📖 New C-SPIRIT publication! C-SPIRIT members Minoru Ueda, Motoaki Seki & collaborators reveal how HDA19-regulated histone H3.3 acetylation promotes LEA protein accumulation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis, advancing research on plant resilience. 🌱🧬 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #PlantScience

📬 C-SPIRIT News: June & July 2026 Our latest issue looks back at the 2026 All-Hands Meeting, spotlights the Kusano Lab and teams at Guelph and RIKEN, and shares new publications, upcoming events and social media posts from across the Center. 🌱 🔗 createsend.com/t/y-37E18AEB... #plantscience

New C-SPIRIT publication! 🍅🌱 C-SPIRIT members Toon Suzuki and Hiroshi Ezura, with Mariko Takayama (University of Tsukuba), found that enhanced GABA biosynthesis helped tomatoes maintain yield while increasing GABA and dry matter under salt stress. 🧂 📖 doi.org/10.1002/pei3... #plantscience

We are seeking a field research technician for the Great Lakes Advanced Climate Impact & Experimental Research Center (GLACIER) to coordinate day-to-day field and greenhouse experiments related to plant responses to climate stress! #PlantSciJobs Apply now: careers.msu.edu/jobs/field-r...

🌍 It's World Nature Conservation Day! 🌱 Today reminds us that protecting nature means investing in a more sustainable future. At C-SPIRIT, we support that mission by discovering plant- and microbe-derived compounds that help crops thrive under environmental stress. 💚 #plantscience

🌱 New C-SPIRIT Publication! 📚 Congrats to C-SPIRIT member Jun Hyuck Lee and colleagues on their new paper in Fitoterapia! 🎉 They identified five previously undescribed compounds from Antarctic moss, including one with promising bioactivity. 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi... #PlantScience

Murphy Zabala shares C-SPIRIT potato research at MSU 🌱 At MidSURE, MSU’s undergrad research symposium, Murphy presented work on variety-specific growth and physiological responses in potatoes. Murphy is an REU student from Cuyahoga Community College working in Ola Skirycz’s lab! #plantscience

🌱🧬 G proteins link growth, yield, and stress defense, but pleiotropy creates trade-offs. This review dissects their regulation and offers strategies to decouple and boost both traits for climate-resilient breeding. #plantscience @jipb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plant G proteins: Versatile signaling hubs for synergistic improvement of agronomic traits

This review highlights the roles of G-protein signaling in crop yield and quality, as well as abiotic and biotic stress responses. It also discusses the feasibility of breaking the trade-off between ...

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Yesterday, WALII's Dr. Sue Rhee presented her talk, "Aradbidopsis thaliana RHAMNOSE 1 Condensate Formation Drives UDP-rhamnose Synthesis" at the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) meeting in Ottawa, Canada! #ASPB #ASPB2026 @rheelab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Hui-Kyong Cho and Hatem Rouached (@hatem-rouached.bsky.social) of Michigan State University as well as their collaborators on their new article “Coumarins link iron deficiency to TOR inhibition in plants” published in Current Biology! 🌿🔬 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #PlantScience

Did you miss Dr. Matt Stata’s workshop on "Exploring the Many Applications of RNA-seq Data"? Watch it here: youtu.be/Q7ZBBOXxxLE And keep an eye out for more details of Dr. Michael Menze’s talk on August 13, 2027! Learn more here: bit.ly/4uDLobX

The Anhydrobiosis Research, Tools & Techniques Public Webinar Series - Matt Stata, PhD

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New C-SPIRIT publication! 🌽 Congrats to MSU researchers Maddy Creach, Addie Thompson, Robert VanBuren, as well as their collaborators, on their new publication! In it, they combine multi-omics data to improve maize trait prediction across environments. 🧬 📘 doi.org/10.1093/plce... #plantscience

C-SPIRIT Team Member Highlight! 🌱 Congratulations to C-SPIRIT member Joe Hamm (@istudytrust.bsky.social) on his promotion to Full Professor in the MSU College of Social Science! 🎉 We’re proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition of his scholarship, leadership, and service. #plantscience

