The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025 awards, which honor distinction in service, outreach, education, and research. Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award Brian Larkins, University of Arizona, Tucson ASPB Innovation Prize for Agricultural Technology Marc Albertsen, Manjit Singh, Mark Williams, Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, Iowa Charles Albert … Read more
The Plant Cell webinar Translating research from Arabidopsis to crop plants and beyond Recorded Friday May 30, 2025 About This Panel Discussion Over the past three decades, substantial research efforts in plant science worldwide have focused on the model system Arabidopsis thaliana. Many of us have invested years in the study of Arabidopsis, driven by … Read more
Amid a quickly changing research funding landscape in the United States, ASPB continues to be a vocal and engaged advocate for federal funding that supports plant scientists. The Society recently joined academic, agriculture, and food stakeholder groups in a letter to House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Members recognizing their past support of the US … Read more
On March 19, 2025, ASPB’s Board of Directors approved the creation of a temporarily restricted fund to support travel awards, SURF recipients, and ASPB-subsidized childcare. The ASPB Plant Biology Temporarily Restricted Fund is intended to provide critical but flexible support for conference attendees via three potential avenues. Specifically, donations into this Fund will be used … Read more
As budget development continues, ASPB recently joined with other research institutions, scientific societies, and agricultural stakeholders in a letter to House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Members requesting “no less than $500 million for the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) in Fiscal Year 2026.” As a key grant program of the US Department … Read more