This month, the GPC’s Executive Director Ruth Bastow visited the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) in Adelaide. This blog post was reproduced with the kind permission of the APPF. 
Members / 

Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives. 

Please contact us (info@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can join the Global Plant Council. 
The GPC is a coalition of plant and crop science societies and affiliates from across the globe. The GPC seeks to bring plant scientists together to work synergistically toward solving the pressing problems we face.
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May 2017
What with our Executive Director Ruth visiting colleagues and partners in Australia, Fascination of Plants Day, and the State of the World’s Plants Symposium (which you’ll hear more about very soon over on our blog), May has been yet another busy month for the Global Plant Council!

We are also busily preparing for our summer conference appearances: as in previous years we will be attending the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (St Louis, MO, USA, 19–23 June), the American Society of Plant Biologists’ Plant Biology 2017 meeting (Hawaii, USA, 24–28th June), and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)’s annual main meeting (Gothenburg, Sweden, 3–6th July). Please say hello to Ruth and Sarah if you see them!

We’re also making final arrangements for our ‘New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences‘ workshop that we are running in association with the SEB on 7–8th July – places are still available, so if you’re attending the SEB conference, why not register for our event too?
Latest News / 
View more…

If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 
This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

From Journal of Experimental Botany: Marvellous Little Pulses
The latest special issue from Journal of Experimental Botany focuses scientific attention on pulse crops. A key part of many food cultures, pulses really are ‘little marvels’.

Open-source mungbean genetic database
Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.

The evolutionary story of the Birch tree told through 80 genomes
A new study illuminates the evolutionary history of birch, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value.

More genes turned on when plants compete
The lessons of plant diversity and competition learned from a clover patch can potentially unlock secrets on plant interactions around the globe.

Study finds large chromosomal swaps key to banana domestication
Using a variety of sequencing and bioinformatics tools, chromosomal imaging and PCR technology, scientists have, for the first time, identified a large chromosomal swap in the genome of the Cavendish banana, which prevents the proper reshuffling of its DNA in its progeny.
Events /
View more…

If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences: A GPC/SEB Plant Section Symposium
07–08 July 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Plant Biology Scandinavia 2017
16–18 August 2017. Naantali, Finland. 

4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
03–07 September 2017. Giessen, Germany. 

CSIRO workshop: Gene Editing of Crops
28–30 November 2017. Kiama, NSW, Australia

Don’t forget: if you are a member of one of our Member Organizations (see below) you can use the discount code GC237648 to get 20% off anyTransmitting Science training course!
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
First EPA-approved outdoor field trial for genetically modified algae
Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for genetically engineered algae.

Myanmar’s extensive forests are declining rapidly due to political and environmental change
The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to new a study.

Antarctic has seen widespread change in last 50 years, moss study reveals
Researchers confirm that the unprecedented ecological change found in mosses and microbes at the southern end of the Antarctic Peninsula in 2013 are widespread.
Funding Opportunities /

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
More details about some of the funding opportunities we’ve come across this month can be found on our website here. Opportunities include: 

  • Newton Fund Institutional Link grants
  • Royal Society International Exchanges scheme
  • US–Ireland Research and Development Partnership Call in Agriculture 2017
  • VILLUM Young Investigators Programme
  • Travel scholarships to attend 4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
…and more!
On the blog / 
View more…

Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Just add water: could resurrection plants help feed the world?
Professor Henk Hilhorst from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands spoke to the GPC about his research on desiccation tolerance in seeds and plants.

Student-driven plant breeding symposium addresses global challenges in the 21st century
Francisco Gomez and Ammani Kyanam, graduate students in the Soil and Crop Science Department at Texas A&M University, USA, tells us about the recent Plant Breeding Symposium, a successful meeting run entirely by students at the University.

Water is key to ending Africa’s chronic hunger cycle
In this SciDev.net repost, Esther Ngumbi discusses how governments must invest in sustainable water supplies for Africa to end chronic hunger.

Striga hermonthica – a beautiful but devastating plant
University of Sheffield (UK) student Caroline Wood tells us all about Striga, and her PhD quest to to identify the key defense pathways that determine host resistance to this pretty, but parasitic plant.