🌱 Upcoming C-SPIRIT team member talk! 🔬 Dr. Sue Rhee will present at #PlantBiology2026 🇨🇦 Her talk explores how Arabidopsis RHAMNOSE 1 forms “rhamnosomes” that help drive UDP-rhamnose synthesis and plant development. 🗓️ Monday, July 20, 4:10 pm EDT 📍 Room 214 🔗 plantbiology.aspb.org/ #plantscience

🌱 New C-SPIRIT publication! Congratulations to C-SPIRIT members Sean Robertson, Chi Dang, Asher Pasha, Nicholas Provart, and Olivia Wilkins as well as their collaborators, on the publication of their article in New Phytologist! 🌾🧬 📖: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience

Don't forget to join us for the next Anhydrobiosis Research, Tools & Techniques Webinar featuring Dr. Matt Stata! His technical training workshop will be on "Exploring the Many Applications of RNA-seq Data." Learn more and register for this event here: bit.ly/4uDLobX @mattstata.bsky.social

Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type specific regulatory programs Robertson et al. @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @c-spirit.org @bar-plantbio.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌱 Our 2026 C-SPIRIT All-Hands Meeting! 🌏 Last week, our team gathered in person at RIKEN Yokohama in Japan for pipeline working time, a poster session, networking, and dinner aboard the Yakatabune Suzuyoshi Riverboat 🚢✨ Thank you to our hosts, organizers, and attendees 💚 #PlantScience

Sue Rhee from MSU, who leads the Centre for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Reslience through International Teamwork (c-spirit.org), kicks off our yearly in-person meeting in Yokohama!

🧬 New C-SPIRIT Publication! Congratulations to C-SPIRIT members Prakash Paudel, Kamal Prasad Regmi, and Tae-Jin Oh of Sun Moon University on their new Bioorganic Chemistry article on CYP154C10 biocatalysis! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #plantscience

🌱 C-SPIRIT is headed to IBS 2026! 🌏 Our members will present in the JST ASPIRE Symposium session “International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience" 🎤 Featuring Motoaki Seki, Kathe Rivera-Zuluaga, Nick Schlecht, Miyo Yamane, Shogo Kuwayama, Toon Suzuki & Suzuka Matsuki #PlantScience

🌱 New C-SPIRIT Publication! Congrats to Jayram Karmacharya, Prasansah Shrestha & Tae-Jin Oh of SunMoon University on their new publication "CotA Laccase-Catalyzed Catechol Oxidation for Functional Chitosan and Iron oxide Nanoparticles in Aqueous Systems"! 🧪 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s109... #CSPIRIT

Last week, C-SPIRIT members Cobus Smit, Gaurav Moghe, and Benjamin Lichman attended #PSNA2026 in Madison, WI! 🌱🔬 They shared work spanning plant biosynthetic gene cluster evolution, AI/ML tools for plant biochemistry, and nicotine biosynthesis 🧬💻🌿 #PlantScience

🌱🤖 New C-SPIRIT Publication! Congrats to C-SPIRIT members Gaurav Moghe, Alen Zimić, Nicholas Provart, Olivia Wilkins, Robert VanBuren, Sue Rhee, and Yuying Xie & colleagues on their new The Plant Cell Perspective on GenAI and plant science training. 🌎🌿 📖 doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

🌱 Welcome to C-SPIRIT, Henry! Henry Nvenankeng will join Michigan State University as a Research Associate within the Rhee Lab this August, studying how nematodes respond to plant-derived compounds and environmental stress. 🪱🔬 We are so excited to have Henry on the C-SPIRIT team! #PlantScience

We are excited to announce the next Anhydrobiosis Research, Tools & Techniques Webinar! Join us July 9, 2026, for a technical training workshop by Dr. Matt Stata on "Exploring the Many Applications of RNA-seq Data" Register Here: bit.ly/4uDLobX @mattstata.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

📣#PlantBio2026 daily highlight: Order From Disorder: The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Development Concurrent Session!🌱 plantbiology2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp #plantscience #plantsci

Combination of #abiotic stresses accelerates #photoprotection in exceptionally #chilling tolerant C4 #grass by fine tuning content of multiple #pigments academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #PlantScience @jxbotany.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantstress.bsky.social

Combination of abiotic stresses accelerates photoprotection in exceptionally chilling tolerant C4 grass by fine tuning content of multiple pigments

Abstract. C4 grasses are crucial for food and biofuel production. Originating from warm regions of the world, C4-photosynthesizing plants typically exhibit

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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

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