August GPC E-bulletin and Post doc opportunities in Ether Van der Knaap lab at UGA

Following our Annual General Meeting last month, we’ve summarized our successes in our Annual Report for 2016-2017, with updates on each of our initiatives and activities. Please click the following link to read it: GPC Annual Report 2017.

Global Plant Council President Professor Bill Davies co-authored a paper with other eminent agricultural scientists to call for a global alliance of crop research to improve food security around the world. The article, ‘Improving global integration of crop research‘, was published in Science.

Past Chair of the Global Plant Council, Professor Wilhelm Gruissem, co-authored a paper that could have a big impact on crop nutritional security. The article, “Single genetic locus improvement of iron, zinc and β-carotene content in rice grains“, was published in Scientific Reports.

Finally, if you’re looking for a new job, check out the hashtag ‘#PlantSciJobs‘ on Twitter. We often post a cascade of job opportunities tagged as #PlantSciJobs on a Friday, but you’ll find a wealth of jobs shared by other institutions too!

If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact sarah@globalplantcouncil.org

Tracking down the jumping genes of maize
Until now, the “jumping genes” of maize have been elusive because they’re so difficult to sequence and assemble, but new technologies have allowed them to be mapped.

Plants under heat stress must act surprisingly quickly to survive
Even a six hour delay in protein translation in response to heat stress is enough to severely impair plant growth and survival.

Into the wild for plant genetics
Plant geneticists document the opportunities that are now available in plant science using portable, real-time DNA sequencing.

Plants love microbes – and so do farmers
Researchers investigate the microbial communities of the diverse plant species of the Australian Sunshine Coast.

If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email sarah@globalplantcouncil.org

2nd Asia-Pacific Plant Phenotyping Conference
23–25 March 2018. Nanjing, China.

GARNet Plant Gene Editing Workshop
26–27 March 2018. Bristol, UK.

Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email sarah@globalplantcouncil.org

Chinese plant science and Journal of Experimental Botany
Journal of Experimental Botany Editor Jonathan Ingram on the research coming out of a plant science powerhouse, China.

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