The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
This month, the GPC’s Executive Director Ruth Bastow visited the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) in Adelaide. This blog post was reproduced with the kind permission of the APPF. 
Members / 

Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives. 

Please contact us (info@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can join the Global Plant Council. 
The GPC is a coalition of plant and crop science societies and affiliates from across the globe. The GPC seeks to bring plant scientists together to work synergistically toward solving the pressing problems we face.
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May 2017
What with our Executive Director Ruth visiting colleagues and partners in Australia, Fascination of Plants Day, and the State of the World’s Plants Symposium (which you’ll hear more about very soon over on our blog), May has been yet another busy month for the Global Plant Council!

We are also busily preparing for our summer conference appearances: as in previous years we will be attending the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (St Louis, MO, USA, 19–23 June), the American Society of Plant Biologists’ Plant Biology 2017 meeting (Hawaii, USA, 24–28th June), and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)’s annual main meeting (Gothenburg, Sweden, 3–6th July). Please say hello to Ruth and Sarah if you see them!

We’re also making final arrangements for our ‘New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences‘ workshop that we are running in association with the SEB on 7–8th July – places are still available, so if you’re attending the SEB conference, why not register for our event too?
Latest News / 
View more…

If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 
This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

From Journal of Experimental Botany: Marvellous Little Pulses
The latest special issue from Journal of Experimental Botany focuses scientific attention on pulse crops. A key part of many food cultures, pulses really are ‘little marvels’.

Open-source mungbean genetic database
Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.

The evolutionary story of the Birch tree told through 80 genomes
A new study illuminates the evolutionary history of birch, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value.

More genes turned on when plants compete
The lessons of plant diversity and competition learned from a clover patch can potentially unlock secrets on plant interactions around the globe.

Study finds large chromosomal swaps key to banana domestication
Using a variety of sequencing and bioinformatics tools, chromosomal imaging and PCR technology, scientists have, for the first time, identified a large chromosomal swap in the genome of the Cavendish banana, which prevents the proper reshuffling of its DNA in its progeny.
Events /
View more…

If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences: A GPC/SEB Plant Section Symposium
07–08 July 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Plant Biology Scandinavia 2017
16–18 August 2017. Naantali, Finland. 

4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
03–07 September 2017. Giessen, Germany. 

CSIRO workshop: Gene Editing of Crops
28–30 November 2017. Kiama, NSW, Australia

Don’t forget: if you are a member of one of our Member Organizations (see below) you can use the discount code GC237648 to get 20% off anyTransmitting Science training course!
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
First EPA-approved outdoor field trial for genetically modified algae
Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for genetically engineered algae.

Myanmar’s extensive forests are declining rapidly due to political and environmental change
The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to new a study.

Antarctic has seen widespread change in last 50 years, moss study reveals
Researchers confirm that the unprecedented ecological change found in mosses and microbes at the southern end of the Antarctic Peninsula in 2013 are widespread.
Funding Opportunities /

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
More details about some of the funding opportunities we’ve come across this month can be found on our website here. Opportunities include: 

  • Newton Fund Institutional Link grants
  • Royal Society International Exchanges scheme
  • US–Ireland Research and Development Partnership Call in Agriculture 2017
  • VILLUM Young Investigators Programme
  • Travel scholarships to attend 4th International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
…and more!
On the blog / 
View more…

Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Just add water: could resurrection plants help feed the world?
Professor Henk Hilhorst from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands spoke to the GPC about his research on desiccation tolerance in seeds and plants.

Student-driven plant breeding symposium addresses global challenges in the 21st century
Francisco Gomez and Ammani Kyanam, graduate students in the Soil and Crop Science Department at Texas A&M University, USA, tells us about the recent Plant Breeding Symposium, a successful meeting run entirely by students at the University.

Water is key to ending Africa’s chronic hunger cycle
In this SciDev.net repost, Esther Ngumbi discusses how governments must invest in sustainable water supplies for Africa to end chronic hunger.

