🌱 Global collaboration in action! C-SPIRIT members Shogo Kuwayama and Kwang-chul Shin from Nagoya University visited Michigan State University, working within the Rhee Lab on the chemical biology of stomatal movement. They also had a chance to explore Michigan ✨🎄 #plantscience

Be sure to stop by and visit C-SPIRIT at Booth 110 if you are attending the 2026 Michigan Agri-Business Association Winter Conference and Trade Show!

🚜🌱 C-SPIRIT is heading to the 2026 MABA Winter Conference and Trade Show! We’ll be in Lansing on January 13–14 connecting with the Michigan ag community and sharing updates on C-SPIRIT’s work in sustainable agriculture & plant resilience. 📍 Lansing Center 🔎 Booth No. 110 #plantscience

🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT Member Toshinori Kinoshita for being named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list — celebrating scientists whose work is in the global top 1% by citations! 🌍📊 Learn more ➡️ en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article... #plantscience

🌎 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌎 Climate change reshapes plant–microbe interactions by linking temperature perception with pathogen stress. Thakur & Yang explore the underlying cellular mechanisms and strategies to engineer climate-resilient crops 🪾 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT members Byeollee Kim, Hackwon Do, Jun Hyuck Lee, Tae-Jin Oh, & colleagues on their new announcement! They share the complete genome of Rahnella sp. PAMC25559, a cold-adapted, plant growth-promoting bacterium from an Alpine glacier. ❄️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1128/mra.... #plantscience

We are wishing our colleagues, collaborators, and friends a joyful holiday season and a bright start to the new year! Thank you for being part of the C-SPIRIT community and for advancing sustainable plant innovation with us. Happy holidays! #plantscience

We are SO excited to announce that, along with the launch of our new website, PMN 17 is live! PMN 17 is our largest release & includes 583 single-species databases, including updated versions of 155 databases from PMN 16! You can use PMN 17 now and check out our updated website here: plantcyc.org

C-SPIRIT is representing at the 2025 Integrated Crop and Pest Management Update for Agribusiness hosted by Michigan State University Extension! If you're on MSU's campus today, stop by and see us in the STEM Building outside of room 1130! #plantscience

🌿 CSU Plant Adaptation Symposium | Feb 5, 2026 Explore complexity across scales in plant science & agriculture, from genetics to agroecology & global evolution. ⏰ Key deadlines: Speaker abstracts: Dec 19 Poster abstracts & registration: Jan 21 🔗 agsci.colostate.edu/plant-adapta... #PlantScience

🎤 Upcoming C-SPIRIT Member Talk! C-SPIRIT member Gaurav Moghe will be organizing & speaking in a workshop at PAG 33. The workshop starts Jan 13 at 6:20 pm PST, & his talk will highlight how AI & phylogenomics are improving plant enzyme annotation. 🔗 plan.core-apps.com/pag33/event/... #plantscience

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

📬 Our November and December 2025 C-SPIRIT Newsletter is out! This issue includes a new Stakeholder Board Summit blogpost, recent member publications, upcoming events. and more! Read it here: 👉 qrco.de/bgWYdD Subscribe to receive future newsletters: 📩 forms.gle/hWQycasrts2m... #plantscience

We had a great time at the 2025 Great Lakes EXPO! We are so grateful for all of the growers and industry partners we were able to meet and connect with. See you next year! #GLEXPO

Come visit our booth at the Great Lakes EXPO! We're here at Booth 1340 🌿 #GLEXPO

🌍 It is World Soil Day! 🌱 This UN observance highlights why healthy soil is vital for sustainable agriculture and global food security — the very challenges C-SPIRIT is working to address through our research. 🔗 Learn more: www.un.org/en/observanc... #plantscience

🎉 Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) for receiving the 2025 MSU NatSci Research Leadership Award, a huge recognition of her impact on plant resilience research! Learn more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202... #plantscience

🚨 Hiring alert! MSU's Plant Resilience Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance discovery of new regulatory metabolites driving plant stress responses. #PlantSciJobs Join us as we push the boundaries of plant resilience research: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Come see us at the Great Lakes EXPO next week! Check out our booth location here: glexpo2025.expofp.com?center-for-s... #GLEXPO #plantscience

📣 Check out the Journal of Experimental Botany's newest special issue 📣 🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅 📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social

The PCA and C-SPIRIT Single Cell Curation Effort is now live 🌱 Together with @plantcellatlas.bsky.social, we curated 186 single cell plant papers covering 55 species & 6.5M cells to support the EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas. Explore the list: www.plantcellatlas.org/scea-papers.... #plantscience

🎉 Congrats to So-Ra Han, Tae-Jin Oh, & Jun Hyuck Lee on their new paper 🔬🌱 They characterize a GH16 beta agarase from Antarctic Gelidibacter and show how polysaccharides influence its activity, advancing C SPIRIT goals for sustainable agriculture 🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... #PlantScience

🎉 Congrats to Motoaki Seki and Toshinori Kinoshita as well as their colleagues on their new paper in New Phytologis on TCP3 and cell expansion in Arabidopsis! The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience

Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives. Read the story of how this plant helped @rheelab.bsky.social scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11... #PlantScience

