Alliance for Socially-acceptable and Actionable Plants Project

Can tinkering with plant pores protect crops against drought? It’s not an open-and-shut case. But researchers are finding out plenty by genetically altering the numbers of these openings, as well as simulating future atmospheres, and more.

For my latest @knowablemag.bsky.social story, I asked @leakey77.bsky.social and @proftlawson.bsky.social if we should tell plants to keep their mouths shut. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

C-SPIRIT at the 2025 NSF Global Centers Community Building meeting! Picture 1: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee at a lectern, presenting her elevator pitch on C-SPIRIT Picture 2: C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee and Aim 5 Lead Kari Sant meeting with leadership from the NSF Global Center Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants (ASAP)

C-SPIRIT was at the NSF Global Centers Community Building Meeting this week! 🌱

Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) pitched our mission to boost soil health, crop resilience, & food security, and we connected folks from the ASAP Global Center. 🌍

#PlantScience

Jia Dong (she/her) is the First Author of Enhancing lipid production in plant cells through automated high-throughput genome editing and phenotyping published 03 February 2025. She is a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Education background includes a 2016 Postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include Plant Bioengineering, Automation, Synthetic Biology, Plant-Microbe Interaction, and Plant Physiology. Personal interests include Yoga, Hiking, and Gardening.

Jia Dong aims to contribute to solving global challenges such as food security, climate change, and sustainable energy. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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Sign up! Registration closes soon for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference @rheelab.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social

Andrew Leakey on stage at SEB 20025 in Antwerp giving the Woolhouse lecture.

Today at #SEB2025 in Antwerp, Andrew Leakey delivered the prestigious Harold Woolhouse Lecture, sharing insights on AI-enabled phenomics of stomata and water use efficiency in C4 crops 🌽💧🤖

Andrew is also one our excellent editors at JXB 📝 @leakey77.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social #PlantScience 🧪

NSF, international partners to invest nearly $10M in ASAP Global Center