Striga hermonthica – a beautiful but devastating plant
University of Sheffield (UK) student Caroline Wood tells us all about Striga, and her PhD quest to to identify the key defense pathways that determine host resistance to this pretty, but parasitic plant.

The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
This month, the GPC’s Executive Director Ruth Bastow visited the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) in Adelaide. This blog post was reproduced with the kind permission of the APPF. 
Members / 

Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives. 

Please contact us (info@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can join the Global Plant Council. 
The GPC is a coalition of plant and crop science societies and affiliates from across the globe. The GPC seeks to bring plant scientists together to work synergistically toward solving the pressing problems we face.
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29 May 2017

Hello ASPS members,

We have a new employment opportunity Research Associate in Hybrid Mimics.

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April 2017
Another month has gone by with plenty of plant science to celebrate! Read on and explore the links to catch up on the latest news, views, events, opportunities and stories from the Global Plant Council community and beyond.

Looking forward, don’t forget that 18th May is international Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD)! Plant enthusiasts from all over the world will be hosting a variety of events to enthuse people of all ages and from all walks of life about the Fascination of Plants and plant science! Check out the website at www.plantday.org to find out what’s happening in your region, or to contact your local coordinator to discuss hosting your own event – it’s not too late!

One exciting and rather innovative FoPD initiative you might like to participate in is ‘Botany Live‘. During this virtual event, taking place between the 18th and 21st May, scientists from all over the world will be live-streaming short online broadcasts at www.botany.live. If you are interested in streaming your own live broadcast, please download further information here.

Finally, places are still available for our upcoming workshop, “New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences” on the 7th and 8th July 2017. This satellite event of the Society for Experimental Biology’s annual main meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden (3–6th July), will be of great interest to plant and crop scientists who are invested in the future of gene editing both on a practical and regulatory level. We will provide a forum for debate around the broader policy issues, while including opportunities for in-depth discussion of the techniques required to make this technology work in your own research.
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If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 
This month 60 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

In New Phytologist: Feeding fat to fungi: evidence for lipid transfer in arbuscular mycorrhiza
Scientists have produced the first experimental evidence to suggest that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi get their lipids, as well as sugars, from the host plant.

From Elsevier: Free access to all Flora articles
To celebrate 200 years of Flora, Elsevier is providing free, open access to all articles from this journal until March 2020. What fascinating gems from the past will you discover?

From Journal of Experimental Botany: Scent, flowers, all that JAZ
Check out the latest Special Issue from J Exp Bot, which celebrates 10 years of research on JAZ proteins.

Wiley, ASPB and SEB partnering on new open access journal Plant Direct
Two of the Global Plant Council’s Member Organizations, the American Society of Plant Biologists, and the Society for Experimental Biology, have launched a new open access journal in collaboration with Wiley. 

Barley genome sequenced
Research published in Nature reveals the complete sequence for the barley genome.
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Fascination of Plants Day 2017
18 May 2017. Worldwide. 

International Conference on Arabidopsis Research
19–23 June 2017. St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 

Plant Biology 2017
24–28 June 2017. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 

Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting
03–06 July 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden

GPC/SEB workshop: New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences
07–08 July 2017. Gothenburg, Sweden
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
Feeding the Future: Four Years On
A new report by the UK’s National Farmers’ Union urges government and research providers to invest in agricultural research and development, and to enable British farmers to use the latest technologies.

Nearly 2 billion people depend on imported food
Finnish researchers have been able to show a broad connection between resource scarcity, population pressure, and food imports, in a study published in Earth’s Future.

Weather extremes and trade policies were main drivers of wheat price peaks
USDA research finds that price peaks of wheat on the world market are mainly caused by production shocks, such as those induced by droughts. Protective trade policies exacerbate these shocks.
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Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Funding opportunities and prizes we’ve found this month include:

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Creole maize reveals adaptation secrets
In this repost from SciDevNet, Lucina Melesio explores recent work from Mexico that has identified 100 genes that influence adaptation to the latitude, altitude, growing season and flowering time of nearly 4,500 native maize varieties in Latin America and the Caribbean. [Spanish version here].

