An amazing year full of excitement, adventures, travels, and networking. Great people at all levels and places. Looking forward to another exciting year in 2026! A huge thanks to Maricar and Ashley for an amazing job coordinating and promoting C-SPIRIT. I couldn't have asked for a better team!

The MSU Plant Resilience Institute's 2025 Annual Report is now live! PRI launched our NSF Global Center in January of 2025, and many of our C-SPIRIT members at MSU are a part of PRI, furthering the Institute's discoveries. Read the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual... #plantscience

Congrats to C-SPIRIT’s Karine Prado, Matt Stata, Charles Hawkins, Sue Rhee as well as their colleagues on their new manuscript! 🌿 The team shows how a desert plant rewires photosynthesis to thrive in extreme heat 🌡️ 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #plantscience

Plant scientists at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute, including @rheelab.bsky.social, stand ready to meet the challenge of improving global food security. Read more about how MSU is working to build climate-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/10... #SpartansWill #PlantResilience

New research out of Death Valley from @rheelab.bsky.social! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #PlantResilience

From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions. ☀️ Learn how in this @sciencenews.bsky.social story about the remarkable research of Dr. Karine Prado from @rheelab.bsky.social. #PlantScience #PlantResilience

Our new paper in Current Biology is getting some media attention: Our Current Biology paper is getting some media attention. Congrats to our senior research associate Karine Prado! Here's a piece from Science News: www.sciencenews.org/article/deat...

@jpmsantiago.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

Very exciting discovery from Hatem's lab. Happy to have been a contributor!

Very exciting discovery with @msupri.bsky.social's Hatem Rouached and @msupri.bsky.social's @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social labs

👏 Congrats to C-SPIRIT member Tae-Jin Oh (Sun Moon University) & colleagues on their new Archives of Biochemistry & Biophysics paper! They discovered CYP107E41, a novel enzyme advancing green biocatalysis, echoing C-SPIRIT’s mission for sustainable ag. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ab... #plantscience

A new review article from @msupri.bsky.social scientists with collaboration from ag industry colleagues. Building climate-resilient crops: genetic, environmental, and technological strategies for heat and drought stress tolerance url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...

We are now 14 members! Join us!

Meet the speakers of the very first inaugural WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water, happening Tuesday, Nov 18! 💧 To Learn More about the symposium: walii.science/virtual-symp... To Learn More about Dr. Mariana Silva Artur: www.mariana-artur.com @marianasartur.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to Daisuke Todaka, Motoaki Seki, Kenji Miura, & colleagues on their new paper in Scientific Reports! 4-CPA & ethanol boost tomato growth, fruit quality, & heat tolerance — advancing C-SPIRIT’s mission for sustainable, resilient agriculture. 🌱🍅 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #plantscience

C-SPIRIT’s Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) is giving a keynote at the XXI SMB Plant Biology Congress! 🌱 🗓️ Oct 21 | 6:30-7:15 pm CT 💬 Drug discovery for agriculture: Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience through International Teamwork See more: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx #PlantScience

Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi

@rheelab.bsky.social @istudytrust.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social @bobvanburen.bsky.social @santastic-k.bsky.social @nicolabiologist.bsky.social @wishartnode.bsky.social @oli-wilkins.bsky.social @asherpasha.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @alenzimic10.bsky.social@lichmanlab.bsky.social

@roseamarks.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social @boeynaemssteven.bsky.social @alexholehouse.bsky.social @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social @bobvanburen.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social @shaharsu.bsky.social

NEWS & VIEWS: Turning the knobs: The impact of glutathionylation on starch metabolism (Anna Moseler) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

This photo does not capture the amazing energy & enthusiasm of @llseedsull.bsky.social's amazing tenure talk today!!! (Although I did manage to get the Capsella cameo & @andreacase.bsky.social's "not a threat I promise" blouse

**Please Repost** Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate. PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Deadline: October 15.

📣 The #PlantBio2026 Program Committee is pleased to announce that the abstract submission portal is now open! plantbiology.aspb.org/submit-a-pro... The Plant Biology conference is developed for the plant science community, by members of the plant science community—that means YOU! #plantscience

A long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to C-SPIRIT members Daisuke Todaka and Motoaki Seki (RIKEN CSRS) and colleagues on their new Plant Biotechnology paper! 🎉 Their study shows ethanol plus sufficient light boosts cassava drought resilience by activating ABA signaling & more. 🌱🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.5511/plan... #plantscience

Just under two weeks left to submit an abstract for a contributed talk at the first inaugural WALII Virtual Symposium on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025! Selected speakers will present 10-12 min. talks followed by 3-5 min. of Q&A. Visit: walii.science/virtual-symp...