🔔 C-SPIRT Member Talk Tomorrow! Featuring Dr. Cobus Smit from the University of York 🧬 📣 Title: Untangling the threads that shaped plant biosynthetic gene clusters 🗓️ When: Friday, November 21 | 12-1 pm ET 🔗 Zoom: ubc.zoom.us/j/6739059915... (passcode 784447) #PlantScience

Congrats to Hatem Rouached (@hatem-rouached.bsky.social), Hui-Kyong Cho, Nadia Bouain, Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social ), & team on their new paper showing how plants sense low phosphorus & delay flowering thru bGLU25 & GRP7🎉 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.de... 📰 msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11... #PlantScience

C-SPIRIT is excited to see Nicola Patron & Robert VanBuren (@bobvanburen.bsky.social) serving as discussion leaders at the 2025 Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering meeting! 🌱✨ 📍 Dec 3-6, 2025 | Cold Spring Harbor, NY Event info: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp... #cshlplant #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

Congrats to C-SPIRIT Member Jun Hyuck Lee (Korea Polar Research Institute) and colleagues on their new publication! 🌱❄️ Their study shows how ABA protects Antarctic moss during freeze thaw stress and supports C-SPIRIT work on plant resilience. 🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #plantscience

🎉 Congrats to Dr. David Wishart (@wishartnode.bsky.social, University of Alberta), winner of the 2025 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering! 🌿 🔗 ualberta.ca/en/news/spotlights/2025/10-oct/metabolomics-professor-wins-canadas-top-science-engineering-prize.html #plantscience

The Plant Resilience Institute and @c-spirit.org will be at the 2025 Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO! Come connect with us and learn about the latest agricultural innovations in Michigan. Early-bird registration ends November 15! Learn more and register at: glexpo.com #GLEXPO

🌿SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW🌿 Silicon enhances plant resilience to abiotic stresses by modulating physiological & molecular responses, particularly under drought and metal(loid) toxicity & is a potential tool for sustainable agriculture - Mora-Sanhueza et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌍 World Science Day for Peace and Development celebrates how science builds trust, peace, and sustainability. 🔬 C-SPIRIT advances that mission through global research in plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. Learn more: www.unesco.org/en/days/scie... Our site: c-spirit.org #plantscience

This week we held our 2025 C-SPIRIT Stakeholder Board Annual Summit: research updates, trust mapping, and big conversations on stakeholder engagement. Our in-person crew also enjoyed dinner & two building tours! See more pics: c-spirit.org/events/photos/ Learn more: c-spirit.org #plantscience

Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Our October 2025 newsletter is here 🌱 Featuring a blogpost on Aim 5, an institutional feature on Cornell University, new member publications, upcoming events, social media posts, & more! 👉 Read now: createsend.com/t/y-2C6B6E98... ✉️ Subscribe: forms.gle/Wkz3TgNQ2wJZ... #plantscience

New @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. We’re looking for short, self-contained studies with big impact. Deadline July 31st, 2026. OA, no pub. fees, ECRs! Questions? Reach out to us (Olivia and @zoejolylopez.bsky.social)

☀️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱☀️ Maize leaf tips exhibit the lowest photosynthetic recovery post-drought, due to water storage deficits and hydraulic failure, reducing whole-leaf water use efficiency - Liu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🥔 C-SPIRIT in the Field! Researchers, with help from MSU Extension, are collecting data from 90 potato plots at MSU’s Montcalm Research Center after short heat treatments. Field teams are monitoring conditions, measuring plant responses, and collecting environmental data. #plantscience

October 24th is International Day of Climate Action! 🌎 This day brings people together to raise awareness & take meaningful steps to confront climate change. C-SPIRIT connects plant and microbe science to sustainable, climate-ready farming. 💡 Learn more: c-spirit.org/research #plantscience

🌽 RIKEN researcher Miyo (Yamane) Fujimaki spent 2 months in at MSU, studying how ethanol treatments help maize handle drought, heat, & salinity. Miyo also built wonderful friendships & connections across the MSU community. She’ll be back next year to keep growing this collab! 🌾 #plantscience

👏 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

Today is World Food Day! 🌍 Created by the UN, this day highlights the need for global cooperation to build sustainable & resilient food systems. This year’s theme (Hand in Hand for Better Foods & a Better Future) resonates with our mission. 🌿 c-spirit.org 🌍 fao.org/world-food-day #plantscience

C-SPIRIT’s Robert VanBuren (MSU) is speaking at the XXI SMB Plant Biology Congress in Mérida, Mexico! 🌾 💬 Leveraging evolutionary innovations in grasses to develop climate resilient agriculture 🗓️ Thursday, Oct 23 | 9:45–10:15 am CT Learn more: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx #plantscience

🎉 Congrats to C-SPIRIT Members So-Ra Han and Tae-Jin Oh (Sun Moon University) as well as their colleagues on their new paper in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules! A great example of global collaboration driving scientific innovation 🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... #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

🎉 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

📣 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

💧🌾 RESEARCH 💧🌾 Multi-omics analysis identifies 13 traits that efficiently identify wheat cultivars sensitive to drought priming and lead to the identification of a candidate gene – Li et al. 🔗doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

There is only ONE WEEK LEFT to submit an abstract for a contributed talk at the first annual WALII Virtual Symposium on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025! 💧🌎 Selected speakers will present 10-12 min. talks followed by 3-5 min. of Q&A. Submit now! Visit: walii.science/virtual-symp...