Roots of a second Green Revolution
We spoke to Professor Jonathan Lynch from Penn State University (USA) about his research on root traits, and how this has deepened our understanding of the way in which plants adapt to drought and low soil fertility.

Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
In this report from The Conversation, Professor David Montgomery (University of Washington, USA), explores how regenerative farming practices can increase agricultural productivity and sustainability, even on small scales. 

How diverse is your food?
Dr Colin Khoury, food biodiversity scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia, has launched the Changing Global Diet website, where you can interactively explore how and why human diets have changed over time in 152 countries.  

Calling all botanists! Share your science with Botany.Live!
Find out how you can get involved with this virtual, online live-streaming event for Fascination of Plants Day 2017 (18th May). 
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Special Bulletin reminder

06 April 2017
Dear Members,
This is a friendly reminder to please take part in the ASPS Membership Survey (as per Email invitation from Wednesday). Your participation is highly valued. You can find the survey here:
Thanks to those that have already answered the five questions. We’ll be back with survey results in the near future.


Your survey team
Uli & Sebastian

Special Bulletin

05 April 2017
ASPS Membership Survey 
April 2017

Dear Members,

To better plan for the future of our society, we’d ask you to please participate in a quick and easy survey. The survey is called Ecology of the ASPS Membership. It has just five questions that can be answered in less than 3 minutes. It really is that short. The survey is open now and closes this Sunday 9 April at midnight.

Please follow this link:

https://newqtrial2015az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9BPMbqLl58U4GMt

The main purpose of the survey is to better understand the demographic structure and knowledge base of our membership. Armed with the survey results we will be in a better position to idenfity undesirable trends (e.g. over-ageing, accelerated loss of members, etc.) and become proactive before such trends cause any harm to the ASPS .

The survey is completely anonymous and non-tracable. Sebastian Pfautsch (Uni Sydney) and Uli Mathesius (ANU) are the initiators and will share results in upcoming news letters. If you have any questions, please contact Sebastian (sebastian.pfautsch@sydney.edu.au).

Cheers

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March 2017
Welcome to the March issue of the Global Plant Council’s e-Bulletin. We have some very exciting announcements for you this month!

1. Bursary available to attend State of the World’s Plants Symposium
The GPC, together with the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB), is pleased to announce that one travel bursary of up to £1000 is available to attend the State of the World’s Plants Symposium in London, UK, 25–26th May 2017!

To apply, you should be a PhD student or early career researcher within 5 years of your PhD, and a member of the SEB (or be willing to become one). For further information and how to apply, please see our blog post. Deadline is 18th April 2017. 

2. GPC publishes four commentary papers in Food & Energy Security
Following our successful Stress Resilience Symposium in Brazil in October 2015, the GPC has published four commentary papers (1, 2, 3, 4) and an overview editorial in the Association of Applied Botany journal Food & Energy Security.

Based on the discussions held at this meeting, the papers outline recommendations on the strategies required to develop crops and cropping systems that are better able to cope with fluctuating and stressful environmental conditions. Read more here.

3. Registration for our ‘New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences‘ workshop is now OPEN! 
This will be a satellite meeting of the SEB’s annual main meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden (3–6 July). Please see the website for more information.

4. 20% discount on Transmitting Science courses for GPC members
And finally, training provider Transmitting Science has generously offered a 20% discount to members of all GPC Member Organizations on all its courses. Usually based in Barcelona, Spain, these postgrad/postdoc-level courses cover a range of interdisciplinary topics including statistics, genetics, ecology, and more. Book your place on the Transmitting Science website using the discount code GC237648.
Latest News / 
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If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 
This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

In New Phytologist: FRED database gathers root traits to advance understanding of below-ground plant ecology
The Fine-Root Ecology Database (FRED) is a new global, centralized database of plant root traits that can advance our understanding of how the hidden structure of plants belowground may interact with and relate to life aboveground.

In Nature Plants: How plants can tell friend from foe
Japanese scientists says the plant’s immune system can recognize whether a piece of RNA is an invader or not based on whether the RNA has a threaded bead-like structure at the end.

