📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

@plantphys.bsky.social is 100 years old! We are celebrating this accomplishment with a symposium at #PlantBio2026 We start with a look back at the first and current issue.

So excited to share that I have been awarded a fellowship to @camplantsci.bsky.social from April 2027. Many rejections to get here but persistence pays off! I'll combine my love for plant physiology and photosynthesis with circadian rhythms and regulators of growth with @alexwebblab.bsky.social 😁

Thanks for joining the webinar, Steph! Nice that we can still share our research, even when living on opposite sides of the world. Thanks also to the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social and Functional Plant Biology for the invitation to present on my abiotic stress research. @csiropublishing.bsky.social

Stephanie Watts-Fawkes@mycoresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Starting my morning with a webinar by @aligill.bsky.social on water relations in industrial hemp. More SEM images of hairy trichomes please!

#FunctionalPlantBio & @globalplantgpc.bsky.social are teaming up for a webinar on 12 Feb 🌿 Innovative approaches to understanding #PlantAdaptation to #AbioticStress Speakers: @aligill.bsky.social (@plants4space.bsky.social) & Thi Linh Chi Tran (Deakin Uni) Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#ASPS2025 Tuesday Morning Wrap-Up Great sessions this morning! 🌱 Session 4: Plant Nutrition & Development featured: 🎤 Invited speaker Prof. Brent Kaiser (UoS) 🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk: Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University).

🏆 2025 ASPS Award Winners announced! Peter Goldacre: Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen). RN Robertson Lecture: Prof. Michelle Watt (Melbourne). FPB Best Paper: Dr. Yin Liu. Annals of Botany: Dr. Lena Mueller. Congrats all! #ASPS2025

#TansleyReview: #Lithium in #plants Sebastian Garcia-Daga, Sina Fischer and Matthew Gilliham 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

🍷 ASPS Conference Dinner at National Wine Centre next to Adelaide Botanic Gardens! First come, first served. After our memorable Hobart dinner, this promises to be another evening to remember. Register: bit.ly/4p25OJ0 #ASPS2025 #ConferenceDinner

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... 1/3

📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

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**Please Repost** Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate. PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Deadline: October 15.

Abstract submission and early bird registration for the 2025 ASPS conference has been extended to October 10! Get your tickets here: bit.ly/4p25OJ0

Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)@asps-oz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

🚨 Security Alert: Phishing scam targeting ASPS conference attendees. Emails offering "attendee lists" from non-institutional addresses (gmail, etc.) are fraudulent. ASPS only uses .edu/.org.au domains. Stay safe! #ASPS2025 #CyberSecurity

Thrilled to share our review exploring the future of controlled environment agriculture, both for farming in the face of climate change and as a tool for fundamental plant science! 🪴💡 @alexwebblab.bsky.social @jennymortimer1.bsky.social @ionplants.bsky.social

Trends in Plant Science@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture #plantscience

Very much looking forward to ASPS this November in Adelaide! Always a great time connecting with plant scientists from across the country

Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)@asps-oz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

The ARC CoE in Plants for Space (P4S, plants4space.com) are at #IAC2025 in Sydney! Members are speaking/chairing sessions all week, including our special session on Tues at 16.20 in C4.4 - Connecting Country to Deep Space: Ancient Lessons in Sustainability for Agriculture Beyond Earth.

Pleasure to meet and hear from NASA Emeritus Senior Scientist Ray Wheeler today! Ray is a wealth of knowledge on controlled environments for food and life support, having led the advanced life support research group. I'm lucky to be collaborating with him on LEAF which will grow plants on the moon🌿🌕

Saved the best till last - really enjoyed today's gas exchange workshop with Yazen and Steven from @w-u-r.bsky.social at the 2025 PEPG Field Techniques Workshop. @sebiology.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck into some A-Ci curves and chlorophyll fluorescence once I'm back in Aus 🥳

PEPG Techniques Workshop 2025 going down a treat 🌿 Photos from yesterday's workshop on water relations and today's on chlorophyll fluorescence, as well as pastel de nata and Quinta horses @sebiology.bsky.social

📢Come work with us! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the ARIA-funded PlantPlug project🌱 Be part of pioneering work turning mistletoe into programmable plant biointerfaces🧬 More information: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... #PlantScience #PostdocJobs #SyntheticBiology

Excited to be at this year's PEPG Field Techniques Workshop in beautiful Portugal! Highlight of day one was putting names to faces in person and making new connections 😁 @sebiology.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social @lornamca.bsky.social @erikmurch.bsky.social @moore-science.bsky.social

Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/

Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿 www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266 @bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social

Phenotyping of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotypes with different growth habits

Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) has gained renewed scientific and agricultural interest worldwide as a multi-use, high-value crop, with products spanning textile, clothing, medicinal, food, and cons...

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P4S had a visit from the Australian Space Agency (including astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg) last week. It was great to chat about my current research with the Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora (LEAF) project - an Artemis III mission which will send plants to the moon! 🌿🚀🌕

Aleks from Vertical Future looking a little concerned before his parabolic flight tomorrow with our autonomous agriculture unit designed for ISS. This is an outcome of a grant from @ukspaceagency.bsky.social which I had the joy of participating with many partners in @plants4space.bsky.social

From Plant Sciences PhD to Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology – where could studying plant sciences take you? It the latest of our alumni stories, Prof. Jenny Mortimer talks about studying here & how it helped shape her career. Read her story: tinyurl.com/7ac5yxfw @jennymortimer1.bsky.social

Delighted to receive a shoutout from Peter Hoj AC in the University of Adelaide Staff News yesterday! I am very grateful to the Playford Trust and Fulbright Australia for their support during my PhD, and I am excited to see what the future holds 🪴🚀

How many brains does it take to set up a Li-6800 aquatic chamber?! Lots of fun this morning with @bethloveys.bsky.social, @aaronlphillips.bsky.social, et al. We successfully got the chamber up and running! Excited to put it through its paces