Employment opportunities and the GPC November E-bulletin

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From Journal of Experimental Botany: sound the alarm! Roots and systemic plant defense
A new paper and associated Insight article in J Ex Bothighlights plant defenses in citrus plants. 

In Nature Plants: controlling plant regeneration systems may drive the future of agriculture 
Belgian scientists from VIB – Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology and Ghent University have discovered a key protein complex that controls plant tissue repair.

In New Phytologist: with a little help from my fungus
An international team of researchers reveals that a fungus of the genus Trichoderma lives inside the tissue of tomato plants and helps its host to defend itself against infestations by parasitic nematodes.

Phenotype at the push of a button
Scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle, Germany, have developed a method that makes it possible to accumulate or break down chosen proteins in living organisms as needed.

Living fossil genome unveiled
The genome sequence of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest extant tree species, has been published by scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute, Zheijiang University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

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

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’.

Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Growth and Competitiveness
The first-of-its kind report, ‘Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Growth and Competitiveness’ was released on 15 November by the Beijing-based  Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS) Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology. The report provides an assessment of research and patents in the field across the global South.

Delivering on EU Food Safety and Nutrition in 2050 – Future challenges and policy preparedness
This foresight study assesses the future resilience of the current EU food safety and nutrition policy and regulatory framework by examining potential scenarios up to 2050 and the challenges they may present, and suggests possible policy options.

Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org

Members of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists are also eligible to apply for the 2017 ASPS Teaching Award until 9th December 2016, and for the RN Robertson Travelling Fellowship until 20th January 2017.

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

Down under: the Global Plant Council’s 2016 AGM
Lisa Martin gives the lowdown on what happened ‘down under’ at the Global Plant Council’s 2016 Annual General Meeting. 

Flipping the symposium
What do you do when a speaker doesn’t turn up for the conference session you’ve organized? Try ‘flipping the symposium’, like Dr Rainer Hofmann did at the recent ComBio 2016 meeting!

How growing plants improves human well-being: People Plant Council
We might be preaching to the converted, but plants are good for you! Sarah Jose discovered how the People Plant Council is working to communicate the benefits of plants to the public.

Temperate matters in agriculture
In this guest blog from the Global Food Security program, Evangelia Kougioumoutzi reports on the TempAg network.

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