In Journal of Experimental Botany: To branch or not to branch?
A new Insight article from JXBot explores how plants use shade, abscisic acid and auxin to decide whether or not to form branches.

Current Plant Biology and Current Opinion in Plant Biology supporting journals for Plant Genome Evolution 2017
GPC sponsor Current Plant Biology and its sister journals are supporting the forthcoming Plant Genome Evolution meeting in Spain during October 2017.
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If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Fascination of Plants Day
18 May 2017, all over the world. 
Visit www.plantday.org to find out what’s happening in your country, and to coordinate your own activities. 

State of the World’s Plants Symposium
25–26 May 2017, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. 
**GPC/SEB travel bursary now available! Click here for details!**

ASPB Plant Biology 2017
24–28 June 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

GPC/SEB workshop: New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences
07–08 July 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. 
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
World’s future food security “in jeopardy” due to multiple challenges, report warns.
Mankind’s future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a new FAO report.

New EASAC report on genome editing
A new report by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council on genome editing gives advice to European policy-makers on groundbreaking research involving genome editing and plants, animals, microbes and patients.
Funding /

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
John Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science 2017
Do you know someone who “stands up for science”? The 2017 John Maddox Prize is now open to nominations from any science or engineering researcher, from any country around the world, who takes part in any kind of public activity, including all forms of writing, speaking and public engagement, in any of the following areas:

  • Addressing misleading information about scientific or medical issues.
  • Bringing sound evidence to bear in a public or policy debate.
  • Helping people to make sense of a complex scientific issue.

Click here for more information and to nominate. Deadline 31st July 2017.

Early career researcher travel bursary to attend State of the World’s Plants Symposium
The SEB has kindly agreed to sponsor one early career researcher to travel to London, UK, to attend the State of the World’s Plants Symposium (25–26 May 2017) on behalf of the Global Plant Council. To apply, you should be a PhD student or within 5 years of your PhD, a member of the SEB (or willing to become one, if selected). Click here for more information.
On the blog / 
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Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Sustainable, resilient, and nutritious food production with N8 AgriFood
Dr Sally Howlett explains what the UK’s N8 AgriFood Programme is all about.

Lentils under the lens: Improving genetic diversity for sustainable food security
Crystal Chan explains the Application of Genomic Innovation in the Lentil Economy project at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

How to publish your work in New Phytologist
In two short videos, New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Prof Alistair Hetherington provides a step by step guide for early career researchers.

Synthetic biology in chloroplasts
Dr Anil Day, a synthetic biologist at the University of Manchester (UK) has developed an impressive array of tools and techniques to transform chloroplast genomes.

Plants in Action! Developing a free expert-written plant science textbook
If only there was an online, open access textbook to help teach undergraduates all about plant science… Oh wait, thanks to the plant science societies in Australia and New Zealand, there is!
Members / 

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March 2017
Welcome to the March issue of the Global Plant Council’s e-Bulletin. We have some very exciting announcements for you this month!

1. Bursary available to attend State of the World’s Plants Symposium
The GPC, together with the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB), is pleased to announce that one travel bursary of up to £1000 is available to attend the State of the World’s Plants Symposium in London, UK, 25–26th May 2017!

To apply, you should be a PhD student or early career researcher within 5 years of your PhD, and a member of the SEB (or be willing to become one). For further information and how to apply, please see our blog post. Deadline is 18th April 2017. 

2. GPC publishes four commentary papers in Food & Energy Security
Following our successful Stress Resilience Symposium in Brazil in October 2015, the GPC has published four commentary papers (1, 2, 3, 4) and an overview editorial in the Association of Applied Botany journal Food & Energy Security.

Based on the discussions held at this meeting, the papers outline recommendations on the strategies required to develop crops and cropping systems that are better able to cope with fluctuating and stressful environmental conditions. Read more here.

3. Registration for our ‘New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences‘ workshop is now OPEN! 
This will be a satellite meeting of the SEB’s annual main meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden (3–6 July). Please see the website for more information.

