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The Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience Through International Teamwork (C-SPIRIT) is an NSF Global Center that unites researchers from 5 countries to address agricultural challenges and develop sustainable solutions. https://c-spirit.org

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New review out in Current Biology with colleagues in the Plant Cell Atlas (@plantcellatlas.bsky.social)! We discuss how single-cell genomics is reshaping our understanding of plant cell-type identity and evolution across the Green Lineage. bit.ly/4eAip2Q

📢 New C-SPIRIT Publication! Congrats to Byeollee Kim, So-Ra Han, Jun Hyuck Lee, Tae-Jin Oh & colleagues on their new article! They report the genome of polar-adapted Pseudomonas sp. PAMC25886, offering insight into cold adaptation & biodegradation. ❄️🧬 📖 doi.org/10.1128/mra.... #plantscience

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📬 Our May 2026 C-SPIRIT Newsletter is out now! This month: the launch of a new Lab Spotlight series feat. the Provart Lab at UToronto, a KOPRI feature, a new member publication, upcoming events, & social media posts. 🌱 🔗 createsend.com/t/y-630438C3... Sub: forms.gle/hWQycasrts2m... #plantscience

Huge congrats to C-SPIRIT member Dr. Younsuk Dong on receiving the 2026 CANR Early Career Researcher Award at MSU! 💧🌱 His work advancing sustainable irrigation and water management is helping support resilient agriculture for the future. Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/younsuk... #plantscience

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📢 Upcoming C-SPIRIT Member Talk! C-SPIRIT member Gaurav Moghe from Cornell will present “Advancing biochemical studies with LLMs and PLMs” for the AgBioData webinar series. 📅 June 3, 1 PM EDT 📍 Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/8203835612... , passcode: 160683 🔗 www.agbiodata.org/webinars #plantscience

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🔜Two postdoc positions are available in Rouached Lab for a creative individual to lead a project that will explore a new dimension in the field of plant nutrition. Please contact me if you are interested in TOR signaling, epigenetic and/or plant development [email protected]

Check out our newly compiled Special Issue compiling reviews on "Methodologies to Assess Crop Stress Resilience" https://bit.ly/4fzPpZW All articles are free to read for 2 months.

Our next webinar features this excellent paper from Guilherme M. Turra, Aldo Merotto Jr & Dana MacGregor on the limitations of translating tried-and-tested genetic tools from one species to another 🌾 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aab.... @plantenv.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social @ufrgs.br

📣#PlantBio2026 daily highlight: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Plant Biology Research and Education Concurrent Session! plantbiology2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp #plantscience #plantsci

Flooding from extreme rainfall is becoming increasingly common due to climate change, but its ecological impacts are not yet fully understood. New PRI research explores how short-term flooding impacts soil microbial communities, nitrogen, and maize productivity: doi.org/10.1111/aab.... #PlantScience

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Physiologia Plantarum

Hatem Rouached

Annals of Applied Biology

MSU Plant Resilience Institute

📢 Announcing the next webinar in our series all 'aabout' #plantscience and #sustainableagriculture 🌱 🌾 All aabout Rice 🌾 📅 30th June, 10am BST Ft. talks from Ari Sadanandom, Moe Moe Kyi Win & Guilherme Turra 🌾 Register for free 👉️ buff.ly/TBUv6Sr @annalsapplbio.bsky.social @oryzanet.bsky.social

Association of Applied Biologists