January 28: Plant Physiology webinar, Hypoxia and Plants

Plant Physiology Webinar: Hypoxia and Plants Celebrating the January 2025 Focus Issue on Hypoxia and Plants Recorded Tuesday, January 28, 2025 About This Webinar The January 2025 Focus Issue of Plant Physiology, edited by Rashmi Sasidharan, Markus Schwarzländer, Pierdomenico Perata, Peter Geigenberger and Julia Bailey-Serres, spotlights research on hypoxia in plants. Oxygen is essential for efficient … Read more

Sept. 23: The Plant Cell Webinar Focus on Proteolysis

Celebrating the September 2024 Focus Issue on Proteolysis September 23, 2024 1:00 PM UTC | 9:00 AM EST Proteolysis is an essential cellular function that mediates the processing and turnover of proteins. Proteolytic post-translational control of protein stability is also a central feature of cellular signaling and crucial for almost all aspects of plant biology, including vegetative … Read more

Researchers Solve Crucial Cold-Induced Sweetening Problem in Potato Production

The potato industry benefits from new tuber research published in The Plant Cell   Researchers have discovered a game changer for the potato industry. According to a new study published in a leading international society journal published by the American Society of Plant Biologists, a small genetic element is the cause of a major production … Read more

Researchers Decipher Mysterious Growth Habit of Weeping Peach Trees

Why do weeping trees “weep”? A basic premise of how plants grow is that shoots grow up and roots grow down. A new study, published in Plant Physiology, a leading international society journal published by the American Society of Plant Biologists, reveals the answer to a fascinating question: why do weeping tree varieties defy this … Read more

ASPB Announces New Peer Review Report Policy

The ASPB journals Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell are introducing a new mechanism for publishing peer review reports on each journal’s website. A version of peer review reports has been published with the supplemental material of original research articles in The Plant Cell for some time. However, for the first time we are introducing … Read more