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...

🌍 ASPB Plant Biology 2026 is set for Ottawa, Canada, July 18–22, 2026 📢 Call for proposals & abstracts is open 🌱 Symposia & workshops: Oct 31, 2025 🌱 Independent abstracts: Jan 2, 2026 🌱 Posters: June 19, 2026 Learn more & submit 🔗 plantbiology.aspb.org/submit-a-pro... #PlantScience

📌 Institutional Feature Series | No. 16: Michigan State University MSU’s 37 members contribute to 6 areas of work: discovery, annotation, gene-pathway studies, lab/field testing, toxicity testing, and broader impacts. We're lucky to have their expertise! 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #PlantScience

Check out this opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to join us at C-SPIRIT! #plantscience

Our September newsletter is out! 🌿 Inside: 🔹Blogpost on C-SPIRIT’s role in the bioeconomy 🔹Spotlight on the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences 🔹Member publications 🔹Upcoming events ...and more! 👉 Read: createsend.com/t/y-23A65796... ✉️ Subscribe: forms.gle/Wkz3TgNQ2wJZ... #plantscience

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

🧬🌱RESEARCH 🧬🌱 🧬🌱 Overexpression in Brassica napus of Arabidopsis G-protein genes increases biomass of seedling plants under low and high nitrogen conditions, and increases nitrogen use efficiency and yield under low nitrogen condition – Xie et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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

📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature No. 15: Cornell University Research team members Alen Zimić and Gaurav Moghe support Aims 1, 2, and 5, helping us achieve our mission of stabilizing global food production and fostering sustainable agricultural practices! 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #plantscience

🎧 C-SPIRIT’s Motoaki Seki is featured on NHK World! Seki's team is studying how ethanol boosts drought resistance in crops like cherry tomatoes. This aligns with C-SPIRIT’s mission to support sustainable agriculture through global collaboration! 🌿 🔗 www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... #PlantScience

🧪 Climate change is stressing our crops like never before. 'Plants Response to Different Abiotic Stresses'—highlights the importance of developing climate-resilient strategies by showcasing how minor ecological changes can lead to major crop stress. bit.ly/46f9tLd #PlantScience #Climate

🌾 Upcoming C-SPIRIT Member Talk! C-SPIRIT team member Dr. Olivia Wilkins (@oli-wilkins.bsky.social) will speak at the 2025 RiboClub Annual Meeting on rice leaf osmotic stress responses. 📅 Sept 23 | 🕚 11:45 am ET 📍 Orford, QC | In person Learn more 🔗 home.riboclub.org/annual-meeting #plantscience

🌍 It’s National Postdoc Appreciation Week! C-SPIRIT celebrates 19 postdocs in 5 countries who power our mission to improve soil health, strengthen crop resilience, & advance sustainable farming. 🌱 Learn more about the work our postdocs & other research team members do: c-spirit.org #plantscience

🌿 C-SPIRIT members represented at the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference this past weekend in Lansing, Michigan! 5 members of our research team gave fantastic poster presentations: Shogo Kuwayama, Kwang-chul Shin, Karine Prado, Danielle Hoffmann, & Bri Hashim 🌱 #PlantScience #GLPSC2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference and helped make it a success! This inaugural meeting brought together 416 registrants from 55 institutions. Together, we’ve built momentum for the future of #plantscience in the Great Lakes region and beyond! #GLPSC2025

Join us for the very first inaugural WALII Virtual Symposium on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025! Abstract submissions for a contributed talk are NOW OPEN! Selected speakers will be chosen in Oct. and will present 10-12 minute talks followed by 3-5 minutes of Q&A. For More: www.walii.science/virtual-symp...

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

📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature 14: University of Cambridge Nicola Patron (@nicolabiologist.bsky.social) & Konstantina Beritza support Aim 4 through synthetic pathway engineering, compound optimization, & detection strategies. We are lucky to have them! 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #PlantScience

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

🥜🫘🫛 REVIEW 🥜🫘🫛 Machado et al. analyse the impact of drought, heat, and elevated CO2 on the nutritional quality (protein, amino acids, minerals, carbohydrates, lipids, and bioactive compounds) in multiple legume crop species 🌱💧🔥 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 The 2026 GRC Salt & Water Stress in Plants runs May 24–29 in Switzerland Researchers will gather to advance plant stress biology & resilience work Catch C-SPIRIT Director Sue Rhee (@rheelab.bsky.social) in the session Adaptation to Extreme Environments! 🔗 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... #PlantSci

🚨 Opportunity Alert! 🌱 C-SPIRIT invites applications for a Postdoc at MSU’s Plant Resilience Institute (@msupri.bsky.social) ! Study plant compounds, nematode biology & desiccation tolerance. Work with MSU experts, C-SPIRIT & WALII. Review starts 9/12/25. 👉 Apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature #13: University of Manitoba Team members contribute to Aims 1 & 3 by discovering bioactive metabolites and mapping the genes and pathways behind them. We are lucky to have these dedicated researchers as a part of C-SPIRIT 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #PlantScience

📢 The August 2025 issue of C-SPIRIT News is live! Inside: 🧪 Aim 4 blog post w/ Nicola Patron 🌍 Spotlight on University of Tsukuba 📚 New community papers 📅 Upcoming events and more! Read 👉 createsend.com/t/y-10BF2EE5... Sub 👉 forms.gle/MtFfdJoPaeWw... Learn more 👉 c-spirit.org #plantscience

An amazing meeting with great talks! And exceptional food!

🌱 Upcoming C-SPIRIT Talk 🌱 On Thursday, September 11th, C-SPIRIT member Dr. Gaurav Moghe (Cornell University) is giving a talk at SUNY ESF: “Towards Unraveling the Hidden Metabolome and the Enzymes That Create It” 11 am – 12 pm EDT | In-person Learn more! 🔗 tinyurl.com/5e2c3uf9 #plantscience

🎉 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

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