4. 20% discount on Transmitting Science courses for GPC members
And finally, training provider Transmitting Science has generously offered a 20% discount to members of all GPC Member Organizations on all its courses. Usually based in Barcelona, Spain, these postgrad/postdoc-level courses cover a range of interdisciplinary topics including statistics, genetics, ecology, and more. Book your place on the Transmitting Science website using the discount code GC237648.
Latest News / 
View more…

If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 
This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

In New Phytologist: FRED database gathers root traits to advance understanding of below-ground plant ecology
The Fine-Root Ecology Database (FRED) is a new global, centralized database of plant root traits that can advance our understanding of how the hidden structure of plants belowground may interact with and relate to life aboveground.

In Nature Plants: How plants can tell friend from foe
Japanese scientists says the plant’s immune system can recognize whether a piece of RNA is an invader or not based on whether the RNA has a threaded bead-like structure at the end.

In Journal of Experimental Botany: To branch or not to branch?
A new Insight article from JXBot explores how plants use shade, abscisic acid and auxin to decide whether or not to form branches.

Current Plant Biology and Current Opinion in Plant Biology supporting journals for Plant Genome Evolution 2017
GPC sponsor Current Plant Biology and its sister journals are supporting the forthcoming Plant Genome Evolution meeting in Spain during October 2017.
Events /
View more…

If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Fascination of Plants Day
18 May 2017, all over the world. 
Visit www.plantday.org to find out what’s happening in your country, and to coordinate your own activities. 

State of the World’s Plants Symposium
25–26 May 2017, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. 
**GPC/SEB travel bursary now available! Click here for details!**

ASPB Plant Biology 2017
24–28 June 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

GPC/SEB workshop: New Breeding Technologies in the Plant Sciences
07–08 July 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. 
Policy /

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.
World’s future food security “in jeopardy” due to multiple challenges, report warns.
Mankind’s future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a new FAO report.

New EASAC report on genome editing
A new report by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council on genome editing gives advice to European policy-makers on groundbreaking research involving genome editing and plants, animals, microbes and patients.
Funding /

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
John Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science 2017
Do you know someone who “stands up for science”? The 2017 John Maddox Prize is now open to nominations from any science or engineering researcher, from any country around the world, who takes part in any kind of public activity, including all forms of writing, speaking and public engagement, in any of the following areas:

  • Addressing misleading information about scientific or medical issues.
  • Bringing sound evidence to bear in a public or policy debate.
  • Helping people to make sense of a complex scientific issue.

Click here for more information and to nominate. Deadline 31st July 2017.

Early career researcher travel bursary to attend State of the World’s Plants Symposium
The SEB has kindly agreed to sponsor one early career researcher to travel to London, UK, to attend the State of the World’s Plants Symposium (25–26 May 2017) on behalf of the Global Plant Council. To apply, you should be a PhD student or within 5 years of your PhD, a member of the SEB (or willing to become one, if selected). Click here for more information.
On the blog / 
View more…

Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Sustainable, resilient, and nutritious food production with N8 AgriFood
Dr Sally Howlett explains what the UK’s N8 AgriFood Programme is all about.

Lentils under the lens: Improving genetic diversity for sustainable food security
Crystal Chan explains the Application of Genomic Innovation in the Lentil Economy project at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

How to publish your work in New Phytologist
In two short videos, New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Prof Alistair Hetherington provides a step by step guide for early career researchers.

Synthetic biology in chloroplasts
Dr Anil Day, a synthetic biologist at the University of Manchester (UK) has developed an impressive array of tools and techniques to transform chloroplast genomes.

Plants in Action! Developing a free expert-written plant science textbook
If only there was an online, open access textbook to help teach undergraduates all about plant science… Oh wait, thanks to the plant science societies in Australia and New Zealand, there is!
Members / 

Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives. 

Please contact Ruth Bastow (ruth@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can join the Global Plant Council. 
The GPC is a coalition of plant and crop science societies and affiliates from across the globe. The GPC seeks to bring plant scientists together to work synergistically toward solving the pressing problems we face.
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