Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)

🏨ASPS 2025 Accommodation Deals Live!
📍Conference at Flinders Bedford Park campus, Adelaide
💰Discounted rates now available for delegates
🚌Shuttle service between Flinders train station & venue
⚠️Book early - rates increase from Thu 27 Nov due to community event
More details: www.asps.org.au/asps25

Honoured to be featured in the May 2025 Phytogen as the new Cell Biology Discipline Representative for ASPS!
I reflected on my journey through plant science.
Grateful for all the connections and moments that have shaped this path, especially now, as I begin to explore new ways of connecting science.

Thank you for sharing the news. We hope to see lots of plant enthusiasts on BlueSky!

Australian Society of Plant Scientists (an incorporated society in Australia dedicated to advancing plant science; brings together university researchers, vocational educators, school teachers, and students) leaves X (4.308 followers)

Bluesky: @asps-oz.bsky.social

The JXB 75 years of science symposium looks great. I'm sorry I can't get there, JXB has been one of those journals that have been there for my whole career. As a society journal, any profits are given back to @sebiology.bsky.social to do even more good. @jxbotany.bsky.social #PlantScience

📋ASPS membership benefits:

- networking
- conference discounts
- award eligibility
- Phytogen updates + spotlights
- student rates available!

Check your status and renew today!
www.asps.org.au/members

#AusPlantSci #PlantScience

Expressions of interest from researchers, science communicators, and digital-savvy professionals who are enthusiastic about plant biology and science communication are welcome!
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Expressio...

Applications are open now - please share this opportunity with your networks!
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The Social Media Editor will work closely with the editorial board and publishing team to:
- Promote journal content on BlueSky
- Develop strategies to grow the journal’s online audience
- Highlight key research, authors, and special issues
- Support outreach during conferences and events
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This is an opportunity for an early-mid career researcher to gain experience on the editorial board of a journal, contributing to the journal’s mission by enhancing its digital presence and engaging with the global plant science community.
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@pattedplants.bsky.social @csiropublishing.bsky.social

🌿 Help Shape the Voice of Functional Plant Biology Online!
Are you passionate about plant science and skilled in social media? Functional Plant Biology is seeking a Social Media Editor (or multiple) to join its editorial team!

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📱Opportunity alert! Functional Plant Biology Social Media Editor!

→ Functional Plant Biology seeks Social Media Editor(s) to enhance digital presence.
→ Perfect for early-mid career researchers passionate about science communication.
Apply HERE: www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Expressio... #SciComm 1/5

🔬Dr. Robert Sharwood's mission (ASPS Education representative):

Developing climate-adapted crops through photosynthesis research. His team studies how wild rice copes with 45°C heatwaves and enhances C4 photosynthesis mechanisms.

#ClimateAdaptation #CropScience

www.asps.org.au/archives/57774

Student Spotlight: 🌍 From Brussels to ANU:

Alice Temara shares her journey studying leaf respiration-photosynthesis relationships.

Her advice: "Don't hesitate to go abroad and explore - it might change your life!"

#PlantScience #PhDLife #ClimateResearch

www.asps.org.au/archives/57774

🌿ASPS 2025 Conference Travel Awards are still open!

Financial support for students, carers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference in November.

Registration opens July - early bird pricing coming soon!

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience

www.asps.org.au/archives/57747

📰 June Phytogen is online!

ASPS 2025 conference updates with travel awards for students and indigenous members.
Alice Temara: leaf respiration-photosynthesis relationships, from Brussels to ANU!
Dr. Sharwood: developing heat/drought-resistant crops via photosynthesis

www.asps.org.au/archives/57774

@asps-oz.bsky.social

Nitrogen fixation is central to the profitability and sustainability of legume crops.

We have reviewed in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social some of the opportunities that have emerged and the challenges to implement improvements in nitrogen fixation in legumes.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lKMt,L%7E...

🌱🧬 New paper "Advances in seed 'omics" is out and available as advance access article in @jxbotany.bsky.social.
Covers how omics tech is revolutionising seed research - single-cell and multi-omics integration towards climate-resilient crops.
La Trobe and Zhejiang University. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

I have been awarded the SABE HDR Travel Award!
$2,000 to support my professional development.

Grateful to @latrobeuni.bsky.social and the school (SABE) for this opportunity to advance my PhD work and connect with the wider genomics community.

#Genomics #PhD #PhDLife

Most recent review from the lab on spatiotemporal dynamics of activity during seed germination. Short version: there's a lot going on! doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

🌿 Journal of Experimental Botany 75th Anniversary Symposium! Sept 17-19, 2025 in Edinburgh.

Celebrating 75 years of plant science - from Beginnings to Future challenges. Travel grants now available!

www.asps.org.au/archives/55391

@jxbotany.bsky.social

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

🌿 ASPS travel awards now open!

Financial support available for students, careers & indigenous members attending our Adelaide conference. Registration opens in July - stay tuned for details!

www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #TravelAwards

Pioneer varieties of legume for Australian growers The University of Queensland has developed 5 new varieties of pigeonpea as a step towards the legume being grown more widely in Australia.

Pioneers in pigeonpea. New Australian breeds of legume developed as a cropping rotation option in tropical conditions.

bit.ly/3HHV0yu