@rheelab.bsky.social at Michigan State University is looking to hire a new postdoc position to work on nematodes for desiccation tolerance and plant-pathogenic nematode interactions on both the WALII and @c-spirit.org grants. For more information, visit: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

The @rheelab.bsky.social at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute is now #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how #nematodes respond to chemical and environmental cues as part of @c-spirit.org and @waliianhydro.bsky.social. 🪱 Apply now at: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs

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

And @c-spirit.org, @waliianhydro.bsky.social, @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, @plantmetabolism.bsky.social, @10xgenomics.bsky.social, & @rheelab.bsky.social!

@erincushing.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social @davidlowry.bsky.social @msupri.bsky.social

@roseamarks.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social @alexholehouse.bsky.social @bobvanburen.bsky.social @shaharsu.bsky.social @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social @faseborg.bsky.social

Pennycress drought trials are off and running! 🌱 On 9/19, C-SPIRIT members Danielle Hoffmann and Briana Hashim, with the help of Paige Smith and Katherine Egeler, planted 96 rows of pennycress MSU. Part of C-SPIRIT’s mission to grow climate-resilient crops! 🌍 #plantscience

Our new study in Nature Plants maps how "multi-tasking" enzymes in plants transfer nitrogen, a key step toward improving crop N use efficiency. 🌱 Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE. Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN #PlantMetabolism

The MSU Plant Resilience Institute is excited to launch an open rank tenure-track faculty search! We're seeking creative, collaborative researchers to join the PRI faculty to investigate plant responses to environmental challenges. 🌱 Apply now: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista... #PlantSciJobs

WALII Member Marisa Otegui will be speaking this afternoon at the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Conference! Make sure to attend to listen to her talk on "Membrane Remodeling by ESCRT Proteins in Plant Cells." #PlantBio2025

WALII Member Marisa Otegui gave a wonderful presentation this afternoon at the ASPB Conference on "Membrane Remodeling by ESCRT Proteins in Plant Cells." #PlantBio2025

Last week at the ASPB Conference in Milwaukee, WALII member Erin Cushing presented her poster on "Decoding Desiccation Tolerance in Arabidopsis Seeds: Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation During Seed Maturation." #PlantBio2025

🌿 C-SPIRIT member Sue Rhee will speak at the Cutting-Edge Plant Biotechnology workshop in Tashkent, August 25–27. 🧬 On 8/25, she’ll give two talks, one on developing and pitching research projects & one on plant resilience through thermophilic species Learn more: cvent.me/RvLkxR #plantscience

REMINDER: One week left to register!!!

Join us for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images! This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET. Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

Two weeks ago, PCA held the Single Cell Approaches in Cell Biology GRC in Portland, Maine. Our 2024 Travel Award Recipient, Virginia Lis Barrera from Argentina, got the chance to attend to network and learn more about single cell approaches. Learn More: www.plantcellatlas.org/2024-awardee...

📣New @natgenet.nature.com The Hartwig group @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues @hhu.de unveil a scalable way to map plant genomic "switches" - these overlooked regions hold huge promise for crop breeding & climate resilience. 👉http://bit.ly/41BmCwD #plantsci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature 12: University of Alberta C-SPIRIT members support Aim 2 by identifying metabolite structures, linking them to function, and building collaborative databases. We’re lucky to have their expertise in our global center! 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #plantscience

🚨 Less than 1 week left to register for #GLPSC2025! Join us September 12–14 in Lansing, MI for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference, and help expand the horizons of #plantscience across the Great Lakes region and beyond! ⏳ Register by August 31: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025

A team of plant scientists has made a breakthrough on how potato plants defend themselves against Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea (Sss)—the soilborne pathogen that causes powdery scab, an emerging disease affecting potato crops buff.ly/Fl47OGK via @plantdisease.bsky.social #PlantHealth

Thank you to the #GLPSC2025 organizers, sponsors, and participants, including: @biochambers.bsky.social @templetonfdn.bsky.social, @10xgenomics.bsky.social @alizeemalnoe.bsky.social @adammott.bsky.social @omalley-regulome.bsky.social @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT Member Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) & her colleagues on their new paper in New Phytologist! 🧬They explore metabolic biocondensates that boost efficiency & stress response, aligned with our mission for resilient, sustainable crops 📖: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #plantscience

🎉 Congrats to C‑SPIRIT’s Toshinori Kinoshita and team on their new Nature Plants paper: "Apoplastic metabolomics reveals sugars as mesophyll messengers regulating guard cell ion transport under red light" 🌿 🔗: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #plantscience

Cellular view of metabolism: metabolic biomolecular condensates - Saldivar - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...